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I'll put in the reconciliation bill, i don't know, a provision that says i'll index the debt limit to whatever. index it to whatever the spending limit was. is there a way to do that so mitch mcconnell can't have this card to play again in december? >> i think mitch was afraid they would be forced into doing that. they feel forced to do it. this gives us time to pass a build back better. what is great about this is that gives us the time to get sinema and mansion and get all 51 with the vice president on board on a package and if we tell the american people and keep telling the american people...

Not going to get from here to there, a 21st century transportation system for a 21st century economy without money. i'm open to public and private. we've done some of that. but it doesn't replace public. i'm for an increase in the gas tax. it's real money for real problems that will solve real problems. 1994 was the last time the increase in a gas tax and we did index it to inflation. if you ask president clinton, he would have told you that was a mistake. a lesson when i became mayor, we raised the water rate over a four-year window and indexed it to inflation. i don't want another mayor or c...

System. i fundamentally believed you're not going to get from here to there, a 21st century transportation system for a 21st century economy without money. i'm open to public and private. we've done some of that. but it doesn't replace public. i'm for an increase in the gas tax. it's real money for real problems that will solve real problems. 1994 was the last time the increase in a gas tax and we did index it to inflation. if you ask president clinton, he would have told you that was a mistake. a lesson when i became mayor, we raised the water rate over a four-year window and indexed it to in...

System. >> and seriously, if you are under 21 and even alcohol in your system. >> i am a graduate of louisiana state university and i resent that, because i do not believe that every student at louisiana state university would fail a drug test. i must say. >> well, they are filling the classrooms. >> but, look at how we embed these invisible changes in our lives all of the time. and we are beginning to expect that for the so-called welfare clients, but last year we passed the estate tax that exempts $5 million from any taxation to what else? index it to inflation. minimum wage is an index to i...

Hand, there are studies on both sides. but jonas there is an argument that higher minimum wages reducing turnover, which lessens the costs of employers and could increase employments. >> you would never leave the job if you could get it, it's a pretty good wage. negatives and benefits. both sides of kind of right. if the minimum wage is low $2, it wouldn't disrupt the job market. if it's $50, high unemployment, but a-- there's obviously a level between there where the negatives would exceed the positives. there are positives, workers would get more money under the plan and not outsourced to ch...