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Texas college officials head to Austin to make funding requests from state legislature FacebookTwitterEmail The Texas State Capitol building stands in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, June 2, 2016. Steve Adler, Austin's mayor, thinks he can put his stamp on the city by burnishing its reputation as an exciting playground for experiments in urban transportation. One of his political priorities is to seek millions in federal funding to promote a so-called smart city plan based on autonomous buses, sensors that know which parking spaces are available and, yes, a culture of ridesharing. Photograp...

People like pete buttigieg, he's running around promising to cut america's prison population in half, the top 50%. rapists, murderers, they're out. corey booker promises to release a drug lord calling him a nonviolent offend. every candidate supports de facto open borders in mexico, sanctuary cities are everywhere. they're all connected by a thread, all attacks on law and order. but there's a deeper problem, what they really are, attacks on society itself. they're having an effect. the biggest cities are filled with homeless even campments, tie fuss and bubonic plague has returned to los angel...

Jedediah: already. ed: talking taxes. watch. >> once you get to like the tippy top on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70% as you climb up this ladder. you should be contradicting more. only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. abraham lincoln made the radical decision to sign the emancipation proclamation. franklin delano rose vet made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like social security. if that's what radical means call me a radical. ed: when you look at the study something like the top 50% of the wealthy right ...

The average family of four, $2200 a year. >> arthel: joining me now is jeffrey kupfer, former executive director of george w. bush's panel on federal tax reform let's jump right here. thanks for being here so does the senate bill benefit the middle class now and in the future? >> hi, arthel. it's good to be here today. yes it actually does very much. when you look at where the benefits of the bill go and you look at every bracket that every income bracket you see significant relief in every one of the brackets. the thing that's really important to remember when you think about the tax code is ...

>> this increasing inequality and rising inequality when there's greater inequality. >> 26 times in a recent speech, president obama complained about a growing inequality in america. the question is, how much will he do about it? >> we have a tax system that could be more fair to the middle class. >> but does a close look at the tax code suggest it's unfair? the top 50%, those with incomes over $35,000, pay 97% of all federal income taxes. the top 10%, earning over $120,000, 68%. while the top 1%, those earning over $388,000, pay 35% of all federal income taxes. >> the more that politicians pu...