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Budgets Quote by Bill Ayers

“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of…” quote by Bill Ayers — Download Open image

“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.”

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