denied hurricane relief funds to other states are now turning around and asking for assistance themselves in the wake of hurricane ian. john avlon has more in today s reality check. dealing with natural disasters as a way of waking us up from the petty fights of hyperpartisan politics. it forces us to face facts and find a way to work together. now, a lot of folks have been pointing out the hypocrisy of leading republicans from florida voting against hurricane relief when it was needed by other states. but now they re dealing with the devastation at home and they want the federal government to step in and help their state to recover. now, of course, it shouldn t take a massive disaster to realize we have a responsibility to help each other in times of crisis. actually for what it s worth, i appreciate senator marco rubio saying he would vote against the bill if it is loaded up with pork projects. at least he s being consistent. as we turn to the hard work of recovery which will take
more. people are fascinated. ufo does not stand for alien spaceship, it stands for unidentified flying object. it might not be from outer space, they just don t know what it is. bret: part of this program deals with what other countries have as far as aircraft technologies, but the juicy stuff is the ufo stuff, let s not kid ourselves. area 51, let s just make this whole thing happened. a great argument made that we should have more access to information but any military sightings of unidentified flying objects. at the same time, tom is absolutely right, a timeless tale of billionaires getting powerful friends to fund pork projects. it speaks more to meet about the need for the defense department to get a good audit so we know what s going on. we don t know if it s still being funded. bret: they say it stopped being funded in 2012 but they didn t say the program ended. hard to get accountability for our ufo needs without having good auditing. bret: we talk a lot in this
to be 22. because we have commitments to the military. we have commitments to infrastructure. we have commitments to social security and medicare that the country has botched for centuries decades. actually, if you look at the amount of taxable income, it s going to be rits around 18 trillion. and if you take 15% of that, that s 2.7 trillion. you are not leaving yourself any margin for error and you have to pay down the debt. one of the things that republican president is going to have to do is pay counsel that debt. i haven t finished. okay. i haven t talked about capital gains yet that would also be at the same rate of 15%. and then couple that with the fact that we would do some real cost cutting. we have 4.1 million. they like their pork