hanging." Accordingly, to criticize distributism for wanting to use the only effective tool of capital devolution to stop this "commie rat" sociopathy reveals for me an inability to reason logically, morally and patriotically. Clare, HR 2749 is a wonderful example of how big gov't and big business feed upon each other. In order to solve a problem that mere size creates, the gov't imposes regulations which are only practical for entities of a certain size. This squeezes out the small businessman, which creates more problems requiring more gov't. In order to reduce the size of gov't, you must reduce the size of corporations; in order to reduce the size of corporations, you must reduce the size of gov't. You can start at either end, but we must aim at both. Bruce, one thing the Chinese have proven is that capitalism is compatible with tyranny. The communist remarks are unfortunate and counter-productive on all sides. That being said I think you're points deserve a response as the issue of China seems to get quite a few people hot under the collar. "The country of China, as currently governed, is the place of the Tiananmen Square protests which led to approximately 400 to 800 Chinese citizens being killed by their own government for wanting the same democratic rights that the American investors enjoy." The Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989 were not pro-democracy demonstrations. Some of the students and workers involved were indeed pro-democracy advocates but others were hard line Maoists upset by