"I refuse to believe that in a state like Maine where people work as hard as we do here, that it is merely hard work that gets you that kind of success. We all know it isn't. We all know it's the structures. It's the tax code."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39081380

Jon Queally
Nov 15, 2025

Echoing recent viral comments by music superstar Billie Eilish, Maine Democratic candidate for US Senate Graham Planter is also arguing that the existence of billionaires cannot be justified in a world where working-class people with multiple jobs still cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

In video clip posted Friday of a campaign event in the northern town of Caribou from last month, Platner rails against the “structures” of an economy in which billionaires with vast personal fortunes use their wealth to bend government—including the tax code—to conform to their interests while working people are left increasingly locked out of controlling their own destinies, both materially and politically.

  • Armand1@lemmy.world
    71·
    3 days ago

    Disclaimer: I don’t like Platner.

    I’d go further: Nobody works hard enough to justify $1 million. Redistribute all the wealth above that and you’d likely eradicate poverty.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    14·
    3 days ago

    Yikes commondreams is giving this imperialist Nazi a platform now too? Apparently all you need to become a progressive now is to say a mean word about billionaires and everyone will forget you are a literal Nazi mass murderer.