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Graham Platner: “We need to use the tax code to go after the money that has…”

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

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Graham Platner SLAMS Trump, Lays Out Democrats' Strategy for the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 42:28

There's a reason 2008 happened in 2008 and not 1994. I mean, we changed rules and frankly a lot of Democrats supported that stuff. And until we become a party that doesn't do that, until We need to use the tax code to go after the money that has been stolen from working people over the past four decades. until we use frankly, like the anti monopoly laws we already have on the books, we just have to stop having Robert Bork's wild reading of what a monopoly is. (42:28–42:52)

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Asserts that wealth has been taken from working people over the last 40 years.

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