[PEN-L:32352] Re: Re: War & property tax

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> Eugene Coyle wrote:
> > A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we
> > would have no war.  People seem to vote down any local spending -- for
> > schools, parks, whatever.  Let them vote down war.
>
> Not necessarily. If local spending is for a beefed-up police force, they
> will often vote yes. I am afraid that we are dealing with an extremely
> reactionary public in the USA. Perhaps some bloody reversals on the
> battlefield might do the trick.

Not necessarily. We are dealing with a quite reactionary _voting_
public, that is with a slight majority among a minority. What the
politics of the majority (non-voting) are (or might become under
different conditions) remains to be determined. (Bloody reversals could
work both ways.)

Carrol