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Aggressive, overreaching wealth redistribution *does* happen in the United States, it just happens in the opposite direction conservatives scream about: our system takes money away from everyday people and siphons it towards the profanely wealthy.
(9/16/2020 on Twitter)
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We should drop the bizarre American fiction that corporations are people, enjoying all the rights of citizens, including unfettered campaign donations as a form of free speech. Indeed, corporations possess greater rights than do people, as they cannot be jailed or executed, while citizens can and do suffer those fates. As the legal historian Zephyr Teachout has observed, the founders would have considered corporate campaign spending the essence of political corruption.
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― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
― First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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