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Gallup
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A majority of U.S. adults agree on increasing income tax rates for upper-income Americans (63%) and increasing tax revenues by making major changes to the federal tax code (54%) to reduce the federal debt.

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Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄
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"[Money] decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. It has rewritten the rules of self-government—slowly, invisibly, and almost entirely within the law." bsky.app/profile/adam... Plutocracy⤴️. What the non-wealthy want is irrelevant.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

open.substack.comMoney Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.