Feudal corporatist elitists and Wall $treet bank$ter$ — the ones Thomas Jefferson* described as the “new aristocracy” to replace the hereditary monarchy they had recently overthrown — hate public policy oversight for the same reason the thug in the alley hates cops on the beat.
Exactly the same reason, just on a different scale.
Use a gun, rob a bank. Use a bank, rob the nation.
*Thomas Jefferson on the rise of corporations, a relatively new phenomenon in his time: “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.” (Letter to George Logan, November 12, 1816 [full text of letter can be provided if questioned]. The letter, with a sentiment also echoed in his letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816, goes on to compare the corporate elites to a new form of monarchy.)
Feudal corporatist elitists and Wall $treet bank$ter$ — the ones Thomas Jefferson* described as the “new aristocracy” to replace the hereditary monarchy they had recently overthrown — hate public policy oversight for the same reason the thug in the alley hates cops on the beat.
Exactly the same reason, just on a different scale.
Use a gun, rob a bank. Use a bank, rob the nation.
*Thomas Jefferson on the rise of corporations, a relatively new phenomenon in his time: “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.” (Letter to George Logan, November 12, 1816 [full text of letter can be provided if questioned]. The letter, with a sentiment also echoed in his letter to John Taylor, May 28, 1816, goes on to compare the corporate elites to a new form of monarchy.)