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brewens

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10. How much of that wealth is from our tax dollars in the first place? That should be pounded.

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 12:41 PM

May 2020

What the 1% rake in on taxes is way more than they pay out. Corporate officers at defense contractors is an easy one. Almost all of their salaries are courtesy of us taxpayers. Oil company execs and investors. We buy mega shit tons of fuel for the military and all other federal, state and local governments.

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