What we now see in North Carolina as part of the Great Regression, the new social movement of the resurgent right, is an increased reliance on sales and use taxation in generating revenue.
Meaning that poor and middle class people will pay a higher rate than ever, food and clothing and shelter being luxuries for them. Similarly second homes and pleasure craft are now necessities.
And are subsidized for those who can ill-afford them, this being the appropriate venue for affirmative action, since the well-off have already demonstrated their innate worth and should be rewarded.
Big boats are durable goods by definition. Food turns to shit within a day. And we've all seen what poor people do to neighborhoods. They've been creating affordable housing forever just by relocating.
The equity bottoming out at zero, or nearly, which goes to show that poor people destroy value. This is why they are poor, so any attempt to help them is money up in smoke or down the drain.
Burned in crack pipes or flushed down the toilet when the police raid their drug dens, that is, and wasted in other imaginative and debased ways. It's about character, when you get down to it.
Compare someone like Franklin Roosevelt to George Bush or Tom DeLay and it all becomes clear. Ask yourselves, then, what kind of people you really want running our state and the country.
People with brains and compassion or thugs and morally-defective good-for-nothings.
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