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BigmanPigman

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3. Reminds me of the Gilded Age where the Rockefellers, etc

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jun 13, 2021, 05:38 PM

Jun 2021

basically paid workers slave wages and treated them as slaves. We need to get back into busting the companies like Amazon, Big Tech, etc. We must break this system that has been worsening since the 1970s. Tax the rich!!! No more loopholes!!!

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If your employees make more on unemployment-You're not a job creator-You're a poverty exploiter. [View all] kpete Jun 2021 OP

Great billboard and bumpersticker. marble falls Jun 2021 #1

K & R Nevilledog Jun 2021 #2

Reminds me of the Gilded Age where the Rockefellers, etc BigmanPigman Jun 2021 #3

This is the Second Gilded Age -- has been for awhile. Joe's right: we need the unions back... Hekate Jun 2021 #9

You're right. Today's "1%" is the same as BigmanPigman Jun 2021 #10

Kick and Rec SoonerPride Jun 2021 #4

K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt JoeOtterbein Jun 2021 #5

America's high rate of poverty is a policy choice, summer_in_TX Jun 2021 #6

someone whom i knew before he went to the dark side , called these slave wages . AllaN01Bear Jun 2021 #7

KnR Hekate Jun 2021 #8

+1000 nt WarGamer Jun 2021 #11

Anyone left in our society OldBaldy1701E Jun 2021 #12

K&R ck4829 Jun 2021 #13