[arrosenberg]

> Free-market capitalism with freedom of speech is the recipe for economic prosperity. Has been for hundreds of years.

Economic prosperity for a handful of wealthy Brits you mean? Regulated capitalism created the middle class, free market capitalism is doing its damnedest to undo that outcome.

[cryptica]

We have more regulation now than ever before. Regulations are to blame for destroying the middle class. Corporate lobbyists are the ones who craft regulations. They're not working for the middle class.

Why do corporations pay lobbyists? They wouldn't pay them if they weren't delivering returns for those corporations.

[arrosenberg]

Corporations pay lobbyists so they can bend or ignore the regulations that would otherwise constrain them. Thank you for helping me make that point.