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John Hammas has been convicted of stabbing and beating Robert Hall and Shannon Larock to death after an argument over rent money.

That they get a fair deal. they know what theyre supposed to pay and it leads to economic expansion. and thats the one thing this country needs right now is economic expansion, not this politics of envy. >> i sure as hell hope he catch up to lithuania. i mean, john, i have to tell you, theres been a progressive tax in this country under reagan, under roosevelt, under every -- under eisenhower. >> and look what its done. its screwed up -- >> weve been the most successful economy in the world. rig...

To act, which it hasnt, the presidents rolling out a series of programs that he can enact without congressional approval. the new campaign is called "we cant wait," and its first initiative will be to help homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages. hes kicking it off in las vegas, nevada, a state with the highest foreclosure rate in the country. sam stein is a political editor for "the huffington post" and john hammas is national editor for "new york" magazine. sam, thanks for joining us....

Impose a flat 9% income tax on americans, an additional 9% national sales tax. rick perry tomorrow will unveil his own tax plan, which he says will be a flat tax. steve forbes has signed on as an adviser to rick perry. and even mitt romney, who has in the past rejects a flat tax, calling it a fat tax -- a tax for fat cats, has been talking more and more favorably about a flat tax. romney already has a fat cat image problem thanks to his background as a turnaround artist at bain. this photo, by t...

Gymnastics about the flat tax, in much the same way that john had to do when you really nail somebody down. the flat tax is horrible public policy. its why e.j. dionne wrote this morning, its why most of the people who support it have flatlined politically, ultimately. when you look at your own tax code, as most middle class or working class americans are going to do, you kind of realize that you get run over by a flat tax. but mitt romney has a problem. the conservative base of the republican p...

Strategist john feehery. ive got to get john in here, my friend, on the defense here. why would your party start talking basically a flat rate, whereas right now americans, when you start to make more money, you start paying 35%, 32% on the way there, 25% on the way there. people in the middle, the average brackets pay around 15%. why would the american bracket -- american people want their bracket to go up to give relief to the rich? >> thats not why, chris. why they want to get a flat tax is, ...

In much the same way that john had to do when you really nail somebody down. the flat tax is horrible public policy. its why e.j. dionne wrote this morning, its why most of the people who support it have flatlined politically, ultimately. when you look at your own tax code, as most middle class or working class americans are going to do, you kind of realize that you get run over by a flat tax. but mitt romney has a problem. the conservative base of the republican party, the energy among the nomi...

Its worked because people know that they get a fair deal. they know what theyre supposed to pay and it leads to economic expansion. and thats the one thing this country needs right now is economic expansion, not this politics of envy. >> i sure as hell hope he catch up to lithuania. i mean, john, i have to tell you, theres been a progressive tax in this country under reagan, under roosevelt, under every -- under eisenhower. >> and look what its done. its screwed up -- >> weve been the most succe...

Without congressional approval. the new campaign is called "we cant wait," and its first initiative will be to help homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages. hes kicking it off in las vegas, nevada, a state with the highest foreclosure rate in the country. sam stein is a political editor for "the huffington post" and john hammas is national editor for "new york" magazine. sam, thanks for joining us. it looks like east got an initiative out here for retooling a program two years ago with ...