Rep. Adam Smith

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500 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 27 Jul

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Because of his age.

Well, because he was he couldn't I don't care how old he is.

He just couldn't speak.

OK, he couldn't communicate clearly.

Yeah.

You know, whether that was because he was old or because he couldn't communicate clearly.

It had the same effect.

And then the second big issue is income inequality.

It is absolutely true that whoever has been governing for the last 20 or 30 years hasn't done enough to create opportunities for enough people.

Those two issues, I think, really drove the feeling of let's try something different.

Now, the question is whether or not the DSA agenda of...

is actually going to achieve either of those objectives.

Is that what's going to help us defeat Trump and MAGA?

Is that what is going to build a more broad-based economic thing?

But this is where I am very sympathetic with the DSA.

I'm an economic populist, all right?

I think we should rewrite the tax code to actually tax rich people.

I've been working with a woman, Ray Madoff.

She's a professor at Boston College who wrote a book about how we built our tax code so that investors don't ever pay taxes.

Let's change that, okay?

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