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"Americans are rightfully concerned when very wealthy families use loopholes and accounting strategies to avoid paying their fair share," Wyden said. These people "didn’t even bother."

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Also important to note that it was aristocrats that started and perpetrated the war to begin with. They weren't just opportunistically jumping in to get their piece, but were the cause of the conflict to begin with. They didn't want to be beholden to the crown, when they could just make their own country that they could design from the ground up to be exploitable.

The war was unpopular, attrition was high, and Washington was a blowhard. He killed more of his own soldiers than the British did. He was a drunkard and mediocre commander and only ended up winning because the French did most of the work for them.

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