The New American Aristocracy

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The New American Aristocracy
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Multibillionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule – ie, the will of The People – with their plutocratic principle of inviolable property rights, also known as rule by the wealthy minority. Their notion is that We The People cannot be allowed to tax the riches of the owner class, nor set rules on how they treat workers, consumers, and society as a whole.

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