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Detroit Free Press, Freep, politics, poor, poverty, republicans
An interesting article on income inequality in my home state of Michigan, and how Republicans don’t like the poor….
Curious….
How the poor stay that way
19 Tuesday May 2015
Posted in Economics, Poverty, Research and Observations, society
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Reblogged this on Mahrey's Creative Writing and commented:
From 1774 onward, Louis XVI and his wife were at the helm of a ballooning French population plagued by unjust provincial governance, oppressive working conditions and poor harvests, according to the historical site Then Again. At the forefront of the economic crisis were burdensome taxes that were “distributed among districts, parishes, and individuals, at the pleasure of the [district] intendant, who could exempt, change, add, or diminish at pleasure,” wrote the British traveler Arthur Young in the 1780s. “Such an enormous power … must, in the nature of things, degenerate in many cases into absolute tyranny.”
In an attempt to bolster the economy by proposing a tax on the clergy and nobility, the king convened the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to propose this and other reforms, according to historian Frank E. Smitha. But the Catholic Church and nobles stood against being taxed, and the assembly, at an impasse, was dismissed. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-08/On-this-Day–French-Revolutionaries-Storm-the-Bastille.html
Thank you for your comment. It is amazing how in this country we are heading in this very same path, without memory or common decency.
I’m truly afraid for my country, but I’m helping by at least writing, posting and sharing.