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First of all, I just have to commend Senator
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for even speaking in this way.

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But the solutions there are very
redistributionist.

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His answer is let's raise taxes on the rich,
take

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that money and give things to working class
people.

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That's not what working class people want.

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What they actually want is something Senator
Sanders talked about

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in 2015 when he was asked by Ezra Klein, um,

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shouldn't you support open borders if you care
so much

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about the poor?

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What about the global poor?

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To which Senator Sanders said, open borders.

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Hold on now.

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You asked about Bernie Sanders and his stance
on making

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sure that the mega ultra wealthy pay their own
fair

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share of taxes, because we got a lot of rich

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people down here in Texas, like Elon Musk, the
richest

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man in the world, Tim Dunferris Wolks, a whole
bunch

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of people who own big massive oil companies
down here,

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also with a lot of fracking and things like
that.

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I mean, we have a lot of really wealthy,
wealthy

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people down here in Texas, and they do not pay

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their own fair share of taxes.

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All the meanwhile, we have public schools that
are closing

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down here because our public education system
is so desperately

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underfunded.

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Same thing with our health care system down
here.

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Bernie Sanders just says, hey, make the
wealthy people pay

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the same percentage of taxes, at least as we
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common people do.

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Because you know, we the common people, we're
it's an

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arm and a leg to pay for our property taxes

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down here in Texas.

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And Elon doesn't have to worry about that.

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Man, like an Elon in his uh Tesla Giga factory

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in Travis County, he's received s substantial
tax breaks uh

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for that as as a business.

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And you know, Elon Musk, he hasn't even spent
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single dollar, not a single dollar in federal
income tax

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in 2018.

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Just we just want people to pay their own fair

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share of taxes.

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Or at least, if not that, maybe just at least

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increase the minimum wage.

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Would you be on on board with that?

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And honestly, you just can't get there with
the minimum

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wage bill.

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Of course, I support people making minimum
wage, making much

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more than they're making, but I think what
Trump was

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offeringing., because he was provid an
alternative to the redistribution

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model

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This is the same tune I hear over and over

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again.

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Look, us in the working class, there are
multiple different

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things that can be done, and everything that
can be

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done should be done.

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Increase the minimum wage, make the mega ultra
rich pay

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their own fair share of taxes.

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But what you're doing is you're ignoring both
of those

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things and just going directly to the border
and referencing

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the border alone.

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This is such a common right-wing talking
point.

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But no, that is not what the working class
thinks.

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That's not the way our brains operate.

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We know that the minimum wage has not been
increased

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since the year 2009.

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Not 2019.

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No, since 2009, the minimum wage has not been
increased.

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And inflation's killing all of us here.

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No one in the working class is sitting here
thinking,

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oh, you know, the wealth distribution system,
or in other

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words, making rich people pay their taxes.

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No, no one's sitting here and having sympat uh
sympathy

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for these billionaires.

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No one.