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The Hartmann Report

Trumps Forbidden Words, Taxes, and More!

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program. Oh, So the New York Times, Jesse Drucker and Alan Rappaport, wrote a great piece for the New York Times back

0:48.6

day before yesterday.

0:50.0

Winners and losers in the tax bill.

0:52.0

Now keep in mind this tax bill, this Republican tax

0:54.9

scam is about a thousand pages long and was almost entirely written by

0:59.9

alleged by either lobbyists or former lobbyists.

1:03.6

And so, you know, it's going to take us a while

1:05.6

to figure out exactly what other little time

1:07.8

bombs they've built into this thing.

1:11.0

But there's a lot of it.

1:14.0

By the way, breaking news, an Amtrak derailed between Washington State and Portland, Oregon.

1:20.0

This is not a good thing.

1:22.0

And another example of the this is not a good thing.

1:22.6

And another example of the kind of crisis

1:25.9

that we have here in the United States

1:28.2

is a result of our infrastructure problems. It's insane. So, we are behind the rest of the developed world in having functional infrastructure.

1:38.0

It's insane.

1:39.0

So anyhow, the biggest winner in the Trump bill in the GOP tax scam is a commercial real estate

1:46.2

developers, you know, like the guy in the White House, just like, you know, the biggest winner

1:50.6

back in 2002 for invading Iraq and Afghanistan was the oil

1:54.8

industry right? What a surprise. You had an oil CEO on the White House, you had an

1:59.6

oil CEO as Vice President. Today we've got a commercial real estate CEO in the White House. And guess what? Pass through income. Money you make on real estate suddenly is going to be taxed to 29% rather than 39%.

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