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Originally Posted by dippin
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.
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the important thing to remember is that all of the 'deregulation' did nothing more than free up the corporations from their promises to benefit the working population while maintaining all the breaks they got in kind. The working population got nothing but more restrictions. This happens no matter what party is in power. The working population gets shafted because all of the supposed benefits from legislation do nothing more than consign them to worker status. No incentive is given anymore to a person to create and run their own business. They simply can't compete anymore because the corporate protectionism was never removed.
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