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How the rich tricked (trickled) us out our money and how to stop it

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Support my efforts to solve our biggest problems In Chapter 3 of my book "Solutions: Enough complaining. Let's fix America!", I explain how "The Rich are hoarding the Nation into poverty" by going over reasons why the rich should not get tax breaks under the guise of being "job creators", the difference between the Supply-side (Trickle-down) and the Demand-side economic systems, and why the Trickle-down economic system has failed the United States for decades (since Ronald Reagan), and the stranger than fiction connection between the movie "2012" and the COVID-19 pandemic. As always, find links to the sources used in my book as well as extras like my petition/legislation to "End the Job Creator Myth" Decommissioned missile silo conversion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2ZD... The mile-long “Freedom” ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezea... https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFreed... The Rich are out of control: https:

This is what excessive wealth buys

Sheldon Adelson is working on a deal to develop a Las Vegas style gambling center in Spain (called Euro Vegas) where gambling has been banned for moral reasons.  He has already built an similar gambling center in Macau (People's Republic of China),  which helped Adelson build his wealth of approximately $25 billion dollars.  In Macau, his attempts to manipulate the government have drawn scrutiny from federal and Nevada investigators, but this has not deterred him from moving on with his plans for Spain.  Besides being an apparent manipulation of desperate people and countries, doesn't this all seem apocalyptic?  A man with more money than he, his family or generations of his family could ever spend seeks to accumulate even more wealth.  What is the point of his greed?  If Adelson showed an inordinate amount of philanthropy like Charles F. Feeney or even a more modest amount of philanthropy like Bill and Melinda Gates (which is still extraordinary), it would make sense, but t