Your apples are ripe. It is time to harvest them. What is the best way to harvest those apples . Do you pick them from the tree or do you chop down the tree . Apples are income. The trees are capital. The reason we want a socalled, consumptionbased tax because we dont want to mistreat capital. But to understand why it is so foolish, dont think about marxism, socialism, free market theories think about it this way, if you chop down the tree or more accurately what the current tax system does if you harvest apples by sawing off branches of the tree, what does that do for your longrun prosperity, your longrun income . You obviously will have fewer apples next year. It doesnt make sense to quadruple and triple tax capital. On this issue marxists and socialists are right they agree with sensible economist. You need capital for long run growth. We should have a tax system treats all income equally. No longer tax income saved and invested. You want neutrality in getting rid of all the loophol
Being more concerned with republican interests than the voters who put them in power. We are asking viewers to weigh in. The number to call for republicans during the first 45 minutes this morning is 2027488000 and you can also catch up with us on facebook twitter, or email us at journal cspan. Org. And a good monday morning to you. Here are some headlines. The Houston Chronicle headline, senate clash keeps crews in the spotlight. Bitter republican schism is another headline. The front page of the Washington Times one of the headlines cruise calls mcconnell a liar again. The frustration of senate colleagues. Crews calls mcconnell are a liar again. Cruz calls mcconnell a liar again. Here are some of his tweets. Here is a bit of crews from the senate floor curzruz from the senate floor yesterday. On friday i gave in unusual speech, a speech unlike any i have given in this chamber. A speech and was not happy to give. It is a speech to which the senior senator from utah is responding. In t
Committee vote. This is about two and a half hours. Well, this Fun Committee is going to come to order. As announce in the markup, im sorry, we have a quorum here and were going to have an exciting and fun day. I havent had this much fun since we went over red snapper. Lets just do red snapper and puerto rico all of the time. Ive never seen so much so much frivolity coming in here. As announced in the markup notice ill give priority to those who filed bipartisan and amendments by the amendment deadline of yesterday at 4 00 p. M. Thank you for doing that on time. Please go back and tell your staff, get at mendments in by 4 00. All right. You have received kind of an order i think that was sent out to you of which well take the amendments in here. There are only 32 of them that have been filed. It is going to be a piece of cake. There are going to be some of those im going to make some changes on the fly in the order in which we deal with these. Some amendments will be bipartisan and som
Our question to you this morning is about your fate in the Justice System, your faith in the local and state Police Departments, the federal Justice Department come the grand jury process. Want to hear from you. The numbers on the screen. A reminder to turn down your television or radio when you call in. You can also join us on social media. We will get your calls momentarily. We will start off with a look at the headlines and the reaction late yesterday to the grand jury decision in new york city. Here is the front page of the wall street journal and their headline. This is a picture of time square last night. Crowds filling time square after the grand jury declined wednesday to indict an officer in the death of an unarmed black man. This is the starledger out of new jersey and their front page, courtesy of the museum, looks at some of the protesters inside grand facial Grand Central station. A man symbolically chokes himself with a scarf during a protest there. Also on the front page
Grubber helped draft that language, a job for which he was paid nearly 400,000 to complete. Grubber admitting, quote a damning admission when juxtaposed to the memorandum when the president first took office in 2009. President obama writing, quote the president s political philosophy and election years tactics on display today, as the administration lured targets and expectations for the next phase of obamacare enrollment. The administration projecting fewer than 10 Million People will enroll in Health Care Insurance plans by the end of next year. That would be 25 below the 13 million enrollments the Congressional Budget Office originally projected. You will remember, president obama was the recipient of the dubious honor of lie of the year. In 2013, by politifact. For repeatedly claim fug like your doctor and your plan, you can keep them, a statement for which he finally apologized after nearly 4 million americans watched their insurance plans be canceled. It is no wonder that 28 of t