How to make a developed country a banana republic - [View All]

[salin]

1) Implement tax policies that accelerate the exit of higher paying jobs (ala outsourcing) during a recession - so that when jobs start being created again (when economy picks up) there is a downward pressure on wages.

2) Use taxpayer money as big pots of cash for cronies to get huge govt contracts with no oversight, and huge tax cuts for wealthy individuals and select big corporations in order to create a permanent political slush fund to make permanent a one-party system that solidifies permanent economic disparities.

3) Implement tax policies that make it harder for moderate and low income folks to own homes, and that strip health insurance away from most americans (this is just in the "pending" stage - but is being pushed to be unrolled by the end of the year); shift income taxes to absorb anent sales taxes increasing the cost of consumption by 30 - 50% - thus taxing moderate and low income folks almost all of their wages (due to spending, by necessity, most earned income) - while sheltering wealthier folk's income from investments, inheritance tax, etc.

4) Pass a bankruptcy bill that encourages predatory lending (no cap on legalized usury) - while makes more draconian the repayment plans - AND that makes no exceptions for health crises (remember - health insurance for many, if their tax plans go through, will be but a faint memory) or natural disasters (for which there will be poorer and poorer response by govt due to #2)

All the while, convince people that this is in their best interest, peppering the rhetoric with religious language - such that some believe that if they don't support those in power that they will go to h$ll.

Bushjr/Rove/Norquist/DeLay - 101.