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His family. what i realized is that these safety net programs, while they're -- i think governor romney would call them a handout or charity to billy, also benefit his employer because his employer has -- can pay low wages and have a fed employee and it benefits us, the consumers, because it keeps costs down. these are not just handouts to billy. this is a whole system we've created of protecting folks who are the working poor in our economy. we need to protect that. >> you know, when we talk about the relationship between income tax rates and inequality, i'm struck by the golden age in this t...

Today the issue is inequality. in the guest spot we welcome back sister simone campbell. how does raising taxes on the wealthy, as i think congress and the president should do, relate to social justice and inequality? >> first of all, what you need to know is that the wealthy would continue to have the tax breaks on the first $250,000 of their income. so everybody would keep a tax break. it would be just on income above $250,000. this is so important because the programs that we call safety net programs serve often the working poor like billy and his wife and two kids that we met in milwaukee ...