The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne)

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

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