Last week the mother of all interviews happened when Donald Trump, arguably the most famous man on the planet, appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the top-ranked podcast on the planet.
In their three-hour interview, Rogan and Trump broached a number of issues, but one that’s getting a ton of media attention is Trump’s reiterated claims that he will potentially end income taxes by substituting tariffs.
Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere discuss the possibility of such a drastic change to America’s tax infrastructure.
As for repealing the 16th Amendment, Stu says, “I am a huge fan.”
Glenn shares Stu’s enthusiasm and thinks that “it’s the right time” to do it.
“[Trump] is talking about tariffs in a different way. … You build your cars outside of the United States? Okay, we’re going to put a tariff on it to keep cars that are made here in the United States cheaper,” says Glenn, adding that this is the first time he’s ever “started to agree with tariffs.”
“We must rebuild our infrastructure. We have to have manufacturing here in America,” he says, pointing to the fact that America “made the planes and the tanks and the Jeeps … that brought the whole world into Germany” during WWII.
“Tariffs have a chance of saying, ‘Look, you want to sell your stuff? Fine, make it in America. … We’ll give you incentives to bring your company, your manufacturing here so we have these plants, we are producing our own steel, we’re doing these things.’ Meanwhile, we’re also going to drill, baby, drill,” which will “bring our energy costs down,” Glenn explains.
While Stu doesn’t love the idea of tariffs, he does love what they would do to the magnitude of our current federal government.
“The size of the government that would be required for a government to be funded by tariffs is the size of a government I like,” he says, adding that “it’s a lot smaller than the one we have.”
“Yes!” Glenn agrees. “We were all about that up until the 16th Amendment.”
However, the question still remains: Will Trump actually do it?
Even though almost all politicians promise tax cuts leading up to an election, Glenn thinks Trump “is actually going to do a lot of these things” he’s talked about during his campaign, as long as “he has the Senate and the House.”
But he also has to “turn it around quickly.”
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.
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