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Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

With Liberty and Justice for Some – Episode 2 Fixing the Tax Code with Erica Payne

Published February 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 42:19

But you know, money in politics, you kind of, you know, referenced it when you talked about the Koch brothers and what they did after the lax tax cut this time. We watched Elon Musk spend a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump. If he's spending 250 million plus dollars to elect Donald Trump, how much of a tax break is this guy going to get? (42:19–42:26)

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Asserts that Elon Musk spent $250 million to support Donald Trump's election.

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“The most important thing is that all of this is about the holy grail for the Republicans. That's their tax cut bill for the wealthiest.”
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“Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and of course, Donald Trump and most of the people who belong to Mar a Lago will get a tax cut.”
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“The biggest battle of the year and maybe of the Trump presidency will be a reconciliation bill that has a huge tax break for the wealthiest…”
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“Something like 80% plus of the money in the tax break bill went to the top 1%.”
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“That tax bill racked up trillions of dollars in debt that many of us are going to be repaying for a while.”
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“We're hearing there could be a giant corporate tax cut in the works as well.”
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“Donald Trump said in many ways, whether it be the people he's appointed or that crowd where he stands, you know, many in that MAGA crowd…”
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“It's tax break is also a tax expenditure.”
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“You certainly are taking money away from programs that I think the average person benefits far more from.”
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“Some people think, well, maybe someday I'll be wealthy. And of course we know that rate's going to be much smaller than people who believe…”
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“The rate [corporate tax] was 35% prior to the Trump presidency. He lowered it to 21%.”
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“Donald Trump just, I think in the last few weeks, it's proposed that one of his rallies that we shift more IRS workers to work at the border…”
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