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Sur sun vay found that two-thirds of millionaires support this idea. so do nearly half of all republicans across america. so we just need some of the republican politicians here in washington to get on board with where the country is. i know that some prefer to run around using the same reflexive false claims about wanting to raise peoples taxes. what they won t tell you is truth, that i ve cut taxes for middle class families each year that i ve been in office, i ve cut taxes for small business owners not once or twice but 17 times. as i said, for most of the folks in this room, taxes are lower than they ve been or as low as they ve been in 50 years. there are others who are say well, this is who are saying well, this is just a gimmick, taxes millionaires and billionaires and imposing the buffet rule won t do enough to close the decifit. well, i agree. that s not all we have to do ....
Heard mitt romney is doing with national security? well, look, there are four or five big issues dominating this race: jobs and the economy is one. look, we ve got the weakest economic recovery since world war ii, then we ve got a problem with decifit, debt and spending, which people are now starting to feel in their lives. you talk to people and they say everything is costing more from the gasoline pump to the grocery store to health care, that s in part because we re spending money we don t have. the affordable care act, which is looming there on the horizon, causing a lot of people a lot of concerns, then simply the growth and size of government, and its rules and regulations. the election is going to be fought over all of these issues. the biggest one is going to be the economy. you re right, if by some magic the economy drops down to where it was supposed to be, according to the president s own forecasters, christine romer and jared bernstein said by this time unemployment would ....
That s not what his budget does. it literally cuts from poor people. and doesn t help the decifit. look, what paul ryan is doing is laying out a long term vision for trying to reform government in all of its aspects. it does mean reigning in discretionary spending, making hard choices on entitlements like social security, medicare and medicaid and other things, food stamps programs, in order to reign in spending, because it can t go on this long and when the democrats continue to focus on the class warfare, taxing millionaires and billionaires, that doesn t solve the problem because even if you were to confiscate everything that millionaires and billionaires have in assets that would fund the government for a couple of days. megyn: would you it but it would make them feel better. got to go. thank you both so much. thank you. hig mig in the last 48 hours, two major media outlets have been forced to make major changes to their reports after critics slammed their coverage of the ....
Breaking his promise on the budget, he said he was going to cut the decifit in half, so this is taking voters very seriously, considering them as adults and saying this is our vision and let s run on this. martha: and the question that s raised is, kirsten, are americans who do claim to be very concerned about this debt and passing it on to their grandchildren, are they will to go sort of take the tough medicine that might be required by this ryan budget in order to actually do something about it. well, first of all, i completely agree with juan s article and i suggest people read it, because i do think politically this isn t smart for the republicans, because i do think, yes, people are willing to take tough medicine, it just has to be tough medicine for everybody and the ryan plan isn t tough medicine for everybody. it s basically cutting tax rates for rich people, and he has then saying well, i m going to cut all these loopholes and break that is they get, but never really ident ....
Tkhaupb and hadn t had the added to the debt and decifit as he did to some extent at least the financial crisis would have been even worse. that s a debatable argument. fact is, that spending did not work, because it did not produce the kind of growth that would allow us to pay the bill that is we ve run up. we have only got 2 percent growth in the economy right now, and we still have 8 percent unemployment. that spending back in 2009 was supposed to generate much better growth, a much lower unemployment, and therefore, a lower decifit. it didn t work. so we now have an expanding decifit, a trillion dollars, each and every year, as far as the eye can see and ten years from now we will be $25 trillion in debt. by the way, megyn, at the moment, we are spending $9 billion a week on interest alone on that national debt, and that will be close to a billion dollars a week by this election. megyn: i just want to show the viewers a graph that ....