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Hi Norm,

I agree with your observation about cities falling all over themselves to cater to the billionaires who want new sports arenas. They have so much money and could easily pay for these stadiums themselves.

I'd like to add to that list of companies like Walmart, Amazon, and others who get huge tax incentives. People who work for Walmart and Amazon are on public assistance including Medicaid and SNAP because these companies don't pay a livable wage or offer health care. And in most cases, they are the largest employer in the communities where they set up shop. This is how the obscenely rich continue to get richer. There should be laws against this type of pillaging of our tax dollars.

But as we know, the powers that be have always been in the pocket of large corporations because they are the same people who fund their campaigns. That is why so many politicians are corrupt. The fact is, Citizen's United has made it legal for billionaires to rig the system.

We are seeing this effect on steroids with this current administration. Billionaires make up the majority of the cabinet and it should be alarming to anybody who has to work for a living and are having difficulty making ends meet.

By the way, I don't mind pineapple on pizza. But, then again, there is some mental illness in my family. That may be the reason, LOL.

Have a great weekend!

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Sounds about right to me. I think this has been true for all of American history. The landowners and wealthy held all the political power from the beginning. The whole point of the Electoral college was based on the premise that commoners weren't knowledgeable enough to choose a president.

To be honest, I don't understand the motivation by people like Trump or Musk to change the current system. They wouldn't have attained the wealth they currently have without it being what it is.

And wrecking the system by supercharging taking from the poor to give to the rich is going to mean a working class that can't afford to buy anything, which means less money going to businesses. So the wealthy is cutting off their own future supply of money.

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