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OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 08:43 PM Feb 2020

'Rich People Have Profited Enough': New Poll Shows Two-Thirds of Americans Support Wealth Tax [View all]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/rich-people-have-profited-enough-new-poll-shows-two-thirds-americans-support-wealth

This doesn't bode well for the moderates, especially Bloomberg. People are fed up with the rich and corporations keeping the rest of the country oppressed. When 85% of Dems, 66% of Independents, and 47% of Republicans support a wealth tax on the rich, that's a very popular policy and anyone trying to maintain the status quo and protect the billionaire/corporate class is unlikely to do well.

This is why Bernie is surging and holds a 13 point lead.
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