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Graham Platner: “What we have right now is a non functioning market because…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:13:47

I mean, what's funny, I. People often talk about this like it's some sort of left wing fantasy. What I'm talking about is an actual functional market. What we have right now is a non functioning market because essentially all the money...gets extracted out of working people. and hoarded more and more and more in a part of the economy that doesn't do anything. And we need to use the tax code to pull that money back. (1:13:47–1:13:56)

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Asserts that the current market is dysfunctional due to wealth extraction from working people.

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