Citizens are finally waking up to the excessive, distributed looting and concentrated gain that business lobbies have come to practice, while exploiting the fundamental loophole that politicians in the USA can be bought, and cheaply too.
WalMart gets tax breaks as a "job provider" to drive out competitors, and then sticks local communities with added unemployment, to pay the living wage of the people WalMart supposedly "employs." Parasites are jealous! It's a diabolically brilliant method for killing your host nation.
Ironically, however, WalMart is just the tip of the parasitic iceberg*. If we're gonna talk reparations and refunds, we gotta be consistent, and start at the top of the hierarchy. No sense in just arguing over crumbs.
Over the last 4 generations, NeoCons have bamboozled untold Trillions from every single person in the USA - including themselves!
What would the refund to the MiddleClass be if we demanded back 4 generations of completely unnecessary FICA taxes? With interest & penalties (for policy stupidity)?Remember, while taxes are fundamental to national solidarity, tax distribution is 100% policy, and taxes are NOT revenue for a currency issuer, only necessary - but not sufficient - policy.
Business owners get corporate welfare & tax breaks just for being in business.
Why don't working people get equivalent tax breaks for being in "labor" ?
Any anthropologist will tell you that clan & class competition continues, expressed nowadays primarily as excessive efforts to over-tax and under-fund PERCEIVED competitor families, clans & classes. That inability to see & explore bigger collective options is holding back the USA, and citizens of every other country in the world too.
We came out of a BIG option - WWII - with an agile, all powerful MiddleClass that made us the most capable nation on Earth. Since then, a few greedy, misguided bastards have been busy promoting the idea that 1% of us should shoot the nation not just in the foot, but in every internal organ as well. It wasn't always like this. Businesses from Kaiser Construction to (early) Hewlett-Packard once placed fair profits and fair wages on an equal footing. What happened?
Time for a refund? Big time!
How? Just take back the group brains that we've been tricked into NOT using, and refund our own damn policy. What's the option? Ceding ownership of our national carcass to the 1%? What on Earth are THEY going to do with a dead culture, after they've sucked it dry? Emigrate to new host colonies? What if they're all dead too?
If the USA is to light it's "shining beacon" again, it's gotta include a PARASITE LIGHT to attract and then neuter or re-purpose our own parasites. ("BlackLight" seems to work well on Control Frauds.) Otherwise, we'll be consumed by our own cloud of deranged capitalist mosquitoes and the greed-borne social diseases that they carry. Every time we get careless, another crop of antibiotic-resistant capitalists evolve, starts spewing onco-memes, and the aggregate barely survives. Re-purposing parasite functions is an honorable, ancient method as old as evolution. There's no shame in shaping parasites to aggregate or Public Purpose.
Can we get back to an ounce of prevention, so some insanely great cultural evolution can continue unabated for awhile?
* All FICA taxes to the working classes, since 1936? With compound interest and fines? Anyone wanna take a stab at that? Add damages and lost opportunities? We could have had an AWESOME middle class!!!
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The six Walton heirs have combined net worth of over $90 billon. So governments are effective subsidizing the wages of Walton employees so that the Walton family can accumulate stagering fortunes.
"Any anthropologist will tell you that clan & class competition continues, expressed nowadays primarily as excessive efforts to over-tax and under-fund PERCEIVED competitor families, clans & classes"
This is the crux of it naturalistically. The myth of individuals competing against other individuals is just made up to make simplistic economic models tractable, not to mention ideological. And it is not accidental that the ideology on which the models are based plays favorites while pretending to be naturalistic.
The operative words are families, clans, and classes. Not only anthropologists but also evolutionary biologists and sociologists note that this leads to a tendency to hoard wealth in blood lines allied in marriage with other blood lines, which has been observed historically. Now it is taking place within the context of a global class that cooperates in gaining and maintaing advantage by capturing key institutions.
This is especially the case with the dynastic wealth with which Piketty is especially concerned, that is, the top 0.01% to 0.001%. Only relatively few "families" control an inordinate amount of global wealth relative to productive contribution by exerting the power that privilege bestows. This is the new aristocracy, which pretty much the same as the old aristocracy other than differences in context.
Politics is mostly about competing groups at the top over distribution of power and wealth. Since humans are territorial like other predators, these conflicts often lead to war over control of territory and resources.
Government designed the system with the idea that low wages and subsidies would help encourage companies to hire more people as part of the welfare reform. It worked, too well.
"Politics is mostly about competing groups at the top "
My personal view is that the two party system when mixed with the fiery, reactive nature of the house of representatives, doesn't work very well.
When you look at the US Government, specifically, which branch of government do you think is failing?
The part of US Gov that is failing the most?
The 4th branch, the electorate.
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