Coney barrett and later a look at the how the Affordable Care act is an issue this Election Year with the good morning. Its the washington journal for friday, october 16. Both president and joe biden held separate town halls. A variety of topics were the stuff discussed. Show you short bits from both of those town halls. In our first hour, we will ask you to comment. Us a callt to give and you support President Trump and mike pence, 202 7488001 is the number to call. If you support joe biden, 202 7488000. Maybe watch the town halls, you are undecided at this point, give us a call at 202 7488002. If you want to text us this morning, you can do that. You can post on our twitter feed. Our Facebook Pages available as well. Usa today offering a breakdown of some of the topics at the town halls you saw last night. Here are some of the breakdowns from that. When it comes to President Trump with Savannah Guthrie, they became heated at one point. The president called the moderator so cute and c
Mr. Jeffries good morning, everyone. Earlier today we had a caucus call which began with a special tribute to the life and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Atragic loss for the country, tragic loss for the Supreme Court, a tragic loss for the principles of liberty and justice for all as well as democracy. Dehart from dr. Jayne who is a biographer, having written the authoritative piece on Justice Ginsburgs life in 2018. As well as Linda Greenhouse who of course is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has covered the Supreme Court for over 30 years. This has been a very difficult year for many throughout america. Ts a time where leadership is desperately needed. We remain in the midst of a deadly pandemic. 200,000 or so americans dead. More than six million americans infected by the coronavirus. Over 100,000 Small Businesses have permanently closed, tens of millions of americans remain unemployed. Yet donald trump and the Senate Continue to do nothing about it. It
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That should be the basic ingredients of tax reform. First it should be fair to taxpayers of this country. The tax bill enacted two years ago was certainly not fair. It failed in that test. As i pointed out, who benefited . Well, large corporations benefited dramatically by this bill, but they said look, well pass it on to the workers. But did they pass it on to the workers . In 2018, 1. 1 trillion were used to repurchase stock to make the wealthiest even wealthier and did not go to the benefit of the workers. It benefited the greatest on the personal income tax side to the highest income taxpayers. They are the ones who benefited the most. It was not fair to middleclass taxpayers. Secondly, a tax reform bill should be fiscally responsible. After all, we have taxes in order to raise revenue, in order to pay for services so we dont borrow from the future for our children and grandchildren to pay for what were doing today. The administration said that this would be a fiscally responsible