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Buttigieg: ‘We’re Not Asking for High Taxes’ — We’re Asking Corporations and Wealthy ‘Pay Their Fair Share’
Breitbart ^ | 04/01/2021 | Trent Baker

Posted on 04/01/2021 9:08:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

In a Thursday interview on MSNBC’s “Stephanie Ruhle Reports,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg discussed President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan.

Host Stephanie Ruhle asked Buttigieg if he is “prepared” for Republicans to run against the tax hike being necessary to pay for the massive plan.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; corporations; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; indiana; msnbc; petebuttigieg; stephanieruhle; taxes; taxhike; trentbaker; wealthy
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This moron can never explain what "fair share" means.
1 posted on 04/01/2021 9:08:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m with him. They’re both woke while winking at each other.


2 posted on 04/01/2021 9:10:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
We need an immediate Gender Dysphoria Tax on delusional perverts.

3 posted on 04/01/2021 9:11:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most other countries don’t see a 28% corporate tax rate as being fair.


4 posted on 04/01/2021 9:11:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The top 1% usually pay 50% of taxes.

Is that “fair”?

Eff all of them.


5 posted on 04/01/2021 9:11:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The same mantra the Dems always use. What it really means is “give us all your money”.


6 posted on 04/01/2021 9:12:24 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ALL corporate taxes are eventually paid by the consumer.

ALL.

Any cost of doing business is paid for by the profit of sales. If you are selling anything and are not accounting for taxes then you are going to fail at doing business.

Pete probably doesn’t know or understand that, and if he does he is then just another lying politician.


7 posted on 04/01/2021 9:13:29 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well the opposition should argue against tax hikes and actually make the opposite argument - that workers are paying too much and their rates should be phased down to zero. It is immoral to tax a person’s labor which is used to provide “infrastructure” such as roofs, doors, electricity, food, medicine and clothes for themselves and their families.

But moreover, they should argue about the corruption and waste and inefficiencies that all this spending will result in. Even most people on the left understand that a huge percentage of this money will just end up being “stolen”. Get out of this “2 sides” logical trap. There are always more than just 2 sides when it comes to politics and money.


8 posted on 04/01/2021 9:13:37 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This idiot actually thinks he has original thoughts and comes up with brilliant new strategies. But like all liberals he’s an idiot.


9 posted on 04/01/2021 9:14:23 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I honestly think either myself or wife are going to just quit working! It isn’t worth it anymore! We’re being taxed into oblivion!


10 posted on 04/01/2021 9:14:29 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I have about 3 billion heartbeats in a lifetime. In Buttigieg's definition of "fair" how many of those belong to the government? Money is merely a means of transaction. What he wants is a portion of my life serving the government.
11 posted on 04/01/2021 9:14:38 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Translation: We are asking for higher taxes on the wealthy and all of you are wealthy


12 posted on 04/01/2021 9:14:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gag.
The “wealthy’ already pay a higher percentage of taxes income than the rest of us.
Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them. From us.


13 posted on 04/01/2021 9:15:29 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We have an Alternative Minimum Tax - how about an Alternative Maximum Tax? The maximum amount that the government is able to tax income.

I find that the VAST majority of those that say that the rich don’t pay their fair share, have no idea of the actual tax rate the rich pay. Often when pushed for a maximum rate, the response is a number that is lower than the current maximum tax rate.


14 posted on 04/01/2021 9:15:41 AM PDT by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

GFY you degenerate.


15 posted on 04/01/2021 9:16:43 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No democrat since the 90’s has ever defined ‘fair share’!!!


16 posted on 04/01/2021 9:16:44 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Artcore

Sell weed for cash. Good money...


17 posted on 04/01/2021 9:16:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Their fair share the same words a mugger uses.


18 posted on 04/01/2021 9:17:05 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: beethovenfan

There are weasel worded, duplicitous scumbags, and then there are Democrat politicians.


19 posted on 04/01/2021 9:17:19 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

‘Tax the rich corporations’ always plays well with the uninformed. Anyone who has ever run a business knows that they will simply raise their prices to cover the additional expense. The poor and middle class consumers pay all taxes.


20 posted on 04/01/2021 9:19:57 AM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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