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There will always be ways to use a million dollars to promote a particular perspective. Maybe wealth inequality is what's really bothering you?


Yes. If everyone had the same amount of money, then we wouldn't have needed campaign finance laws. (We effectively don't have them now.)

I'm not even advocating for everyone to have an exactly equal amount of money. Hard work should be rewarded. But I don't think there's anything the Koch brothers do that entitles them to hundreds of billions of dollars; when the poorest workers bust their asses for 80 hours a week and only earn $15,000 a year. That isn't a fair and just society. We can do much better. And we used to do way better. Income inequality has increasingly soared out of control for decades now.




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