Pete Buttigieg on Middle Class Taxation (April 12)

[crazytown]

CNBC April 12, 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/12/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-on-taxing-the-rich-future-of-us-capitalism.html

John Harwood: Can you do everything that you think needs to be done while hitting only the wealthy? Or is there no rational plan for dealing with our fiscal challenges, as well as our economic challenges, that doesn’t also hit the middle class?

Pete Buttigieg: If we’re going to collect revenue from the middle class, then we have to be certain that it is going to be reinvested and returned to the middle class in a way that makes us and the middle class better off. So as a middle class taxpayer, I don’t mind paying a certain amount in if it’s going to come back to me in the form of health care, if it’s going to come back to me in the form of education for my kids, if it’s going to come back to me in the form of a better road to get me to my job.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. What he says makes sense to me. I hope more people willl read it. n/t

[crazytown]

2. The rest of the article is excellent -

Some of the serious thinking out there about the relationship between capitalism and inequality.

[blm]

3. Great interview. He was pretty aligned with Warren then.