Democrat businessman Gary Cohn, who served as former President Donald Trump’s Director of the National Economic Council, said during an interview over the weekend that consumers were “completely right” to be angry about the inflation that President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan has caused.
Cohn made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan while talking about Biden’s recent remarks about billionaires.
Responding to Biden’s claims that billionaires do not pay any taxes in the U.S., Cohn noted that the claim was grossly inaccurate and that any billionaire who has an income in the U.S. is paying at least 20 percent in taxes.
“We do a very good job in this country of taxing income. That’s what the Constitution talks about. The Constitution talks about taxing your income,” he said. “There is no income in this…
