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It is just unbelievable...!

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I live in Georgia. Atlanta, really. I live close to the Gold Dome. "Gold"...a building with its dome gilded in G...old...really! But the sad thing is that if you are a 'worker' in there, i.e., a Legislator, most probably - there are exceptions of course - you are, you would be, a member of "an investor class society". Yes - that is what Senator Chip Rogers recently stated, defending himself and his party Legislators from a statement by Senator Orrock calling all the tax exemption favors represented by this legislative session “the same old tired trickle-down theory. It helps the rich and the super rich.” Senator Rogers - "Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) - said that’s not the case. He said many Georgians hold stocks and other investments and could benefit from the tax break. He argued that a tax cut would give people more of their money to invest, thus helping the economy.“ We are an investor-class society, which is good,” he said. “We w...