Desperately trying to mine clicks from Betty Bunnyburrow's ebbing campaign:
And what one group would that be? People with a clue about economics? People who've read the Constitution? What?
The surprising answer is behind the paywall, but by the simple expedient of disabling Jawa's Crypt I was able to read it, and here it is:
Republican men with college degrees.
So... the group most likely to have read the Constitution and to have a clue about economics, then? Who'd a thunk it?
Up until just recently, Bunnyburrow had been pushing boring old Fascist economic plans, before she decided it was vitally important to get fully on board with the politics of envy and came up with the wealth-tax scheme and suchlike Socialism-with-extra-stupid-sauce. Let's review:
Fascism: Private capital remains nominally in private hands, but all economic activity is subject to planning and regulation by State functionaries without regard to the realities of business. Businesses, operating under unrealistic rules, would eventually fail, but typically before that happens the State starts, and loses, a war.
Socialism: Private capital is expropriated wholesale; businesses become property of the State, and are run into the ground by State functionaries appointed on the basis of Party loyalty without regard to competence nor honesty.
Warrenomics 2020: Private capital is liquidated piecemeal over a period of years to pay the wealth tax, which revenue is spent on popular social programs and administrative overhead*. Businesses, starved of capital, eventually fail; this is blamed on a failure of free markets.
* Old white Republican men with college degrees may be familiar with the term "eating the seed corn."
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