Jesse Eisinger

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

If we could get back to that, we would be in a much better place.

And I think that part of the idea of taxing the wealthy is not to strip them of their wealth, which the taxes wouldn't do, but to require them to contribute to our shared prosperity.

And the project of American shared prosperity has completely collapsed and been destroyed over the last sort of 50 years, I think.

But yes, I think you're right that because of people's cynicism and because of this collapse in the faith in any institution in American society to make things better, including the government, even Democrats have said, well, we want to start exempting other people, whole classes of people from democracy.

And so you see from Senator Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen efforts to exempt greater numbers of people who make less money from paying federal income tax.

And that's really a terrible move in my view.

Yeah.

That's totally wrong.

We should all pay taxes, and we should all pay taxes in proportion to our income, and we should define our income correctly, and then we can actually tax the wealthy and draw more from the wealthy as a higher percentage than –

from the poor.

But yes, the direction of sort of starting to piecemeal exempt everyone else from taxes will destroy us.

I mean, a functioning society has to collect taxes well and equitably.

And before you have a democracy, you have to have a functioning society.

And the functioning society is based on equitable tax collection.

And if you don't have that, you collapse.

That's the lesson of history.

Well, look at Mamdani.

Mamdani is running on the idea of government.

And he's saying government is good and we have to make government good.

We can't deliver – if we don't deliver on our promises, we erode people's confidence.

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