What is the real solution to the buying and selling of favors?
Government should not decide what services and products businesses can offer and what markets can enter. These decisions should solely left to producers and buyers. Under laissez-faire there would be no buying of politicians, because politicians would not have the power to extort money. All these laws would be impossible under capitalism, since each one of them is a violation of individual rights, i.e., preventing a group of businessmen to enter a market violates their right to liberty, i.e., taxing one business more then another violates the principle of equal treatment under government, i.e. subsidizing one business–with the tax money taken from the other–is a violation of the second’s right to property, etc. Under capitalism the only laws that a politician may pass are those that equally protect the rights of all its citizens, i.e. without violating the rights of any of them.
