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AnnaLee

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10. Remember the COVID lesson.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 02:14 PM
Feb 2025

He/they don't really care how many retired people they kill. They love the idea that, if they can eliminate more and more recipients of government held revenue, they can only get richer.

These people have been in the business of setting up ways to transfer money from their employees and other working class people to their stash of wealth - without leaving a clear trace of the theft. Reducing working class entitlements reduces the revenue needed today by the governement. They are data mining the Treasury to identify every opportunity to do a wealth transfer from workers to rentiers. (And from other entities owed money (e.g. bonds) by the government.)

There are many ways throughout the economies of the world that such transfers occur, whether it be fees, higher interests rates than justified by the risk or whatever. The US government revenue flow is one of the largest source of skimming opportunity there is.

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