Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg recently spoke to podcaster named Steve Bartlett and spent part of the time talking about new ways to tax people after lamenting that people keep finding ways to hide their wealth from the government.
This really is a window into the mind of a Democrat politician. This is the way they think. They fantasize about what they could do with your money.
The government already takes in trillions of dollars and a huge portion of it is stolen through fraud. Instead of trying to figure out how to spend that money more responsibly, they just think about ways to get more of it.
Quotes via Kanekoa the Great:
“If we had a more reasonable rate of taxation on capital gains and corporate income, and made it harder to pass along inherited wealth…”
“We’d be out of this doom loop we’re in saying… We can’t possibly do something like fast trains here in the United States. Of course we can. This is the wealthiest economy in the world.”
“If we aren’t collecting a fair level of taxes, then of course we’re going to come up short when we’re trying to fund those things.”
Hellbound and Down 