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Payroll tax deduction had a disproportionate impact. undoubtedly, there has been an irritation. what i want to touch on is how do you shift that incentive structure? you dont just say, you need to do better, mr. president. what does the incentive structure shift. part could be about the legacy concern. souls to the polls works because you can vote people in and out of office. >> what i am thinking about is another way around this, another way to get at this. if you look at the most successful, t...

A summer ago, those people were coming off of a huge victory in 2010, now much further down road and coming off -- many got re-elected tuesday but the whole political environment has changed given the success of not just president obama but democrats more broadly in congress. and it does change everyones incentive structure. theres no one, no one, who is politically well affected positively affected if the country drops into a second dip of a massive recession in the first half of 2013. >> chris...

Campaign is set up is that in addition to the salaries listed in the filing to the federal election commission, the admakers and the ad team take a certain percentage of the ad buy which is just lumped together in the fec reports with the actual tv costs. >> explain what that means. >> well, bob shrum can probably do numbers better than i can, but basically its a leftover from the early days of commercial television advertising, and as much as 15% of the ad buys, mostly negotiated down from that...

And i have worked a little bit in campaigns in the past, it always seemed so superstitious to me or like alchemy. theres this kind of hocus-pocus feel to it. the question of what do we actually know about what persuades people. bob shrum as someone who has worked on a number of campaigns, i want you to just respond to the point that walter shapiro was making about the incentive structure and how that does or does not affect the choices that consultants make and push for campaigns. >> hear from t...

Ago. my friend, suhail khan, needed a place to pray in the capitol. juma prayers on friday afternoon. the speaker of the house was newt gingrich and provided him that place to play. we need more meshes to stand up be the 1996, 1 997 version of that. thats what america is about. >> what i loved about the story. okay, as speaker of the house, newt gingrich is prepared in that moment to provide space for the friday prayers. thats not the newt gingrich we see today, and not so much gingrich has chan...

The local jails where they dont get the programs they need to eventually lead to successful reentry and more frightening is the move thousands of people moving to other state facilities across the country, meaning their families cant have access to them. all the research shows that strong family ties maintained while someone is reincarcerated leads to successful reentry. thats only going to make the problem worse down the line. >> im thinking, ari, why isnt anyone talking about the poor? well, t...

Proposing. beginning with the affordable care act, worked to reduce the overall costs in the medicare system by changing the incentive structure based on the volume of care to one based on the value of care. thats very different than what romney/ryan are proposing, which is to shift those costs on to seniors, seniors who have a median income of $23,000. at the same time they are providing these huge windfall tax breaks to the very wealthy, to people like mitt romney. so these are the facts and i...

budget committee. democrat iic congressman chris n holl hollen. and then re-opening the search with david axelrod and ed gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward with jessica yellen. im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." no surprise, president obamas campaign and other democrats are wasting no time attacking the new romney/ryan presidential ticket. descriptions weve heard thrown around so far, wrong, harsh ...

Incentive structure at the i.r.s. there is no incentive to try to find fraudulent claims. you dont get penalized if you fail to file, or fail to recognize a fraudulent claim. there is no reason to put in the center effort to make sure this is actually a a legitimate claim. so, really, it is a problem with the incentive structure. >>stuart: why am i hot seeing this on the front page of every newspaper in the land. >>guest: it should be. >>stuart: thank you. g.m.s profit just dropped 41 percent an...

School. it was like my money, my compensation, mirrors my value, my integrity, my self-worth. >> right. >> thats what made it so emotional in dealing with each one of these executives. the money is sort of the litmus test and made it very difficult. >> mr. feinberg, in terms of incentives, you need the regulation. youve talked eloquently about the regulation, with elizabeth warren you have a candidate talking about not left versus right but right versus wrong, the need for a cop on the financial...