You tax dollars---------------------------->Their pockets
When dick cheney stood on a debate stage and acknowledged he was a millionaire, he said 'and the gov't had nothing to do with it'
That was a flat out lie because literally all his money came from either working in the gov't directly or as a contractor. 100% taxpayer funded.
How they get to there is this image of gov't not needed because people like danO are such rugged individualists.......so they buy it.
I think I can describe the modern Republican party with one word.
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