Corporations and Government

At times, I wish everyone read Kim du Toit.

"(I bet people would have a completely different attitude towards government spending if they had to do that, rather than having the painless transparency of automatic withholding.) In this way, not only does the corporation do the government’s job of tax collection, but, as the government ultimately has the power of life and death over the corporation, they do a better job of it than the government ever could. "

Any dysfunctional manager can tell you that you can hold on to power much longer if you force underlings to do your unpopular (or hatchet) work.

"The problem is that corporations, in my opinion, are rapidly losing the right to any degree of sympathy from voters. When a company fires an employee for keeping a gun in his car in the company parking lot, a gun which he may need for self-defense on his way to and from his job at the company, why should we not support legislation which strips that piece of “private property rights” away from the company? When a company fires an employee for writing a memo which is not written in bland corporate-speak, but is written instead in plain (not profane) language, why should they not be fined (or sued) for such arbitrary behavior?"

Excellent point. Corp. America makes a foolish move when it forces its employees into the arms of government regulators.