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Greg Casar: “We need to tax the huge windfall profits the oil companies…”

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

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Congressman Greg Casar: What Democrats Must Do

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

We need for there to be a really significant new tax on millionaires and billionaires and corporations. We need big Pharma to make less money for you to have cheaper prescription drugs. We need to tax the huge windfall profits the oil companies are making right now off of this war and give the money back to you. So I think we need to double down on the pro worker part of the Joe Biden agenda and make sure that we don't just sort of fall into, let's … (00:45–00:53)

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Asserts the need to tax oil companies' windfall profits from the war and redistribute the money to the public.

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