First, let's start with the article, and a few choice quotes:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/87719/princeton-concludes-what-kind-of-government-america-really-has-and-it-s-not-a-democracy "A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the
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So, yeah, there's nothing to fix here if you a) are the 90th percentile or b) think they somehow know more about what is best for the rest of us than the rest of us do.
But back to your assertion that that more laws basically impact the rich more than the poor. There's two problems with that.
1) Not supported historically. The wealth gap between the richest 1% of Americans and the 50th percentile is greater now than it was in 1900, when regulations were few and far between. If your theory were true, we would expect to see the opposite occur.
2) there is credible data (T. Hungerford, Congressional Research Service, 12/12/2012 among many others) that suggests that the impact of tax cuts on ( ... )
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Wow. You went there.
Was using "Oreo's" just too cliche'?
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"We" are not a "democratic republic" except in name, symbols, and popular mythology. A "limited government" is an oxymoron, because it is the monopoly on the initiation of force that essentially distinguishes a government, and any agency having a monopoly of impunity to initiate force is not limited in any meaningful sense.
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The idea that a petty lord can be sovereign over a parcel of land at the expense of other people is fundamentally flawed.Everyone is "a petty lord" where he stands. You cannot wish this away. You could divide up the entire surface of the Earth among all of the individuals living at the time and it would end up getting concentrated again because some people are better able to capitalize the properties of a piece of land better than others. If you are no good at managing a farm it is economically better to sell a farm you have and work as an employee on someone else's farm than starve. No whim or wish can change this. Land will be used. It will be used by humans. Some human mind will determine the ( ... )
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that single owner will never, ever be able to do everything necessary to make that piece of land useful completely ON HIS OWNPatently false. You have obviously never cultivated a garden or built a house. Nevertheless, even if that assertion were true (and it isn't) that does not preclude individual ownership with trade for capital goods and services ( ... )
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Nowhere realizable in practice or even theory. There is no human being who owns nothing. In fact, there is only a small percentage of human beings (such as infants) who do not own capital.
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