If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a massive economic dislocation.
Whitehouse argues for higher taxes on the wealthy to address economic inequality.
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I would say I was an early believer in Josh’s race. I served in the Senate with Tom Harkin. I know what Iowa can deliver because I saw Tom Harkin in action.
The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
We need to get rid of dark money in our politics because it’s rotting our politics.
Those are the things we can do if you send Josh Turek to the Senate.
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