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Pete Buttigieg: “The vast majority of the benefits of those tax cuts went to…”

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

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The trillion dollars of cuts, what is that specifically that's being cut? Oh, you mean on the tax side. Yeah, we'll start with obba, right, and then TCGA too. We know that The vast majority of the benefits of those tax cuts went to the wealthiest. We could say the same about the broader pattern of cutting taxes going back to I mean, I guess if you look back over the 50 years, I mean, why … (30:11–30:16)

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Asserts that the majority of benefits from certain tax cuts went to wealthy individuals.

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