If you include all the business taxes rolled into the prices of all the goods and services we purchase with our AFTER tax dollars, we are getting so screwed.
I see the US as a “smarter” version of the old USSR. You don’t have to “disappear” people or send people to Gulags to keep everyone in check. Just ensure they have enough to lose and they’ll stay in line. Heck, even let them video record cops acting badly. In the end it will only strike more fear in the population.
There is a reason the country seems to have gone mad politically. And when I see the attitude of the left regarding trump’s candidacy before the election, and after his win, I’m honestly entertaining the idea that the fix was in, but God intervened.
Yup. As long as bread and circuses are plentiful, the ruling class is safe from the proles.