From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

If the government paid you to fail, would you change your business strategy? Of course not.

Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

By throwing billions of dollars of tax payer money to these huge corporations we not only impose a huge economic sanction against the American people but we also remove the entrepreneurial incentive necessary to create a competitive company with a desire to succeed where these government-backed corporations have failed.