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This range, around 40 or 50 or 35, wherever they are. i think thats appropriate. but i think we need to not lose sight of the fact that taxes affect incentives. when you tax more of something, you get less of it. >> part of what youre talking about is etiology. when you bring up thatcher, were talking about incentivizing or disincentivizing work or entrepreneurship. i was trying to make a claim that part of what goes through our angst of taxes is we feel we dont know where they go or misinformat...

That the social security tax on your paycheck go directly and exclusively to paying social security benefits. the second is that the benefit paid to a worker is based on what the worker has paid into the system. franklin roosevelt said in a private meeting, we put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. with those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social secur...

That they want. and his speech saying i care, or in this case, my party once several decades ago cared, isnt going to change that. the great rnc autopsy of 2013 called for greater engagement with minority voters and just yesterday, the party hired a state party director to oversee this. rnc chair raince priebus went to brooklyn last month. but the day-long voyages to a black planet dont change the reality of current republican policies. >> the democrat promise is tangible. it puts food on the ta...

>> i dont know why that number would exist. >> bill: stay in. >> come on, this goes back to our original point here. whether you have that government went through the great society. reagan did his best to try to reign that in. barack obama turns it around and puts it on steroids. the incentive is to go away from the self-sufficient society based on individual freedom to one that is -- >> bill: i think people just conning. 640%. >> this didnt start with barack obama what you are talking about. we...

From the planet money piece, disability has been a defacto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills. but it wasnt supposed to serve this purpose. it is not a retraining program designed to get people back on their feet. that piece sparked huge controversy as we enter budgets and washington contemplates so-called entitlement reformt, stakes are very high. so high that eight commissioners of the social security administration wrote a detailed letter to npr to express con...

Statutory standard. it is that we get economically desperate people applying in recessions. but we did not turn the program into a welfare a groom and allowed those cases, we rejected them. thats why at at appeals level, it is the lowest level of approval since 1978. how could the whole program be busting loose and turning into a welfare program if our allowance rates drop sewed dramatically. >> there is a problem here, right -- >> explain that. >> well -- >> wait a minute. >> winning the nobel ...

And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the last five years the number of americans in poverty has gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrat...

And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the last five years the number of americans in poverty has gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrat...

And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the poverty hasears the number gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrations that is the real proble...

What about medicare means testing? >> i dont agree with that. ill tell you why. its easy to say warren buffett doesnt need medicare. once youre into that, your right wing republicans will do away with the universality of medicare and make it into a welfare program or voucherize. i think we do best when we progressively pay for these programs rather than have cuts in there for wealthier people. >> senator bernie sanders, you feel like a lot of people in this country are counting on you. this elec...