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Originally Posted by Robbie
Uh...brother, I understand your compassion and all. But the constitution was NEVER put in place to stop people from acquiring wealth.
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We completely agree on that. It was put in place in many ways to prevent wealth from having too much influence, and to prevent any insular group from amassing too much control. Again, if wealth did not give influence there would be no problem. If you can think of a way to prevent massive wealth from having massive influence that's great. Let me know. The whole point of elections, two chambers of Congress, three branches of government, an independent judiciary etc... is to make government too large for it to be controlled by a handful of people or a king. The same is true of private industry regulations.
When a tiny handful of people can circumvent those safeguards by funding the only two candidates for each seat in Congress, funding the Presidential campaign, buying local elections, hiring former officials as lobbyists etc it creates a very serious problem. The number of people needed to do that continues to shrink.