TAX INEQUALITY

RICHARD WOLFF ON TAXES: THE THREE KINDS OF TAX IMPOSED BY VARIOUS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, SOMETHING I HAVE RAILED ABOUT FOR WHAT SEEMS FOREVER, WAS BEAUTIFULLY, ALMOST CLINICALLY STATED LAST NIGHT ON THE NPR PROGRAM ALTERNATIVE RADIO.  THE FACT THAT PROPERTY TAX NEVER INCLUDES STOCKS BONDS OR OTHER SECURITIES HELD ALMOST ENTIRELY BY THE INVESTOR CLASS, WHICH IS ARGUABLY MOST ABLE TO FUND THE VARIOUS LEVELS OF NECESSARY GOVERNMENT (AND LET'S SEE ANYBODY ARGUE COHERENTLY THAT GOVERNMENT IS NOT NECESSARY AT THIS STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL) OR THE FACT THAT INCOME  FROM EMPLOYMENT IS TAXED DIFFERENTLY THAN DIVIDEND INCOME OR SALE OF ACCRUED ASSETS (CAPITAL GAINS), OR THE FACT THAT TRANSACTION TAXES ARE FULL OF EXEMPTIONS INCLUDING AND MOST ESPECIALLY THE EXEMPTION FOR SALE OF FINANCIAL ASSETS, IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MOST WORKING PEOPLE.  THESE RULES, WHICH HAVE BEEN IMPOSED BY THE INVESTOR CLASS THROUGH THEIR USURPATION OF POLITICAL POWER IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES, HAVE SO WARPED THE BENEFITS THAT ACCRUE TO THE VARIOUS CITIZENS OF THESE NOW UNJUST COUNTRIES THAT WE HAVE ONCE AGAIN ARRIVED AT THE PLACE WE INHABITED IN THE 1920S, WITH THE SAME DISPARITY OF INCOME AND WEALTH WITH ITS DISASTROUS EROSION OF WHATEVER WAS LEFT OF THE SOCIAL COHESION NECESSARY FOR ANY STATE TO CARRY ON ITS LEGITIMATE ENTERPRISE, THE FOREMOST BEING THE CONTINUED REFINEMENT OF A SOCIETY BASED ON TRULY EGALITARIAN BLIND DISINTERESTED RECIPROCAL JUSTICE.  


ONCE AGAIN LET ME STATE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PURSUE JUSTICE WITHOUT ABANDONING PRIVILEGE AND IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PURSUE PRIVILEGE WITHOUT ABANDONING JUSTICE.