From: Monbiot
The justifications for extreme inequality have collapsed. But only the Green Party is prepared to take the obvious step
When inequality reaches extreme and destructive levels, most
governments seek not to confront it but to accommodate it. Wherever
wealth is absurdly concentrated, new laws arise to protect it.
In Britain, for example, successive governments have privatised any
public asset which excites corporate greed. They have cut taxes on
capital and high incomes. They have legalised new forms of tax
avoidance(1).
They have delivered exotic gifts like subsidised shotgun
licences and the doubling of state support for grouse moors(2). And they
have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for
example, the squatting of empty buildings(3) and most forms of peaceful
protest(4). However grotesque inequality becomes, however closely the
accumulation of inordinate wealth resembles legalised theft, political
norms shift to defend it. MORE
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