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> "You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal.

Might make sense to tax the people doing the work less and the people owning stuff more. Should be a homerun policy in any democracy.

Which is why we have a progressive tax schedule. It didn’t work, or you wouldn’t be here complaining.

Surely he's saying the capital gains tax rate should be higher than the W-2 tax rate. That's definitely not the case in the US.