The Fundamental Injustice That Is Poisoning the Nation

[Generic Other]

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The Central State, designed to protect the citizenry from an oppressive monarchy or Elite, now protects this Elite from the citizenry. That is how thoroughly the injustice has been institutionalized.

There is a second part to this fundamental injustice: look who will pay for the bailouts, guarantees and the interest on the borrowed trillions. Not the banks and bankers, to be sure. Who will pay? Those who the Central State can easily tap: taxpayers who earn most of their income from wages, and those politically weak players dependent on government payments.

Now that the bills of the bailout are coming due, the State isn’t going after GE for more taxes. Heavens no—if you try that, the Panzer Division of GE’s tax avoidance army would overrun you. No, the politically easy thing to do is raise taxes on wage earners and trim entitlements, because all the government needs to do is send down the orders and it is done: the taxes are withheld and the bennies trimmed.

To go after the Power Elite is just too difficult. They have the tax attorneys, the lobbyists, the campaign fundraisers, and all the rest.
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[Angry Dragon]

1. 'Off with their heads'

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Sad to say, I have to agree with everything said here. nt

[leftstreet]

3. Let Them Eat Pizza!

Good article. Thanks for posting

[RKP5637]

4. Time is running out to fix this mess. The cement is hardening and the barricade

to prevent the country being for "we the people" is almost complete. Welcome to American Serfdom.

[MadHound]

5. A central mistake to this otherwise observant piece,

Namely that the government was, at one time, concerned with the primary duty of protecting ordinary people. This has never been the case. Rather, the government has always seen, as its primary duty, to protect the interests of the rich and powerful, while keeping law and order among the rest of the masses.

[Permanut]

6. Bullseye.

Perfectly stated, Generic. These are the things of which revolutions are made.

[fascisthunter]

7. BAM, BAM, BAM!!!

Nail meets hammer.

[iemitsu]

8. not getting our share of pizza

will lead to revolution.
i would fight for it and beer.