What do you call it when corporations own and or control government?
Corporatocracy /ˌkôrpərəˈtäkrəsē/: “a society or system that is controlled by corporations.”In a corporatocracy, corporations use the power of the government to protect themselves by using the regulatory and tax systems to create an anticompetitive environment.The solution usually posed is to remove money from politics. That's treating the symptom, not the disease. Rather, we need to remove much of the power from politics. When corporations can’t use their money to buy government protections, they have to use it, instead, to maximize their competitiveness.A government worth buying has too much power.
If fascism is the merge of corporation and government, then isn't the growing influence corporations have on the political process mean the US is becoming more and more fascist? EDIT: fixed typo and grammar
Socialism is the merger of corporations and government; actually the takeover of corporations by government.Fascism is/was a brand of authoritarian socialism in which government exercises ownership of the means of production without taking formal title. (You still own your car but the government gets to use it.) Fascist governments let factory owners remain in charge and earn substantial profits as long as they (factory owners) do what government told them to do. It is more of a partnership, with government as the senior partner.The U.S. has been adopting many of the elements of fascist socialism since the Progressive era, particularly when corporations realized government control (called “regulation”) helps keep out competitors. Monopoly socialism.Fascism is a form of Progressivism, Italian Fascism was a particularly aggressive form. Spanish and Argentinian fascism were less so. We tend to associate fascism with Mussolini’s lust for conquest but that was Mussolini, not fascism.Bolsheviks killed factory owners and put political operatives in charge. Fascism turns factory owners into political operatives.
Are "We The People" Shareholders in a Government Corporation Called USA?
The Infrastructure is our asset. How many benefit from the infrastructure? The Chinese or any other nation holding US paper can not transport the infrastructure.
Do government regulations help or hurt big corporations?
Not all regulations are created equal. Some mandate transparency or are anti-fraud protections that are crucial to the functioning of capitalism and are good for all corporations. There are many other regulations that enforce good minimum safety or environmental standards that are good. We'll call this the "good" category. However, there are also a very large number of regulations that fall into other categories. There are regulations that I would call "silly" like the famous one recently ended that mandated that farms treat milk spills like oil spills. There are ones that impose higher costs than their benefits, like some environmental regulations that mandate lower amount of a pollutant than the level found in nature in an area. These are thinly veiled attempts to shut down industry nearby. We'll call those "costly". Silly and Costly regulation are bad for everybody, just as good regulation is good for everybody. There is a fourth grouping that we'll call "monopolistic". This is where a company gets a regulation passed that hurts it's rivals, but doesn't hurt the company itself. History is rife with these. For example, a famous supreme court case was fought when NY state gave only one ferry company the rights to use the hudson river. Another example local to me is that my state of Maryland passed a law that forced retailers with certain amount of square footage to offer certain levels of health care. It was a bald-faced "anti-walmart" law. The specific square footage specified meant that even most "big box" stores would have been just under, but most Wal-Marts wouldn't have been. Those kinds of regulations help some companies at the expense of other companies and consumers. So it's a mixed bag. Those who speak ill of regulation are arguing against the last three kinds, not the first.
What do you call a pro-government person?
Truth is there is no government. just a puppet show put on by the rich elite that own major shares of multi-national corporations. I'm not right winger. I'm one of the whackos that depend on things like facts and evidence. Governments are BS generators, history has proven that.
What do you call someone who hates corporations?
I hate corporations because I feel like they are greedy and only care about the rich and don't think about the poor and I don't think the working class should have their money taken away from them.
What is a country owned by a corporation called?
A single company controlling a government wouldn't be a Federation. A Federation would consist of multiple companies or governments conglomerating into a single entity yet maintaining sovereignty. Probably the closest form of government you are talking about is an Oligarchy: From wiki: Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία, oligarkhía[1]) is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, corporate, or military control. The word oligarchy is from the Greek words "ὀλίγος" (olígos), "a few"[2] and the verb "ἄρχω" (archo), "to rule, to govern, to command".[3] Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who pass their influence from one generation to the next.