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Where everything is made here, prices will be higher and -- open economy things will be elsewhere, prices will go down but wages won't go as much. >>a put that chart up. and it's worth showing because when we see this, sl average hourly rages in this country, $26.25. it's up 2.5% from last year. this is too little money. you can't be weltdy or prosperous on that kind of money. put in you want to be a manufacturing economy that makes cheap goods and exports them, this is many times high certificate than all sort sorts of is these other places. >> if you look at per cap at that income in the uni...

A year? chris, this is about people's lives. this is benefitting and helping people. a single woman less than $6,200 with two children. come on. get real. stop the politics. do what is right. build a strong economy. keep our folks healthy. we have a lean system. in fact, we have one of the leanest systems in all of america. i don't have room to cut. that's the problem with the per cap. i can't go back and cut. do i tell the single woman i'm taking it down to $5,000 a year? these are real people and real numbers and unfortunately the rhetoric of political campaign has come in and it will do gra...

Curb your enthusiasm. [applause] >> by the way, the impression larry david does of you is spectacular and uncan any. >> some day you may also have somebody poke fun at you. got to work on it, though. >> all i need is a bunch of left wing comedy writers to -- hold on. i was in the middle of making a point. >> it's a long point, ted of the we're running out of time here. >> bernie likes to glory fie socialism, but if you look at the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever seen, it's the american free enterprise system. [applause] >> there is a reason millions of people risk their lives ...

In denmark my guess is, plooes correct me if i'm wrong probably the per cap at that cost of health care is half of what it is in the united states. is that a good guess. >> approximately, yes. >> so the point is they are able to run a high quality healthcare system, probably better than ours at half of the cost because it's a public healthcare system. but to answer to your point, and it's a fair point, nothing is for free. so i believe in a kind of society that's different from ted's. i want to see all of our people, the young people, the old, the poor, the working class, be able to get the ed...

Office. i'm not. so i believe, yes, that when we're paying twice as much per cap at that as the people in denmark or the people in canada, i happen to believe that hell care is a human right and that every man, woman and child should have the right to hell care as an american citizen. >> senator sanders, i just want to ask a follow-up because to be clear danish citizens pay the highest tax rate of all developed nations. united states on had that list ranks 32nd. denmark number one. do you think americans are ready to pay taxes like that? >> if we can have sensible discussions like this, yeah, ...