I agree. What you want to do is hold a gun to a business man's head and tell him to cater. I say that the man should cater and succeed if he wants to. If he doesn't then he doesn't succeed.
This is attacking a point that I am pretty sure I didn't make. The points I made were:
- The government is forcing taxpayers to pay for a failed business that has nothing to do with me (the individual).
- American liberalism is hypocritical because they don't want to bail out companies that pay taxes to their welfare.
Number two was a generalization, but it is true for a lot of people.
Again, I don't want to force businesses into catering to anyone. That is slavery.
Nobody would have to bail out anybody if there was no welfare.
The thing is, America runs on the taxes of the upper class/middle class. If the only people who were going to lose out were stockholders/people related to the business then this wouldn't have happened. However, we have entangled each other into our lives with welfare. A lot of people are now depending on other people to work for them. It isn't like it is voluntary either. It is at gun point.
Secondly, freer economies bring more successful businesses. Our economy has never been a completely free economy. In fact, what we live under right now is VERY restricted capitalism. So the notion that businesses fail under capitalism is false because we operate under the absolute worst economic system, moderated capitalism or mixed economy.
They are not deregulating enough. Moderated capitalism is worse than socialism.