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guillaumeb

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3. And this from the article:

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Oct 17, 2016, 01:59 PM

Oct 2016

Tax policy produces the class structure over time. In the 1950s, the top 1% owned about 25% of the privately held wealth in the US. Now it is close to 40%. What changed is mostly the tax structure.

Class structure is not an accident of politics, it is not "natural law" in action, it is a deliberate construct that works to concentrate power and wealth. The job of a government is to convince the bottom 99% via history books and political speech that this construct is the only logical way to structure a society.

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