James Talarico

that it feels like the president promised we were going to move past.

And now we're right back in another forever war in the Middle East.

So I think we should try to achieve those goals through non-military means.

I think that was succeeding.

And I think we're going to see all of those issues get much worse because of this reckless intervention in Iran.

Yeah, and I do think it's a problem.

I think this is intergenerational theft and we are saddling my generation, we're saddling Gen Zers, we're saddling future generations with this debt.

And so the choice that we're often presented with is cutting spending or raising revenue.

I would propose a solution that's somewhere in the middle of those two things, which is currently,

We are giving away so many taxpayer dollars to the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations.

We gave $3 trillion to the wealthiest Americans, to the top 1% in the Trump tax cuts just this past summer.

And so if we have $3 trillion to give to rich people who don't need it, then we have $3 trillion to start paying down this national debt.

I would also, if you look through our tax code, there are so many giveaways, so many loopholes for the biggest corporations in this country who don't pay a penny in federal taxes.

In fact, the CEOs of these companies can literally ride off flying on a private jet.

Mm-hmm.

And so to me, having a fair tax code, holding tax cheats accountable, the estimates are that this could bring in billions, close to $200 billion in every fiscal year.

And so to me, it's not any new taxes, and it's not cutting the programs that help working people.

It's going after the tax cheats.

It's closing the loopholes that benefit the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations.

Absolutely on having a more progressive tax system, because when you have the secretaries of billionaires paying more as a percentage of their income than the billionaires themselves, then that's a problem.