In any democracy, the power to tax automatically transforms itself into the production of “little kingdoms”, each run by dominant aristocracies. Public education has aristocracies of union leaders, superintendents, administrators, and an endless throng of “assistants”. Their influence comes from the power they exert over legislators whose desperation for worldly influence encourages them to tax the peasants to keep the educational aristocracy in power.
Similarly, the Transportation Empire is similarly run by aristocracies. There are the heads of construction companies, suppliers of beams, asphalt, and concrete. There are unions leaders within each type of transportation who have the power to fund legislative elections for those who will allow them to tax the peasants. Increasingly, the dominant aristocracies are government related, with security and operational fiefdoms under the control of more powerful, Federal aristocracies.
The medical aristocracies includes huge insurance companies, hospital conglomerates, medical practitioners, drug companies, and equipment providers. As each section grows, it has the power to generate funding for increased legislative contributions funding law makers who will tax the peasants.
By looking at various units of the economy as aristocracies, we see that human organizations have not changed. History shows that the new aristocracies are able to drive older aristocracies out of power: airplanes, trucks, trains, canals, and wagons all were run by the elitists of their time. Some aristocracies are able to transcend technology, and make the transition from cans to bottles to plastic. Others are not.
As government grows in power, there is less innovation, because gangs of aristocrats are so powerful they can actually stop technological progress with goon squads, environmentalists, saboteurs, and hired media. When old aristocracies are given the political power to stop new aristocracies from emerging, the society stagnates.
When such ossifying of a society occurs, it eventually becomes impossible to reduce any costs in any of the aristocracies, and nations are weakened by paralysis and death. The aristocrats do not care. They just need “a little bit more”, and generally get it.
Where and how do they get it? They raise taxes on us peasants.
