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US Government is collecting donations to help pay off its $39 trillion debt (finbold.com)

submitted 4 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why do you think they passed Citizens United? Now that political spending is free speech and corporations are people, elections are expensive enough that the winners are mainly the rich or those propped up by them.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And foreign interests can just create as much chaos as they pay for.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

As long as the apple is golden, it spends