REPUBLICAN GREED NOW DOMINATES THE LIVES OF AMERICANS
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
According to the GOP, it doesn’t matter how many people die, struggle in poverty, or are poisoned, as long as the profits roll in and taxes are low.
DEBATE: Thom vs Charles Sauer on bringing back the top 90% tax bracket.
Professor Richard Wolff opines on why conservatives seem to object to a middle class for the US.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin Program. |
| 0:17.5 | Well happy Earth Day, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:19.9 | We've got a really big shoe for you today and Professor Richard Wolf will be with us. |
| 0:25.5 | I want to invite a conservative object to there being a middle class and I want to get into my rant from today's Harbin Report dot com. |
| 0:32.5 | Republican greed now dominates Americans lives and I'll tell you all about that. |
| 0:37.0 | But first Charles Sauer is online with us. |
| 0:39.0 | He is the Libertarian economist and president of the Market Institute. |
| 0:42.5 | Market Institute dot org is their website. |
| 0:44.5 | He's also the author of a book Profit Motive. |
| 0:47.0 | What drives the things we do. |
| 0:49.0 | His Twitter handle is Charles Sauer, S-A-U-E-R. |
| 0:53.0 | At Charles Sauer or at Market Institute. |
| 0:55.5 | Charles, welcome back. |
| 0:56.5 | I want to bring back the American middle class that we had when I was a kid. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, my dad's American middle class. |
| 1:05.0 | And that middle class was built in large part on a 90% top income tax bracket. |
| 1:12.0 | So this was back before Reagan. |
| 1:15.0 | This was before we had a single billionaire in the United States. |
| 1:18.0 | But what we did have was the fastest growth in middle class and even poor people. |
| 1:24.0 | The income of the bottom 40% was growing faster than the top 5%. |
| 1:29.0 | I want to bring that back. |
| 1:31.0 | I want to bring it back with a top 90% tax bracket. |
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