o rourke, 15.6%. joining me now, nbc news political reporter alex, who obtained this report. you got this. tell us a little bit about it. i think beto being in first place there a bit of a surprise, although there s been a lot of buzz about him lately. move on, how big is the membership? who are the folks here choosing him? so this is the first straw poll of 2020 of move on members. move on is a very large progressive advocacy group. millions of members across the country. been around for about 30 years. these are kind of the door knockers, the phone bankers, the small donors of the democratic party, or at least a lot of them. these are people who are going to be very involved and active in the democratic primary process, why we re interested to see where their temperature is right now. i was surprised to see beto o rourke at the top of this
continuing growth rate of modest improvement is one thing. we should encourage it. if the companies if you take the case of apple, they re going to clear something like $225 billion because they re going to be able to repatriate the profits and they gave one- tenth of 1% of that as a one -time bonus to their employee s in the u.s.. neil: but they re also investing , wait a minute they re also investing 350 billion, austin austin you re quite right to say yes could they give more but it sounds like you re complaining, but austin, austin, they re investing $350 billion in this country over the next 10 years. scores of other companies doing the same now can they do more should they do more might they do more like you say i have no idea but i am saying that none of this, austin none of this would have happened if there wasn t 15.6% rate on money held
you do to pursue that end. absolutely. high quality employment is the one thing that will help the most veterans successfully readjust to society and to contribute proven time and time again. give self-respect, purpose to take care of your family, colleagues with a high-quality job in the support systems you need to successfully integrate back. the single best thing you can do. i want to pull up a graphic that the fact 15.6% of veteran jobseekers of other highly these are men and women who have given years of their life and
drive the markets here. neil: what would be more of a positive on you? you said neil, it s not about the sweeping cuts in rates, which is dramatic, but the tax holiday that the companies to bring their money back at 15.6%. they have to take advantage of it. they all probably will. they probably have more money than they know what to do with. so now they have to put it to work. so now they can do the best of both worlds. buy back stock and do what at&t and the others are doing, take care of their workers. taking care of workers is a great first step. what hasn t happened, if you look back over the entirety of this rebound since 2009, we have not seen the kind of investment, the kind of growth investment characteristics which propel a market forward. now, we ve had an unbelievable run since the 6,000 or so dow that we had in 2009. but we ve relied on the consumer to drive that.
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