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1. Not only that, but the whole idea that there should be billionaires or even near-billionaires should be abolished...
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 03:00 PM
Apr 2025

...in the tax code. The very existence of billionaires is evidence that the governmental regulation of the economic system is inherently malformed.

If financial worth is seen as a measure of a person's "value" (as it commonly seems to be taken to be), these last several months have clearly shown how badly both Musk and Trump (and the other billionaires in the Musk-Trump orbit) measure up to a regular person who works a job to help support a family or to a regular, single person who works a job to support themselves.

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