Forest and trees. I keep thinking that I’ve just missed them in the past trips to the very few stores I go to – Chlorox or Lysol wipes. First, it was toilet paper, then almost immediately after, paper towels, and then the disinfectant spray bottles.
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Driving Out The Competition
I have posited elsewhere in these pages that the government (when run by this particular crowd of liberal Democrats at least) very likely engages in tax policy designed to eliminate political competition.
If, for example, you drive off all the wealthy people or confiscate so much of their wealth that they cling (bitterly) to whatever remains, the only people left willing and able to contribute to increasingly expensive political campaigns will be rich crony friends of the government, people who got waivers, or those that benefited from corporate socialism and are wealthy as a result and also dependent on that relationship.
If you own all the rich people you and your aristocracy can expect to control the power indefinitely.
I happen to think it’s a solid theory so here is another one.