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the amount of taxpayer subsidies in our supposedly 'free' markets to the corporations and rich among us is another giant hypocrisy of america that makes me sick. i want some fucking services from the government for the damn taxes i pay. i am tired of paying for food stamps for amazon and walmart workers so that jeff bezos and the waltons can be obscenely wealthy.
'...for the large majority of the population, the principle is you've got to 'let the market prevail.' cut back entitlements, cut back or destroy social security, cut back or reduce the limited health care - just let the market run everything. but not for the rich. for the rich, the state is a powerful state, which is ready to move in as soon as you get into trouble and bail you out. take reagan, he's the icon of neoliberalism, free markets, and so on...he bailed out banks instead of letting them pay the costs....his 'star wars' program, SDI, was advertised openly to the business world as a government stimulus...but that was for the rich - meanwhile, for the poor, let market principles prevail, don't expect any help from the government, the government is the problem, not the solution, and so on. that's essentially neoliberalism. it has this dual character, which goes right back in economic history. one set of rules for the rich. opposite set of rules for the poor.' - noam chomsky
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