To: Catfish who wrote (15318 ) 5/26/1998 1:36:00 AM From: WalleyB Respond to
- every social group in Germany was mercilessly exploited and drained. White-collar salaries and the earnings of small businessmen were deliberately held down by government controls, freezes, taxes. Big business was bled by taxes and "special contributions" of every kind, and strangled by the bureaucracy. At the same time the income of the farmers was held down, and there was a desperate flight to the cities -- where the middle class, especially the small tradesmen, were soon in desperate straits, and where the workers were forced to labor at low wages for increasingly longer hours (up to 60 or more per week). "The giant cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco give us an excuse to think about the entire state as something like New York.California is a Cultural infection. Political trends against property taxes or affirmative action start as viruses somewhere in the Golden State and then spread north and east."
