Upon reading the following, it should thus be obvious why the ruling class felt so threatened by Henry George's enormous popularity in the late 19th century, and why they consequently
went to so much trouble to counteract it.
It should also make
Tea Party members at least a little suspicious about the let-the-banker-engineered-depression-
run-its-course-and-we'll-call-it-a-mere-"correction"
Austrian School, particularly in view of who helped finance it out of obscurity:
"For the first years of [Ludwig von] Mises’s life in the United States...he was almost totally dependent on annual research grants from the
Rockefeller Foundation.”