Right, that's the revenue they have to play with, and yep, that's what I meant by opening up the throttle :-)

‎"The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."

Ayn Rand

I don't see how that applies here? That communism doesn't work well or is inherently unfair doesn't generalize into the idea that the less communistic a society is, the better. In general, I think Rand is overly reductionistic and shouldn't constitute a significant portion of anyone's worldview.