if you live in california you’re paying taxes on par with sweden. the problem isn’t our government has less money than the scandinavians. the problem is our government is incompetent.https://twitter.com/ejenk/status/1201340679407857667 …
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1968 is when the wheels came off. Backlash against civil rights and hippies led to Southern Strategy, which ultimately led to Bill Clinton and the end of the Dems as a labor party. Throw in a side of Grover Norquist, esp in California.
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Possibly post-war mil-industrial complex as Ike warned - but also, we won the Cold War. Dunno.
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1980. Reagan. The assault on government effectiveness and union restraints on inequality. Had been underway since Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act but that’s when it succeeded.
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