with some debt reductions, i am not considering $50,000 debt reduction, but i m in the process of taking a hard look at whether or not there are, or there will, be additional debt forgiveness and will have an answer on that in the next couple weeks. republicans are already crying foul, saying it is a ploy by democrats to pander for votes in november. some senators have talked about introducing a bill to keep biden from forgiving that debt. joe biden made a promise to americans, and many americans are asking if our government can bail out wall street when they make that bed, why can t it help working americans facing economic security just because they saw a better life? with me now asteroid taylor, cofounder of the debt collective, which calls itself the country s first union for debtors. asked should, this is
Qld tattooists fear they will be forced underground as a bill before parliament proposes new laws which artists say will zap the colour out of their industry.
Qld tattooists fear they will be forced underground as a bill before parliament proposes new laws which artists say will zap the colour out of their industry.
dave put together a lot of notes of what happened with simpson-boles. he is adamant our country will fall part 20, 30 years from now if we don t do something now. i think it s faster than that. if the dominoes start falling in greece as richard haas said, after they finish destroying the euro, international markets, they re going to come here next. the numbers don t add up. here s the danger. when we get to that cliff, we fall off. now, i m not talking about austerity right now. not over the next two, three, fourz years because we need to keep the economy going, but we certainly can make long-term debt reductions by making tough choices right now. we could very easily could a gigantic $100 billion 30-year offering. i tell geithner you have to do that. we don t want to do all the
when ryan calls this class warfare, to say that wealthy people should pay their fair share, that s outrageous. that s like saying when he call for a middle class tax cut, that that s class warfare. simply to say that income tax should be redistributed in ways differently than it is today, whether you want to have more taxes on some groups or less on others is not class warfare, and that s cheap. can you hold to this position, going into the debt reductions in november? will the democratic party say, this is our offer, half this debt reduction has to come in taxes? a lot of it s got to come from the rich. we ve got to hold the line on this through the fight, even if you go into the automatic alternative. i believe that the president was really much stronger. i thought the speech he gave today was his best yet. i think he went home. this is my own speculation, of course, but i think he thought about things in august and said, he has to draw more differences