We Need Them Both

I didn't mean to say that there should be no government regulation of business, just that you shouldn't abolish a whole sector of the economy, like the stock market, in the process. Looking back on it, that's probably not what you were proposing and I kind of over reacted. I agree that corporations don't have souls, but they're not supposed to. It's the people who run them who are supposed to have souls, and I suppose you could say the same thing about governments. Both corporations and governments are just theoretical concepts on paper until you add people to the equation.

Maybe everything will be run by computers someday. I wonder if they will do a better job of it than people. My guess is that they will make some things better and some things worse. Computers are manufactured and programmed by people after all. When the computers are able to reproduce and program themselves, they might decide that they don't need us anymore. That is when the shit will really hit the fan. For now, though, we are stuck with both corporations and governments, and the people who run them. Maybe our descendants will look back on our era and call it "the good old days."

I hadn't heard about that Walgreen tax scam. I thought that all those international companies paid taxes to whatever country the money was made in. If that's true, and I'm not sure that it is, Walgreen would have to pay taxes on all the money they made in the U.S., no matter where their corporate headquarters were located. How about those Japanese auto companies who have manufacturing and sales facilities in this country. Don't they have to pay taxes to Uncle Sam? I know that some rich people put their money into foreign banks to shield it from U.S. taxes, and I suppose a corporation could do the same thing. Whoever asked for this global economy anyway?