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Old 04-12-2016, 02:39 AM
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What the Founding Fathers believed: Stock ownership for all

John Adams favored distribution of public lands to the landless to create broad-based ownership of property, then the critical component of business capital in the largely agricultural U.S. Current levels and trends in inequality would almost certainly have terrified the founders, who believed that broad-based property ownership was essential to the sustenance of a republic.

What the Founding Fathers believed: Stock ownership for all | PBS NewsHour
Yes, and they also believed in slave ownership and you could only vote if you owned property. Sorry but your argument for socialism better get better than John Adams.