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James Talarico: “Higher taxes on billionaires may mean you're not going to be…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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James Talarico's Beautiful Answer to Christian Nationalism | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 40:26

You talk a lot about how they're the source of the problem. What should we do about them? Should billionaires exist? He's the question that goes around Twitter. Higher taxes on billionaires may mean you're not going to be a billionaire anymore. But I think a more just economy where we grow together, kind of like the economy we had in the middle of the 20th century, I think is actually good for all of us. (40:26–40:37)

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Asserts that higher taxes on billionaires could result in them no longer being billionaires.

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