VOTERS DEMAND CONGRESS RAISE TAXES ON BIG CORPORATIONS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Trump tax breaks in 2017, resulted in over $1 billion going to large profitable businesses. Big corporations are pushing for tax breaks, again, into the new tax laws. Although some tax breaks go away in 2022 and 2023 corporations are now pressing for reversal, to keep their breaks. Executive Director of Americans for Tax Fairness, Frank Clemente joins Thom Hartmann to explain who pays for these tax breaks? Take a guess . . . it’s you.
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| 0:46.8 | Greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, believers, and peace, |
| 0:52.4 | freedom in the American way. Hey, welcome to the program. |
| 0:55.8 | We've got a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:57.6 | Our single guest for the day will be with us, Frank Clemente. He's the executive director of |
| 1:01.8 | Americans for Tax Fairness, and he wants to talk about Congress and how they want to raise taxes. |
| 1:08.3 | Oh, well, some voters anyway want Congress to raise taxes on big corporations, but |
| 1:13.9 | the politicians seem committed to cutting them. We'll talk about that. |
| 1:17.0 | There's a group that wants to expand and improve Medicare, not destroy it with backdoor privatization. |
| 1:22.2 | There's a deadline coming up on that. So an awful lot to talk about today. |
| 1:26.5 | But to start out, the executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness.org. |
| 1:31.7 | Frank Clemente. Frank, by the way, the Twitter handle is number four, Tax Fairness, |
| 1:38.4 | four, Tax Fairness on Twitter. Frank, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:42.1 | We have this year-end window for Congress to get things done before the Republicans take over |
| 1:48.6 | the House and weirdness sets in. And there are apparently a whole bunch of corporations |
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