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by csense 5017 days ago
> why is this even an issue?

Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil in this election cycle, and the chairman of the committee quoted in the article is a Democrat, as the article mentions, twice.

An unfortunately large percentage of the US population apparently isn't capable of formulating the good and simple question in the last sentence of your post -- a large enough percentage that the story can attract enough eyeballs to justify its publication.

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>Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil

Excuse me while I go pick up my eyes that just rolled across the floor. This isn't even remotely true - there's nothing wrong with wealth or corporations in general - but when corporations begin doing evil things in the pursuit of wealth, big surprise, people are going to complain.

> Because the Democrats want to press home the message that corporations and wealth are inherently evil in this election cycle...

Can we see quote from a Democrat saying this?