"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/39081381

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.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
    93·
    3 days ago

    As long as he doesn’t admit that his military service was unethical and wrong, and retract&apologize for his earlier racist comments justifying thousands of iraqi deaths with “our way of life is better than theirs” or something like that, I will just assume he’s a nazi trying to pander to the working class.

    • Bristlecone@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I appreciate your insight on this. Looking at everything done and said about the tattoo and his old Reddit posts, I am definitely more comfortable voting for this guy still than his opposition who we know is a child rapist capitulator, without question. Bernie literally still supports this guy