104: The One Percenters
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 3 July 2018
⏱️ 7 minutes
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They paid their fair share, and then some...
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| 0:00.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:08.0 | John's a farmer in Hopewell, New Jersey, like many working farmers, John feeds lots of |
| 0:13.4 | Americans who have no idea where their food comes from. |
| 0:16.8 | But unlike many of his peers, John is not struggling to make a living. |
| 0:22.6 | He's prospering. |
| 0:23.9 | In fact, John, he's downright rich. |
| 0:27.0 | So too is Frank. |
| 0:28.6 | Frank made his money doing whatever it is international business men do. |
| 0:33.4 | Something to do with the mercantile exchange. |
| 0:36.7 | He was born in Wales and educated in the very best schools. |
| 0:40.4 | After becoming a legal citizen of this country, he made an absolute fortune. |
| 0:45.2 | Now he employs more people than he can keep track of. |
| 0:48.8 | And then there's Richard. |
| 0:50.3 | Richard is one of the wealthiest lawyers in America. |
| 0:53.8 | He studied law at Princeton, which his ancestors helped build. |
| 0:58.2 | Now he sits on the bench of the New Jersey Supreme Court, where his reputation as a jurist |
| 1:04.4 | earns him the respect of politicians on both sides of the aisle. |
| 1:08.0 | Not long ago, John, Frank and Richard all sat down with dozens of other wealthy Americans |
| 1:16.0 | at a private men's club in Philadelphia to discuss, among other things, the future of our country |
| 1:21.9 | and the current tax code. |
| 1:24.0 | Not only do these men believe their taxes are far too high, they feel their money is being |
| 1:31.2 | squandered by America's leaders. |
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