Here in America, they call it being "Progressive".
Quite well aware of where his support came from and it was from many areas. The corporations thought they would be getting a sweet deal by getting in bed with government money but they quickly found out they had made a deal with the devil.
The entire German railroad industry... Of course it was nationalized during the Wiemar Republic and not the Nazi's, but they did not privatize the industry.
I said the same thing, only I pointed out they were heavily taxed... Lets see your sources, and some numbers, for all this 'profit' the private sector was raking in under the Reich. My sources tell me that private ownership was more of an honorary title than a reality because in being forced to work for the benefit of the state, rather than in the best interest of the company, corporations seldom, if ever, actually made a profit. This also resulted in many industries having to be bailed out, or subsidized, by the Deutsche Reichsbank in order to continue production.
Substitute the word "state" with "public good" and that's what the "Progressives" are trying to do here in the US.
Such a system is doomed to failure since the only successful way to run a business is by operating on the profit motive and when government tells business it must operate in the best interest of others, rather than in their own best interest, the companies inevitably fail. To prevent such failure, the state often subsidizes the companies losses on the backs of taxpayers, i.e. bailouts but such policies are not sustainable.
Top Gun... Is that you? Oh wait... its Saxon, he's just making the same ludicrous claims. There is no 'unfettered capitalism' in America and there hasn't been for more than 100 years. Banks and Financial institutions went under as a direct result of government meddling with the entire industry through their play things Fannie and Freddie and such activity gave birth to political corruption with players in both parties looking to keep the gravy train rolling until it eventually derailed.
We had massive regulations on the industry... still do.
We had something going on that you didn't... Political Corruption:
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It was known in 2002 that Fannie and Freddie (both Government Sponsored Entities) were cooking their books. The corrupt people in charge of regulation and oversight covered it up and obstructed attempts at reform.
Why is that interesting? I sir, am a Capitalist. Business should operate based on what is in the best interest of the company, not on a principle of doing whatever is best for the state. Individuals should live according to their own rational self interest, not forced to operate on the principle of doing whatever is in the best interest of the state or for the good of the public. Whether its one individual or an entire corporation, we should all live and act in accordance with our own rational self interest and any acts of charity or altruism should be purely volitional.
The pogroms and other antisemitic actions and policies of the Nazi regime destroyed any chance for most Jews to "just leave", as their entire livelihoods were destroyed and they were left penniless. Broke, and stripped of their rights, many did flee on foot, only to find their new country overtaken by hordes of invading Nazi soldiers and then rounded up by the Einsatzgruppen.
Nevertheless, the point that taxes were used to control the population, even if you don't consider the Jews to have been citizens, was entirely accurate.
Very much so. Only the Nazi's used their tariffs to keep industry from doing business with countries outside of their sphere of influence. Tariffs were low, and in some cases did not exist, on countries that the central planners wanted German industry to do business with. An American equivalent would be us keeping tariffs low on trade with our allies, such as Canada, but totally cost prohibitive with the rest of the world.
Once again proving my point that taxation was used to elicit specific actions and encourage or punish behavior on the part of the population.
I don't make the policy under which we operate as a nation and applauded your PM's reaction to our fiddling with trade agreements. Additionally, I oppose all attempts at economic protectionism. If I were in charge, we would have Laissez Faire Capitalism and little, to no, such tariffs would be applied to trade. Therefore I am no hypocrite on the issue of tariffs.
The Nazi's were a black mark on all humanity.