Taking Down The Elites At Davos And Fox News
After causing a stir at Davos for demanding the world’s richest people pay more taxes, Rutger Bregman, journalist and author of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Little, Brown and Company 2017), was invited on Fox News to bash the liberal elite. Instead he came for Fox host Tucker Carlson, suggesting that he too was a pawn of the billionaire class. He explains why, when it comes to addressing global income inequality, the terms "liberal" and "conservative" don’t have much value.
"Since the early 90s, the vast majority of Americans have been in favor of higher taxes for the rich… these are mainstream ideas and positions, but if you watch Fox News it seems like it’s a crazy, lunatic idea," says @rcbregman. pic.twitter.com/vYSFtqTdw5
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 12, 2019
"Donald Trump, who doesn’t want to show his own tax returns, and who knows how many billions he has hidden away in the Cayman Islands… he was brought into power by this propaganda channel, Fox News," says @rcbregman.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 12, 2019
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"It’s a very American idea…. If you want to make capitalism work, you got to ensure competition. If companies become too big, like it’s clearly the case with Amazon right now, you break them up, that’s what you do if you have a proper capitalist economy," says @rcbregman.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 12, 2019
