In a fitting topic for the income tax filing deadline, Tucker Carlson roasted a California politics professor on Tucker Carlson Tonight last evening for claiming wealthy Americans are not paying their “fair share” in income taxes.
Caroline Heldman, an assistant professor of politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, argued for radically hiking taxes on taxpayers in the top one percent of income, those earning $470,000 and higher.
She based her argument in part on the fact that wealthy individuals paid as much as 90 percent in taxes during the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy.
Find out how Carlson countered her argument and revealed her for the socialist ideologue she is on the next page.
JFK would be a Republican in today’s political world.
Goofy California professor that hates the ultra rich, but won’t give her money to the government. This is funny.
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Gary Kerkstra I agree. There’s a lot of talk on the left about Reagan not being “welcome” in today’s GOP. What is more accurate is that Kennedy, and Truman, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, even Daniel Patrick Moynihan, would not be welcome in today’s far left Democratic Party. In fact there are no moderates left in the Democratic Party. They’re all goose stepping robots in lockstep with their leaders. There are only a little over a dozen blue dog democrats left. All of them not exactly household names, with zero influence in the party. The numbers were cut in half since the in 2010 mid-terms.
Kennedy was pro-life; he became a pro-business, pro-tax cuts, supply-sided, thanks to his Republicans treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillion. He understood the critical importance of maintaining American preeminence in world affairs, which considering Obama s failed “leading from behind” feckless leadership, makes his being the recipient of the “Profiles in Courage” a joke.
None of the democrats I mentioned above would have supported illegal immigration, open borders, using federal funds for abortion here at home or overseas, all would be appalled at the diminished role the United States is playing in critical places like the Middle East. All of them were staunch anti-communists/anti-socialists; can anyone deny this is the clear direction today’s Democratic Party is trying to lead the country? All were advocates of the free market. The list goes on and on.
You are correct. The Democratic Party: no longer the party of Kennedy and Truman.
Occidental College…wasn’t that one of obama’s schools? AAAAANDDDD!!!! Why doesn’t she “teach FOR FREE” if we need to head in a socialist direction? Why should she be paid? Donating directly to ‘charity scams’ for tax write offs just emphasizes government is wasteful, ineffective and inefficient.
She’s mental
Typical liberal idiot
Tucker does that to a lot of people haha
I have often said that if progressives really believe in higher tax rates, then they should stop filing for exemptions and deductions so as to raise their own effective tax rate. But they always mean to tax other people more and to exempt themselves from the impact.
Any of these liberals can pay more if they think their tax rate isn’t high enough. When Tucker called her out on her hypocrisy, she got a bit defensive and then escalated to borderline hysteria. Hey lady, pay more if you want – but don’t demand others do the same.