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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by ricksplat on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:19AM (#10338641)
Because in "a democracy" the majority provide what's called a "political mandate". This kind of clandestine lobbying outside the democratic process usurps the democratic process.

There's a big difference between publicly supporting Bernie Sanders because you believe he'll be a good president and skulking around in the corridors of power buying off officials so that you can line your own pockets.

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by tsotha on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:35PM (#10342170)
No, the fact that the US is a democracy just makes it legal. That still doesn't make it right.

Right now in the US almost all the income taxes are paid by 20% or so of the population. People who advocate a bigger, more expensive government are almost always planning to do it with someone else's money.

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by ricksplat on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:34PM (#10342897)
Strawman
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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by tsotha on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @11:07PM (#10343997)
It's in no way a straw man. That doens't even make sense in this context.
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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by ricksplat on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:01AM (#10344402)
It does yeah - you've taken what I was saying, made a replica stuffed with straw and then defeated that. Your response doesn't really tie into what I was saying it seems like something you had rehearsed. So you reinterpreted to suit your response rather than discuss the topic at hand.
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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by tsotha on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:14AM (#10344444)
Still... no logical connection there. Are you cutting and pasting this from somewhere else?
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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by ricksplat on Thursday October 08, 2015 @06:12AM (#10351771)
Ha was thinking the same thing about you!
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