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Pete Buttigieg: “A guy like [Elon Musk] and a lot of other people like that…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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It's the Elon shakedown. It's an amendment. I mean, I said this one way. We've sacrificed one a year, like in. That old story, Hunger Games. But I'll tell you what, A guy like [Elon Musk] and a lot of other people like that are paying a lower percentage of their true income in taxes than a firefighter or a teacher. or their secretary or. Yeah. Or. Yeah. Or their own employees, which is insane. So if you had a fairer taxation system that asked more of the wealthiest and if you did a better job of collecting what people actually owe. (43:09–43:19)

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