Regarding Julia Bojalad’s letter “Stop corporate gouging” (July 1, TribLIVE): Ha, ha. That’s what corporations do, Julia. They’re not legal “fictions” for nothing.

I’m not disparaging capitalism here. It works — on the small. Your small businessman, your roofer, plumber, hairdresser and restaurateur actually participate. They also bear most of the oversight by the G-men.

The big guys play by different rules. Everyone knows they collude their butts off. All that activity couldn’t bear concerted inspection. You can’t hide an elephant in a pup tent.

It doesn’t matter who’s in office — Democrats, Republicans, tree-huggers, libertarians, unitarians, Hungarians (I’m a dough-eating Hunky on my dad’s side). There is no will to seriously attempt real changes. You might start to “dig it up” with a spade, and soon you will need a backhoe, then a steam shovel. Some TNT would help.

I don’t care what the framers intended: We are a functional plutocracy.

Tom Kerek

Oakmont

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