Does this seem oddly familiar?


"Owners of capital will stimulate the Working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, Pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes Unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to Be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism."

--Karl Marx,
1867

 

How about one of the essentials for Communism, according to Marx, is a "progressive" income tax. This country is truly full of prime matches like these.