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including fellow billionaire

and California gubernatorial candidate, Tom Steyer, who wrote, this is bullshit, I promise you, tax billionaires invest in schools. And you had New York mayor, Zoran Mamdani, saying, I know a few teachers in Queens who had begged to differ. And generally, you had others saying that the optics of a billionaire that's sitting It is rocket factory saying that him paying more in taxes that it wouldn't help anyone is absurd.

Arguing, hey, you know, let's put that little theory to test. Try it out. See what happens. But also I'll say in fairness, his tax commentary came amid a larger conversation about wealth inequality and how to address it. Right. And actually, his main point was that if you really want to help low-income Americans, they should pay no taxes at all.

It's kind of a tale of two economies.

So you have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling.

Politicians are using the kind of age-old technique.

So there's this tale of two economies, and they're using this age-old technique of, you know,

picking a villain and pointing fingers.

But the problem is that doesn't solve anything.

A nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year pays $12,000 more than $12,000 a year in taxes.

Does that really make sense?

So people talk about, you know, making the tax system more progressive.

How about we start by having the nurse and queens not pay taxes?

At all.

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