I came to realize that the popularly held view equating the free market with corporate power was wrong. Corporations and businesses in general have a natural aversion toward free markets and for the competition they engender. Their natural inclination is toward monopolies and trusts. The free market is a check on such ambitions and should, therefore, be protected and preserved. The free market is one of the fundamental and defining attributes of our free society and the threats posed by big government to its viability are no illusion.
Governments consume wealth, while free people and free markets create it.
I think not. Nevertheless, it s incumbent upon us to hold it to those limits and functions the framers of our Constitution intended, and the president s tax initiative serves that basic responsibility we all share. George Pleich is a retired blue-collar worker living in Ashland. Please include a daytime phone number and address for verification. Sorry, we cannot publish poetry.