Commies to r-slurred to understand repercussions of crushing their high-end tax base.

What you're describing is not a bug but a feature of commie economic programs, crushing the so called "petite bourgeoisie" and then nationalize large corpos. Suffocating small businesses is intentional. It's not that they're "misguided but well intentioned", their end-goals are awful, always were and always will be.

One of the weirdest quirks of the redditor mindset is their inability to understand regulatory capture. The economy is a battle between good (government) and evil (markets), and more regulations = more government = gooder.

This is a core !neolibs principle. As much as !commies complain that no one understands communism, they understand neoliberalism even less. Neoliberals hate special interests and unearned privileges, and see the free market as generally the best way to oppose them. The average person will not notice if a TV megacorp rigs regulation in their favor, but will notice if they're being sold a shit TV. The common people have more voice in the marketplace than in the ballot box.

What you forget is that your average leftists who supports these policies motivated by envy and greed.

To your average communist, a national chain is almost an ungraspable concept. Sure, sure, he knows those are 'evil' too, but he viscerally hates the successful business owner who parks his Porsche Macan everyday across the street while he has to take the bus and stuttrs when someone asks him on a first date what he does for a living. A big slap in the face reminding him everyday of his own inadequacy.

They don't even care if these policies work, the primary goal is hurting people who are better than them.

yet often in such crushing bureaucracy and stifling taxes, it is often ONLY mega-corporations and national chain companies capable of operating

In America this is obvious with the meat-packing industry. Now there's extremely strict rules about keeping animals away from even getting diseases and how you slaughter them. We rarely get outbreaks of bad food now, and you can even do stuff that your parents would go insane over, like not cooking pork till it's white all the way through because trichinosis has been wiped out.

On the other hand, there's only a few huge mega-slaughter facilities in the country run by huge corporations that can sell you meat now. This became really obviously a problem during covid when one of their plants shut down and it meant basically no pork for anyone in America.

Yeah I very much doubt that LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton execs will be paying these taxes.

>I might be wrong in this, but i feel i have seen similar shortsighted leftwing aggrandizement

Shortsighted is expecting the current status quo to produce different results without any major, systematic change. But here we are, peeing our pants at the thought of corporate swine packing their bags and leaving the county not realizing how completely captured our political system and economies are by this social class that absolutely does not have ours, or even the country's, best interests at heart.

Let's just do nothing and hope for a crumb of their increasingly larger wealth share, as wealth inequality climbs to historic highs, our social institutions crumble right before our eyes, salaries stagnate, benefits disappear, quality of life plummets, life expectancy shrinks and housing (and land) becomes increasingly unaffordable and in the hands of a few rich landlords, investment banks and private equity firms. This is totally sustainable.

Maybe all we need is just more neoliberalism, a few more regulations and financial incentives and I'm sure all of our problems will go away. Or maybe we'll just be busy choosing which warmongering, demented, octogenarian, corporate beholden politician we'll vote for while Rome burns.

In any case, I assure you, life will keep getting worse and rightoid morons like you will keep on blaming leftoids and commies for all of society's failures and problems when it's exactly your brand of politics and ideological cravenness that has brought us here, where everything is fricked and there's no hope of fixing our systemic flaws, economic inequalities and societal issues because the class of people leeches you defend on the regular has bought and paid for our politicians generations ago and have the economy and our societies by the balls. Enjoy the post-capitalist dystopia, you worked for it.

It's funny when they say "it's only 1% of people". Like the 1% is 39% of the tax base. You can't afford to lose them.