Ro Khanna

Whatever you think about the design of this tax, you can't have a nation where you've got some places with $18 trillion, and then where I grew up in Pennsylvania, in Bucks County, the steel mill, Fairless Works, shut down in Western Pennsylvania, hollowed out factories, all going over to China or Mexico, people feeling like their kids and grandkids aren't gonna have a shot at the American dream.

Like, that's not a country that works.

So why can't you say, okay, we've gotta get this prosperity, not just in Silicon Valley, not just in the AI revolution,

We need to industrialize America, have a Marshall Plan for America, build up new factories and industry, build up new trade schools, build up new tech centers and jobs across the country, have health care and basic public education for the country.

That's what I call economic patriotism.

It's to build up this country.

And I don't think that's a bad bet long term, because it's saying that we want prosperity, but a basic shot for everyone in this country.

Let me ask you this, though.

I don't know if you're a billionaire now.

You don't have to tell me.

I'm definitely not a billionaire.

But if you became, when you become a billionaire, if you thought that the money was actually going positively, right?

Like, we're actually building factories in western Pennsylvania or jobs for kids in Warren, Ohio.

Let me ask you this.

No, that I agree with you.

We're wasting all this money on Argentina and Venezuela.

We should be focusing more on Virginia and Pennsylvania and Ohio and people here.

But let me ask you, your genuine view, because I know you're a little bit more conservative than I am.

We used to have a national aspiration, a national project of doing great things as Americans, right?

We won World War II.