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Millennial socialists. you have often said you think youre undertaxed. now there are proposals. theres one that says there should be a 70% tax on marginal income, thats over $5 million. theres another which is a wealth tax on the total assets you have. what do you think of these? are these reasonable ways to think about what to do about economic inequality today? >> well, theres two reasons why the government needs to collect more revenue. one is that we only collect about 20% of gdp and spend 2...

A stable business studies and the people are earning money and thats stimulating the local economy as a result thats actually. the meat on. the soil farm and as a jobs engine its not really a convincing argument when the farm was set up the goal was to create sixteen hundred jobs. will be agra vision is far from the german lenders believe theyre raising the incomes of the local population with their investments thereby fighting malnourishment and poverty. the arctic fund claims to be popular wit...

There -- are you at all concerned that the socialism is creeping too close to the mainstream of the party? >> well, i think were at the point again where probably franklin roosevelt was where we need to save capitalism from itself. you know, this concentration of wealth cannot be tolerated any longer. we have 45% of the people in the country cant even withstand a $400 emergency. cant afford health care, losing their pensions. this is a real problem. i think what people in new york are saying, i ...

Could provide a pathway way in a lot of ways. thats not the reality anymore and your government instructors, not only have they caught up, theyve been eroded. the protections around pensions, the investments taking place, i point out an example in my business thats been repeated of a plant that had been in massachusetts for over 40 years, phillips lighting, the company got $340 million in global profits last year. took a stock buy back and after that shock buy back was announced, they said they ...

North korea, were not talking about middle east peace, were not talking about a national debt that will cripple working class americans, were not talking about their pensions, were talking about a wall when border crossings are at a 50 year low. were sending troops there. >> joe, youve been hitting this point on the head for a while now. not only are we not talking about the serious problems that we confront internationally, were not talking about a crumbling infrastructure, were not talking abo...

Me and people will have their minds changed by reality if not by political arguments. >> you bring up the financial crisis. donald trump is an outcome of the financial crisis. his presidency is a reflection of the distress that average americans felt in the wake of that meltdown where they lost homes. they lost their pensions. they lost their childrens -- savings for their childrens college. and large institutions overlooked them. both parties overlooked them to some extent. the media overlooked...

In their bank account in case of emergency. the tax bill benefits people at the top because a trillion dollars worth of it has gone back to buy backs of shares and 48% of americans dont have a single share of stock. this hasnt been an economy -- >> a lot of people have pensions, retirement savings. >> some do. the point is this bill, rick, this bill was all about the top. it was not about real people. >> you cant argue with the growth and economic opportunities that have been created with this f...

Operating costs up to $6 billion by the end of 2020. thats a short time in which theyll invest in new generation electric and autonomous car technology. >> some people believe there used to be this sort of relationship where a company like this would have retooled their workers so that they could make the electronic vehicles and autonomous cars. >> jon: you can build cars with robots now and they dont need pensions. >> even robots need to be retooled. the software has to be upgraded. there are s...

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Example, people with marginal high school dwalgs education that werent available when people had their chance. during the obama years, the answer was to put them on welfare. today were not forcing them to work, theyre getting up off the bench and playing because they want to. leland: the wage is no longer what the government sets, its what the market sets. its higher than the minimum wage. the labor participation rate is starting to increase and more people getting off welfare and deciding to wo...