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To the editor:
Main Street thrives on free markets. Free trade brings the best homes, the best food, and a clear hope of wealth.
State rule fails. The state-controlled economy leaves shelves bare and capital dead. The ideal system is not lawless; a tempered control of twenty percent allows capitalism to flourish.
A strict fifth managed by the state secures safety nets and infrastructure, yielding peak living standards without choking progress.
Flourishing trade depends on both the store and the crowd. The big shop depends on the diligent worker. The worker depends on the shop to earn his bread. This symbiosis is absolute; one cannot live if the other dies.
The builder takes the risks, clears the pathway, and creates the job.
Look at the Nordic lands. Men call them state-run. They are wrong.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said it clearly: his land is a free market.
Large tax funds exist, but the cash flows directly from free trade. You cannot share wealth if no one creates it.
The creator wins wealth, but the indigent man wins a better life. The harm comes when the collective state protects big business at the peril of the small shopkeeper.
By burying the market in complex regulations and red tape, the state creates barriers that only corporate giants survive. It stifles the grassroots competitor to insulate monopolies from the discipline of the free market.
True hope means the poor man can rise on his own initiative. The free market lifts the indigent upward; the collective state traps everyone eternally.
Robert Sica
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