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Greg Casar: “Mark Zuckerberg should have to pay the same tax rate into…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Greg Casar Discusses Progressive Politics and Economic Issues on Raging Moderates Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 09:44

For me, we have to put everybody, black, white, or brown, getting a raise first and foremost, right? When I talk about Social Security expansion, that, you know, is a unifying issue where we say, look, Mark Zuckerberg should have to pay the same tax rate into Social Security as a school teacher does. And if he does, we can save Social Security for generations to come, expand it, pull every senior out of poverty. And certainly that resonates in black and brown neighborhoods and in white neighborhoods. (09:44–09:50)

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Asserts that Mark Zuckerberg currently does not pay the same tax rate into Social Security as a school teacher.

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