Pete Buttigieg

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Secretary Pete Buttigieg: The American Dream Is DEAD. We're Running Out Of Time To Fix It! · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

Or like how do you tax somebody's art collection?

There are things that can make it tricky.

There's always going to be a cat and mouse, right?

Whenever we figure out a way to make sure you can't hide all of your wealth or all of your income from being fairly taxed, very wealthy people will figure out some other place to hide it.

And then we'll have to develop a new policy to deal with that.

I guess my point is that's okay.

Too often, we have just hesitated to do anything, refused to do anything because it might be hard or because it might not last.

But if the idea that somebody will figure out a way around this law meant that you shouldn't have the law, that would be an argument against having any law.

So it's messy.

It's hard.

But I am sure that if we had a more reasonable rate of taxation on capital gains and on corporate income, and if we made it harder to pass along wealth without – especially inherited wealth without paying any taxes on it or some of these other maneuvers like this borrowing thing you're talking about –

we would have a fairer country because we'd still have capitalism.

There'd still be lots of motivation and lots of reason to innovate and build a business and create jobs and do all the things that very wealthy people have done.

And also, we would be out of this doom loop where they're saying, well, we can't possibly have as good health care as other countries.

We couldn't possibly do something like, I don't know, fast trains here in the United States.

We couldn't possibly have rural hospitals be properly funded or public education.

Of course we can.

This is the wealthiest economy in the world.

It just doesn't add up that we can't have nice things.

But

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