Gavin Newsom: “The nation needs to go back to higher tax for the wealthy.”

“And it's not something I've defended. It's something I've promoted and something I spent a great deal of time in my state of the state talking about. The nation needs to go back to higher tax for the wealthy. I believe in progressive tax policy, and I think we need a new tax bracket for the extraordinarily wealthy. Now, what that looks like, what's the exact threshold, how does it work?” (1:07:35–1:07:41)

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