Robert Stark interviews Greg Johnson on Wealth Redistribution
Robert Stark interviews Greg Johnson on wealth redistribution and related topics:
- Libertarian and the Tea Party as attempts to channel white political and economic anxieties into free market policies
- How the threat of the underclass should not distract middle class whites from the threat of the overclass, which is shipping their jobs overseas and importing non-white workers
- Why the Right desperately needs to deconstruct free market economic orthodoxy
- Why it is a good idea to cap incomes
- Populism as a moral principle
- Why classical republicanism require a strong middle class
- Why maintaining the middle class requires junking free market orthodoxy
- Why redistributing wealth as a normal day-to-day policy is a sign of social imbalance
- Why wealth redistribution does not need to be part of an egalitarian, socialist policy
- Why a single massive redistribution of wealth after a revolution would be desirable
- How to recapitalize and reindustrialize America
- Why populism requires meritocracy
- Why meritocracy requires a way to ensure downward as well as upward mobility
- Why political and intellectual independence require economic independence
- The Koch brothers
- Distributism: why we want private property broadly distributed; why we want more small capitalists and fewer big ones
- The craziness of the real estate market
- Why mortgage interest deductibility is a racket that creates higher house prices and benefits banks
- Why it is a good idea to limit the number of houses people can own
- The prospects of breaking the ruling coaltion of plutocrats, public employee unions, and the underclass
- The destruction of the white middle class in California and the creation of a Third World style plantation economy
- Why the antebellum South was a form of capitalism not an aristocratic or feudal society
- Some recommended reading by Greg Johnson: “The End of Globalization,” “Thoughts on Debt Repudiation,” and “Money for Nothing”
- Why Counter-Currents wants to publish more writings on Social Credit
