• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    So, I totally understand the mindset you’re coming from. But if they built their fortune through years of labor, are they not entitled to spend or give it as they see fit?

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      Government subsided single family home purchase programs, subsidized highways, gasoline half the cost compared to the developed world and retirement accounts. Yep all their own effort.

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        6 days ago

        And they instituted those systems themselves? They can’t act on policy that impacts them when their only input is a vote or two?

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          They did everything in their power to remove those social benefits by voting in conservatives who took everything away.