Draping the devil

The true relationship between government and corporation is a symbiotic one, with the latter often acting as an agent of the former in preying upon the wealth of the population. Take the insurance industry, for example. The insurance corporations lobby the government for laws requiring automobile insurance to be purchased from an insurance company to receive a license plate from the government. This causes money to flow first to the insurance company, with a cut of the profits then paid to the government in the form of corporate and employee taxes. The partnership between the state and its corporations is necessary, because without the use of government force to deny the roads to unlicensed vehicles, safe drivers who seldom crash their cars and generate pure profits for the public-private partnership would likely never bother to purchase insurance against a low-probability event. And without corporate participation, the revenue collection would simply amount to an overt tax.

Vox Day