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The personal income also. sal, i will be happy to give you a lesson on this it has been 15 years. >> fact of the matter is a person that makes $30,000 a year in new york city pays something like 3.3% of their income in city income tax. a person that makes $30 million a year pays something like 3.7%. yeah, they are not exactly equal but you go from 3.3% to 3.7%. >> thats not true. >> it is over 5%. >> no, it is absolutely not over 5%. >> to the tipping point. i think we have to recognize the city...

To a rote on the floor. let each member decide that bill on its mayor fits why not? >> this week -- i have written speaker quinn. she said -- she is in favor of it. it is a question of when. she is concerned about the economy right now. wrote her this week. fine. i testified this week in favor of paid sick. what i said at that hearing is then put in are a one-year delay. if you are concerned about the economy, where things are at now, put a one-year del nay but lets move the bill. when we are se...

First of all, i guess there is consensus we need a new mayor. there isnt consensus on the issue of stop and frisk. i believe im the only one here at this table who believes that stop and frisk should be abolished because the mums dont bear out the facts. we -- the mayor and the police commission have claimed that stop and frisk has saved lives. that has -- led to guns being taken off the street. the fact of the matter is that there has been a minimal decrease in the number of murders in new york...

Theres so much a bigger agenda these issues dont cover. one of the things thats interest being portmans conversion and the moment, this moment we are in, with all these allies coming forward, and saying we support marriage equality, i think marriage has made us comprehensible to straight people in a way that no other issue did. in good ways and bad way. >> explain that. >> made us more legible. when we were sexual outlaws back in the day -- >> i remember a point in time. >> i remember him when. ...

Them, that they are about giving them equality and opportunities and its going to take time to put them on board, i think. >> angela, the fact of the matter is, the presidents progress gres sif agenda is being taken hold. whether its being done for political reasons, whether its being done for genuine conversion or political convenience, it seems to be taking hold. a year ago we would have never dreamed wed start seeing this kind of movement. >> certainly not this kind of progress. one thing tha...

Budget, which balances the budget in five years, not in ten years like paul ryans. and chris van hollens budget as well. meanwhile, the haggling continues in washington. the charm offensive of the president, he was being honest, wasnt he? he really was trying to charm the republicans. yet, brit hume was on last night with bret baier on his former program and said whether it worked, probably not. here is brit. >> it was a remarkably sudden conversion by the president from an attitude of, you know...

Op-ed pieces, the jesuit order still seems to be in the state of shock. we should tell people that this is an order that generally isnt have a lot of bishops and cardinals. there are people who eschew that kind of leadership. and so this has been something of a stunner for them. >> sure. saint ignatius didnt want its members to try to climb to power. something he fought against. but francis and ignatius are kindred spirits. both soldiers who underwent a strong conversion after seeing the glory o...

Preach the gospel and then do it in a way that is accessible and the holy spirit makes the impact, we believe. conversion of heart and mind is not something any pope or preacher can do. that depends upon gods grace, but you have to prooech the gosp gospel, and hell do that. in a sense, you can say there is no god and freud is his praufrt, so for the sake of sexual liberation, were allowing a lot of things to be let go. well see what happens. we can only trust that the lord is still with his peop...

Of the american people, including the majority of self-identified republicans that we can move forward on deficit reduction in a balanced way. >> bret: senior political analyst brit hume in miami tonight with thoughts on the charm offensive. good evening, you look sun-shiney in miami. >> life is good here, bret. you should come. i hope you will be here soon. >> bret:ly indeed. what do you think of the charm offensive? >> well, it was a remarkably sudden conversion by the president from an attitu...

Stand out but cardinal bergoglios did. he talked about the need for purification and the need for conversion and many people believe that he was directing those comments towards the vatican bureaucracy in particular, and that was sort of taken as a signal that he might well be the reformer, the guy who would sort of bring a new broom and sweep clean inside the brur crassy, that the other cardinals were looking for. >> i know that he was elected despite some controversy about his history in armin...