Quote:It's part of what makes up a government, however.  We arguing semantics?

 

It's not part of what makes up government, it's an economic method.

 

You can have a capitalist democracy, you can have a capitalist monarchy, you can have a capitalist oligarchy.

 

It's not a system of government and it's not part of a system of government.

 

Governments choose which forms of economic practices to allow or endorse, but the economic system isn't a part of the government.

 

Did America suddenly have a different government when LBJ got the great society programs implemented? No. Still democracy just like it was before, just with a bit more socialism.

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