One of Ayn Rand's many insights was that dictatorships are _not_ "iron rule" but the whim of the bureaucrat. There are no rules because the plethora of contradictory commands removes all certainty. Businesses hate that. No one can plan, just personally; but for a business, a firm, an enterprise, a 100-year old multinational corporation, that uncertainty paralyzes them. They wait because they have to. You can deal with a 90% flat tax if you have to - if that's what it really is… and not 90% except for or until or with an exemption for …

As for net neutrality, the Objective Standard article that khalling linked to here
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/1a... was written in 2008! These issues are not new. The goal for us is not to complain about the "Muslim Marxist Whatever-in-Chief" but to bring a consistent philosophy based on reality and reason to politics, arts, and sciences. Then, we would not wait six years for one corporation to catch on to the game and choose not to play it.

Fitting.

just so