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Federal prisons. what the crime bill did though was actually export federal dollars to states to do some bad things. our prison population went from 300,000 in the early 1970s to over 2 million because the crime bill subdiezed the construction of prisons. we were spending $6 billion in 19807. $807 billion last year. that change the landscape. because now we built the prisons states needed to fill them. and that problem made us the country with the highest rate of incarceration in the world. but ...

Trillion tax cut unfinanced, most went to corporations who are use going to buy back stock and do m and a deals. we have had not had any real acceleration in business investment in the last for our five months. orders have been down. what we did is we spent $1,807 billion this year on rate cut and other business reductions. we got a $20 billion gain in business investments. so youre spending $180 billion you dont have on a credit card to get $20 billion of investment. >> thats a bad return on in...

If you want to say it should be had from people who benefit from jim crow, i think thats an easier case. its going to be hard to determine who pays, who should get how much and who receives. >> martha: the amount and the explanation that kamala harris gave, she talked about the lift act which would be a tax credit for any families who make under $100,000 and she said that it would include many families but it would include a lot of black families in her opinion. it is as you say another entitlem...

Suffering as a result of the longer the shutdown goes. maria: what about the idea like david cicilline just said drugs and more technology in border regions. theyre basically saying the wall in and of itself is in effect. >> well, hes right about a layered approach. its not just a wild everywhere. we need to take advantage of technologies. they have made this a political issue to say that the wall is immoral and that they will support it. as you pointed out, maria, weve proven it works. the wall...

Office says the deficit will work out to. the difference between how much money the government takes in and how much it is going to spend. and if the republican plan goes through, the cbo says its going to jump substantially. if you average it over the next ten years to about $807 billion per year. for budget hawks, that is a big, scary number. and considering that republicans have always considered themselves hawkish on spending, why would they risk something like this knowing that their base c...

This number is going to jump way up so that each year if you averaged it out of ten years, it would be about $807 billion. that is a whopping scaring number for budget hawks. so why would republicans who always call themselves budget hawks be willing to risk this and the potential punishment they could get from their base if this goes badly? to understand that you have to look at whats happened with the deficit and public opinions about it. well start over here at about 2000, back when the defic...

$807 billion, and 4,486 lives, and its a difficult thing to estimate the iraqi deaths, but a shocking number of iraqi lives. i was struck by two things about this. first of all, the way that we feel about the end of the iraq war as opposed to the way we feel about the beginning, and the president said it was easier to end a war than begin one, and i think it was profound and true, but this was the defining political issue of a generation in some ways. a whole covert of people got active in polit...

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