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Graham Platner: “I would go even further, and I would. And it would be like…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner Talks With Three-Time Trump Voter

Published | Video Starts at 11:08

Oh, yeah. She's already signed legislation that Chinese. Any Chinese entity that owns land in Arkansas, they have to sell it back. Yep. I mean, I. I would go even. I would go even further, and I would. And it would be like basic corporate ownership. Period. I mean, I really am against the idea that, like, private corporations can start accruing so much of a. Of a public good, like land or water. But they were complaining about Bill Gates owning 270,000 acres of farmland in the United States. It's almost less about who owns it, and it's more about the fact that that kind of consolidated ownership can happen in the first place. (11:08–11:23)

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Asserts opposition to private corporations owning large amounts of public goods like land or water.

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