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3. Oh sure. Sop for the rest of us after we've crossed the tipping point.

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Fri Apr 25, 2025, 11:29 AM

Apr 2025

Wealth is concentrated now more than it's ever been, even right before the Great Depression. No republican plan will reverse this. Concentration will continue in that direction even with a modest policy retreat.

If they do this, it will 100% be a con on the rest of us to accept the current policy of ever-increasing concentration in the hands of billionaires who have demonstrated a tendency to destroy more than they create.

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