The anti-competitive practices actively encouraged by big government?
How does this make any sense? Anti-competitive business practices are allowed a pass under Republican rule, and they aren't the party of big government. Well, supposedly they aren't, but the party has kind of lost their identity and all of their ideology, so in the sense that they're willing to grow government to protect corporations from any sort of backlash I guess you're correct.
how am I being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith?
How long do you have? "Giving all the money to the wealthiest citizens and assuming they'll spend it 'responsibly' totally isn't the same as trickle down!" "All my sources are 100% partisan, that doesn't mean they're pushing an agenda over facts though!" "Less corporate regulation = more competition somehow!" I've got more if you really care to hear them.
I'm not asking for a complete dismissal of government. What I am saying is that literally all central government is corrupt af by its very nature, and as such shouldn't be allowed to have too much power. State and local government are far less susceptible and so should have as much power as possible over their respective areas.
A reasonable statement for once, but that's also the entire point of checks and balances. The judiciary and other branches keep the federal government from crossing too many lines, and state governments can enact their own laws (on net neutrality for instance) when the federal government drops the ball.
However, states can't regulate corporations since they operate throughout the entire country, so by suggesting we shrink the federal government it's obvious you're still suggesting we need less regulation. It's not a good idea considering the fact that we're probably teetering on the edge of another economic crash right now.
Not to mention, but youre assuming that corporations are one singular entity. Target, Walmart and Amazon are not part of some crazy alliance to take down America. They're out to get as much profit as possible as easily as possible.
Think about what you just said: they're not a singular entity, but they have a singular goal. Yes, not all corporations support a single political party, but this can be seen largely as hedging their bets. As I said, in the event Republicans do eliminate enough regulations or shrink government enough, corporations would find plenty to agree on as the center of power shifts to them as a collective.
EDIT: Just a side note here, but how exactly would corporations take over? Genuinely curious.
Shrinking government until it's "small enough to drown in a bathtub" is one method that I already mentioned. Another method is that Republicans could call a constitutional convention and gut our rights that way, leaving corporations to fill in the blanks however they wish. The Koch brothers currently have a sign off on twenty-three out of thirty governor's signatures needed for a unilateral constitutional convention to be called, they've been playing at this as a long game.
In a sense, corporations have already taken over to an uncomfortable degree. The Federal Reserve is a privatized institution, meaning our currency and its value is privatized. Kennedy opposed the Federal Reserve and that's one theory as to why he might've been assassinated. He was set to sign legislation barring its establishment in the US when he returned from Texas.
Who cares who made it? If the logic is sound, the logics sound.
The logic is not sound. Any hyper-partisan think tank is only going to use studies and numbers that back their pre-conceived biases. You might as well have used Dora the Explorer as a source if we're settling for zero credibility.