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Family Values with Melinda Cooper

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Tax Revolt - The Subjective, the Psychological Work

After the vocal shock, a huge shift from middle class people receiving more of their wealth through the social wage to a renewed dependence on family based inheritance. So i think all these moves had to be made to pursue a larger project, which was about trying to dismantle social insurance as far as possible. And there's an comprehension that this is something that the white tax revolt did to white people in the long run. In a sense, i see the trump phenomenon as the kind of legacy of that.

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