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Flagrant · Pete Buttigieg on Trump Tariffs, Taxing Billionaires, and Republican Gays · 23 Apr 2025 podcast
An international agreement for taxation of corporations.
Now, it kind of seems like you're making the argument for a tariff on Lesotho. Right?
No, no. I think the justification for that was so that someone can't go put a manufacturing factory on the plate.
For example, it's like, it's not going to be income tax, right? Because they'll find a way to not have income. So you can adjust capital gains. Right.
But even with capital gains, you're only you're only taxing them when they cash out. And a lot of these guys won't cash out. They just take loans against their investments and then loans aren't taxable. So they live for free. So that's where the idea of wealth taxes come in.
No, I'm not saying we shouldn't do it. I just – I think that there is – This feeling, this sentiment, I think that Akash was tapping into as well. And there's two things. Like, you seem like somebody who's very knowledgeable and very aware of all these things. You know these people that were fired in this random factory in, what did you say it was? Kokomo, Indiana. In Indiana, right?
It's like, the average person might not know about that. They don't know about these factories being built. But you have to meet the average person where they feel emotionally. Yeah.
And, like, I think you do a really good job, and I've seen a lot of your interviews, is, like, acknowledging the emotions of the people that you're talking to before giving them evidence that might be contrary to them. Yeah. Instead of this, like, finger-wagging approach, which is like, oh, you're stupid if you don't agree with me. Yeah. Really important. But just quick, like, I think it'd be...
I think the average American isn't even aware that what Amazon makes a year and what they pay in taxes. I think they paid zero dollars last year.
And I get what they're doing. It's like they're writing off losses from other parts of the business or they're reinvesting that money and growing the business. And I don't want the pendulum to swing so far that you can't start a business and you can't. Sure. grow and thrive. And I think that's like one of the great things about America. But there has to be this middle ground.
And if we don't do something about it, the American people should at least be aware of the I don't want to say the CEOs, but the people that own these companies that are essentially stealing from the American people and using the system. We should be aware of who they are. I'm not saying we should do anything to them, but they should be shamed. Or taxed.
If they're not going to pay the taxes, you're going to pay it emotionally.
I just want to tax them. I do think there's a sociopathy to these people that you might underestimate. Yes, true, but maybe their partners... There will be no more...
To artificially manipulate your currency?
You make your currency cheap.
Now, how does that work? Think about it.
When you go to Europe and you find out the euro is like, there are moments where it's under the dollar and you're like, oh my God, let's go. I'm getting this hotel.
I heard that this is a little bit of a misnomer, though. I heard that there was a language. There was a little confusion with language where they said reciprocal, but it was supposed to be proportional.
Sure, in terms of the communication. But if the actual process—and I don't want to seem like I'm defending the administration, but I do want to seem like it's important that we get true information out there. So it's like if they're doing proportional— tariffs to that trade deficit. That would make sense.
If it's reciprocal, it doesn't make sense because there's no way you can match a trade deficit from a country that is a tenth of the size.
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