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I might have missed it somewhere but could you briefly explain how the government subsidizes the largeness of corporations?
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You didn't miss it; I haven't really argued for it in this thread. A lot of the stuff is obvious stuff, like the direct subsidies and the tax breaks that large corporations can get (obviously I'm not opposed to tax breaks per se, but when everyone else pays taxes except certain large businesses, it confers a competivitive advantage on them). Regulation and standardization also have the effect of making businesses larger, since they decrease the number of ways in which businesses can compete and make it easier for businesses to form cartels or to just merge together. Kevin Carson (he has lots of stuff about this topic on his
website) also talks about the Interstate Highway System as way businesses are able to subtlely transfer the costs of economic centralization elsewhere.