He clearly doesn't understand. His post seems to imply that he thinks government is bad because our government has been corrupted by corporate lobbying and corporate-written laws therefore get rid of government. It's such an insane and myopic logical train of thought that I want to assume he's a corporate shill just for his own sake.
"Those wolves keep finding ways into our hen house and eating our hens. Get rid of the hen house! The invisible hand will keep them safe."
Exactly.
And to your point...we really need to build a better hen house with things like:
-Campaign Finance Reform (only public funding for campaigns; no private money allowed)
-Disallowing politicians from getting hired at lobbying special interests for a period of time after the end of their term (e.g., 5 to 10 years after term ends)
-Reforming/Limiting Lobbying in general.
-Lock-step ratios for total executive compensation (i.e., total executive compensation is pegged to a maximum ratio with the median total compensation considering all employees and contractors working for the company; e.g., 40:1 upper threshold, where executive can only make up to 40 times as much as the median total compensation at that company...if the executives want to increase their own pay, they have to increase everyone else's also).
-Strengthening of labor and union laws which bolster labor and unions.
-Simple Progressive Federal Corporate Tax Rates (multiple brackets and much higher percentages at the upper end)
-Simple Progressive Federal Income Tax Rates (more brackets and much higher percentages at the upper end)
-Significantly higher Capital Gains Tax
-Simple Progressive Estate Tax (multiple brackets and much higher percentages at the upper end)
-Tuition-free College/Vocational Education
-Universal Healthcare
-Strict enforcement of labor and environmental laws wherever business is done, including in foreign countries (i.e., American companies operating in other countries must abide by our own labor and environmental standards); trade with foreign companies will be conditionally-tariffed if our standards are not met (i.e., fair trade).
-Companies operating in and/or incorporated in America will have strictly enforced repatriated taxable revenue (if companies do not comply, the funds will be forcibly recovered/frozen by the American government)
-Vastly increased investment in sustainable infrastructure and energy production (in the order of trillions of dollars over time).
-Massive increase in publicly-funded basic scientific research and R&D.
Just to name a few...