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> and recently voted for the CARES act, which transferred huge amounts of wealth to large corporations.

That was a payroll support program like every other country did, plus airline bailouts which were good because they have giant union contracts.

CARES is the greatest anti-poverty measure the US has done in a hundred years and probably the largest downward transfer of wealth in the world. You didn't notice because all left-wing commentators decided to lie about it ("we only got $1200 checks") instead of reading about how the unemployment benefit worked.

https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1322348938339389441



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