Not only will that not happen, but the winners of the election will delight in sticking it to the rich folks, ignoring pension funds, etc.

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Cut development expenses to zero, switch to dated but cheap technology, under-depreciate, change pension fund assumptions, bleed non-executive salaries and defer benefits etc.

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