Reply #11: Repub gov'ts are wealth-protection societies.

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Ideally, to get wealthy, one should have to work hard, and create something of such value to society that people are willing to buy it. Once many people get wealthy, they want to be able to stay wealthy without having to work to keep that wealth. That's where Republicans step in.

One of the most effective tools to create a permanent class of wealthy and a permanent class of middle and working class is through the tax code.

The tax code is always creating incenctives and rewards. By loading up the tax burden on people who work for a living (by taxing earned income at the highest rates) and unloading the burden from the wealthy (by taxing unearned income at the lowest rates), the gov't creates a society in which the ALREADY wealthy get wealthier without having to work or create any new value for society, and the people who work have to work so hard just to tread water that they'll never threaten the hegemony.

This is the consequence of being able to convert monetary wealth into political power so easily in the US. The wealthy have purchased themself a wealth-protection society, and it's making society poorer and it's slowing down innovation and progress. Europe went through the same thing at the end of the monarchies. Those societies rewarded wealth, loaded the burden up on the middle class, the middle class emmigrated to countries where they could reap the rewards of their labor, and those new societies forced the monarchies to convert to democracies are risk being pushed to the margins.

The US is trying to use its military and subterfuge to prevent having to abandon the wealth-protection model of society becuase they know it's uncompetitive.