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The rest of the fiscal year. Tax increases, republicans have said they will not go for any tax increases. Everyone thinks the sequester is a bad idea. What is the plan to forge a compromise . We want to ask the republicans to take a balanced approach and i think there is growing pressure among other republicans to replace the sequester through a combination of cuts that take place over a longer time because they do not want to harm the economy in the short term even as you try to reduce the deficit in the long term. Also by closing some of the tax loopholes. We heard in the last president ial campaign from mitt romney and paul rand that there are all these tax breaks and loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. Speaker john boehner said he could come up with 800 billion through a tax reform plan. Were simply saying to the House Republicans that we want to do with Speaker John Boehner said he could do. Use some of their revenue from closing loopholes to close the d
Lori, yuore up first. House democrats have prepared their own bill for dealing with the rest of the fiscal year. Tax increases, republicans have said they will not go for any tax increases. Everyone thinks the sequester is a bad idea. What is the plan to forge a compromise . We want to ask the republicans to take a balanced approach and i think there is growing pressure among other republicans to replace the sequester through a combination of cuts that take place over a longer time because they do not want to harm the economy in the short term even as you try to reduce the deficit in the long term. Also by closing some of the tax loopholes. We heard in the last president ial campaign from mitt romney and paul rand that there are all these tax breaks and loopholes that disproportionately benefit very wealthy people. Speaker john boehner said he could come up with 800 billion through a tax reform plan. Were simply saying to the House Republicans that we want to do with Speaker John Boehn
The revelations have shaken the tech industry. It has heightened calls for surveillance reform. That is our topic today. Has government surveillance gone too far . Welcome to washington journal. We want to hear from you this morning. The numbers are you can also reach out to us on social media. Take a look at the headlines. First in usa today, that investigation coming out this morning, it details how Public Service agencies are using that surveillance data. Lets talk about the eight Tech Companies calling for more surveillance limits. Those include apple, google, microsoft, and twitter. Looking at the front page of the Washington Post this morning from that letter lets go to your calls. In northgo to david carolina on our line for independents. Hey. R i use a lot of the social facebook. Outy to put my opinion there and i feel when it gets that it locksed up all the time, stuff gets delete it randomly. I can never get a clear thought out there into the world. People lookinghe over your
Remove the magnet from illegal immigration in five or 10 down years down the road you are dealing with the same thing. With the aflcio and some unions and leftleaning groups opposed to expanding the Guestworker Program i worry that the blanket pathways to citizenship or legal status where the want to call it and leave the guestworker part out of it and we dont solve any problem and gave politics are just as bad for us in the next 10 years. Quite frankly dont trust congress so if congress cant make the contracts, the first thing that will come down is who will be highskilled or if the was enforcement only and they said oh yeah by the way we are definitely going to do a lowskilled thing of future and do highskilled i wouldnt support the enforcement only because i dont trust them. I think they will stop after stop after that about this over the last couple of years when they did these peaceful approach is a lot of them failed. The immigration act that moved the countries of origin toward