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“This is a direct transfer of wealth from the U.S. treasury to David Sacks and other crypto barons,” investigative journalist Ryan Grim wrote.

“Although our constitutional system was designed to prevent the abuses of an 18th century monarch, the instruments of unchecked power are no less dangerous in the hands of a 21st century tech baron.”

"The American people stood up to the robber barons back then," he said.

Allowing the Big Tech robber barons to dictate a regulatory environment over AI, quantum computing, and energy won’t be good for the country.

Gibson questioned whether leaders wanted to empty out the state, comparing the fires in California to "old cattle barons clearing people off the land."