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In his speech yesterday, Donald Trump had an excellent line:

[Hillary] Clinton “gets rich making you poor.”

This is truer than even Donald Trump may know.

It’s not just Hillary Clinton. It’s the nature of government intervention in the economy. When government intervenes in the economy, it disrupts rational business transactions. Rational business transactions refer to exchanges where people act in their own best interests. Inevitably, this takes the focus off pleasing customers and making profits and instead places the emphasis on pleasing politicians.

The skill of politicians like Bill and Hillary Clinton? They disrupt economic activity by taxing, regulating, subsidizing favored businesses, granting special favors to people who do them favors (or donate to the Clinton Foundation), etc. They’re no different from most other politicians in this respect. What makes them different is they do it on a scale so unprecedented, and so breathtakingly brazen, that people can hardly believe it. It’s much more scandalous than any corruption you’ll see on a show like Netflix’s House of Cards.

When a politician rewards company “A” by loosening up on taxes or regulations at the expense of company “B,” or by fledging company “C,” then it hampers or undermines rational economic activity. At this point, politicians turn on the class warrior “logic” by saying, “We’re helping the little guy at the expense of the fat cats. “ No such thing is true. What actually happens is the politicians reward and create fat cats by subverting the laws of the marketplace and replacing them with political considerations.

In a free market, where government does absolutely nothing other than prosecute frauds or violent criminals, this could not happen. Corruption is always possible, because human beings will always possess the free will to be honest or dishonest. But by staying out of the marketplace, government would remove the possibility of political corruption on the scale we see with Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Ayn Rand called this the “aristocracy of pull.” When we give government power over economic activity it does not deserve, it elevates corrupt people like the Clintons, and most other career politicians (both parties) to reward the favored rich and steal from the poor or the middle class. It’s also stealing from the honest, good companies who don’t need or want political pull, not to mention the businesses that will never come into existence because of how government thwarts economic growth.

Capitalism gets the blame for all this corruption and pull. That’s why we don’t have a candidate who advocates capitalism. To most people, private property and profits are the problem. So they turn to the socialism of Bernie Sanders or the nationalism of someone like Donald Trump. By default, we will probably end up with the corrupt power couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton, back at the helm. They may well be the duo to preside over the demise of what’s left of the American republic. These sneering power-lusters are skillful at convincing an inattentive, politically and ideologically ignorant public that they really care about the masses. In reality, they hamper and ultimately bring down the economy upon which those “little people” depend upon for survival.

Hillary Clinton does, in fact, get rich by making other people poor. And the poor ignorant saps who applaud her don’t have a clue.

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