3/23/23: Demands to tax the ultra-rich grow as DeSantis polling shrinks
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David Pakman
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ποΈ 23 March 2023
β±οΈ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's start today with some meaty policy analysis when it comes to taxing the rich. |
| 0:23.3 | Please don't tune out. |
| 0:24.3 | No, no, no, don't click away. |
| 0:25.9 | No, in all seriousness, this morning I watched a little bit of our friend Sam Cedars appearance |
| 0:30.6 | on the Patrick Bet David show, a program I did a month or six weeks ago or so. |
| 0:35.9 | And one of the topics that came up with them was about what should tax rates be and taxing |
| 0:41.7 | the rich and Sam says, yes, and Patrick says, no, and okay, I don't want in this segment |
| 0:47.9 | to delve into the should we or shouldn't we or the morals of the ethics? |
| 0:53.7 | What I simply want to address here is if we wanted to tax the ultra wealthy more, how |
| 1:00.8 | would we do it effectively? |
| 1:02.2 | And what I mean by effectively is it's very easy to say, raise the top income tax rate, |
| 1:08.2 | but then you realize, wait a second, a lot of the ultra wealthy aren't earning income |
| 1:12.3 | in wages subject to that rate. |
| 1:15.4 | So that's not really going to help. |
| 1:17.6 | And then the background of all of this is the news that democratic senators as Huff post |
| 1:22.0 | reports are urging the Biden administration to go after what they call ultra wealthy tax |
| 1:27.8 | dodgers. |
| 1:29.4 | Most of this is specifically related to using trusts and other financial vehicles when |
| 1:34.5 | it comes to inheritance, when it comes to inheritance and what we might call a state |
| 1:38.4 | tax or some like to call it the death tax. |
| 1:41.2 | So what I want to do in this segment, just to provide a little bit of food for thought, |
| 1:45.6 | is give a bunch of different changes that could be made to the tax code that would help |
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