The wealthy, who line up to eat at the public trough, always think that someone else is slurping up more. And they are worried that they will have to pay too much. So they come up with all kinds of strange notions to protect their position.
A current example is the idea of “starving government,” If no money is available from taxes _on the wealthy in particular _ the rich claim, as Marx wrote, the state will wither away and all lives will be happy.
Of course, their idea of starving government does not mean lessening the services on which the rich depend. No, there must be a huge military to “protect investments” worldwide, a massive police force to keep local money and property safe, and a gigantic legal system to ensure contracts and property rights _ all,mostly, of course, belonging to the well off.
The “starved government” is really code for starved everyone _ except the well off. Cut back on entitlements, food, healthcare, shelter,. “Let them eat cake,” “are there no work houses?” “well there should be.”
This elite knows it is the deserving rich, secure in the belief that they have earned their obscene surpluses and sure that the rest of the “loafers” and “takers” must be punished by being kept in their proper place.
By the iron fist of a government starved of all humanity.
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