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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by pooya13 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:45PM (#20251359)
> The primary goal of the richest members of the high-income sector is to lower taxes.

I would add a qualifier here, lower taxes for themselves. The Wall Street had no problem taking handouts from big government in 2008 made possible by taxes.

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Re:America Is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most P... by ryacko on Saturday June 22, 2019 @03:50PM (#20251383)
Those weren't from taxes, that money was lent from the central bank, to the central bank, to be further lent to Federal Reserve member banks, and some foreign banks as well.
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