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Friedberg predicts national wealth tax debate in 2028 will expand like income tax did from 1% initially.
“You think we are gonna find ourselves in that conversation in 2028 and we're gonna have a national wealth tax where eventually just like we started with a 1% income tax, eventually everyone will pay a significant percentage of their net worth every year to support government services.”
Vance says Michigan Senate candidate El Sayed argued that criticisms of Sharia law are rooted in white supremacy.
“El Sayed, this guy running for senate in Michigan, he once argued not too long ago that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy.”
Vance frames the November election as a choice between jobs and welfare checks.
“And we've got a choice in November. Do we want a party that provides good jobs or a party that provides a lot of welfare checks?”
Patel predicts two labs will control most of the world's usable compute by 2028.
“So by the time you're in like towards the end of twenty twenty eight, if this trend continues, which I see nothing that's stopping it, You you've got them just controlling most of the usable, you know, flops in the world on their own.”
Patel estimates $3-4 trillion total CapEx needed by 2028 across compute, data centers, and energy infrastructure.
“So to enable, let's say, that 100 gigawatts by 2030 or let's even like let's even like pare it down to 2028 where it's like 3 or $4,000,000,000,000 of CapEx across all of these items.”