“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision-makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” — Barney Frank
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WITH THE ECONOMY the overriding political issue, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce next session arguably will be the most powerful force at the Statehouse — the question is a force for what?
As suggested in our summer 2011 journal, Reawakening the Chamber, a free-market legislator would score low on the far-flung issues that make up the Chamber’s annual Legislative Vote Analysis, a key mover of Indiana campaign donations.
“That leaves us without a voice to defend or restore the principles that would return the Indiana economy to greatness,” we wrote at the time. “We have only a Barney Frank amalgam of corporate and banking interests.”
Now the Chamber is reportedly studying same-sex marriage, yet another issue that would seem to be outside the world of profits and jobs. Nonetheless, some inside the business organization think there is an economic connection. You be the judge of whether it is a credible one.