Companies are only private to the degree they are free from government money flows and privileges (cronyism). If a company has all kinds of privileges and flows from China, they're basically an arm of the CCP, they're a private husk, private in name only.
If a company pays taxes because their workers use public roads to travel to/from their factory, their warehouses are on a police patrol, their borders are secured so some invading horde doesn't carry them away - they can still be private. If they're publicly traded, they're public.
The libertarian scum part of me is torn on this.
But the reality is we don't live in a free market because of patents, trademarks, exclusive zones, and taxes. So being a libertarian is moronic
I am a libertarian.
Companies are only private to the degree they are free from government money flows and privileges (cronyism). If a company has all kinds of privileges and flows from China, they're basically an arm of the CCP, they're a private husk, private in name only.
If a company pays taxes based on performance, they are not private. That describes America
If a company pays taxes because their workers use public roads to travel to/from their factory, their warehouses are on a police patrol, their borders are secured so some invading horde doesn't carry them away - they can still be private. If they're publicly traded, they're public.
That describes America.