All those companies you listed? Despite very bad business practices, the government calls them 'to big to fail' and as a result, the taxpayer is paying for their mistakes.
The whole idea of a free market is based around smaller, more efficient companies stepping up to take over when the big greedy ones fall apart because of their own mistakes.
AIG has sucked how many billions from the US taxpayer? And how many billions more are they going to keep asking for?
And guess what? The government keeps giving it to them.
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