Joe Rogan ridiculed high taxes on the rich, said divvying up wealth "makes lazy people happy" (2019)

[highplainsdem]

Listen to this podcast and tell me if you honestly believe that Rogan is sincere in backing Sanders, when Sanders and AOC are so much in agreement on taxing the rich:

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Ediiting to add that Rogan endorsed Ron Paul in 2012 and Gary Johnson in 2016.

Ron Paul's tax plan:

https://money.cnn.com/2012/02/17/news/economy/election_tax_plans/index.htm

Ron Paul: The Texas congressman, who has attracted an enthusiastic following of young people and libertarians, wants to repeal the 16th amendment to the Constitution, which established the government's right to tax income.

"As president, Ron Paul will support a Liberty Amendment to the Constitution to abolish the income and death taxes," his website says. "And he will be proud to be the one who finally turns off the lights at the IRS for good."

He would immediately repeal capital gains taxes, which the candidate says "punish you for success" and "interfere with your efforts to hedge against inflation by purchasing gold and silver coins."

He would repeal the 1993 Social Security tax increase, and work in the long run to exempt Social Security benefits from taxation. Paul would drop the corporate tax rate to 15%.

Gary Johnson's tax plan:

https://ballotpedia.org/Gary_Johnson_presidential_campaign,_2016/Taxes

During an interview on June 6, 2016, Gary Johnson said that as president he would eliminate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other federal agencies if Congress sent him legislation to do so. Johnson said, "If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax, we would eliminate corporate tax, we would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax. If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.”[4]

I suppose some Sanders supporters might try to argue that Rogan could have "evolved" in his ideas about what sort of taxation he'd like to see.

But the remarks he made on that podcast less than a year ago show how unlikely that is.

So why is he now saying he's backing a socialist?

His endorsement suggestsed he likes consistency, but there's sure nothing consistent about his sudden switch from anti-tax politicians to backing a socialist.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. I never realized what a power-broker Joe Rogan was.

His every utterance seems to shake the earth.

At least, to read these threads, one would think so.

[Thekaspervote]

3. And in the REAL news.... Coronavirus, impeachment hearings, criminals in the WH

[redqueen]

5. LOL

Right? So silly...

[Cha]

16. Yeah, it was a "silly" take on the OP.

[Bradical79]

12. He's a moron but...

He also gets around 190,000,000 downloads a month. It's tough to ignore the size of his audience.

[Cha]

15. That's what you take from the OP?

[Thekaspervote]

2. What doesn't this man say??!! I guess he sticks his finger in the air on any given day to see who

His audience is.. then out it comes!!

[unblock]

4. fed up with the idiotic notion that poor lazy and rich hard-working.

laziness is a luxury the poor cannot afford much of, but money lets you buy a lot of laziness.

they used to call the rich the "leisure class" precisely for that reason.


get enough money and you never have to work ever again, and you can pay others to do basic chores for you.

[TwilightZone]

6. He's fooling a lot of people, and it's making them look ridiculous.

The number of people defending this guy on DU is pretty amazing. And quite enlightening.

[highplainsdem]

14. +1,000,000

[DanTex]

7. That does it! I'm not voting for Joe Rogan!

[Cha]

17. No one asked you to.

[highplainsdem]

21. And Rogan probably isn't voting for Sanders, unless he's suddenly decided he wants

to be taxed at a really high rate.

I expect Rogan to announce he's changed his mind about Sanders if Sanders gets the endorsement.

And if Sanders doesn't get the nomination, I expect Rogan to spend a lot of time telling Sanders supporters they were robbed and they shouldn't back the Democratic nominee.

I could be wrong, but we'll see.

I don't think there's any way Rogan is really backing a socialist just because that socialist has been consistent.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. So is Joe's past pronouncements squaring with his endorsement of Sanders?

Sure is a head-scratcher. I kind of thought Trump would be Rogan's kind of guy. They sure seem like they are cut from the same cloth.

[highplainsdem]

9. Any Democratic candidate would raise Rogan's taxes if Dems won. If Rogan really doesn't want

his taxes raised, he might be tempted to push Sanders as a way of stopping Biden.

Rogan can always announce later that he's changed his mind about Sanders, if Sanders does get the nomination.

Or maybe there's some remote possibility that his endorsement of Sanders is sincere.

But it's clear from this podcast that his views on income equality and what the rich should pay could NOT be farther from Sanders' views.

[R B Garr]

10. Jeez, not even 18 seconds in and all that was said is hideable by juries here.

I bet it wouldn't last long here at all. Ridiculing AOC is "independent" now??

Looks like some folks are getting punked. How embarrassing.

[showblue22]

11. They want Trump to run against Sanders

He's trying to get RW nuts to vote for Bernie in the DEM primary, In my opinion

[Quixote1818]

13. Here he is taking on a number of Republicans

[Cha]

18. Your distraction from the OP Is Not working.

[Quixote1818]

24. It works for some who don't hate Sanders

With a passion.

[Cha]

25. this is the Primary.. we don't all have to like BS..

[Quixote1818]

29. That's fine as long as you vote for him if he gets the nom. nt

[Cha]

30. IF

[TheFarseer]

19. It's something I don't agree with him on

But I can disagree with someone on a particular subject and not hate them with a white hot passion.

[oasis]

20. "Somebody" better put distance between Rogan and their campaign.

Pretty damn quick.

[dbolski]

22. Who knows if either statement was true

Only Joe Rogan really knows because he doesn't like to disagree with guests on his show. His opinions on things change from one show to the next.

[gopiscrap]

32. welcome to DU

[RhodeIslandOne]

23. Rogan is like a lot of "regular Joes" on politics....

....fairly fickle and loaded with "hot takes".

....except for one BIG difference. He's fucking rich.

[evertonfc]

26. Jesus Christ

at the Rogan hysteria on here. Hobbies anyone? Joe isn't political- like most people. Who gives a shit. I've listened to him for a decade and he would probably support Sanders for his marijuana stance alone. What world do you live in. Joe is huge and thanks to those who are offended at every quote over a person's life- you just added another million listeners.

[highplainsdem]

27. I've edited the OP to include info on the tax policies of the candidates Rogan backed in 2012 and

2016.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

28. I've heard the same sentiment here regarding the 70% tax bracket and free college!

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. What a POS he is.

[MH1]

33. Ugh. Never knew the guy before but he sounds like a real douche.

Not sure why BS or anyone else would be advertising his endorsement.