Thatcher's
political clone, accidentally uncovered one of the most fundamental
principles of the neoliberal dogma: more taxes for the poor, less
taxes for the rich. Of course, the political puppets of the
neoliberal establishment would never admit such a thing directly
because they would be vanished from the political map in no time.
Apart from
the usual narratives and lies that are being copy-pasted and
reproduced by the political establishment in the West, the British
PM, Theresa May, through just one sentence, accidentally revealed a
well-hidden trick of neoliberalism that has been used excessively to
build consent for large sections of the middle class.
Margaret
Thatcher's upgraded clone, manufactured in the modern factories of
the neoliberal establishment, answered to Jeremy Corbyn's inquiry
about what does she and her government offer for the young people
except for more misery. May responded:
It isn't
fair to go out and tell people that they can have all the public
spending they want without paying for it. Labour's way leads
to fewer jobs, higher prices, more taxes ...
Do
you recognize the contradiction here? On the one hand she states that
the ordinary people should pay for public spending, on the other, she
blames Labour for requesting more taxes. As far as we know, public
spending comes from taxes.
Apparently,
lower taxation is not applicable for everyone. Here, Thatcher's
political clone, accidentally uncovered one of the most fundamental
principles of the neoliberal dogma: more taxes for the poor, less
taxes for the rich. Of course, the political puppets of the
neoliberal establishment would never admit such a thing directly
because they would be vanished from the political map in no time.
As
explained
previously, 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.
Through this
trick, the neoliberal propaganda managed to build consent for the
small-medium business sector, in previous decades, and deceitfully
made it align with the big corporations against the state.
The
neoliberal priesthood works continuously on finding new ways to tax
the poor even more. As Richard
Wolff explained, the real reason of the
legalization of gambling and marijuana is simply to burden the poor
with more taxes from the back door.
Yet, there
are times where the neoliberal puppets, like Theresa May,
accidentally reveal the truth behind the establishment's dirty
tricks.
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