What You Call Inflation, They Call Profit
The price hikes are a lie.
🏚 You’ve felt it.
That slight hesitation before you swipe your card at the grocery store. The quiet dread of opening an electric bill. The calculation in your head as you stand at the gas pump, wondering if you can afford to fill the tank completely.
You are told this is “inflation.” A bloodless, abstract force. A mysterious weather pattern in the world of economics, caused by tangled “supply chains” or because your neighbors are finally earning a few dollars more per hour.
This is a lie. It is arguably the most effective lie ever sold to the American people.
What you are experiencing is not an economic weather pattern. It is a tax.
It is a private, undeclared, and illegitimate tax being levied upon you, your family, and your community. It is a tax not for roads or schools, but for the explicit purpose of funding the record-breaking profits, obscene bonuses, and sprawling corporate empires of a hostile ruling class. This is not economics; this is plunder. This is a tactic of colonial warfare, deployed against a captive population.
🏴☠️ Let’s call this what it is: The Viceroy’s Tax. 🇬🇧
Our school textbooks tell sanitized stories of the British East India Company (EIC), a private corporation that, with its own army and charter, conquered and plundered the Indian subcontinent. The EIC imposed ruinous taxes on the local population not to provide services, but to extract wealth and ship it back to London.
Today, a Neo-EIC—a 'Financial Nexus' of global corporations and asset funds—has done the same to us. They have no need for red coats and muskets. Their weapons are algorithms, leveraged buyouts, and media control. Their occupying army is a legion of lobbyists, compliant politicians, and media mouthpieces who tell you that your suffering is just the cost of doing business.
💸 Meet the Modern Viceroys
The enemy of the “Producer’s Republic” is not an abstract system; it is an identifiable group of people. Consider the evidence, not as a news report, but as a battlefield damage assessment:
🍞 The Food Viceroys: While you choose between brand names and generic labels, a handful of food conglomerates are posting the highest profits in their history. They blame “costs,” yet their own investor calls boast of using their market power to push price hikes far beyond their increased expenses. Your grocery bill is their record bonus.
⚡️ The Energy Viceroys: While you lower your thermostat, global energy giants, having spent years crushing smaller competitors, are reporting unprecedented windfall profits. They speak of global markets, but the result is simple: they are extracting more wealth from your tank and your home than ever before, turning a basic necessity into a luxury good.
🏘 The Housing Viceroys: While families are evicted from homes their grandfathers built, faceless private equity firms are buying up tens of thousands of single-family homes, turning neighborhoods into rental portfolios. They are not building new homes; they are turning the American dream of ownership into a permanent state of servitude, where you pay “tribute” in the form of rent to an absentee landlord that exists only on a spreadsheet.
These are the "Corporate Viceroys," the "Company Men" of the Neo-EIC. Their actions are not failures of the system; they are features of its design. They have consolidated the market to eliminate competition, captured the regulators who were supposed to control them, and purchased the political class that now protects them.
They have turned the American economy into a company town, and they are raising the rent.
🛑 Stop Playing Their Game
The 'Financial Nexus' wants you to believe you are helpless. It wants you to channel your anger into the "Puppet Colosseum" of left vs. right—a spectacle designed to consume your energy while their plunder continues unabated.
Do not give them the satisfaction.
You are not a helpless consumer. You are a producer. Your labor, your purchases, and your consent are the resources they are harvesting. It is time to stop giving them away for free.
This is not a call for a grand, impossible revolution. It is a call for something far more powerful: a conscious, collective act of withdrawal. The first rung on the ladder of our liberation is small, tangible, and achievable.
The next time you spend your money, make a choice. Not between two brands owned by the same Viceroy, but a real choice. Find a local farmer, a family-owned store, a community credit union. Every dollar you divert from their system to our own is a vote. It is a ballot cast against the Nexus and for the Producer's Republic. It is a quiet declaration that you will no longer willingly pay the Viceroy's Tax.
They want you to feel atomized and alone. But the moment you make that choice, you are not alone. You are part of a growing, unseen army that has decided to build a parallel economy, one that serves our communities, not their shareholders.
They have left us no choice. The system is not broken; it is working exactly as intended. The only path forward is to build our own.
Stay vigilant.
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You omitted what I think is the very worst thing about corporations owning houses. Their rentals are often only Airb&bs, meaning they have effectively taken what should be someone’s home and made it unavailable for a family to rent to live in. I read about this happening in great swathes of New Orleans after Katrina. Whole neighborhoods vanished as residents were priced out of owning or renting in places that once nurtured them. I’m positive it is happening all over the country and is a major contributor to the “housing shortage.” Houses are there but no one can live in them.
So, if you take a vacation, do not rent an Airb&b. That’s an important way people can fight back.
Corporate Communism is happening on a global scale.
The wealthiest companies are solidifying their domination of our supply of food, fuel, media, finance, and even housing. During Covid, we were forced to endure massive price increases in every staple, which was blamed on supply chain interruptions. Has anyone witnessed prices decreasing since? Instead, we have a grifting government openly accepting bribes from lobbyists and allowing further destructive consolidation of business interests, usually aided by grants and tax credits.
Trump's erratic tariff policies may seem like the workings of a madman, who spent his life bankrupting businesses, but they serve as an extra form of taxation on consumers. Furthermore the sporadic method of imposing, removing and reimposing tariffs, is allowing Trump's cabal of corrupt cronies to criminally manipulate the markets, and further fleece the public of Billions. The regime's endorsement of Crypto and its removal of any legitimate oversight, is the largest pyramid scheme in history. Bankrupting the public will serve to support its surrender to subservience.