Will any New Deal or Great Society programs exist in a decade?

[opebo]

The above two posters parrot the absurd line that the destruction of the New Deal and Great Society is some kind of practical necessity.

However they have already largely been destroyed and we are clearly already in a new Gilded Age, LBJ-R.

[opebo]

Well you may want to ignore the laws of mathematics, but that doesn't change the fact that what is going to happen is going to happen!

It has already happened, Wank.  The tax rates have been kept destructively low for 30 years now.  Had we had proper 70%+ tax rates throughout that period, all would be well.  There is no practical difficulty here, only the problem that the owners have all the power.

[opebo]

Well you may want to ignore the laws of mathematics, but that doesn't change the fact that what is going to happen is going to happen!

It has already happened, Wank.  The tax rates have been kept destructively low for 30 years now.  Had we had proper 70%+ tax rates throughout that period, all would be well.  There is no practical difficulty here, only the problem that the owners have all the power.

Alright thanks for throwing yourself in the crazy bin, don't need to take you seriously for here on out.

My dear sir, you are the one who has interjected a reverence for mathematics into this thread.  I merely pointed out that there is + as well as a - in mathematics of budgetary affairs.  The needed programs for economic health were defunded by your terrible Reagan, Bushes, and so forth.

One may simply fix the shortfalls (if there are any, which is quite dubious) by increasing the intake from the golden toilet bowl crowd.

[opebo]

I hope you realize that what is about to go on in Europe and the US will really make you squirm and squeal.

I'm quite inured to murder, and fully expect it at every turn, Wank.  The rich will kill and eat the poor, such has it ever been, and so shall it ever be.  We may squeal and squirm if we like, but it won't make a whit of difference.

[opebo]

Mind you, I'm far from convinced that opebo is insane in an entirely admirable or responsible way, but him having gone off the deep end isn't itself exactly unreasonable on his part.

Nothing 'deep end' about noting that elimination of redistributionist programs will lead to the death of poor people, Nathan.  Wank is the one with the silly agenda.   Socialism!  Socialism!

[opebo]

At the rate things are going I really don't think so. I think we're going to see a new Gilded Age.

Obviously not, just look at the numbers.

Inequality is increasing, thus it can reach the level of the Gilded Age again.  Pray tell, what would stop it increasing, other than State action, M.P.?