29, and june 3rd on cspans and cspan. Org. Announcer this week on q a, author and journalist t. R. Reid. He discusses his book a fine mess a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. Brian t. R. Reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in Chapter Three under taxes what are they good for . With on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it . Tom of course. Said,t teacher of ethics lets get out of the classroom and go over to the synagogue for todays lesson because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. What happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 ducets in the plate. Maybe two rows back, an even fancier guy puts 2000 ducets in the plate. Finally, a gets back to the public row, where the poor people
Im lee pai hong. And im kerry sayers. And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. The 80s. A decade we celebrate often for its music, s movies and its loud fashion. All delivered 24 7 to our homes through the increasingly popular, and available, cable television. Rising awareness of a hole in the ozone layer and the stock exchanges black monday crash. Its a decade often remembed fondly by those who ved it. Perhaps because of advances in chnology or the economic and political calm impact of those 10 yrs on pop culture had a more mesmerizing effect than the years that came oments that defined that 80 we begin witthe event could summarize it all big, colorful and over the top. It was the major happening that invited every single american to stand shoulder to sulder with celebrities, each playing an equal role. Its name, like its goal was hands across america and when it took place it consumed us all. It took place it consumed us all. Yes all right ten untdown . Everybody c
Think they have against a person, and then the decision whether someone should be convicted of a crime or so the decision should be by the u. S. Government do we want to prosecute that person. If the answers now, you need to release them. If you think they have done something thats worthy of detention, then the u. S. Government needs to bring them to court and try them. Host Theresa Duncan is the counsel for mohamedou slahi, author of guantanamo diary. Thanks for your time. Guest thank you. Host and booktvs live coverage of the tucson book festival continues. Now theres another author panel today. Were going to bring it to you live. Its entitled money and influence, and well let the moderator introduce the panelists. After the panel, gilbert gall, who has written about sports and money, will be joining usanothe. Live coverage from tucson. I rate for the nation seen and we are live on. You can applaud when you hear things you like. You will also be asking questions to be ready for it. T
That our rights do not come from , government, our rights do not come from laws, our rights do not come from leaders, our rights come from god. [applause] senator rubio our government does not exist to decide these rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. That is why we have a constitution that limits the power of the government to a few specific things. We have abandoned that. We have abandoned it in both political parties. We have reached a moment in our history where we think every problem in america has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in america does not have to have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in america do not have a federal government solution, as most problems are created by the government to begin with. [applause] senator rubio and, so, to move forward in a better direction, it does me be embracing a nd following the first amendment. It is not just the right to believe anything you want, but the right to l
I be working in office across the room from some guy doing the same work at that guy, and i am making . 79 on a dollar . [cheers] that gap is even wider for africanamerican women. [cheers] is why i know that every man in this room will stand with the women in the fight for pay equity. [cheers] this campaign is listening to young couples with little babies. Babies for bernie sen. Sanders every psychologist knows the most important years of Human Development is 0 t hrough 4. Is that right . If that is the case, why should it be that working couples all over this country are finding it extremely difficult to find quality, affordable childcare . [cheers] we can create hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs by making short that our kids have ,elleducated, welltrained taking care of the littlest and youngest amongst us. [cheers] and this campaign is listening to our latino brothers and sisters. [cheers] and they are saying they are tired of living in fear. And they want to see, as i do, c