The Worst of the Worst about the Tax Cuts
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Rep Mark Pocan is here to discuss with Thom the worst parts of the tax cuts, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. Tom Hartman here with you. I just tweeted, |
| 0:26.2 | GOP, in other words, this is them speaking to you, quote, |
| 0:29.9 | we borrowed 1.5 trillion in your children's name. We transferred over 3.5 trillion up from working people |
| 0:35.6 | to the top 0.001%, |
| 0:37.6 | all to give over $5 trillion to our morbidly rich Republican donors. |
| 0:42.1 | But we also gave you $ hundred bucks, so what the |
| 0:44.0 | hell are you whining about? All right. Let's get the opinion of somebody who is |
| 0:48.6 | right in the middle of this whole strum and really knows what's going on. It's |
| 0:51.4 | Wednesday, it's our first hour, it's |
| 0:53.3 | mid days with Mark. Congressman Mark Poccan on the line with us taking your |
| 0:57.1 | calls for the hour at 202 808-9925. Congressman Pocan is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 1:04.2 | He represents the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 1:08.3 | And Pocan. |
| 1:09.8 | house.gov is the website and you can tweet him at rep Mark Poccan. |
| 1:13.2 | Congressman welcome back. |
| 1:14.3 | Thanks Tom, glad to be here. |
| 1:16.6 | Great to have you with us and I should say you know Merry Christmas, happy holidays, |
| 1:20.2 | whatever is appropriate for you and yours because I guess next week you're going to |
| 1:24.4 | be off. I'll be here but you won't be and then you'll be back with us right |
| 1:29.2 | after the first of the year. Yeah and it could be we're back in session on January 3. I think we're doing the program a day later on the 4th. |
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