Starbucks workers in Buffalo have delivered America's oligarchs an unexpectedly solid blow. But our oligarchy will only crumble when we all start hammering together.
one, firings of union activists “appear to have accelerated,” with several union leaders in Buffalo either “fired or forced out.”
America’s oligarchs, on the other hand, still wield enormous power at our every political level. Just how entrenched does our oligarchy remain? We now have a new and particularly outrageous example — from Buffalo, the second-largest city of the nation’s second-largest “Blue State.”the billionaire owner of Buffalo’s pro football franchise $850 million to build a spanking new state-of-the-art stadium.
The current owner of the Buffalo Bills, the Florida-based Terry Pegula, has spent the last decade not-so-subtly hinting that he’ll move the Bills to Toronto if the good citizens of Buffalo don’t “fix” his stadium problem. In 2014 and 2018, this extortion ployPegula $95 million from state taxpayers for stadium renovations. But the renovations haven’t produced, Pegula claims, enough new revenue.
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