(12-13-2011 12:47 PM)Max Power Wrote:  Motown, what if they cut corners and make their products with toxic substances or save a penny and use trans fats in your food which increase the risk of coronary heart disease by a whopping 500%? What's more, what if they know all this and hide it from you and lie about the risks? What if they dump their industrial waste into the local lake? History shows corporations will do all these things if they can get away with it, and people won't necessarily have the option of "taking their money elsewhere" until it's too late.

I don't have a problem with making food companies disclose what ingredients go into their products, nor do I have a problem with reasonable environmental laws (i.e. your industrial waste example). If a company is caught in a bold-face lie about something; yes, customers have a right to sue and the company punished. I may be a free-market capitalist, but this doesn't mean I support fraud.

As for your last sentence, all corporations don't share a brain with Gordon Gekko. Most play by the rules, some are unethical. And if you exchanged "corporations" with "politicians" in your line, the same applies.