52.50% - Real capitalism requires fair competition — no player big enough to win through market power rather than merit; that's not socialism, that's the prerequisite for markets to work.
37.50% - The U.S. doesn't have pure capitalism — it has a hybrid system where corporations big enough write their own rules and regulators and industries form crony relationships. That's the corruption, not capitalism itself.
10.00% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
Monopolistic practices and corporate lobbying are the principal threats to a functioning free market.
77.78% - The U.S. doesn't have pure capitalism — it has a hybrid system where corporations big enough write their own rules and regulators and industries form crony relationships. That's the corruption, not capitalism itself.
11.11% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
11.11% - Real capitalism requires fair competition — no player big enough to win through market power rather than merit; that's not socialism, that's the prerequisite for markets to work.
50.00% - Monopolistic practices and corporate lobbying are the principal threats to a functioning free market.
50.00% - Conservatives who claim to value free markets should be the loudest opponents of monopoly and corporate lobbying.
0.00% - Wealthy individuals and corporations intentionally stifle the free market through political influence and monopolistic practices.
50.00% - Microsoft