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How the Deep State Cronies Steal from You…

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:54

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“How the Deep State Cronies Steal from You…”

by Bill Bonner

“We came down the coast from Dublin to check on our new office building. For this visit, we wanted to stay somewhere different than we normally do. So we chose a small hotel on the coast, called the Strand Inn. It is an excellent place for seafood and soda bread on a rainy day. Later, you can go to the bar, get in your cups, and sing sad songs about dead Irish heroes.

Ireland has a literate, educated population. It is pleasant…pretty…and has a low corporate tax rate. So, we are expanding here. Apparently, companies escape taxes by moving their headquarters or their technology overseas. We would do the same, but we’ve never been able to figure out how it saves any tax money. Owners end up paying tax in their home countries. And Americans pay US taxes no matter where the money is actually generated.

Regardless, we bought a large, 19th-century mansion in the aftermath of Ireland’s real estate bust…which took average property prices down by more than one-third. It seemed like a good deal. But every real estate investment we ever made has turned out to cost more…and take more time…than we imagined. This time is no exception. Still, it is a handsome, capacious place, which will house more than 150 employees. The Irish have charming and understandable accents. Many of these employees will be answering calls from all over the world. So, if you call us your call might be routed to County Waterford.

High on the hog: Now, back to the Deep State… Much of its growth is recorded in the pages of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This tracks all the laws laid down by successive governments. A privilege…a special tax break…a rule…a prohibition…a piece of meat here, a piece of meat there…and soon the foxes are eating high on the hog.

But what’s meat for the foxes is poison for the economy. Each piece requires paperwork, delays, permits, accountants, lawyers. You can’t do this… you can’t do that — with so many hurdles in their way, entrepreneurs think twice, capital investment declines, and the economy slows. Each favor to the foxes is an act of larceny…taking something away from the people who earned it to redistribute wealth, power and status to the insiders. From fewer than 25,000 pages when President Eisenhower left the White House, the CFR now has nearly 200,000 pages — each one a honeypot for Deep State cronies.

And who reads this stuff? Do you know what rules and regulations you are breaking right now? Most people are too busy earning their money and raising their families to spend much time tracking the federal bureaucracy and its cronies. But the foxes make it their business to pay attention…and make the rules that work for them. An honest person is at a great disadvantage.

Rules and regulations: The number of pages kept rising, year after year, no matter who was in the White House. 25,000 pages were added during the Kennedy and Johnson years…another 25,000 under Nixon and Ford…and another 25,000 during the Reagan and George HW Bush administrations.

Federal spending per capita shows the same basic trend, an almost unbroken uptrend — through Democratic and Republican administrations — stretching back from 2016 to 1952.

Under President Eisenhower, domestic discretionary spending per person was under $500. Today it’s over $4,500. Like the Federal Code, real spending per person has increased about nine times in the last 64 years. There were two presidents under whom spending went down: Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Go figure. In neither case, however, did it stay down for long. Once Reagan and Clinton were out of the way, the foxes went to work and quickly brought spending back to the trend line.

What will happen to the little foxes under Donald Trump? The earnings of the top 5% — the ‘foxy five’ — began to diverge from the earnings of everybody else in the mid-1970s. Since then, they increased alongside the CFR and government spending. Rules and regulations multiplied. Spending increased. The foxes got richer; everyone else got poorer. All this happened through both Republican and Democratic administrations. Most likely, the foxes will continue to earn more through a Trump administration, too.”

- http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-deep-state-cronies-steal-from-you.html

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