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Sometime next year, major tax code revisions will be quietly announced. Discussions about them are concealed. Otherwise, major social benefit cuts would look like double-dealing duplicity to fund corporate largese. More on what's coming below.
Wolff said US taxes over the last half century saw "a massive double (burden) shift from the richest individuals to everyone else."
Corporations and super-rich elites won America's class war. Everyone else lost out.
On December 13, Wolff revisited the topic. His Guardian op-ed headlined "Class war redux: how the American right embraced Marxist struggle," saying:
Republicans and conservatives used to say little about "classes and class warfare." America is a "classless" society, they claimed.
Most Americans are "wondrously comfortable and secure consumers," they say. Harsher views now prevail. Unguarded moments reveal them.
Prime targets are called "moochers." Romney called them "the 47%" always voting Democrat.
"Moochers" depend on government handouts, they claim. They include contractual federal obligations. They're for qualified eligible recipients.
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