Me will get started. Were missing a speaker hopefully he will arrive when it is his turn. Thanks for all of you coming today. Infrastructure in is a priority for the new and ministration. President trump has called for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan. We dont know what that means 1 trillion of federal Government Spending or the plan put together by hisis pfizers that call for the tax credit for newman vestment of infrastructure prescribe not a fan of either approach so i hope theyre open to different ideas. Everyone agrees America Needs to reprove the efficiency of the Infrastructure Investment trump has talked about deregulation as a way to reduce the cost and must boost to of highway building to get better highways. That the main reform fe have proceeded is privatize edition of Publicprivate Partnerships and has spent three decades she privatize the met the launching a global mw restaurant now half of europes airports are private donald trump has called them thirdworld. What will he
Me will get started. Were missing a speaker hopefully he will arrive when it is his turn. Thanks for all of you coming today. Infrastructure in is a priority for the new and ministration. President trump has called for a 1 trillion infrastructure plan. We dont know what that means 1 trillion of federal Government Spending or the plan put together by hisis pfizers that call for the tax credit for newman vestment of infrastructure prescribe not a fan of either approach so i hope theyre open to different ideas. Everyone agrees America Needs to reprove the efficiency of the Infrastructure Investment trump has talked about deregulation as a way to reduce the cost and must boost to of highway building to get better highways. That the main reform fe have proceeded is privatize edition of Publicprivate Partnerships and has spent three decades she privatize the met the launching a global mw restaurant now half of europes airports are private donald trump has called them thirdworld. What will he
For a discussion about self driving cars and how they might affect the u. S. Transportation system and to some of the implications for Public Policy. This is going to be moderated by matthew at policy analyst for the Cato Institute. It should be starting life shortly as participants take the stage. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [background sounds] good afternoon Everyone Welcome to the Cato Institute my name is Matthew Feeney jaime policy analyst here. Im very excited to welcome you all here for what i hope will be an interesting discussion on self driving cars. Its an interesting topic because we are at a stage we are asking when the questions not if when it comes to the widespread use of the vehicles and we have three exits to talk about it. Before we begin i would like you to turn off your cell phones so we will not be interrupted. I would also like to say that we will be giving a session at the end after all the speakers have had their turn
On the fiscal cliff talks, now down to the wire. Here are our phone numbers you can join the conversation online. Host here are some of the friday morning headlines. A rare back to work for congress. Cliff talks down to the wi re is the headline in the wall street journal. Host that story from inside usa today. This is from the New York Times. Host there is this from roll call. Pessimistic asstima ever. The president summoning congressional leaders. We expect there will be a stakeout afterward. We may hear from the president and we will be following all of that as the day unfolds. Its begin with David Lightman. He covers capitol hill and the white house. The best sense of what you think the dynamics will be inside the room at the 3 00 p. M. Meeting. Guest for all this talk of pessimism and optimism, the only people that know are the five principles in that room and i think that is important. They are all seasoned negotiators. They went to the debt ceiling stuff a year and a half ago. I
Ago, whatever plan he had then is over with. This is a new election. The deal that he had a year ago, that does not count. For republicans and people to say they dont understand whats going on, i have a problem with that. The republicans deny anything he puts forward. The president left his vacation and came here. Theyre not being fair. Republicans say they are christians. Theyre not. They did this during his last term and now are causing and all of us to suffer because they dont like the president. This is personal. This has nothing to do with raising taxes. This is a personal attack and i think its a shame. We look like a third world country. We dont look like the United States. Host lets get a republican voice. Our next caller is calling from west bloomfield, michigan, on the republican line. Good morning. Caller i would like to get your thoughts on a balanced approach and have unbiased taxation by using a flat tax. That way you can calculate the amount of taxes we need for the defi