Forum Post: Occupy America and Friendly Fascism: Life in the Corporate Police State
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 1, 2011, 1:18 p.m. EST by darrenlobo
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Occupy movement's "We are the 99%" motto fails to recognize is that the problems we face have to do with much more than economic inequality between the haves and the have nots. Similarly, the Tea Party, which started off with similar zeal, failed to recognize that the problem was not merely Big Government but, rather, the merger of Big Government with Big Business. Inflation, unemployment, job insecurity, career anxieties and conditional benefactions are all, as Gross points out, forms of terror deliberately perpetrated upon a populace in order to control them. Thus, until we can gain some consensus about the true culprits behind our problems, any movement to change the status quo is destined to fail or be co-opted by political forces. http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=738
Big Gov't must be seperated From Big Business.
This IS what the Tea Party are about
The recognition that there are socialists on both sides who want control is necessary. This is called Fascism.
Socialists on the left want control over the economic means of production through a large expansive Gov't. The Socialists within Big Business want protection from competition, they WANT larger gov't. Larger Gov't keeps the money rolling in, makes political affiliations a must for anyone who wants to be more than a cog in the wheel of some beaurocrat's machine. Big Business and Big Gov't go hand and hand.
Repeal the current tax structure. Make a flat tax. This will definitely help with favoritism and corruption. With a flat tax Corporations and other entities can not lobby for tax breaks and loop holes, politicians would have an excuse no to give them tax breaks if none were allowed.
This would benefit everyone, even companies, who would no longer have to pay armies of lawyers to comb through tax codes making sure that their companies are not breaking any laws, and or pay them to look for loopholes