Reply #1: But but but...corporations need that money to innovate!

[Ignacio Upton]

Of course, the drug companies, auto companies, and the entertainment industry will try all sorts of things in the way of getting the government to squash competition for them (the RIAA-supported DRM technology that will become standard on Windows Vista is an example.) If we ran a truely free market, the government wouldn't keep enacting copyright laws like the DMCA, and they sure as hell wouldn't keep subsidizing oil and agribusiness (and that includes ethanol subsidies, as corn-based ethanol is NOT efficient.) And don't get started with drug company patents!