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Better economically? >> three things. one, i do raise the tax rate to 39.5%. i do, in fact, eliminate the ability for them to write off capital gains the way they do now. i would raise the -- raise billions, raise the corporate tax rate from 2 20% to 28%, it s 36. to 28%. i'll raise millions. >> trump will say that's what brought the economy up to the way it is, the tax cuts. >> ask the people in this restaurant how the economy came up for them. ask how good they feel about it, how the stock market is working. ask how driving the $2 trillion greater in debt has done anything for them. >> repor...

Think alexandria ocasio-cortez is a brilliant and bright woman, but she won a primary. in the general election fights, who won? mainstream democrats who are very progressive on social issues and very strong on education, health care. look, my north star is the middle class. when the middle class does well, everybody does well. >> how do you do better for them economically, not with the 70% tax rates. >> three things. i do raise the tax rate to 39.5% and i do in fact eliminate the ability for them to write off capital gains the way they do now. i would raise the -- and raise billion dollars, ra...

Enthat will couldn't call her house. the resolution passed today was gutless, i thought. the house of representatives is rarely a profile in courage, whether it's the republicans in charge or the democrats. the one thing here i have to disagree with my friends on the republican side if we did a resolution on this regard, we wouldn't make it broad like that but we wouldn't call out the member by name. we never would do that, we wouldn't do that in the house of representatives. i served there i know. but the president has identified what is a rift in the democratic party. they have a real proble...

Dug down on, but i think the process by which we get to that -- those different levels of tax rate are going to be critically important. i don't think there's any question that, you know, what's been going on for the last several decades that the structure of capitalism in the united states has slowly but consistently been working against the middle class and for poor people. you look at both in terms of their security and in terms of their opportunity, they're not getting a fair shake at creating their version of the american dream, so clearly part of the tradition of america is those that ha...

That's for individual filers at about $500,000 of income. under president obama it was up toward 39.5% and there's some speed limitary taxation that sometimes occurs above that. president clinton's rate was also the 39.5%. would you want to see that 37% pushed up to the clinton/obama rate? >> well, i think -- certainly i think that's reasonable when you look at all the necessities that we have and the places to fund, especially if you also look at the national debt. we can't keep spending and giving tax breaks to, you know, large corporations and the wealthy. i think it's worth taking a moment...