[ByteJockey]

> I don't think Americans and American companies understand how little trust rest of us have for the American government.

Have you... have you seen our politics? What makes you think that we think other people trust our government? We don't trust our government. Hell, it's trusted so little that one of our large political parties is basically entirely devoted to making sure that the government can't get anything done.

[KennyBlanken]

That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust. States have less resources, and can be played against each other.

The public-facing excuse for Joe Q Public is "they can't be trusted!", "less taxes on your hard-earned money" (when corporate share of taxes has plunged from the 50-50 split it used to be, increasing individual taxes), "the government is not efficient" (usually because of lots of onerous regulations and reporting and oversight that, ahem, a certain political party insisted on to fight "abuse")

[ByteJockey]

> That political party's actions are about weakening the federal government so as to make it easier for large corporations to behave abusively, not because of trust.

Can you think of a reason people would do that if they didn't trust those corporations more than the federal government?

[tremon]

Sure: because the corporations pay more than the federal government.

[ncmncm]

... and, at the same time, to radically increasing government spending literally everywhere except where there might be a possibility of benefit for an individual who needs help (just because said individual could possibly be ("a") black).