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Have from the chinese assistant commerce minister. they go low. we go high. did you ever think there would be a michelle obama illusion with regard to the china trade war? >> who knows what that even means. if they go high -- i don't know what it means. but it's a great quote. >> yeah, michelle obama. the famous quote from the campaign. if the pain comes, when does it come, and do americans react? do they sort of vote with their feet? do they look at trump and blame him? wilbur ross, for instance, he came out early on when there was all this talk about tariffs. he essentially said doesn't real...

Eat up the gas tax. my suggestion is, let's make the change now. let's 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 there, people favor that one two to one. no other state's done it. but every state has the same pr...

Subject to have -- they make as much money as their talent takes them and that's a market response. it may not be a complete response but we've come a long way. >> this is what market does. >> right. >> what incredible is how little progress that's been made. half a cent tri now sense we passed the equal pay act theda. has narrowed by half a cent in half a century. that's what the market does when left unregulated to its own devices. so clearly there needs to be intervention here to turn that around. talking about the same jobs. talking about equal pay for equal work, not different kinds of wo...