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Billy Tauzin

Billy Tauzin

Lobbyist and former United States Representative

Oct 8, 2026

58:26
Tell us about the article you wrote because
58:27
I thought it was really good.
58:28
Well, basically, you know, first of all, Treasury doesn't exactly identify billionaires.
58:35
They identify you by whether you're in the top echelon of taxpayers.
58:41
And so they took the top 200,000, which includes all the millionaires, billionaires rather, and they had actually only a one-tenth of 1%.
58:53
of total taxpayer population.
58:56
And yet that small group at the very top pays 16% of all the taxes that are collected each year.

12 MINS LATER

70:36
How is it a revenue problem? Why don't they think they have a spending problem?

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