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A 24-year-old brat tells Caleb Hammer the rich should be taxed “to the max.” He asks her what that means. And when she answers, he can’t believe this person votes. HAMMER: “You’ve never lived in the real world.” GRACE: “I haven’t. I can admit that. But like, what if there was a world that we lived in and everybody had money and everybody was able to live comfortably?” HAMMER: “That’s not the world we live in.” GRACE: “Reality sucks. Capitalism is bad. I don’t like it.” HAMMER: “Yeah, really easy for someone to say that grew up in a really nice house in one of the best school districts in Texas.” “Who has the rent f*cking paid for. That is able to go to Europe on a whim with their sister.” “You never got to actually see what happens when you put in the work and get benefits and actually have a little bit of responsibility and actually f*cking build something or do anything.” GRACE: “But the people who you should be going after are the people in the top something percent that like hoard all the world’s wealth. Like go after those people. Those people need to be taxed to the f*cking max.” HAMMER: “What does that even look like to you? You probably don’t even know what that looks like. What does that look like? How do you tax someone to the max?” GRACE: “I’m not sure.” HAMMER: “Oh! Interesting. This person’s voting.” GRACE: “Yes, I am. And I already know who I’m voting for.” HAMMER: “And you literally can’t describe a tax.” What’s scary is her vote counts the same as yours. CONTEXT: The top 1% of earners already pay 38.4% of all federal income taxes, according to the latest IRS data (tax year 2023). That’s $823,000,000,000. The bottom half of taxpayers pay just 3.3%.