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As noted as well, those with wealth already in hand have a head start. And when you have a tax system in place that benefits you, it's that much easier for you to build even more wealth without the annoying consequence of paying proportionately back into the social system.
The trends of Reagan's deregulatory and taxation practices need to be reversed if anything is going to be improved. Economic policies that are left at the whim of the market end up being social policies left at the whim of the market. A free market is a terrible thing around which to organize a society.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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