Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, very wealthy individuals.
Whitehouse discusses the impact of tax cuts on national debt.
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And they do it by taking their billions and running it through phony front groups so it pops up as dark money in elections. And of course, the beneficiary of the dark money, the candidate, figures out exactly who is behind the big dark…
So bad enough that they are here arguing for excess benefits for themselves compared to regular Americans; worse, they are using dark money corruption to get there. So how is that patriotic?
Particularly when there is so much money to be made. So much flows through Social Security. If you take it over by wrecking it and then sending in your private-equity friends and tech bros to get it operational again and then let them…
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