Graham Plattner

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438 appearances 36 recordings 15 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 10 Jul

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The David Pakman Show · ICE agents in trouble as under the bus goes Bovino · 29 Jan 2026 podcast

You're using it for cash. matched

And then you get to have it count against your tax bill because it's debt, which is utterly insane. matched

So if I had my way, and I understand this is a long shot, I would love to return to the era of Dwight D. Eisenhower, where our top marginal tax rate is 90%. matched

I mean, that honestly is up for debate. matched

I've read a bunch of different white papers and memos. matched

Certainly, we're getting up into the, I would say, above $100 million realm for that kind of thing. matched

What I don't want, and this is something I think it's important for people to understand, if you make $1 million a year, $5 million a year, in our society now, you are closer to someone living in poverty than you are to a billionaire. matched

Of course it is, because we've allowed for a consolidation of wealth in essentially an incomprehensible manner. matched

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Where we set those levels, I mean, I, of course, I think, if you're making over $100 million a year, materially, you're going to have a hard time arguing to most Americans that every dollar above that, if you lose it at a certain rate, somehow you're going to be immiserated. matched

It's a ridiculous concept. matched

But certainly, once we're getting into $100 million realms, we need to be looking at very high rates. matched

what it's how do i say this we need to also reevaluate how our spending works and how we spend i think before we also start identifying because what's going to matter we need to figure out how much money we need and what we need to spend it on and until we think until we stop spending money on the military industrial complex in the way that we do matched

I'm not entirely sure that we're gonna have a good answer because that number is gonna be flawed because we'll be blowing taxpayer money on what I find to be rather, I mean, I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. matched

I've seen the fraud, waste and abuse. matched

I know how worthless all of this is. matched

The rates that we set are gonna have to reflect the actual needs. matched

But, you know, I want to have a universal health care system and I am happy to go after as much money in the highest echelons to make sure that we can fund that and also make sure we're not putting it. matched

It cannot be regressive. matched

It always needs to be a progressive tax program. matched

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