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America’s Plutocrats Are Winning

Videos Oct 23, 2018 Jeffrey D. Sachs

American politics has become a game of, by, and for corporate interests, with tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for polluters, and war and global warming for the rest of us. Americans – and the world – deserve better.

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Jeffrey D. Sachs

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Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as adviser to three UN Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres. His books include The End of Poverty, Common Wealth, The Age of Sustainable Development, Building the New American Economy, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, and, most recently, The Ages of Globalization.

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Michael Pettengill Oct 25, 2018

Plutocrat is too kind a term. The Kochs are pillage and plunderers, and merely engage in politics to eliminate laws granting property rights to anyone but themselves. Just like Donald J Trump.

If they are denied the "right" to destroy our property by the government, ie, government enforcing property rights, then government is engaged in "overreach". They reject our ownership as We the People of public land, water, and other resources, if they can burn it and otherwise destroy it for their profit.

It's pure barbarian pillage and plunder.
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