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pan---fact is that outsourcing of manufacturing jobs has been happening since the 1970s. where were you?
the "model"that the united states has been pursuing in response? service industry + debt + denial.
the french revolution was *not* caused by taxation. if anything it was caused by the absence of taxation. the proximate cause was that the french state floated bonds to pay for its role in the american tax revolt which were bought by the aristo-types. the crown defaulted on the bonds, and so there was effectively an aristocratic revolt which resulted in a call for an estates general. but there's alot more to it than this. suffice it to say that your version is a fantasy. proof is that centralizing taxes at the state level was a RESULT of the revolution, not it's cause. if you're curious about this, read tocqueville's l'ancien regime: it's a classic history of the french revolution and its main argument is about taxation, so he details the before situations (there were lots of them).
people may at some point wake up, pan, but i think it'll only be the militia set that imagines revolution possible over taxes.
and it continues to be surreal to me that you can manage to compress 30 years of neoliberal devolution on obama. so much for perspective.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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