by system
failure
In previous
articles, we have pointed some "logical leaps" that the
establishment uses to force the individual to bypass a certain
rational hierarchy in the political
and ideological field.
In the era
of destructive neoliberalism, similar practices are expanded in other
fields too by the mainstream mouthpieces, in order to distort the
reality and disorientate the public. A very simplified perception
propagated by the mechanisms of the establishment, is that the state
is the enemy of the private sector (generally), and that further
taxes (generally) lead to further damage for the economy.
This general
trend, was particularly profound in the Greece of crisis, the last
five years. Since the beginning of the crisis, the bank-occupied
mainstream media directed all the propaganda against the "bad"
public sector, in order to hide the responsibilities of the bankers
who have been bailed-out with billions, and the local oligarchs, who
are still part of a corrupted system inside the country.
Neoliberal
politicians both from the Popular Right, Social Democrats, and other
minor neoliberal parties, as well as mainstream journalists and
economists, were saying that businesses need tax reliefs in order to
survive. Through this absolutely simplified and generalized everyday
"brainwash", the mouthpieces of the system managed to unite
all the range of the private sector (from the smallest business to
the largest multinational) against the public sector “enemy”.
What these
systemic servants didn't bother to specify, is that when they speak
about tax reliefs, they mean exclusively the big corporations and
multinationals in the name of "preserving jobs". Indeed,
some of the policies imposed by Greece's troika creditors (IMF, ECB,
European Commission), were directing the tax increases towards local
small-medium businesses in order to eliminate them. The target was
simple: to destroy every last sign of competition in favor of the big
capital.
At the end
of July 2015, WikiLeaks released a secret letter from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(TPP or TPPA) Ministerial Meeting in December 2013, along with a
comprehensive expert analysis of the document.
The letter
indicates a wide-ranging privatisation and globalisation strategy
within the Agreement which aims to severely restrict "state-owned
enterprises" (SOEs). Even an SOE that exists to fulfil a
public function neglected by the market or which is a natural
monopoly would nevertheless be forced to act "on the basis of
commercial considerations" and would be prohibited from
discriminating in favour of local businesses in purchases and sales.
This
revelation alone, proves that the real enemy of the small-medium
businesses is the big corporations and multinationals. A
well-functioning public sector, not only is not the enemy of the
small-medium private sector, but instead, it can act as a protection
shield against the onslaught of the multinational monsters.
Which means
that small-medium business owners everywhere, and those who want to
start a business in the sector, should demand a strong and
well-functioning public sector, in order to be able to survive the
competition against their real enemies.
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