{"id":1961,"date":"2008-07-29T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T18:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/07\/29\/a-redistributive-state-for-the-wealthy\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:15:08","slug":"a-redistributive-state-for-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/07\/29\/a-redistributive-state-for-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Redistributive State For The Wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have a government that is spending two and a half billion dollars a day in Iraq, essentially subsidizing new swimming pools for the contracting class in northern Virginia, at a time when heating oil and personal transportation are about to join health insurance on the list of middle-class luxuries. Home heating and car ownership are slipping away from the middle class thanks to exploding energy prices &#8212; the hidden cost of the national borrowing policy we call dependency on foreign oil, &#8220;foreign&#8221; representing those nations, Arab and Chinese, that lend us the money to pay for our wars.<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;ve all heard stories about how much waste and inefficiency there is in our military spending, this is always portrayed as either &#8220;corruption&#8221; or simple inefficiency, and not what it really is &#8212; a profound expression of our national priorities, a means of taking money from ordinary, struggling people and redistributing it not downward but upward, to connected insiders, who turn your tax money into pure profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Matt Taibbi in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/workplace\/91927\/\">Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrarianprofits.com\/articles\/why-the-last-35-years-were-an-economic-illusion\/4108\">Why the Last 37 Years Were an Economic Illusion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelandofthefree.net\/conservativeopinion\/2008\/07\/29\/radical-leftists-are-keeping-gas-prices-high\/\">Radical Leftists Are Keeping Gas Prices High<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/economistsview.typepad.com\/economistsview\/2008\/07\/america-must-no.html\">&#8220;America Must Not Act Rashly over Inflation<\/a>&#8220;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profy.com\/2008\/07\/28\/povcaprecap\/\">Bridging the Poverty Gap, Part One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]economics, american economy, redistributive state, progressive policies, matt taibbi[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have a government that is spending two and a half billion dollars a day in Iraq, essentially subsidizing new swimming pools for the contracting class in northern Virginia, at a time when heating oil and personal transportation are about to join health insurance on the list of middle-class luxuries. 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