Dennis Prager Show - How Do the Democrats Plan to Pay for This Infrastructure Package?
Aired: 2021-03-25
Duration: 04:20


=== Government's Role Debate (02:49) ===

[00:00:01]  Who initiated that?
[00:00:02]  Was it Franklin Roosevelt?
[00:00:04]  The idea that the government will take care of you.
[00:00:07]  I guess it came in with FDR. It certainly wasn't with Calvin Coolidge.
[00:00:12]  I don't think Hoover was one of those either.
[00:00:17]  He had a lot of issues.
[00:00:20]  It was more, of course.
[00:00:21]  Well, everybody was more than Coolidge.
[00:00:24]  The left hates Coolidge.
[00:00:26]  They have contempt for him.
[00:00:28]  They say he did nothing.
[00:00:30]  Which I consider one of the great achievements of a president is to do as little as possible.
[00:00:41]  I want government to do as little as possible, but not nothing.
[00:00:47]  Okay?
[00:00:48]  That's my dream.
[00:00:50]  That was the founders of this experiment's dream.
[00:00:53]  The experiment is now failing.
[00:00:57]  Trillions and trillions of dollars.
[00:00:59]  It doesn't mean anything to people.
[00:01:01]  You know why?
[00:01:01]  It has a very small digit in front of it.
[00:01:03]  One trillion, two trillion.
[00:01:06]  It's too bad it's not called a thousand billion.
[00:01:11]  Right?
[00:01:12]  I think it would make a bigger impact on people.
[00:01:15]  Trillion.
[00:01:16]  Eh, trillion.
[00:01:16]  Now they want a nearly four trillion dollar infrastructure thing?
[00:01:24]  Three trillion?
[00:01:26]  Let me ask you a question.
[00:01:28]  I'm asking this to my comrade here.
[00:01:32]  Yes, I've imbibed the left-wing ideology, and I call him comrade.
[00:01:38]  So, Comrade Living, I have a question.
[00:01:45]  I prefer Comrade Martyr, but it's okay.
[00:01:50]  No, though, it doesn't...
[00:01:53]  Comrade, his first name.
[00:01:55]  Yes, yes.
[00:01:56]  Well, let me think.
[00:01:57]  You might be right.
[00:01:58]  Was it Comrade Stalin or was it Comrade Joseph?
[00:02:01]  It was Comrade Stalin.
[00:02:02]  So, Comrade Martyr.
[00:02:03]  Yes, you're right.
[00:02:04]  Comrade Martyr.
[00:02:07]  It's got a ring to it.
[00:02:09]  Yeah, kind of does.
[00:02:12]  So, how...
[00:02:15]  I'm joking, literally.
[00:02:19]  How do they expect...
[00:02:22]  To pay these expenses back, this debt.
[00:02:27]  Oh, wait, I'm answering my own question, comrade.
[00:02:31]  They will tax the rich.

=== Why I Disdain Big Business (01:44) ===

[00:02:38]  If you were to ask Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, how are you going to pay these trillions of dollars of debt?
[00:02:48]  They would say, we'll tax the rich, correct?
[00:02:50]  Corporations.
[00:02:51]  Of course, you realize that the corporate tax rate was high, and Donald Trump lowered it, and that was a major reason for the spectacular boom in the American economy, because companies were not doing business in the U.S. They went offshore.
[00:03:09]  Because every country in the world, except, I think, Japan, Every industrialized country had lower tax rates.
[00:03:16]  Sweden, Denmark, all your wonderful socialist paradises.
[00:03:20]  They all had much lower tax rates on corporations than the United States did.
[00:03:27]  So, listen, I can't stand big business.
[00:03:31]  I would call the heads of most big businesses prostitutes, and I'm not being cute.
[00:03:37]  I think more highly of prostitutes.
[00:03:41]  I swear to God, I am telling you the truth.
[00:03:43]  I am not kidding.
[00:03:44]  It is not a cute point.
[00:03:46]  I think more highly of prostitutes than most CEOs and presidents of big companies.
[00:03:55]  Certainly more than the folks at the tech companies.
[00:03:58]  More than at Coca-Cola.
[00:04:00]  More than at Nike.
[00:04:01]  Who does more damage, prostitutes or Nike?
[00:04:05]  I mean, there's no comparison.
[00:04:10]  But so my desire to have low corporate rate is not because I have any regard for corporations.
[00:04:16]  I have regard for America.
[00:04:18]  I want their money in the United States.