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datsci_est_2015 • today at 2:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Important context to add is that those who benefit from such tax breaks turn around and fund with their disproportionate, ill-gotten gains the very candidates who you say we should really be upset with. They also fund the media companies, both social and traditional, that are the propaganda for the status quo. They don't benefit from these laws that create loopholes in a vacuum - they're the very reason the laws continue to have loopholes in the first place!

As they say, "No war except class war", I think we are perfectly justified in being upset with the names in the headlines.


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jakzurr • today at 3:24 PM

Yes, that's really a problem. Before we can fix a lot of taxation fairness problems, we really have to fix campaign funding fairness.