Sawicky wrote:
>> . . . The power to levy taxes, for example, is increasingly deployed to
>tithe low- and middle-income people to subsidize the state functions--such
>as corporate welfare and the military--favored by the corporate elite. >
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>More unquantified nonsense.
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>BE can't count.
Numbers on taxes must be easy to look up. I have heard what Ehrenreich is saying from a number of different people. Unfortunately, I don't have any figures at my finger tips. She mentions corporate welfare and the military, but one can consider an increase in funding for the criminal justice system as a bolster to Capital's side in the class war. And what about the entire budget for foreign policy which includes things like export promotion and the pillaging of Russia?
Let me suggest that maybe marketing research has shown that too many numbers put people off or bore them and in order not to lose subscribers the Nation people feel they must eschew too much math. Say their articles were chock full o' equations. Wouldn't that cut into Doug's territory?
chillin' like a villain, Peter