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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The checks were unfair because they went to the crown rather than back to the American people who are paying them in the first place

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So what is different now?

    Is Israel, Trump's ministers' pockets, insurance company executives, and the military industrial complex executives considered "the american people"?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    And paid for wars that were fought for the benefit of the colonists. Similar to how US taxes today are paid to the state and are used to pay for wars that the government claims are for the benefit of the American people.

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