Successful bussineses can afford to purchase smaller ones.

Property rights accumulate into the hands of the few, because success is rewarded and taxation on excessive profits in america is not used to redistribute as much as it used to be.

"taxation on excessive profits in america is not used to redistribute as much as it used to be."

The problem is that the fantastically wealthy have simply become more adept at writing "loopholes" into the tax laws and hiring skilled tax attorneys to minimize their tax liabilities. Meanwhile, the upper middle class (who represent the best chance at breaking up the current situation where state-approved cartels control all industries) that does not have this "access" is taxed and regulated into submission and obedience - and out of competition.

The State exists to maintain the power of the .01% at the expense of the other 99.99% of the population. Always has, always will.

Now in fairness, that concentration of power was never really as dense.

Even if medieval monarchs nominally held abosolute power, realistically they were limited in most cases to an upper class of stakeholders...

Oh and the fact that the political class rely on the super wealthy to be elected, and the money is protected as speech under the constitution, means the political will to change these tax laws does not, in fact can not exist. Not within the current system.

"means the political will to change these tax laws does not, in fact can not exist. Not within the current system. "

Nonsense. I mean, I'm not saying it does or doesn't exist, but saying it cannot for that reason is ridiculous. Money is exceptionally important in getting elected, sure, but popular sentiments are hardly irrelevent yet, and it's not like the facts you're pointing out are obscure or in any way suppressed. If anything, they're over-discussed on (corporately-owned) news stations.

When 47% receive every dime back withheld in their income tax and the top 10% pay 71% of all income tax then it is wealth redistribution.
I love meeting someone with a 47% attitude in public.
They are so easy to shame and embarrass.
Anyone who lives beyond their means is.
Like Europe.

I don't think there was a claim that popular sentiment was irrelevant. The arguement was just that those with the will to opppse the super-wealthy do not and can not get elected.

Thus the political will does not exist.

And no, i made no claim of secrecy or conspiracy. But viewed in Marxist terms (ie in terms of class, just as a feminost would analyise things in terms of gender) it is clear who has the power, and that this power is focusing the ownership of many brands into few hands. A fairly natural tendancy...

"the upper middle class (who represent the best chance at breaking up the current situation where state-approved cartels control all industries) that does not have this "access" is taxed and regulated into submission and obedience - and out of competition."

This little violin weeps for the upper middle class. Those poor, oppressed, upper middle class with their designer pre-fab homes & historically low tax rates.

Scratch a libertarian tax whiner and you'll find a wannabe member of the big bourgeoisie. They don't hate the cartels so much as they want to be among them.

I think saying the state exists for that one purpose is not entirely correct I would rather say that it has been co-opted by the top .01 percent. The percentage of the total wealth affecting the degree to which they can get their way.

Why would you oppose the super wealthy? They are the most innovative people on the planet. Why champion a couch potato with a beer belly who plays in the softball league instead of working their ass off to make a difference?
Nothing against the beer belly, but nothing to champion there.
Why do people not recognize that the extraordinary is what you celebrate not the ordinary.
Why do people think you are entitled to something you don't work for just for "being?"
Because they are ordinary and don't understand the extraordinary at all.
If they did understand extraordinary they would be ordinary.

"They are so easy to shame and embarrass.
Anyone who lives beyond their means is.
Like Europe."

TC now writes his insults in haiku form.

I love my money
Thucy and his beer gut gone
Like a fart in the wind

Are our only two choices to support the super wealthy or a couch potato? The dichotomy is self-serving and convenient to your argument. I myself have no problem that people who work hard get rewarded for it....the problem comes from gaining so much influence that one stacks the deck in their favor acquiring compensation above and beyond what is due which leads to more influence then more compensation ect. ect. Innovation, while great and all, does not excuse exploitation.