Jesse Eisinger
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287 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 29 May
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They charged him.
He pled guilty and is now serving a five-year prison sentence, which is the longest sentence for anyone who leaked non-classified information in American history for what I consider to be a great public service.
So I consider him to be a whistleblower of great importance.
Yeah, well, I don't really operate with a lot of hope.
I'm like, I don't wake up in the morning just thinking, what changes will make American society better today?
I can't wait to see them.
But, you know, I think the system should be reformed and can be reformed to make the wealthiest pay more.
And so you take somebody like Donald Trump,
And one of the things that was – I was shocked by it, and I refuse to not be shocked by these things, and I refuse to kind of succumb to cynicism, is that he literally did not pay taxes for years and years.
And it turns out that he's not alone because –
commercial real estate billionaires can pay zero in taxes.
It's because they, it's a simple reason, is that they get to say that their buildings are losing value.
It's just an accounting fiction.
But in fact, what's happening is the buildings are appreciating value.
That tends to be what happens to property in America.
Yes, especially in New York, right?
And so the properties go up in value.
But these billionaires sometimes can say to the IRS, I'm personally losing $100 million a year.
You see these people with these ludicrous, absurd statements of, you know, nine-figure losses on income.
And so that's the magic of accounting.
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