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Illustrates how impactful this infrastructure bill is going to be, lawrence in ohio and all across the country. communities like cincinnati that have been dying for this bridge, increased productivity, increased safety. worked closely with sherrod broun to get the build american buy american provision in this so we are actually buying american steel and products to be able to build this stuff. this is huge and you'll see it go throughout the supply chain. i said, lawrence, this is the most pro business bill i've seen in my time in congress because it is going to increase productivity, facilita...

Believe it crowded and i feel comfortable in doing so. let let's not take away that c comfortability. >> schools are one part of covid. if you win the general election, the biggest challenge you'll face is crime and we talked about that but you mentioned taxpayer money and new york passed a so-called millionaire's tax during covid that made the personal income tax rate the highest in the united states. the top 1% of new yorkers alone and eric, i know you know these numbers but some listening that don't, they paid nearly half the income tax collected in 2018. 42.5% paid by the top 1% of new yor...

To pretend it didn't happen. let me ask you about a project that nancy pelosi has put you in charge of. as a former constituent of your district, it seems very appropriate that she asked you. >> yeah, you're talking about the select committee on economic disparity and fairness and growth. it plays into the thing we were just talking about, which is disparity in this country, economic disparity is as bad as it ever has been. the top 1% is doing as well relative to everyone else as it has done. it becomes corrosive to our politics and economy and offends us morally at some point. >> my former di...

If they ever went through with that, but she's worried about national figures like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren talking about something that because that would mean moving out of the country if done federally. are you worried that this tax push could go too far and do more harm than good? >> no, i think this pac tax pushes would be something really healthy for the country and what i've heard on your network the last couple of weeks, the top 1% they're paying 040% of taxes when they used to pay 39, that's because they got richer during the pandemic and we got poorer and the richest 400 a...

Said between world war i and 2017, that generates $90 billion into the additional treasury for the year, per year. that could put hundreds of thousands of people to work. to modernize our roads, our bridges, our ports, our airports, and pay for it. [ applause ] >> pay for it. put people to work to make sure every american has access to high-speed internet, so businesses can compete in the 21st century. kids in every community can get ahead. another choice. we can ask the top 1% of the taxpayers in america to pay the same tax rate they paid when george w. bush was president. do you know how muc...