Cohen, Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million

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10. Using money and laws to skew the system and fleece the masses

I see this sort of thing every time I write a check. Somebody's got their hands on something and is squeezing people. I'm not saying it's always bad, there are many honest business people with good durable products at a fair price, but there are also things that are exhorbitant, controlled in virtual monopolies that have little competition. Sometimes the states are used in the legal sense to authorize monopolies, such as insurance, state inspections, liquor licenses, that sort of thing. I'm also not a big fan of taxes going up to feed state and local government services that have no competitors other than competitive bidding processes.