Comments on: How to fix America in one week https://www.isegoria.net/2026/01/how-to-fix-america-in-one-week/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 17 May 2026 22:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2026/01/how-to-fix-america-in-one-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3761828 T. Beholder Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:54:48 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53891#comment-3761828 Back from 1930s, as Garet Garrett noted in The Revolution Was. https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was

Bruce says:

Yes, the class struggle of 2026 is between financial oligarchs and pork barrel oligarchs.

But then, the “financial” sector is in large part built in or around banks. Which are Bagehotian banks, thus by now all in fact are state banks — as Moldbug put it, the “lender of last resort” might as well be the lender of first resort, they are but middlemen between the client and treasury (plus printer).

Thus, both Team Shearing and Team Pork are in the state sector.

]]> By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2026/01/how-to-fix-america-in-one-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3760968 David Foster Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:51:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53891#comment-3760968 “if you are a defense contractor or a healthcare provider who gets 100% of their revenue from the government, then raising taxes gives the government MORE money to pay you, even after you take into account your own tax bill”…reminds me of my old post Paying Higher Taxes Can be Very Profitable

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]]> By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2026/01/how-to-fix-america-in-one-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3760962 Bruce Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:59:54 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53891#comment-3760962 Yes, the class struggle of 2026 is between financial oligarchs and pork barrel oligarchs.

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