it s all piled on the backs of the most frail elderly, the people struggling in america and then you have the wealthiest asked to do nothing. to suggest in the ryan plan we reduce the overall tax rate for the wealthiest americans to 25% and ask 33 seniors each to pay $6400 more for $200,000 in tax breaks for the wealthy is crazy. dave. first, you have to recognize we need comprehensive tax reform. the top bon% of americans. exactly. who made $500,000 and over pay 18.8%. they don t pay 25 or 35. why? most of their income is capital gains. we need to dramatically broaden the tax base to keep rates low and move towards progressive consumption taxes because wealthy people spend out of their wealth not just their income. look, we re going to have to have more revenues as a percentage of the economy than we have because of dem graphics,
the pundits thought this would be in the 60s, but these teams struggled as you mentioned in the first half, 22-19 at half. butler was a big three-pointer at the end of the first half. we thought okay, these teams are a little nervous on the big stage. maybe they ll get their footing going in the second half. they really didn t, as they struggled. a 22-3 run by connecticut turned a six-point deficit into a 13-point lead and connecticut never looked back from there. but defense was the key, guys, in this game, as the connecticut huskies were able to hold the butler bull dogs to 18.8% shooting. that was the lowest in tournament history. connecticut, national champions for the third time. you know, you win, you win ugly, still national champs. the thing is they have good prospects for the next couple years. they had three freshmen starting and still won. they did. and this have a coach who is now in rare. jim calhoun, not only the oldest coach to win a national championship, he s only
a couple of times for all the wrong reasons, however. in basketball, you have to make shots and butler didn t make many of them. they shot a woeful 18.8% from the field, that is, in fact, a record. the old one stood since 1941 and it was so bad in one part of the game the announcers called butler s performance an unparalleled ineptitude. oh, come on. we can t forget uconn. they weren t lighting up the scoreboard either but a few long-scoring runs in the second half was too much for butler and in the end, uconn wins its third national championship, final score, uconn and let s get it all out. there he is right there. the man on top. some of you might remember our loyal world news now fans. willis was dead last for most of this competition. talk about coming from behind. he really was coming in last and
after the game, 18% shooting, 12 of 64 just is not going to win you any basketball game. we re just coming out of a locker room that s hurting, a locker room that s got a lot of pride because of the way our kids carried us this year. as i told them, i don t care if they make shots, you know. if we would have won and because i don t love them any less because we lost. you know, it s it s really hard to put that into words right now because we wanted a little bit more, but, you know, maybe maybe at some point we can look back and be, you know, proud of what this group has accomplished. so how about here are some of the numbers. 18.8% shooting. that s the lowest in the title of the history game. they made three two-point baskets.
added 12% jump of jobs and looking at growth, that doesn t necessarily correlate to how good their economy is, state by state. what about the states growing the most? what s the employment situation like there? take a state like texas, that is growing a lot. 18.8% growth. the unemployment rate high, 8.2%, below the national average and what texas has seen over the last decade, pretty much, more than a million jobs added. the reason is they have very low corporate tax rates. loose government regulation. businesses like to operate there, low home prices and no state income tax. but again, similar story here. growth doesn t always mean jobs. finally, take a look at nevada. nevada, we know the story there. they have grown a whopping 32.3% over the decade. they have the single highest unemployment rate in the