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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have paid enormous sums in taxes, yet Socialists like Mamdani continue to argue it is not enough. Zohran Mamdani’s speaking style is drawing attention as a reflection of Gen Z’s political voice, fast-paced, polished, and articulate. Several mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times and The Atlantic, have allegedly published fabricated stories about FBI Director Kash Patel having a drinking problem, prompting him to pursue legal action against them. Lindsey Boylan, currently running for City Council, is a staunch Democrat.

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0:00.0	No gloss, no filter.
0:03.0	Just stories.
0:04.7	Spoken without fear.
0:06.4	Person who is not generous can not be an artist.
0:09.4	The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers.
0:14.3	Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhats show on the IHeart Radio app,
0:18.5	Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.2	Come for the honesty.
0:24.9	Stay for the fire.
0:29.3	Mr. New York, Mark Simone, on the voice of New York, 710 W.O.
0:35.8	Hey, all right, we'll get to all the fun stuff now. It's going to be like in the 50s today.
0:42.3	It's cooled off. You know what? I'll take this over the 90 degree days. I wasn't used to that.
0:47.3	It's going to be 50s and 60s. It'll get to 70 like on Thursday. So we're talking about taxes, you know, and Mamdani goes off to these
0:58.3	billionaires and they pay their fair share. They pay their fair share. You know, nope. Do you see
1:03.7	what these billionaires pay? They actually don't pay their fair share. They pay like five times their
1:07.9	fair share. They pay more than they should be paying.
1:16.8	If you're a billionaire in New York, you're paying like 56% of your money in taxes.
1:19.2	There's something unethical, immoral.
1:20.4	It's totally immoral.
1:22.9	How could you take, there should be a national law. How can you take 56% of somebody's income and call it taxes?
1:32.2	It's ridiculous. There should be some sort of law,
1:39.5	an actual national law passed that nobody can pay more than, I don't know, 25%, maybe 30% of their money in taxes. How could you pay 56% of your money in taxes?
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