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 criticizes the current tax system's fairness regarding the wealthy's tax contributions.
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Look, we should get the House Ethics report. We should get the Department of Justice files, there's precedent for getting the House Ethics report.
These cliffs, I think, are really hard for people that get caught by surprise by them, and they are also, it seems to me, pretty terrible just public policy.
They like to bully and threaten. But when push comes to shove, they'll have to come back.
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