any time and you will be punished for wrong answer. all always i ll remind the true genuine live audience, please no outbusts. contestants deserve and demand absolute con trags. are you ready to play the championship game? yes. sure. yes. they are ready. we re 300 seconds from knowing our national champion. we ll put 100 seconds on the clock. this is the 100 point round. in a federal budget proposal cutting over $5 trillion over the next decade, it was also proposed that the subsidies for what railroad be eliminated. alex. am truck track. george w. bush repealed portraits on the today show yesterday including one of his tony player. tony blair is correct. 25 years after its basketball
team won the ncaa championship, president obama called for a raise in the federal minimum wage while speaking university of michigan. speaking at university of michigan on wednesday. this is the instant bonus question for another 100 points. who is the only president of the united states to have graduated from the university of michigan? i have no idea. the answer is gerald ford. okay. michigan football star. no pemt for kate there. 100 point question. it was reported this week that talks are underway for a sequel to the 2006 academy award winning documentary alex. inconvenient truth. that is the correct answer. 100 points for alex. jonathan gold smith who was on capitol hill this week to raise awareness about land mine removal is better known as the most interesting man in the world, the main character for ads for this beer. ag alex.
reform. if this was supposed to be the work that republicans gave up the ghost on repealing obamacare, it doesn t work out that way. the courthouse said they exceeded their goal of getting 7 million americans to sign up for health care. president obama time-outed that big accomplishment, sent a clear message to the law s opponents. the debate over repealing this law is over. the affordable care act is here to stay. well what just days later the house voted for the 55th time to scale back some or all of obamacare. republicans were joined by 18 democrats in an effort to raise the hours. the redumeanwhile the house committee on oversight and gof reform was hosting a hearing. and then there was louisiana governor bobby again dal who revealed his own plan of sorts. i m certainly for repealing the obamacare law but i think we need to show the american people we ve got a better plan to lower health care costs and do what the president promised he was going to do in 2008. his
the missing airline s communications were deliberately disabled and it veered off of course by the actions of someone on board. these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane. in view of this latest development, the malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board. despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, i wish to be very clear. we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused mh 370 to deviate from its original flight path. the prime minister also says that investigators also believe the airliner knew for more than 7 hours after turning back from its flight path. the plane headed west. investigators are trying to trace the plane across two possible new flight routes, a northern accorder and a southern corridor which heads out over the indian ocean. there are reports that the jet experienced sharp changes in altitude after it lost contact with air traffic control, first u
that s correct. let s take that and invest it in infrastructure. let s capitalize in infrastructure bank. that would be one way of interesting getting a lot of people interested, including good politicians, in that idea. but the question of what to do with those revenues if you did tax corporations on this is a huge sticking point. alex, i think it s important to debunk one of the principles here, which is we ve got to lower the corporate tax rate because then we ll create jobs. as pointed out, it is a lie, basically. u.s. corporations need lower taxes to make investments and new jobs. wrong. corporations are sitting on $2 trillion worth of cash, which is what jared just said, that they don t know what to do with. the largest corporations alone are hoarding almost $1 trillion. and to the idea that somehow u.s. corporate tax rates are higher than the tax rates of other economies the u.s. has an effective corporate tax rate of 27.1% compared to 27.7% in the other large economies of t