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This house especially. >> your reaction to how it will play out? i assume hillary clinton will be a bread and butter democrat. thats what my hope is. i cant write her script. i have been pushing the president in this direction. as head of the infrastructure push. it took him a while to get into it. we have to keep him up there. be a builder. be robert moses. do something. >> absolutely. the chamber of commerce and the aflcio that could barely agree today is tuesday agreed to raise the gas tax. i...

Are. we want the trajectory is just as it happened with medical care part d which speaker boehner said was horrendous in its rollout but now the extreme success of it, you dont hear anybody talking negatively about medicare part d. >> apples and oranges. >> others talking negatively about romney care. although romney distanced himself. >> david -- >> point made. >> david -- david, putting pigs aside and talking about the marketplace, what about the fact that for insurance companies, there is a u...

>> well, i think david is right about the fact that its not going to cripple the economy. the economy is doing quite well. weve seen a lot of green chu shoots, could see a lot more. obamacare wasnt around in 2009 so a lot of democrats who support this or quote that very often as any politician would, its a number that favors them but what happens was the slowing economy curbed health care costs. about 80% of that studies has shown has nothing to do with obamacare whatsoever. you are seeing a lot...

You are going to realize there were 13 new taxes in 2013 alone. we are talking about increasing dividends, medicare, payroll taxes, you name it, you were clobbered in 2013. you will sit down and do that, mentally you are already psyched out about whats going to happen about 2014. plus you have the obamacare fees that are going to hit coming in 2014. everyone is going to just be thinking about these things all day, all along, thats going to hurt consumer spending, its certainly going to make you ...

People wanted. thats the way compromise and common ground works. >> another criticism from the left. this package does not include closing a single tax loophole but it would increase tsa feels that all americans face. so how would you respond to a critics the next time youre at a town hall in wisconsin that says why are you in favor by any other name. >> a user fee. >> pretend im joe blow. >> a ten-year wisconsinite and im in a town hall meeting. before 9/11, the person getting on an airplane pa...

Have shot a hole through our deficit reduction. there are a lot of things that are not in this agreement that people wanted. thats the way compromise and common ground works. >> another criticism from the left. this package does not include closing a single tax loophole but it would increase tsa feels that all americans face. so how would you respond to a critics the next time youre at a town hall in wisconsin that says why are you in favor by any other name. >> a user fee. >> pretend im joe blo...

Together and said, we have to clean this up. yeah, i worry if nobody, space junk is kind of abstract. the real worry is that nobody will pay attention to it until it reaches the point where you start getting your satellites knocked out all the time. once that happens you could get a runaway chain reaction. bill: some people you put a tax on satellites you launch in orbit, maybe that takes care of it. we need to do something, right? >> we need to do something. the easiest thing is do a user fee. ...

It is not the first time, donahue called for an increase. during a speech in january he said the tax needed to be raised and suggested calling it something else. he said -- its not a tax. its a user fee. and if youve dont want to ride on the roads you dont have to pay for it. breaking news, the chamber of commerce has finally found a tax increase that it likes. next, you will hear president kennedy in his own word. in the "rewrite." e original sal, hair color was as important as your cut. now a ...

Eat up the gas tax. my suggestion is, lets make the change now. lets convert it to a sales tax. >> why a sales tax and not sort of a user fee, come up with other user fees, more tolls? >> first of all, we already use the sales tax for transfortation. a half a cent right now. >> you want to raise it. >> on a revenue neutral basis to replace the gas tax revenue essentially dollar for dollar. sales growth gross was economic activity whereas the gas task declines. we saw a poll of all the ideas out ...

>> we have repurpose pussed or funding. we have 19 districts in funding we are considered a modestly funded school district. >> how much do you spend per purple? >> 7,400 per pupil per year. >> whats a cost of the a family? we charge a $50 what we call a user fee. we have had families who fwraut in a big jar of coins who are in tough times they said we are in. heres our $50. >> while his budget was cut he had to layoff 10 percent of his calf including 37 teachers his reforms improve graduation r...