The answer to your question is simple. The movement toward Socialism and Communism flies in the face of private business. Basically the egoists in Washington DC think that they know much more about what's good for the citizenry than does the citizenry themselves.

I guess it seems quite puzzling to those who feel that it takes the government to develop new products, that people like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and Jobs/Wozniak were able to bring massively successful new products and technologies to market without government intervention.

The government has ZERO business backing one product over another. I suppose that after the Supreme Court blazes the way to force you to buy a product, they will make all of us buy one of these cracker boxes.

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