Ed Elson
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136 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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So why on earth would you not go back to a tax policy of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, where say above, pick a big number, 10 million, you actually pay more than 10%, maybe more than 20%, maybe more than 50%.
Because the difference between 30,000 a year for a household
And $50,000 is enormous to the well-being of that household.
Kids in low-income households have higher resting blood pressure.
But the difference between making $10 million a year and $15 million a year offers you no happiness.
But these individuals have weaponized government.
and we risk revolution, whether it's CEOs being murdered in the street, whether it's a Me Too movement that had righteous components of it or Black Lives Matter.
What are these movements?
They are targeting the wealthy.
We are in the midst of a series of small revolutions to correct income inequality.
And the reason we put an insurrectionist and a rapist in office is because for the first time in our nation's history,
A 30-year-old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30.
Why?
Because the majority of households are having the oxygen sucked out of the room, such that a small number of individuals and a small number of companies can be worth more than nation states.
Income inequality is out of control.
Our tax policy has gone full oligarch.
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