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Tucker Carlson: belief

27 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #414 – Tucker Carlson: Putin, Navalny, Trump, CIA, NSA, War, Politics & Freedom

“The fact that we’ve a carried interest loophole in the tax code and people are claiming that their income is investment, income and they’re paying half the tax rate as someone who just goes to work every day, it discourages work. It encourages lending at interest, which I think is gross, personally.”

— Tucker Carlson

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Speaker
Tucker Carlson
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
27 Feb 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Well, I think he probably feels free enough to do it, but you’re saying he doesn’t do it. On the big things. Look, the big things, this is my estimation of it, others may disagree, the big things are the economy and war, okay? The big things government does can be, I mean, there are a lot of things government does, government does everything at this point, but where we kill people and how and for what purpose and how we organize the economic engine that keeps the country afloat, those are the two big questions. I hear almost no debate about either one of them in the media, and I have dissenting views on both of them. I mean, I’m mad about the tax code, which I think is unfair. The fact that we’ve a carried interest loophole in the tax code and people are claiming that their income is investment, income and they’re paying half the tax rate as someone who just goes to work every day, it discourages work. It encourages lending at interest, which I think is gross, personally. I’m against it. Sorry. The fact that we’re creating chaos around the world is the saddest thing that’s happening right now. Nobody feels free to say that. So that’s not good. How do you hope the war on Ukraine ends?…

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