Corporations priorities are to shareholders and to return their investment, not to the employees. If that is best served by cutting jobs, so be it. You know you don't have to buy from them right?

You do realize that massive corporations are not owned by the CEO/COO/CFO right? They are owned by individuals like you and me.

Because the system that allows for incredible wealth accumulation is the system that allows for innovation and is basically the reason for all the modern conveniences we have now. Because they earned it. Because life ain't fair. Because this is the way that works best.

But that vaccine was spread around the world by Rotary.

I'm just trying to figure out the disconnect where 1.) you believe that businesses need to be regulated or else something like your example happens and how corporatists want to see poor people die, but 2.) feel no need to regulate the out of office actions of those same corporatists because people left to their own…

Who forced the entire town to start shopping at WalMart in the first place? I haven't heard of WalMart secret police. Grow up and have some accountability for your actions.

A. The 2% give a lot. Charitable deductions are huge.

Where do you think the $80 billion a year comes from? Taxes or borrowing. Why not establish a taxation system that funnels the money straight to charity? Grant credits up to your entire tax for donations to 501(c)(3)s, etc. Why do we need an inefficient middle man?

I'd venture that you are way past basic when you are at abortion. Access to basic forms of birth control, comprehensive sex education in schools (which includes a non-biased inclusion of abstinence), go for it. Abortion, tap your brakes a bit.

And yet you believe that the same people who do stuff like that are making healthy, productive life choices about their health and well being when they leave work?

Yes, we do get to decide. That's what makes us so different than everywhere else. And its not different than your example. Our government is supposedly a representative democracy meaning we control what they do. I have only argued that we shouldn't pay for something not that paying for something was unconstitutional.

So you too agree that corporations and the people that work for them want poor people to die?

I don't like paying for prisons or the death penalty either. Nice stereotyping though.

Have you ever actually met a non-democrat/liberal? I regularly work with high level employees of corporations that most liberals say the name of with scorn. I assure you they have no desire to see the poor die. The point of cutting spending and taxes is to put money into the hands of the people and companies that can…

Do you think there is a risk that a birth control providing charity is going to turn away women?

I'll give you that economies of scale have advantages. I don't believe I ever said there should be no government social nets, just a hell of a lot less. I'm not a batshit insane libertarian, just a crazy one.

Why do you assume this is a zero sum game (or that I somehow support corporate welfare)?

So you believe that left on their own, business owners are going to crank out knowingly defective products? You distrust people that much, but still think they are capable of making informed decisions about their health and well-being?

Are you denying that private charity has solved social ills? Polio ring a bell? Why am I engaging somebody that is so obviously deluded?

Be careful to distinguish between teen pregnancy rates and teen birth rates. We still have a disproportionately high teen pregnancy rate to other countries. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the stats show the US also leads in adolescents engaging in sex. I believe we have become a overly sexual, hedonistic…