Hi, I'm Dan Pramak and welcome to Axios Recap, presented by Facebook.

We want to end the year by replaying not just some of our favorite interviews from 2020, but ones that

still have resonance here in December. So today we're sharing our October 28th conversation with

Pete Buttigieg, who was on to discuss what Joe Biden's economic

plan would be, were he to be elected president. Since then, of course, Biden won, and he tapped

Mayor Pete to be the next U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Today is Wednesday, October 28th.

America is now just six days away from the presidential election, and hopefully no more than seven or eight days away from knowing who won it.

Joe Biden continues to be the frontrunner, according to most battleground state polls, and he has a very different plan for America's economy than does President Trump.

On taxes, Biden plans to raise them for top earners and profitable corporations.

On spending, he wants more of it to fight things like climate change, while also joining

Trump in wanting a major infrastructure package.

And Biden also wants a large, comprehensive stimulus to help offset economic damage from the still

raging pandemic. An analysis by the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute found that

Biden's tax plan, if fully implemented, would result in tax increases for about 5% of Americans

and tax decreases for the other 95%. It also found that there'd be a GDP

drag of less than 2 tenths of 1% on the overall economy. But we wanted to go deeper than just

these headline numbers with former South Bend Indiana mayor and Biden campaign surrogate Pete Buttigieg.

That conversation in 15 seconds.

We're joined now by Mayor Pete Buttigieg. So Mr. Mayor, on economics, one of the areas of

contention between the Trump campaign and the Biden campaign, and this came up particularly

during the vice presidential debate, is Biden's pledge to repeal the

2017 tax bill? So I'm hoping you could help me out here. Is the plan to repeal the entire

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