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.
She handled the interview poorly, but the message being sent on these comments are totally false. Her simple answer to his response to …. why don’t you pay that much ?
I’m talking about the top 1% and I’m not in that tax bracket!
These shows are absurd and I can’t figure out why anyone watches them!!!
I’m 80 years old, and can attest to how few jobs were available under the heavy taxation of the Eisenhower and John Kennedy Administrations. Those high taxes were carried over from the 1930s under the Franklin D. Roosevelt years. WW-2 helped create jobs to end the “great” depression that began with the 1930 Stock Market crash. When the war ended, it also ended many jobs no longer needed to manufacture weapons, and at the same time flooded the jobs market with the thousands of Military personnel being discharged. The Korean Conflict required more civilian draftees and created a few jobs, but the excess carryover weapons from WW-2 limited the creation of new jobs.
John Kennedy was the first to get taxes lowered, and the economy began growing, and producing more jobs. The only jobs the government can creat is more government jobs, which requires more taxes. Poor people do not create very many jobs. Progressive tax codes tend to restrict job creation, but few liberals understand that. Lower taxes have always stimulated the economy, for it puts more money available in circulation that increases higher product demands, which creates more jobs. The higher the taxes, the less money available (except for the government), to buy products, resulting in lower job numbers. It’s not rocket science, that the more money people have, the more products are purchased, which generates more jobs. These liberal politicians want big government, high taxes, and socialism, that permits the government to spread the wealth, which kills jobs. The high taxes on the upper incomes and bureaucratic regulations only causes the job creators to move their job creation to Foriegn “low” tax and wage countries.
Trump is reversing that job killing BS bureaucracy under Obama!!!
Way to go Tucker
There is plenty of tax money, if it was not given to all the illegals, and sorry people who can but won’t work for a living. And let’s not forget all the crooked city , state , and federal politician putting money in their pockets.
And this stupid$#%&!@*is teaching our kids. God help us.
Practice what you preach! That sent her into orbit
She keeps throwing up the same words – “The wealthy should pay a fair tax”. A fair tax is a flat tax. Everyone should pay the same income tax rate. The wealthy will pay more in sales taxes because they will purchase more. The wealthy will also employ more people, thereby paying more income taxes as well. It’s not fair to tax someone at 80-90% as a punishment for achieving the American dream of success. Flat tax is the only fair tax.
She’s a frigging idiot
That’s fucking GREAT!! Yeah, I’m pulling down a half mil, but DON’t tax me more!!!! Screw all those with MORE money than me. 80 – 85% is what THOSE assholes should pay….well…then we’ll readjust that when I’m making that much. Same old$#%&!@* from the same old “progressives,” aka radical leftists. Hypocritical assholes…every God damned one!!
Can’t abide “Kenndy’s” butch and “know it all” presence….just another Meagan in tacky glasses!!