21st Centuary equivalent of the church-state battle?

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Best recent example that I’ve seen was with tax haven crackdown law that Clinton was going to pass. Days after receiving nearly 300k worth of donations from financial institutions they stonewalled it then tried to stop it altogether. In the wake of 911 allot have decided it must be passed but plenty are still fighting.

My general philosophy has always been that business should operate in a carefully contained arena administered by government but not interlinked as they are today. A kind of gladiatorial contest where the gladiators cannot buy the emperors favor =)

It’s always a balance of power thing, between government and business. Big government is not good, neither is business control. Personally I marginally prefer government most of the time, governments in the end (in western countries) at least mostly are elected by their people, and business just wants to make money no matter what the cost.