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That debate there. i believe a bottom up process works better than top down. >> i agree with you on your process changes that you want. if a speaker candidate said to you "i will give you everything you want in process on issues, we will just have to agree to disagree. could you live with that compromise? that at least you have to process that you want so your view on immigration or taxation or whatever the issue is could come to a vote in the committee with the new process? >> its a weighing pr...

The budget deficits. if i recall correctly the first budget he proposed when i was elected after the 2010 elections, sworn in in 2007, would have balanced in 26 years if my memory serves me correctly. thats not fast enough. america will suffer insolvency and bankruptcy if we continue on our current path within that 26 year window. i want something more aggressive. paul ryan to his credit in later budgets pro poised by him he reduced that window to something in the neighborhood of ten years. we m...

Winning elections on this because its not an issue for for middle income people. its an issue for the working poor. neither party has a coherent message for people making $20 or $30 an hour who cant get a wage increase through regulation. >> but, josh, if you remember, the midterm elections were you found four senators running, they were running on a platform of being republican but the ones at the same time down ballot the initiatives that won were minimum wage. so this is an issue that resonat...

Paycheck to paycheck? >> well, the republican field, the one who has been most successful at appealing to middle-class economic concerns has been donald trump. trump has had a relentless message about how the rich are buying off washington and leaving the rest of you behind. trump is separated from the rest of the republican field on trade issues saying the u.s. needs a more protectionist trade policy to protect american jobs and raise wages and create jobs for workers. everyone else in the repu...

America will suffer insolvency and bankruptcy if we continue on our current path within that 26 year window. i want something more aggressive. paul ryan to his credit in later budgets pro poised by him he reduced that window to something in the neighborhood of ten years. we might be able to avoid an insolvency and bankruptcy if we solve this issue in ten years. time will tell. another issue is do we have a speakers candidate who understands the suppression of wages and the cost in terms of lost ...

Rates for people on capital gains down to zero. the party is out of touch but so says s his economic plan. i disagree on the minimum wage issue. democrats think this is a great issue, democrats havent been winning elections on this because its not an issue for for middle income people. its an issue for the working poor. neither party has a co-heent message for people making $20 or $30 an hour who cant get a wage increase through regulation. >> but, josh, if you remember, the midterm elections we...

Increase in arkansas but it didnt do democrats any good in elections in arkansas. its an issue where people agree but they arent necessarily walking into the voting booth saying im going to pick an elected official who agrees with me on the minimum wage. theyre looking for somebody who speaks to their personal economic concerns, the minimum wage is a personal concern for many voters but not for voters in the middle of the spectrum. so yes republicans dont have a message there but democrats dont ...

House, there are a lot of republicans -- >> would he have said that a month ago? >> i wonder. but this is like the people you hear talking about benghazi and hillary clinton are people who will were already predisposed to hate hillary clinton. so ive wondered about this idea that the benghazi committee was as kevin mccarthy suggested it was, a significant driver of the decline in her poll numbers. i think this was an issue for republican base voters who were going to be againster wi er wih way. ...

Somehow republican voters who are nowhere near that 1% somehow dissociate that from having anything do with their lives. that that doesnt in any way take anything from their lives. >> well, i think americans in general, not just republicans, think theres nothing wrong with being rich and would like to be rich themselves one day and thats why i think soak the rich from the democratic side is not all that wise. i think fairness is an important issue and you can pillory billionaires, especially koc...

Have after-tax income increase by 27% trumps tax plan, the same. bushs tax plan top 1% would have their incomes increase by 16.4% under these tax plans and somehow republican voters who are nowhere near that 1% somehow dissociate that from having anything do with their lives. that that doesnt in any way take anything from their lives. >> well, i think americans in general, not just republicans, think theres nothing wrong with being rich and would like to be rich themselves one day and thats why ...