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Jay Furman: “We minted 50% more billionaires during COVID than we had…”

Featuring: Jay Furman, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 28

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Jay Furman's Campaign for Texas Congressional District 28: Border Security and Political Reform

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:18

So what actually happened in Covid, and here's a Covid was, was what we've been talking about on steroids and accelerated. And so in that two years period, it was the biggest wealth transfer that ever happened in this country. We minted 50% more billionaires during COVID than we had before that. So it was basically shuttering all the small business, using regulation in a very gross and egregious way to then support the guys paying the lobbyists. And that's the big businesses. (1:01:18–1:01:26)

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Asserts that the number of billionaires in the U.S. increased by 50% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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