Business Lobby Slights McCain – Thank Goodness
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 By David Hansen
Wall Street Journal reports that the national business lobbies are slighting John McCain when it comes to campaign donations. Actually, the WSJ reports that the two Democrat presidential hopefuls “have been cleaning his clock among business interests that give mainly to Republicans.”
While much of American business lobbying is supportive of the virtues of free markets, dynamic capitalism and limited government, a large part is also unfortunately directed toward securing the favors of government in the form of corporate welfare, special perks and privileges. While some may read into this news the business community’s sanguine assessment of McCain’s chances this November, I’d remind readers of something Milton Friedman said…
“One of the reasons I am for less government, is become when you have more government, industrialists take it over.”
Perhaps our business friends understand that McCain is someone who won’t so readily provide them the perks, pork and favoritism their donations are intended to buy?
Tags: campaign finance, Pork
