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Realized it would most likely lose the argument so the speech goes on and whether you like it or not it s free speech in this country. whether you hate the speech, you can t violate it based on its content. jon: unfortunate it s costing half a million dollars for security for this one speech. yeah. jon: phil keating in gainesville. thank you. melisa: wall street marking 30 years since the worst single day losses in stock market history october 19th, 1987. better known as black monday. the dow jones fell more than 500 points. 22% at the time. in today s dow that would be more than 5,000 points. can you imagine that? analysts say a repeat of such a steep drop is unlikely now but according to mnuchin the market will take a sizeable hit if the congress doesn t get tax reform. ....
Four deaths in the days after it happened in a faraway place. most americans don t understand what we re doing there. now it s getting thousands of times more coverage because it s about trump and the media and partisans on both sides have made it into another trump controversy. that is depressing. melisa: charlie hurt has always supported the president vocly and he made a comment this morning that sometimes he starts to talk about something and he wants to charlie wants to hit the mute button saying don t go down this road. this isn t one to do. i know when he gets hit he wants to hit back. but it is just tough to watch the back and forth on this one and maybe some good can come of this in the sense that just like media said, the people on both sides pushing their agenda look bad. look at yourself for a minute and maybe it s time to kind of stop trying to make everything political. it is symbolic of what s going ....
it is not. other it s a fact that 08% of the benefits are going to the richest 1%. if you had cuts for working class people democrats would be for it. melisa: i look at the math and you are counting the corporate tax rate as going to individuals and saying it benefits individuals and not middle class people and how you get to that math and i do buy into that. you continue have to. cutting the corporate rate will mostly help people that are either corporate executives or have money parked in the market. the evidence that we are going to see a huge boom in employment is not really all that credible. i think you are making a stretch when you say having the corporate rate is a rate for middle income. i disagree. melisa: hang on, brad. it will unleash jobs, people are able to create their own businesses and julian, you have to admit the top 10% in our ....
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exactly. that s why i think democrats are going to miss an opportunity if they don t join in in a bipartisan effort to have generational tax reform in our country. it s not only about rates but also about getting rid of a code that is absolutely convoluted. over 90% of filers need help doing their taxes. we aren t competitive both corporately and personal income with rates of developing nations around the world and developed nations. it is unfair and we need it. it is 31 years in the making. melisa: elizabeth warren said it s immoral to slash taxes for the rich while sticking it to everyone else. i don t know how she gets that from this only if she is trying to say the corporate tax deduction somehow only benefits the rich. that s the only way i can see her math saying it s all the rich people getting the cut. not just her, the tax policy center which is widely regarded as a nonpartisan tax expert group which says 80% of the benefits of this plan will go to the richest 1%. ....