On this week’s podcast Doug DeVos, former President and current co-chair of Amway, joins me to discuss the 50th-anniversary re-release of his father Rich DeVos’ 1975 classic book Believe: A Timeless Endorsement of American Principles
The USA was the first country in the world NOT to have a state religion and to specifically state that freedom of religion (or not) was a fundamental principle.
Evangelical religions are effectively exploiting this feature-as-bug that DIVIDES the country. "Free Enterprise" is the reason that the USA is the only developed western liberal democracy (WLD) WITHOUT free/means-tested healthcare. It is also the only WLD that taxes regressively. It also has the worst public infrastructure of the WLDs.
And now we are seeing the apotheosis of DeVosian society in the re-arrival of Trump.
Many nations have taxes which are regressive. Canada's GST and PSTs are basically sales taxes, which, as usual, hit the low income earners harder than the rich.
The USA was the first country in the world NOT to have a state religion and to specifically state that freedom of religion (or not) was a fundamental principle.
Evangelical religions are effectively exploiting this feature-as-bug that DIVIDES the country. "Free Enterprise" is the reason that the USA is the only developed western liberal democracy (WLD) WITHOUT free/means-tested healthcare. It is also the only WLD that taxes regressively. It also has the worst public infrastructure of the WLDs.
And now we are seeing the apotheosis of DeVosian society in the re-arrival of Trump.
Many nations have taxes which are regressive. Canada's GST and PSTs are basically sales taxes, which, as usual, hit the low income earners harder than the rich.
We have a regressive tax system AND sales taxes:
https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates.html