‘We’ll Get You Some Advil’: Bret Baier Tries to Console Larry Kudlow After Report About Possible Tax Hikes on the Wealthy

Fox News host Bret Baier tried to console Fox Business host and former Trump official Larry Kudlow on Tuesday after it was reported that President Donald Trump was considering tax hikes on the wealthy.

“On this tax day, all kinds of stuff floating out there,” said Baier during an interview with Kudlow. “We don’t have the makings of this bill yet, but there’s all kinds of trial balloons going out that the top tier could be tax increase, there could be a raise in the business corporate tax. Is that real?”

Kudlow, a millionaire, replied:

You know, in my day, in my experience, which has been a couple of years in this game in and out of government, I thought it was the Republicans that wanted lower taxes and the Democrats that wanted higher taxes. I guess that’s not always true. I thought the Republicans wanted to reward success, not punishing it.

This loose talk about a high, a top, another new bracket for millionaires– I don’t think it’s a crime to be a millionaire by the way. Small businesses would pay this top bracket. I do not understand this. I can’t believe Mr. Trump is going to go along with this. He campaigned on, you know, extending his tax cuts, adding some great middle-class tax cuts on tips and overtime and seniors. That’s all good. Lowering the corporate rate, if it’s made in America, to 15%, that’s a great inducement for people to onshore. That’s what he wants. Why would he want to penalize successful investors, successful people who are helping to onshore, and successful small businesses that strike it hot?

He complained, “I don’t understand and I can’t believe what I’m hearing. It’s giving me a headache. Tax day should be tax cut day.”

“We’ll get you some Advil and we will call it a day, but we’ll see,” concluded Baier as Kudlow laughed.

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