04-27-2020, 12:27 PM
(04-27-2020, 11:39 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: That's all true, but are you sure that a regeneracy is only "when a new administration fully implements the progressive agenda?" Can't it be when a movement emerges among the people that will lead toward this?
In view of the disaster that is Donald Trump and the coattails to which right-wing Republicans have attached themselves as he takes them into political quicksand... the new progressive politics begin in January 2021. Americans will be able to relax some from the economic effects of COVID-19, and people associated with Joe Biden will get to ride an improving economy except perhaps for securities markets. I expect tax laws to change to tax 'unearned income' more heavily as they did in the 1930's. Green agenda? We are ready.
A progressive tax is the best friend of small businesses that find more niches in which they do not have to compete with giant, monopolistic, bureaucratic, vertically-integrated entities that squeeze out small business in eras of low taxes. As it is a small family business that turns $150,000 a year if incorporated pays as high a tax rate as Exxon-Mobil. $150,000 sounds like big money until you realize that $25,000 per family member is not that much for the work done by each member of a six-person household.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.