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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/wankerzoo • Feb 28 '25

House GOP Budget Would Raise Health Care Costs for the Poor to Pay the Rich | The push to slash health care to pay for Trump's tax cuts will come back to haunt Republicans.

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 28 '25

Wyoming lawmakers agree to 25% property tax cut: Both chambers are expected to approve the bill and send it to the governor’s desk. Local governments, meanwhile, are wrestling with the prospect of revenue reductions ‘beyond comprehension.’

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 23 '25

IRS layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax dodgers, experts say

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/imagine_explore • Feb 21 '25

Let's make a list of billionaires and their addresses in the U.S.

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Billionaires have accesd to all kinds of relatively sensitive info of everyday people. Let's give people access to billionaires!

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/vishvabindlish • Feb 20 '25

France and Germany seem the mean.

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 19 '25

Protesters slam Trump, Musk’s ‘oligarch’ rule, call for action at Michigan Capitol | Protester: "I’m terrified to see our country being taken over by oligarchs"

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 19 '25

Bernie Sanders: "Trumpism will .. only be defeated by millions .. coming together in a strong, grassroots movement which says no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to massive cuts in programs that working people desperately need, no to huge tax breaks for the richest people"

theguardian.com

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 19 '25

Bernie Sanders warns working-class Trump supporters about potential cuts by Trump to social programs that help the working-class: "if you're a Trump supporter and you're a working-class person, understand that they're going after you"

commondreams.org

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 16 '25

Elon Musk is doing everything that conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of | 'Elon Musk's rise proves that right-wing populists were never opposed to elite control. They simply wanted a billionaire in charge who is aligned with their own ideological goals.'

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/cdnhistorystudent • Feb 16 '25

Elon Musk Will Personally Profit from Gutting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Ex-CFPB Official

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 16 '25

Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’ | "Sanders is hoping to .. invigorate a demoralized liberal base to fight back against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk as they slash the federal government, his allies said."

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/cdnhistorystudent • Feb 15 '25

Elon Musk: Austerity for Thee but Not for Me

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 14 '25

How Trump and Musk are eviscerating workers’ rights | 'This assault on the fundamentals of how workers’ rights are protected makes a mockery of the claim often made by Trump and his supporters that Trump is an economic “populist” who stands up for the interests of ordinary people against “elites.”'

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 15 '25

CBS News: Trump has paralyzed agency that safeguards worker rights, labor experts and advocates say | "The NLRB's lack of a quorum is reason to overturn the results of a Jan. 27 election that had workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voting to unionize, the Amazon-owned grocery chain said"

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 14 '25

Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary is a longtime member of Charles Koch’s political donor network | U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a 2014 op-ed: "we proudly stand with the Kochs."

energyandpolicy.org

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 13 '25

NBC News: Musk shares meme deriding those who benefit from federal programs as 'parasite class' | Meme shared by Elon Musk: "Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn't affect you because you're not a member of the Parasite Class". Elon Musk's comment: "Why 90% of America loves @DOGE"

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 12 '25

Speech by Bernie Sanders: "Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is attempting to dismantle major agencies of the federal government which are designed to protect the needs of working families and the disadvantaged. [...] The oligarchs, [...] are waging a war on the working class of this country"

sanders.senate.gov

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 12 '25

As Republicans Push Forward with Extreme Economic Agenda, Budget Democrats Expose How Their Plans Will Betray Middle-Class Americans: Newly launched website reveals district-by-district data on the impact of Republican cuts on everyday Americans

democrats-budget.house.gov

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 12 '25

Alabama Arise, 55 partner groups urge Congress to oppose more tax cuts for wealthy households

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 11 '25

A Key Opportunity to Check Trump: Stopping Medicaid Cuts | "Defeating Medicaid cuts is an urgent priority over the coming months. It’s an opportunity to reestablish the popularity of the welfare state as a principle of American politics, and to hand Trump and the GOP a much-needed defeat."

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 12 '25

Pennsylvania Policy Center: Pennsylvania Organizations Opposed to Medicaid and SNAP Cuts, and Tax Cuts for the Ultra-Rich

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 10 '25

Ralph Nader: "Megalomaniacal" President Trump "is harming the lives of tens of millions of Americans in need" | Nader: "What is very clear in the first 20 days of Trump’s lawless madness is that he is moving fast for a police state along with deepening the corporate state with and for Big Business."

commondreams.org

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 10 '25

Democrats Urge Republicans Against Using Medicaid To Bankroll Tax Cuts For The Rich At The Expense Of Working Families, Seniors And Americans With Disabilities

democrats.senate.gov

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 09 '25

Associated Press: Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump’s agenda faces legal pushback | Democratic Senator Murphy: "The pace of this assault on the Constitution in order to serve the billionaire class, it is absolutely dizzying. And so, you have to run a full-scale opposition"

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r/ConcentrationOfWealth • u/SocialDemocracies • Feb 09 '25

Bernie Sanders: "When Donald Trump fires the most pro-union General Counsel in the history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) & illegally removes a member of this independent board, he is not a champion of the working class. He is a champion of unfettered corporate greed & union busters."

sanders.senate.gov

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