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Pete Buttigieg: “We can't just slash a trillion bucks from what the…”

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Not just getting people insured, but the actual underlying cost. Same with pharmaceuticals. And then there are things you got to do on the revenue side, like, I'm sorry, but like, We can't just slash a trillion bucks from what the wealthiest people are paying again and again and then call this a sustainable budget. 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. (29:53–30:02)

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Asserts that repeated tax cuts for the wealthy are unsustainable for the budget.

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