Oct. 1, 2023 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Driving Miss Effie - Taxes and A Satisfied Mind"

--{ "Driving Miss Effie - Taxes and A Satisfied Mind"}-- Property Taxes - Mortgage, Morte-Gauge - Alan's Talks with Miss Effie in 2006-07 - Slave System, Taxes, the End of Private Property - A Young Listener from Canada, Darin from South Africa, Petrus Sitho, Farm Killings Activist, JoAnne, Pay It Forward - In the 1890s, Miss Effie's Grandfather had to Leave the Farm to Work His Old Job as a Tugboat Captain in Order to Pay Taxes - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression, Confiscated Gold, Dumped Produce, Slaughtered Animals to Keep Prices Up - Growing Up Poor - John Maynard Keynes, Spend into Prosperity - Temporary War Tax - Income Tax - Culture Creation and Degradation - Habitat Areas for Humans, Keeping Populations Down - Dependency on the System - Plato, Democracy Ends Up with Dictatorships - Karl Marx, Abolition of Private Property - Wealth, Trusts - (songs, Bob Roberts, Somebody Lied; Johnny Cash, A Satisfied Mind.)