The New American Nobility is a Scamocracy

First, read FEE's article here.

Seattle Just Passed a New Tax on Jobs in the Middle of an Economic Crisis—But Exempted Government Workers

Understand that the Political Class always protects its own - and its votes. Everyone in the city will pay higher taxes except government employees. Of course.

Anyone who thinks that the United States does not have a class of the nobility is simply not paying attention.

Not my original idea. Glenn Reynolds wrote in USA Today,

America has a nobility problem, and it means our leaders don't pay for their failures

Politicians and bureaucrats are America's ruling class and they should start paying a price for failure. Accountability isn't just for little guys.

And finally, the incomparable Angelo Codevilla explains that what we have is Scamocracy in America. 

How a fraudulent ruling class plundered our most precious inheritance.

No, the federal swamp is not being drained.