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Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner Says 'Nobody Works Hard Enough to Justify $1 Billion' | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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Jon Queally
Nov 15, 2025

Echoing recent viral comments by music superstar Billie Eilish, Maine Democratic candidate for US Senate Graham Planter is also arguing that the existence of billionaires cannot be justified in a world where working-class people with multiple jobs still cannot afford the basic necessities of life.

In video clip posted Friday of a campaign event in the northern town of Caribou from last month, Platner rails against the “structures” of an economy in which billionaires with vast personal fortunes use their wealth to bend government—including the tax code—to conform to their interests while working people are left increasingly locked out of controlling their own destinies, both materially and politically.

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[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

While this guy is politicking regular people who aren't politicians should be buying and obtaining guns and learning how to be heartless for a civil war if it ignites. we all have a part to play.

Be ready to play against all hands. Don't put all the eggs in one basket.