wants to do is one of the things we found is guess what those people do in the top 1 and 2%? they own, operate and invest in small businesses. i always ask my little friends, how are you going to get more jobs if you re going to tax the people that create them? i never heard a good answer to that. steve: during the debate, mitt romney was talking about what he would do with taxes. he said he d bring everybody s taxes down, but then get rid of loopholes so the people at the top i love that idea. steve: it seems like a great idea. but he says, i would keep the progressiveness or progressivity. the people who are most successful would proportionately pay more. i m more radical than mitt romney. i like the old steve forbes. i think we should go to a flat tax. everybody should pay the same rate. if you make ten times more money than i do, you pay ten times more tax. not 100 times.
the american jobs act. if we had implemented those programs, we d be in better shape today. what is your sense, peter, of this presidential debate, the refusal up to this point to have any meaningful debate on tax simplification, any meaningful engagement on trade with china, any significant reversal of the culture of markets and are you optimistic that those issues will come to bear in this presidential debate? i think that with regards to taxes, it will be a very important debate, but the president will hone in on fairness and basically his envy tax. and that unfortunately, won t really take us down the path of simplification. you have to have some common objective in terms of what the progressiveness and the structure of rates should be, then you simplify from there and the two sides don t agree. on china, romney s been back pedaling. i don t know by the time we re done that there willy about much
you equate it, it seems to he moo, patriotism with paying a lot to the government. that s twisted. that s twisted. no, i don t leave saverin out of it. leave saverin out of it. yeah. neil: you re equating patriotism and showing gratitude to the country with obviously paying more than 35% because that isn t cutting it so you re defining patriotism by levels and grades, i guess at that equates to the percentage you re giving to the government. i m absolutely equating patriotism with paying your taxes. now, as to how much that s a different discussion. but that is the discussion that the most productive members of our society can and as their patriotic duty should pay more taxes. we ve had a progressive tax rate for a long time. it s still progressive. the progressiveness did not go an i way. we still have the top tax rate that s higher than all of those other rates. i mean, so, so, and you are equating you ve been lucky
template for democrats across the country. how aware do you think wisconsinites are setting autopsy template on how to fight back against all the special interest money and citizens united money that s fallen from the sky over the badger state? i think we know it. we know it, we feel it. we have felt it from the beginning with these huge historic rallies in wisconsin, that this is really ground zero for the republican agenda. a corporate takeover of democracy. and it s right here. it s playing out. paul ryan said it best. he said wisconsin was the birth place for progressiveness. here in our home state right now. what about the story that developed today that there may be an opponent in a republican primary against governor walker, a guy named arthur coal rigs who calls himself a progressive
autopsy template on how to fight back against all the special interest money and citizens united money that s fallen from the sky over the badger state? i think we know it. we know it, we feel it. we have felt it from the beginning with these huge historic rallies in wisconsin, that this is really ground zero for the republican agenda. a corporate takeover of democracy. and it s right here. it s playing out. paul ryan said it best. he said wisconsin was the birth place for progressiveness. here in our home state right now. what about the story that developed today that there may be an opponent in a republican primary against governor walker, a guy named arthur cole rigs who calls himself a progressive american. what do you know about this guy? i know arthur very well as anyone down at the cop toll does.