資本主義會導致官商勾結？

“I do not believe it’s proper to put the situation in the terms that it’s industrialists versus government. On the contrary, one of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the ordinary worker and the ordinary consumer. I think business is a wonderful institution, provided it has to face competition in the marketplace and can’t get away with something except by producing a better something at a lower cost, and that’s why I don’t want government to step in and help the business community." –Milton Friedman

此段話說得多好！

許多無知者（如彭明輝、朱學恆之流）以為資本主義是導致官商勾結的原因，其實大錯特錯！是大政府主義造成官商勾結！試問一個「無為而治」的政府，商人何須犧牲利益去勾結官方？官方又何德何能有「租值」給商人尋覓？「反財團」三字就證明主張者壓根沒看出來問題癥結點。別說看門道，這些人根本連門在哪都不知道。偏偏我們最常看到聽到的，就是每當有什麼事件發生時，這些人立馬跳出來要政府處理、介入、負責。這些人就像是拿汽油去滅火一般愚蠢。

與多數所誤解相反，資本主義本質必定是反對官商勾結的！因為官商勾結的結果幾乎都會造成「利用政府暴力侵害他人產權」這現象。無論是大埔案這種強制徵收財產的顯性暴力，亦或補貼特定產業這種隱性的「五鬼搬運暴力」，都是侵害他人產權而未得同意與交易。

同樣反對官商勾結，與無知群眾訴求不同點在於：資本主義認為解決之道在於削減政府權能，而非更多更嚴的法規。如同我在此blog反覆強調，更多法規只是讓貪汙更嚴重、更制度化，商人更被迫勾結官方。