```json
{
    "title": "The Rentier State",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/04/21/the-rentier-state/",
    "datePublished": "2005-04-21",
    "dateModified": "2005-04-21",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "John Robb: While I was away, the Republicans have continued their push to create a neo-Victorian America with: the anti-entrepreneurial \"Indentured Servitude\" law the \"American Aristocracy\" tax reduction and a…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# The Rentier State

> While I was away, the Republicans have continued their push to create a neo-Victorian America with:
>
>  the anti-entrepreneurial "Indentured Servitude" law
>  the "American Aristocracy" tax reduction
>  and a crackdown on moral turpitude in the media
>
> Of course, Victorianization wouldn't be complete without a good dash of hypocrisy. More signs that are becoming a rentier state with abandon...