The long con...

[Pluvious]

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The GOP tax scam started in the 1970s and culminated with the election of Reagan in 1980. They convinced the working and middle classes to deregulate and stop taxing the rich. Then they got Christians to reverse ALL of Jesus’s teaching to also support the rich.

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...nt

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin'

[FakeNoose]

3. What I remember about the 1970s ...

After 1975, the Vietnam War was over. Returning Vets couldn't find jobs, because American factories started laying people off, shutting down, and moving to Mexico. Or the Philippines. Or Taiwan. Or Korea. Americans who had jobs were scared of losing them, and eventually many of them did.

General Electric started it when they shut down their US factories for making light bulbs that cost about $.25 each to make. They went to Mexico and produced the same lightbulbs for $.05 each. They got an immediate 400% profit and it was all the savings of labor cost. But did the price of light bulbs ever go down in our grocery stores? Oh hell no! We still paid the same retail price of $1.00 each that we always paid for GE lightbulbs.

Other American manufacturers saw what GE did and they all followed suit. Reagan came in in 1980 and he made it easy for corporations to close down their factories and lay everyone off. It snowballed during Reagan's 8 years until there was almost nothing left.

Repukes enabled all of this, and profited by it. There was no religion involved, just their worship of profits.

[multigraincracker]

5. The gospel According to John Galt

was the religion behind it. Trickle Down, neo-liberal economics and the Chicago School of Economics. Works great for the top 1% and no one else.

[usonian]

4. From my info page, lots more.

To the point:

“Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” Part 1of 8
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.

A bit more recent than Reagan, in fact a takeover of the GOP by Russian influence and money.
This is all a Russian plan. Started years ago.
https://pastebin.com/raw/evbnN5y7


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[halfulglas]

6. Yep. They really conned with the "It's your money, not the government's."

What they really meant was it's our (the rich) money and we want all of it. We don't want to have to build the roads, fund the schools, keep the hospitals open - none of it.

[uponit7771]

7. K&R,

[PufPuf23]

8. Pretty darn close to what has occurred to the USA. kr