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Pete Buttigieg: “Those tax cuts for the wealthy...would speed up the economy?…”

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

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Pete Rallies with Michigan Dems, Live from Detroit, MI

Published | Video Starts at 12:12

We pay attention above all to results. So today we woke up to news that the US Economy is losing jobs. Remember when they promised that Those tax cuts for the wealthy...would speed up the economy? The opposite happened. Remember when they told us we had to pay those tariffs that cost us 1000 bucks a household because it would bring back manufacturing? The opposite is happening. (12:12–12:18)

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Asserts that tax cuts for the wealthy did not accelerate economic growth.

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