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WHO WHO MAKES CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS 

by Lwoh Opa

 
   rOCKaFELLer swallowed up the little guys 
   (creating the first corporation) 
   and then got the antitrust laws passed 
   about 1880 - 1890 
   he handed out money on the senate floor 
   and called it campaign contributions 

   no taxes until 1913 when 'they' 
   created a national debt to tax the people 
   (to get them to pay taxes for the first time) 
   prior to corporations 
   there was personal liability 
   now 
   corporations take the profit and then declare bankruptcy 
   e.g. 
   hOOKer company 
   contamination…oiling the roads with toxic dump 
   PCB’s in milk from 
  PCP’s stored on third floor and cattle feed on second 
   floor and it seeped through 
   doctors moved from Michigan to Indiana 
   late 70‘s early 80’s 

   antitrust 
   anti trust who? 
   Do we need a trustbuster?