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In reply to the discussion: There is not a single business owner in this country who got where they are 100% on their own [View all]Cerridwen
(13,258 posts)electricity was provided to rural areas in the US.
And rail travel and transport.
And canals for transit to do business.
And the US postal service which was used to build airlines in their infancy.
Please, read the history of how so many businesses that laid foundations for the US infrastructure were promoted, funded, and made possible by government on behalf of business in the interests of the "common welfare".
Perhaps you'd care to start with the General Land Office that surveyed land and boundaries for the purposes of private and public ownership of lands. I'll give you a hint, that division of US government is currently called the Bureau of Land Management. That government agency has been recording US lands since just as we became the US.
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