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Pete Buttigieg: “They were getting squeezed by tariffs, all while giant tax…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 13:52

In New Hampshire, for example, you had to be in the top 15% of income just to reasonably afford to buy a house. People were choosing between health care premiums and mortgage payments. They were getting squeezed by tariffs, all while giant tax breaks went to the richest people in the land. But we changed it because we elected leaders who insisted that it was the wealthiest who should pay their fair share and workers and ordinary families getting a break, not the other way around. (13:52–13:58)

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Asserts that tariffs were burdensome while the richest received significant tax breaks.

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