Jesse Eisinger

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287 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2024 last heard 29 May

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Search Engine · Why do we have to pay into the new Anti-Weaponization Fund? · 29 May 2026 podcast

It's crazy that it's happening.

But I do feel like this may be breaking through to some extent because it's so brazen.

We're in a race between the oligarchs and democracy.

So people are very angry about billionaires on the left and the right, and feel like American society is fundamentally not working, and they blame the wealthy for absorbing

too many of the resources and profiting unfairly and, you know, having all of these benefits accrue to them and they're still struggling.

And I sort of think that critique is fundamentally true in American life.

And then there's a lot of ferment about taxing the wealthy now, which I think we contributed to that conversation.

You know,

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren ran on wealth taxes.

Occupy Wall Street brought this kind of to the fore with the kind of 99% and 1% language.

So I think it's been building since the financial crisis, really, which was a collapse in the American order up to then.

And we've been struggling to kind of replace it.

And people have thought that banks, bankers, Wall Street, the wealthy have been screwing us for a long time.

So it's been building and building, and now there's a lot of good policy thinking about how to properly tax the wealthy.

But the wealthy have gotten so much richer in the time that this has been building, and they've consolidated so much more power and are spending so much more on our elections that, you know, the—

I would say the forces of democracy continue to be losing this, but they haven't lost.

Yeah.

Yeah, I completely agree with you.

And I wish that – I think you are in a category of about seven people in America who are sort of happy about paying taxes in the way that you just described, which is admirable and correct, which is that it is a civic –

duty, it's a responsibility and should be a point of pride.

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