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Caliman73

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1. Simple. Wealthy people are special and as such, entitled to whatever they want.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:48 AM

Jun 2020

I am not being sarcastic or facetious either. Conservatives believe that the wealthy (usually the wealthy White people) are the inheritors of the nobility and monarchs of old. They are the "best" of all of us and thus they should just be allowed to do whatever they need to do to maintain and increase their wealth.

Like the kings or feudal lords of old, who owned all of the deer in the forest but could "tax" you for half your crops and kill you for poaching a deer to feed your family, the wealthy can accept subsidies from our taxes and prosecute you for taking a candy bar from the store.

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