Julian Castro on Paying for Single Payer: Wealthy and Corporations Need to ‘Pay Their Fair Share’
‘We have corporations - multinational corporations - that are hardly paying anything in federal taxes’
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BRENNAN: "So what is that going to cost taxpayers? You got to make some real changes there to be able to pay for it."
CASTRO: "No, you do. There’s no question that it’s going to take several things. I think it’s going to take asking wealthier individuals to pay their fair share — "
BRENNAN: "What does that mean?"
CASTRO: " — we’ve had basically the — the last 40 years, essentially, of lower and lower commitment on people at the very top. Same thing goes for corporations. We have corporations — multinational corporations — that are hardly paying anything in federal taxes."
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