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hifiguy

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11. The hereditary plutocracy refused to realise
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:10 PM
Sep 2012

that were it not for FDR - whom they hated with a passion and still do - they would have been hanged from the streetlights. Which in retrospect may not have been such a bad thing.

It is, at the crux of the biscuit, just what you say. Progressive taxation with real consequences for cheating or guns. There are no other choices.

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