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Episode 694 | Trump's Tax Breaks FAIL | The Brutal Fight Ahead for Medicare for All

The Benjamin Dixon Show

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6861 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We saw it coming a mile away -- and yet, here we are. Trump's tax breaks have exploded the deficit. And now they have the unmitigated gall to be asking for more.

And, have you considered the real fight ahead for Medicare For All? Can you imagine how far the filthy rich will go to protect billions -- if not trillions -- of dollars in revenue?

Let's discuss.

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Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show. I am of course your host.

0:30.0

Man I love, I absolutely love that new music. It's not finished. I probably won't finish it. I just going to leave it the way it is because I just like it. It's a vibe. Anyway, I guess there's some stuff happening in the news that you and I have to talk about.

0:35.0

Part of me doesn't care anymore.

0:40.0

To be honest with you, my brain is a little broken when it comes to the stupidity that we see.

0:48.6

Not only the stupidity, but the, um, just the bold-faced

0:55.0

the brashness of conservatives.

0:58.0

Okay, let me just tell you what I'm talking about.

1:01.0

In the midst of what we knew was going to happen with the tax breaks. We knew that the tax breaks

1:08.7

were not going to pay for themselves. We knew that the tax breaks were going to increase the deficit.

1:14.0

We knew that the tax break were going to add to our long-term debt.

1:18.0

We also knew that those things don't really matter,

1:22.0

but they seem to only matter when Democrats are

1:26.2

in power and we want to do something for the people but when Democrats are not

1:30.3

in power and don't get me wrong we all know the different there's

1:33.8

there's a huge faction of the Democratic Party who doesn't who don't give a

1:37.4

shit about poor people but most certainly when when Democrats are

1:42.0

not in power and Republicans are we know they have

1:44.8

no regard no concern whatsoever for deficits spending and they will they will run up the deficit in the name of tax breaks in a given day of the week.

1:55.0

And what's frustrating or why I don't really care, but obviously I do because I'm talking about it with you.

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