[unclebucknasty]

Your comment started appropriately in that it acknowledges crony capitalism. Then it strangely diverts to decrying the government as if it alone created problems that corporations simply (and innocently) exploit.

You had it right at the beginning. It's the fusion of government with corporations that's the problem. Corporations manipulate and influence government for their benefit, not the other way around.

[qj4714]

What standard would you hold corporations to?

[unclebucknasty]

Well, that's my point: corporations and government are inseparable. It's useless to treat them otherwise, which makes questions such as yours misleading.

Likewise, treating corporations as hapless beneficiaries of some sort of bumbling government largesse is disingenuous. It's the deliberate co-opting of government by corporate interests that is the problem.