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The problem is that corporations have way too much power in Congress and the government and they're rigging the system so that they don't pay taxes, but we do. We pay for all these crazy wars they come up with.

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Richard Patrick
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: May 10
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Needham
Massachusetts
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Corporations
Government
Congress
Come
Taxes
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Way
Crazy
System
War
Rigging
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Wars

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