Government's Folly

According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, the EU is screwing IBM. Apparently the EU is fining IBM 1.6 Billion Euros because they have allegedly used rebates and direct payments to retailers so that they wouldn’t sell AMD – the biggest competitor to Intel.

I have yet to see the evidence for this, more than likely there is little if any, but that is not the point. What right does the EU have to tell a company how to run itself? Especially when government can’t even run itself. This is completely ridiculous.

The EU is a bunch of thugs and thieves and looters, that can’t do anything productive themselves so must steal from those that are productive. It is ironic how governments regulate and tax all the competition out of the water and then they fine the people who do manage to survive the harsh regulations and taxes just for being the only ones to survive. Even if the government didn’t destroy competition and even if companies didn’t use “underhanded” methods to run other companies out of business, if simply nobody else decides they want to compete with a company, that company would be in violation of Anti-trust laws simply for doing nothing. Anti-trust laws were put in place so that governments can steal money from companies whenever they wanted.

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