Steve Cortez
speaker
956 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Feb
Steve Cortez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Don't make war all over the world.
Get our people healthier at home.
Number two, this pro-growth strategy is starting to work.
Real wages are rising in our country.
That's a huge benefit to this land.
So again, we do have the glide path out.
It's not easy, but there is an escape route.
There is an escape route from this.
But that path gets narrower and narrower every day that we don't care as a country and that Washington, D.C., as a city and as an institution, permanent Washington, doesn't care about this.
So for once, I really agree with The Economist.
I do agree with them on the
gravity of the situation right now.
And I agree with them that those are the only real plausible outcomes.
But the way to avoid four and five is to, in fact, those first things and including, by the way, number three, which we're not doing, which is that we should be taxing the ultra wealthy at a much, much higher level.
We should be.
closing the carried interest loophole.
Not only does it make sense economically, but it would also pay great political dividends.
I wish we'd done it last year, but it's not too late to do that during this Trump term.
The wealthy need to pay a higher share, especially the super wealthy.
It's an economic imperative, and it will also reap political benefits.
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