Cenk Uygur
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Hannity: Tax Cuts Will Create Helicopter Building Jobs
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September 18, 2017
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5:27Now PlayingSean Hannity keeps pushing the myth that tax cuts will create more jobs because rich people will buy helicopters. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Jimmy Dore the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Sean Hannity took up the honorable task of advocating for tax cuts for the wealthy on his radio show Thursday afternoon, explaining that what the American economy really needs is the rich to buy more boats — even claiming that the Reagan tax cuts allowed Geraldo Rivera to buy a helicopter.
In audio flagged by MediaMatters, Hannity reacts to President Donald Trump’s statements on Wednesday that his tax reform plan would keep rates for the wealthy “pretty much where they are,” but left open the possibility that they might go “a little higher.”
That did not satisfy Hannity, who called for Trump to honor his campaign promise of tax cuts across the board, because, as he somehow explained, the “plan to get the forgotten men and women to work here is basically contingent on a growing, thriving economy.”
Hannity continued by lauding former President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts for the wealthy in the 1980s, which he claimed led rich people to buy more boats — and even noted they allowed his Fox News colleague Geraldo Rivera to purchase a cool helicopter:
“It’s simple economics, because those multinationals, those corporations, quote ‘rich people’ what they’re going to do is they’re going to end up spending money and buying boats, as Geraldo said yesterday he bought a helicopter after the Reagan tax cuts but that keeps people working.”
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore
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