Sec. Buttigieg: Most Americans think it is nuts that we’re being told we can’t have nice things, like rural hospitals, and good roads, and fully funded public schools. At the same time, you’ve got billionaires paying a lower tax rate than the nurses in those hospitals, and the workers... who work on those roads, and the teachers who work in those schools.show more

“You worked for a company that was fixing bread prices.” 🙄

Guy from McKinsey whose work consisted of coming up with things like fixing bread prices and ending Covid mitigations to boost Biden’s reelection chances

It saddens me that people disagree with the message because of the messenger. I don’t understand how any average person can disagree with the premise of his arguement.

@olguin_don53184 You could tax billionaires 100% take all their money and not even make a dent in our debt let alone solve any of these issues

Top 10% have $120 trillion net worth, or 68%. We could tax them 1% of that per year* to generate $1 trillion for healthcare, education and child care, and they'd still get richer. *On their net worth or income with very high marginal rates and elimination of tax expenditures.

Butthead, and most of the left, believe they can just "order" something and make it so. They believe they can place a hospital in the middle of nowhere and MAKE the doctors and nurses go work there. Think about that. Now go look up the definition of "authoritarianism."

All true and said over and over by Biden and Harris and Democrats in 2024 - and yet 77 million idiots voted for the convicted felon we have now, the f-er with a 33% approval rating that the same idiots now believe sucks at being president.

The democrats took out the funding for rural hospital from one of the bills. I just feel constantly lied to.

Actually Metrosexual LOSR Pete Buttigieg, American are tired of being told "highways are racist" and "global warming is real."

You might want to look at rural hospital bankruptcies after the passage of Obama’s misnamed “affordable care act “.

We can't have "nice things" like healthcare and good infrastructure and affordable groceries and renewable energy because the Epstein class maintains the neoliberal hyper-capitalism order intact.

Wasn't this guy the secretary of transportation when the federal government crushed the railroad union strike and forced them back to work?

@tyillc We can have nice things but billions of it is going to fraud like fake hospice homes all over CA, fake daycare centers all over Minn ..

Butt plug took a vacation the minute pedophile Biden appointed him as secretary of transportation. He can shut the fuck up. 🤡

Biden passed over qualified candidates from large cities to give South Bend Mayor Buttigieg a job he couldn't handle.

@conniewhitehome You just have to admire Pete Buttigieg and his ability to sum up the stupidity of Donald Trump’s policies in a few short words.

@PeteButtigieg would know nuts when he sees ‘em, right?

Just another socialist in a suit. The federal and state governments need to get their own house in order before we give them one more red cent. The amount of waste, fraud and abuse that is going on, if stopped, should fund us for the next 100 years.

Is Secretary a lifetime title now? This stooge's welcome had worn very thin. We all know what we want, what we need is someone who can deliver it. This guy is not it.

Another Socialist Democrat trying to convince you that he can spend YOUR money better than you can. He is also lying that billionaires pay a lower tax rate. It was a lie when Warren Buffe said it. It is still a lie. The top 10% of taxpayers pay 72% of the total income taxes no maatter what the rate is.

Nurses are more likely in a 24% tax bracket with write offs for uniforms, continuing education, licensing, malpractice insurance. Billionaires are in a 37% tax bracket. Suck a big one.

It’s not anywhere near true. Few billionaires file income tax like we do , this is corporate business filing. If you don’t like the code then change it , stop adding taxes.

I thought Biden's infrastructure bill was supposed to do that...oh wait they only managed to install 8 EV chargers in four yrs? Where'd all that money go?

People have no idea how stacked the tax code is in favor of the rich. We need a top-to-bottom redo.

You should start with Gov. Pritzger who took all the toilets out of his second home so that it would be declared uninhabitable and he would not have to pay taxes on it.

Democrats private equity destroys Pennsylvania hospitals #phillies

I am so OFF train Buttigieg. He’s Now everything I hate about democrats

What a weak little creep he is! How about telling Americans why not One Democrat got behind DOGE exposing the exorbitant Waste Fraud and Abuse of the taxpayers stolen income. Don’t tell me what “Americans think”. Buttigieg is clueless,simply stumping for another presidential run.

Public education has failed. Throwing more money at it won't fix what's wrong. Nobody's telling anyone they can't have nice things. Pothole Pete is still a clown show.

Nobody is claiming that. Here is what we are claiming:

Last I looked we have a graduate income tax. The more you make the higher percentage you pay not to mention the Medicare Parts B & D kick in the mouth if you saved and invested.

The guy who got nothing done as transportation sec

Monkeypox spreader says waaaaat

We can’t have nice things because of republicans. Have you ever been to the inner city of a blue state?

Why did no democrat complain about Biden vacationing in his billionaire pals homes or the billionaires who helped get him elected? Why do only 53% of all earners have any federal tax liability? Why do millions receive many x more from the IRS than they paid in taxes?