DBWI: slow decline of U.S. middle class following 1973 oil embargo?

Or . . . WI: We had made a real mess of school de-segregation?

So that, even a well-off family with both parents having quote-unquote "good" jobs stretches themselves thin financially in order to live in a "good" school district. I'm talking about that we never ramp up schools in low-income districts and that we clumsily stick with property taxes.

So, the only thing this well-off, stretched thin family focuses on is taxes. And politicians try to build off this early-stage resentment. And so, instead of job creation, we as a society tend to focus on such things as welfare "reform."

I guess this is a possible chain of events, but I'm going to classify it as not very realistic.
 
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There was a recent dystopian near-future novel in which the low-income character living in rural Louisiana holds they EPA in contempt because they don't do anything about the corporate polluters, but instead just nervously tell his friends not to eat the fish they catch.

We could aggressively go the route of captured regulatory agencies? Maybe.
 
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