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user-inactivated · 3911 days ago · link · · parent · post: Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science - NY Times
Lets see . . . Bill Gates [mentioned in the article] and Paul Allen - both of Microsoft, a company known for violations of anti-trust laws . . . Perelman, Black, Milken - a FELON, and Steyer all Wall Street players . . . is the lack of tax on Wall Street trading not a form of corporate welfare? Harold Hamm and David Koch both have their hands in oil, and indeed, the oil industry is famous for it's corporate welfare and I would suggest, rightly or otherwise that the Koch Machine depends on it In this age of Global Warming does it really make any sense at all that we will allow a small handful of billionaires to set science priorities for the entire United States? Because honestly, I don't think that it does . . .