The Corruption Of Big Business And The Super Rich

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If there was ever an injustice to fix it would be big business and the super rich. The 1% of America is to corrupt. There are people out there who sit on their big bottoms and just watch money flow in. They can afford classy manors, gold porcelain thrones, and limos. After that you have another percent that is left out on the streets with now house to call their own and hardly enough food to survive. How is that fair? Answer: It’s not… The big problem with being able to fix big business and the 1% is that a good deal of politicians are in that 1%. Either that or they are able to be bribed into letting big business get away with whatever they want. How else would there be so little tax on the 1% and how else would the big corrupt company's

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