really helpful to the communities that adopt it? yes! first, thriving small businesses need support. they hire accountants, cashiers and contractor who is spend their wages locally. second, small businesses pay more in local taxes and their taxes pay for roads, schools, and social services. third, according to some studies, communities only get one out of every hundred dollars spent online. they get 15 times as much from the big box retailers in their towns, but local communities can see upwards of $45 of every $100 spent in independent stores. in fact, the local first campaign found in the greater des moines area, shifting 5% of the area spending from big box stores to local retailers generated more than $1 billion for the community and created more than 6,000 jobs. thank you all so much for
gentlemen, great to have both of you you with us. david, you first. if paul ryan got his way on everything, what type of life would a poor person lead in this country and what kind of opportunity would they have? hell on earth and remember, ryan also wants to increase military spending because we spend more than 40% of all the mill area spending in the world and he doesn t think that is enough. so clearly mr. ryan s view is that our fundamental problem is that the poor have too much and the rich don t have enough. and you at least should give him credit for being honest in his budget for what he s proposing. they will vote for this on thursday. it will probably pass. it s as radical as we ve seen, yet can t even get a vote on extended unemployment on the floor, complaint get a vote on the minimum wage, can t get a vote on the paycheck fairness act which we ll talk more about later. wi mr. greenwalt, is ryan s budget