Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good example, especially given that it looks like a Russian oligarchy is where we’ve been headed since 2016 since 1776

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  • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nah, since the 80s at the earliest. The wealthiest were taxed up to 90% and corporations didn’t get the tax loops they have now until Reagan took office.

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    • TheBunGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s where you’re wrong my friend, for while we had a progressive period in the 20th century, the united states were built by and for rich white land owners, so they could continue to benefit off that which they owned.

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