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57.4%, higher than italy, sweden and even france. scott, president of the tax foundation, welcome take us through your math to get us to that calculation we have the great distinction was the highest combined rate in the world. >> it's a step-by-step process and by 2026 marginal tax rate will hit 39.6% you add onto that certain taxes in the bill, the first one being a surtax on incomes above 10 million and that a 3% surtax on incomes $1,225,000,000 and then you have the average of state rates and that kicks the rate from about 1% for the overall federal rate up to that 57%, so that is average ...

Shot. that should give you longer durability. but this was data that's been out there for some time. let me show you what drove this decision today. if you looked at vaccinated and unvaccinated, for most of the time what we've been seeing if people were to get sick they were far more likely to be unvaccinated. that's the red line. the green line is the vaccinated people that ended up in the hospital, small. but that was to the end of august. the question has been what happened after that? and that's where they started to look at some of the data out of israel. what they found was a really impo...

At. let me show you something that came out of israel. i think this was data they've been focused on. this is data that goes up to november 1st. again, i think the graph that you're seeing is going to tell a very important story. i don't know if we have that graph, but basically you look at the unvaccinated per 100,000, 53.8, that's people who dealt with severe covid. if you're vaccinated, it's much, much better, right, down to 9.6 per 100,000. if you've had the booster, you reduce that significantly again. so, you know, you look at this graph and it tells a couple stories. the problem is stil...

Share? which is a popular point among progressives and moderate democrats. if you doubt me, hear them. >> all i'm asking is pay your fair share. pay your fair share. pay your fair share. >> pay their fair share. >> pay their fair share. >> pay their fair share. >> pay your fair share. >> here is the problem, even if you allow for the fair share, it doesn't come close to paying for this. and the fair share is a constantly moving target. it used to be when we'd get the top rate back up to 39.6%, that would be fair share. i can't keep whispering like this because it hurts my voice. kidding here j...

Thinks because the office doesn't comment. have not talked to reporters who ask many questions in the capitol hallways but we do know that she does not support taxes on the highest tax bracket, covid-19 esing to 39.6% and doesn't support increasing the corporate tax rate and two things that not only have democrats run on of undoing the 2017 tax cut bill, but also, making the wealthiest pay for this social safety net so democrats what they are doing is scrambling to figure out alternate ways to pay for this upwards of $2 trillion bill and vent figured it out yet. >> why scrambling? is this new ...