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Graham Platner: “It's almost less about who owns it, and it's more about the…”

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 11:28

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. Like, because I think that that kind of consolidated ownership is legitimately bad for people because it winds up with folks. (11:28–11:35)

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Asserts that the issue is the possibility of consolidated ownership, not who owns it.

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