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The reluctant millionaires

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Why Should We Make Decisions About How Wealth Is Transcribed?

There's a limit to what patriotic millionaires can do. The people, they should decide where it goes and that's done democratically. Why would wealthy people get to choose their taxation? If that is something that we consider a right, then it should be a right to everyone because we equal in rights, aren't we? I've met a lot of wealthy individuals who have no idea how the people around them live. My grandfather, Roy O'Disney, could have been regarded as many things-a dedicated capitalist, a commie-hating red bader - but by modern CEO standards, he would be considered subversive. He earned only 78 times his lowest workers' pay, normal for an

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