Taxination is the Answer

2021 Lockdown — Day 9

In the 1930s there was an epidemic raging throughout America and Europe killing and devastating hundreds of thousands. Western nations were being ravaged by a virus called Greed. It crashed stock markets and led to a depression the like of which wouldn’t be seen for another 90 years.

It stirred a US president by the name of Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) to introduce what he called the New Deal. The corporatists and business leaders had no choice other than to agree to his demands. The only alternative was to face the wrath of the people. Under the deal the rich would face punitive taxes while the poor would receive benefits where needed and infrastructure would receive investment. This would result in mass employment and an increase in wealth for working people.

Roosevelt famously welcomed the hatred of his opponents and earned the respect of Americans across the nation. A decade later the people of Britain decided it was time they had a land fit for heroes and threw out the Prime Minister who had led them through the war years. Within 5 years Britain became a welfare state with a National Health Service, free at the point of use. It too invested in infrastructure, put its people to work and made its working class wealthier than it’d ever been before.