Taxing the rich
Explain It to Me
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like you guys are very down on me finishing my book. |
| 0:02.9 | That's we are trying to help you Ezra. |
| 0:05.3 | We're trying to help you. |
| 0:06.1 | Sure. |
| 0:06.8 | Motivation. |
| 0:07.4 | Okay. |
| 0:07.7 | So we do it? |
| 0:08.4 | Yep. |
| 0:08.8 | Let's do it. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Matthew Iglesias. |
| 0:27.7 | Here with Jane Coastan and Ezra Klein. |
| 0:30.2 | We got a smoking hot white paper for you later at the end of the episode. |
| 0:36.0 | But we wanted to start by talking about a sort of blue sky policy conversation that has opened up recently. |
| 0:43.6 | I guess the precipitating event was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on 60 minutes and she was talking |
| 0:50.0 | about the Green New Deal. |
| 0:51.5 | I know people want us to do a Green New Deal episode, but that's got to wait. |
| 0:55.6 | So he asked her like, how do you want to pay for all this? |
| 0:58.4 | And then she said, well, maybe we should have a top income tax rate of as high as 70%. |
| 1:05.0 | Which when I first saw it, I don't know. |
| 1:07.4 | My mind was not blown because I was aware that this 70% number had been floating around |
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