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This election where the american people will have a choice, and this choice will be as important as any choice we have made in a very long time. what we have is a candidate who said he would rubber stamp a republican congress that wants us to go backwards, not forwards on a range of issues. >> we need to go forward, and hurting people when theyre down is no way to do that. joining me now is jared bernsteen, and joe madison. thank you both for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> joe, let me star...

Grandparents, and young people have to think of their parents and grandparents because they may have to pick up the slack. >> jared, you have been inside in a lot of these negotiations back and forward. when you look at the unemployment benefits that expired this weekend, it happened in states that are already hurting. california where unemployment is 11%, north carolina where unemployment is 9.7%, florida, where unemployment is at 9%, illinois where it is at 8.8%. so youre adding pain to people...

And the cost of a college education keeps going up, it goes back to what the professor said. the rich in essence dont have enough, the poor have too much. and so how do people, who have the brains, the intelligence, can contribute to our society, get good jobs by the way, then pay taxes, help this economy grow, how can they go to college? we know that college is the way out. all of us are sitting here as a product of that. and so here, you have governors, members of congress, who quite honestly ...

I dont blame her for crying, she is going to inherit it. >> joining me now is jared bernsteen, and maria kumar, thanks for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> jared, let me start with you, the president released his new tax returns today. it showed obama paid just over 20% in an income of $790,000. the presidents plan would make wealthy people like him pay more, isnt that just sumply fairness? >> i think it is and a lot of people are thinking about the buffet rule, of course, and even with an i...