Nance, I hope you are correct

but I cannot bring myself to be very positive at this point. This is trump, and we haven't seen anything yet.

Today I heard a Noam Chomsky piece on the establishment of American Oligarchy

The subject of this piece is neoliberalism, the underlying political philosophy animating oligarchical control of society. It's not a natural inclination, it's a premeditated plan that stretches back for decades, to the implementation of University of Chicago Economics Department theory applied to South America i.e., Chile, Argentina, etc. in the 1970's. See also Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine."

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Yes, Bayrock LLC and its subs, five of which are trump properties "managed" by Felix Sater

The number of bankruptcies in and of itself seemed suspicious. The Bayrock LLCs are structured as multi-level equity holdings designed to facilitate tax evasion on the profits from unit sales.

Thousands of counts of mail and wire fraud are coming.

Speaking of LLCs; check out Bayrock LLC and its subs, five of which are trump properties

Thousands of counts of mail and wire fraud are coming, in addition to structuring of profits in multi-layered equity holdings to evade taxes.

Another reason Illinois leads the nation in population loss

See also the book "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer

In-depth analysis of the Kock brothers and how they and their lackeys captured the field.

What makes you think he takes a shower, he likes being covered in filth

Sleaze real estate speculators and

Bankrupt casino operators

That's the only way capitalism is viable as economic theory/policy

It is totally dependent on the lower classes being denied their own means of self-sufficiency.

Exactly right

All this "tax" bill does is speed up the rate of surplus value extraction and as a consequence artificially accelerate the boom-bust cycle of capitalism.