April 27, 1869,

Washington dc

The dome of the Capitol, which was rebuilt decades ago in the United States, towers over Capitol Hill.

Measuring more than 850 feet long from north to south, 380 feet wide from east to west, and more than 300 feet tall, the bronze statue of Lady Liberty at the top overlooks all the other buildings in Washington, D.C.

Including the White House, the nominal center of power in the United States, where the president of the United States is located.

Dozens of middle-aged people in suits and leather shoes walked through the renovated garden designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American garden design, and marched towards this American power hub step by step.

Descending under the façade of this great building and walking briskly through a forest of columns made of dozens of marble, these dozens of people have stepped into the heart of the true political power of the United States.

After the attendants helped these "great" parliamentarians push open the door of the Capitol, rows of statues came into the eyes of these middle-aged people.

Statues of the Founding Fathers of America and other great men who have made remarkable contributions to this free and democratic nation are lined up in the corridors.

Dozens of congressmen are the people who most often see these statues, and they are also the descendants of the prototype of these statues, the Positive Star-Spangled Bannermen of the United States.

Most of the dozens of MPs had seen the locks of these statues carved by the Father of the Nation himself when they were young, and affectionately called them "uncle" or "grandfather......

Behind these statues of the Founding Fathers are frescoes by the Italian painter Constantino Blenmidi.

The large proportions of Catholic, Vatican-style paintings on the walls of America's political hub, make the country seem like a theocratic state.

But considering the content of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, the United States should be a country with separate politics and gods, right?

Should be.

In this complex building of 540 rooms, only one room is the central "room of power".

That's the Senate Congressional Room, and it's the final destination of these lawmakers.

Today, dozens of worried senators gathered for the unresolved problem of cholera.

Every senator has only one eyebrow on his face, one eyebrow tied in a dead knot.

After everyone was seated, a senator held up a thick document and shouted indignantly to the many senators in the audience:

"Why is it that the blockade of traffic between cities and the control of cities within cities have been going on for so long, and there are new cholera patients in each city!"

"Isn't all food strictly controlled?"

"If the city can't get back up and running, where will our tax money come from?"

"Isn't that why you're willing to pay taxes?"

If someone had asked any questions about the system at previous meetings like this, there would have been people who would have replied to some of Tom Smith's really hateful and Tom Smith questions.

But this time, the only response to the dissenting senator was silence.

Unlike the previous times when everyone gathered because of Tom Smith, if there was a problem in the old Yankee area before, everyone could still blame Tom for being lost.

This time, the big guy has no excuse for foreign enemies, so he can only find problems from his own system.

The main sources of taxes for Yanki-lao are excise and income taxes, as well as customs duties.

Nowadays, with several economic crises and cholera raging around the world, tariffs are better than nothing.

The main force of consumption tax and income tax is the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class.

If these two strata do not return to normal as soon as possible, the American government will have no source of tax revenue.

What? Why doesn't the U.S. government tax the Yankee consortium, the capitalist and factory owner class?

The most important cornerstone of the old Yankee government is the old Yankee Consortium, and to collect taxes from the old Yanki Consortium is not to shake its own foundation?

The reason why the old Yankee consortium supports the old Yankee government is that they don't have to pay taxes.

Who can draw his own blood for others?

Collecting taxes is not a tax for those in power, but a tax for the rich who have lost power.

And for the old Yankee consortium, even if it is illegal tax avoidance, as long as it can help the Yankee consortium save money, it is reasonable tax avoidance.

Do you understand what reasonable tax avoidance is? (Tactical Fallback)

If one day the old Yankee government turns the gun around and collects taxes from the old Yankee consortium, then there will be no need for this government to exist.

The senators who are doing it are not stupid, they all understand that although the American government does not need to pay for itself, it also needs money to function.

The senators in this room must resume the productive activities of the urban petty bourgeoisie and middle class as soon as possible if they are to maintain the source of tax revenue that the American government needs.

Everyone knows that as long as the cholera is over, the core area of tax payment in the old Yankee area, the city in the old Yankee area, can resume paying taxes.

Under today's urban lockdown policy, all high-priced "disaster relief" materials are nominally provided to residents free of charge and are not taxed.

Even in some of the locked-down old cities of Yankee, a potato has soared to three or four dollars, but on government bills, it is still free relief supplies.

The original consumption tax could no longer be collected from the two main classes of consumption tax.

At the same time, all educated and intellectually educated adults know that cholera should have ended long ago if the city lockdown policy had been implemented perfectly.

But why hasn't it ended until now?

But there is no one here who can answer this question.

Although the real reason is very simple, everyone here knows the answer, but they can't say.

Because now that everyone here has reaped huge benefits from the blockade of urban traffic, how can anyone kick over their cornucopia?

The senators here are all key members of regional consortia in various parts of the United States, and they understand better than ordinary passers-by how beneficial this blockade of urban transportation is:

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Food prices are arbitrarily controlled, citizens' dignity is trampled on at will, and the medical system is completely controlled......

For the first time, these old Yankee conglomerates, who had relied on America's unique "liberal and decentralized" political system to earn dollars, tasted huge profits from complete control over the people.

Now these senators even hope that the American government will always face the cholera lockdown problem, because only then can they continue to rely on the cholera problem to endlessly suck the blood and make money of the urban petty bourgeoisie and the middle class.

Not to mention these senators who make a lot of money, the mafia that is attached to the big business groups in various places, and the fat that they make because of the blockade of urban traffic.