Keeping Free in the Free Market

How many times have you read a news story about taxpayers finding themselves on the hook for a baseball stadium, or government money being spent to subsidize a company or industry?  How often, especially in recent years, have we seen taxpayers backstop risky corporate practices?  In this age when freedom is under attack, we can’t lose sight of the fact that the free market is also being harmed by government intrusion.  In this edition of Majority Points, we’ll take a look at real threats to the free market and how we as conservatives need to be vigilant in defense of it.

The strength of a nation isn’t just measured by the size of its military.  It is its economy that matters even more.  The United States has had the most prosperous economic system in the world because our Founders sought to keep government out of the way of private enterprise, individual ingenuity and innovation.  Today, however, at the local, state and federal level, government is trying to rewrite the rules of the American economy, playing favorites with select industries while forcing everyone else to foot the bill.

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