and that is to ramrod through a rewrite of the tax laws that will profoundly affect goldman sachs. what does goldman sachs do as gary walks out the door? they hand him nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. it s a gift. they don t have to. is it legal bribery? i think of it as a pre-bribe. pre-bribe? yes. so then gary goes out and guess what he does. he writes a tax law and manages to help ramrod it through that benefits goldman sachs to the tune of, oh, a quarter of a billion dollars in the first go around. and then it s the gift that keeps on giving. what you re saying makes sense and we have such ripe targets i think people could understand what you re pointing to. but what does it mean for the democratic party if this was also how obama and clinton ran the treasury? would you be a fundamental break with that is the question. the problem i have written the biggest anticorruption bill since watergate. because we have a fundamental problem in washington.
former and possibly future employer? let s just do for one second this gary cohn example. another goldman sachs. you remember. trump appoints gary cohn. he leaves goldman sachs. and gary cohn is going to have exactly one job. and that is to ramrod through a rewrite of the tax laws that will profoundly affect goldman sachs. what does goldman sachs do as gary walks out the door? they hand him nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. it s a gift. they don t have to. is it legal bribery? i think of it as a pre-bribe. pre-bribe? yes. so then gary goes out and guess what he does. he writes a tax law and manages to help ramrod it through that benefits goldman sachs to the tune of, oh, a quarter of a billion dollars in the first go around. and then it s the gift that keeps on giving. what you re saying makes sense and we have such ripe targets i think people could understand what you re pointing