Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Everybody knows that.

Say that to the average American and they're going to nod at you because they know that their political system is bought off by people with money.

And those of us who are not benefiting from that system, those of us who are not seeing our lives get easier, who are not seeing our wealth increasing, who are seeing our communities suffer, that's the working class.

Those are all the people who are being taken advantage of in a system that is not representing their interests.

And for the people who are benefiting immensely,

They're the ones who we are arrayed against.

They're the ones who are going to use politics to protect their interests.

They're the ones that need us being all mad at each other down here, yelling at each other about being a Republican or a Democrat or left or right, because they don't want us recognizing that there's only one direction we need to be pointing fingers, and that is up.

It's not left and right.

I love the idea that he's like, yeah, we should zero out taxes for the bottom and not raise my taxes.

Like, Jeff, if we're going to zero it out, by the way, I like that idea.

I love the idea of raising taxes immensely on billionaires and their wealth.

I like the idea of if we can make a society in which people don't have to pay in taxes, it's going to make them poorer at a level in which that kind of—like, for instance—

There's a proposal, which I think is a really good one, which is that we should never tax someone into poverty.

That if you're hovering right at the poverty line, that if you have to pay taxes and that now puts you below the poverty line, we shouldn't do that.

I agree.

I think that's a very, very good and fair idea.

We should also still raise taxes on billionaires and corporations.

That's how we're going to pull the money back.

But it's important to remember, Bezos wants us to think

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