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Because there's been significant neoliberal policy capture which has reduced worker wealth and security. Meanwhile anti-immigration narratives are being heavil
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
Because there's been significant neoliberal policy capture which has reduced worker wealth and security.
Meanwhile anti-immigration narratives are being heavily propagandised by mainstream and social media as a wedge issue.
It's very hard to compare like for like with taxation. For example health care costs in the US are effectively privatised taxation. So are the wildly inflated utility prices that the UK has developed.
Newspaper articles debate proposed tax changes worth a couple of hundred pounds a year, while electricity costs have gone up by thousands.
- engineer_22 2y ago>It's very hard to compare like for like with taxation. For example health care costs in the US are effectively privatised taxation. So are the wildly inflated utility prices that the UK has developed. I'll quibble with you here. I think you're correctly identifying a problem, but I would argue inflated utility or healthcare costs are the effect of bloated monopolies. In the USA in the early 20th century certain monopolies were successfully combatted with federal legal power. The time may come again that abusive or inefficient industries in Western countries are significantly restructured. Unfortunately (fortunately?) the wheels of government turn slowly.
- immibis 2y agoThey're also privatized taxation. The two are compatible.