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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
gotta disagree here, roach. it's precisely because of state action that we are seeing class distinctions grow ever wider. The more regulations in law that we assume government is making for us 'worker bees', is also counteracted by corporate protectionism laws.
what i mean by that is, when any law put in to effect to benefit a worker, the employer is getting an assurance of protection, whether it be in the form of a tax break for hiring a certain quota of people or garnering a government contract somewhere. When the government goes to pay for these guarantees, the tax base is hit for the tab, not the corporation.
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So by you accounts this the most regulated period in history, right? I mean, the whole thing with Reagan deregulating stuff that FDR regulated is clearly backwards, right?
This isn't to say that states can't increase inequality. They certainly can, as I am not going to go down the road of extreme reductionism of state: good or bad.
But it seems to me that your assertion is quite empirically verifiable. We know that inequality has increased dramatically over the past 30 years.