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plutocrat

noun as in wealthy person with power

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Now the plutocrats are aiming at Sliwa, as if voters shouldn’t be able to make this choice themselves.

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Many of the rank-and-file workers without whom Bezos, Dell and their fellow plutocrats could have reached their pinnacles of fortune have struggled in the oligarchic economy, relying on public assistance to make ends meet.

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A new class of billionaire plutocrats, their wealth based less on manufacturing than on services, emerged.

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Now, many of his erstwhile supporters among America’s plutocrats are screaming for mercy.

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The real figures on the payroll tax liabilities of the America’s plutocrat class are necessarily murky, for reasons we’ll get to in a moment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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