@greglandsmanoh: The super-wealthy borrow against their assets and live off their wealth to avoid paying income taxes.   Meanwhile, our country is $40T in debt. We need to fix the tax code so the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share.

RobbieP :

Everyone needs to just pay their fair share. No one is asking billionaires to pay more. We just want to fix the tax loopholes.

Vega12550 :

Everyone gains when working people can live

Robbeegoodfellow :

user8311465347846 :

It’s legal cause they mined it into the tax code via politicians

LynnHTX :

They will cut ALL social security from everyone and future generations

Mike Godwin :

🎯!

winstonforcongress.com :

https://www.winstonforcongress.com/call-time-history Ira Glass This is voicemail that Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democratic congresswoman from Washington DC, left for a lobbyist in the fall of 2010. We don't know who the lobbyist is, but from the voicemail we can infer that he represents a contractor who's working on the new Homeland Security complex being built in Washington DC-- a complex that Eleanor their Holmes Norton, at the time, had a lot of power over. Eleanor Holmes Norton I'm handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security compound of three buildings being built on the old St. Elizabeth hospital site-- Ira Glass After pointing out that she is in charge of the project that he cares about, she gets to the point. Eleanor Holmes Norton I was, frankly, surprised to see that we don't have a record-- so far as I can tell-- of your having given to me, despite my long and deep work, essentially in your sector. I'm simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. I'm asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. Ira Glass This tape first surfaced on the Andrew Breitbart site, Big Government. The source was the lobbyist, and redacted his own name from the beginning of the tape. Eleanor Holmes Norton verified that it was real. She declined to talk to us for this program. This voicemail of a US congresswoman sounding a lot like a telemarketer is a peek behind a curtain that usually we don't get a chance to peek behind. It's a part of our political process that we all know exists-- the money gathering part-- but we usually don't get a chance to witness. Politicians usually don't like reporters and film crews present when they ask for cash. Most of them never want to talk about it with a reporter. But it is daily life for pretty much every member of Congress, their staffs, lobbyists. Phone I calls like this are happening all day, every day. There are phone banks, literally phone banks, in offices in Washington DC, where congresspeople are making calls like this one, leaving messages just like this one.

Sleven Tenketty :

"We need to cut $300 million from social programs so we can increase our military budget by $1.5 trillion."