All that was missing was Joe railing against "gr-e-e-e-d."
With MSNBC on the Comcast chopping block, if things don't work out for Joe Scarborough, he might consider a new career as a comedic impressionist.
Close your eyes and listen to the video clip. If you didn't know better, you might have thought it was Bernie Sanders ranting about "millionaires and billionaires."
But no, that was Scarborough on today's Morning Joe. Self-styled "small-government conservative" Scarborough first condemned the Trump administration's plans to reduce the number of IRS agents!
Adopting the liberal lexicon, Scarborough complained that "working-class" people can't afford lawyers to take care of the problems with the IRS, unlike "millionaires and billionaires."
A bit later, Scarborough condemned proposed tax cuts for "billionaires and millionaires. This is not about protecting Medicare or Medicaid of Social Security. This is about protecting tax cuts for billionaires."
Sanders-Scarborough '28: Vote Democrat Socialist!
Just as Bernie Sanders has three homes, Nantucket Joe Scarborough is a multi-millionaire. Mr. and Mrs. Scarborough each have an estimated MSNBC salary of $8 million a year and each has an estimated net worth of $20 million or more.
Before Scarborough goes off on his next class-warfare rant, here's a quick tax tutorial for him:
- In a recent year, the bottom half of taxpayers faced an average income tax rate of 3.7 percent.
- The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an average income tax rate of 26.1 percent—seven times the rate faced by the bottom half of taxpayers.
- The top 1 percent paid 40.4 percent of all federal income taxes.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
2/21/25
6:18 am ETJOE SCARBOROUGH: Maybe politicians want to paint the IRS as the bad guys because they audited Donald Trump too much, Donald Trump would say.
At the end of the day, it is working Americans trying to get their refund. It's middle-class Americans trying to get their refunds. They can't afford the lawyers or, or, or whatever millionaires and billionaires can afford to take care of their problems with the IRS.
It's going to be working-class and middle-class taxpayers who are going to be impacted by this.
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Our interest on the debt is larger than any of these things that they're talking about cutting right now. And what are they doing at the same time he says we have to make choices? They are about to pass the biggest tax cuts ever for billionaires and for millionaires.
That's the choice they've made. This is not about protecting Medicare or Medicaid or Social Security. This is about protecting tax cuts for billionaires.
