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Q12. Why are law books so big?<br />
Q12. Why are law books so<br />
big?<br />
To create haves and have-nots. Laws are not written by<br />
the representatives of the people. The text is prepared by<br />
businesses and given to legal departments of the<br />
<strong>government</strong> or directly to people's representatives. These<br />
corporate-sponsored laws are deliberately made voluminous<br />
<strong>for</strong>:<br />
1. Hiding loopholes that only big businesses can<br />
com<strong>for</strong>tably exploit. For example, many big<br />
corporations pay no income tax.*<br />
2. Preventing ordinary people from understanding the<br />
laws on their own. Ignorance of the law is not a<br />
viable legal defence.<br />
3. Preventing ordinary citizens and small independent<br />
firms from competing with big businesses, thereby<br />
preserving the latter's monopoly status. Small firms<br />
will waste their limited resources on unnecessary<br />
legal requirements and thereby lose their value-<strong>for</strong>money<br />
advantage. Big firms that can maintain an<br />
army of lawyers and accountants will drive out<br />
smaller competitors.<br />
� Reuters article titled “Microsoft use of low-tax havens drives down tax bill””<br />
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/microsoftuse-of-lowtax-havens-drives-down-tax-bill/articleshow/9406430.cms<br />
62 <strong>World</strong> Government Slave Handbook
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