it i mean, it s a little class warfarish, if you will. the president is really just doing something the democrats have always done which is talking about how the wealthier among us ought to be willing to pay their fair share, and for generations the wealthy among us were, and i actually think many of the wealthy among us still are, but the republicans don t want to do it. they are talking about jets. they are talking about warren buffett paying a lower tax rate than his secretary because it s something that people can understand, and it s something that people frankly don t like very much. when they find out you can respond to that, todd. here s the president earlier this week hitting republicans for using the class warfare argument against him. republicans are going around talking about, well, that s class warfare. you know what? if asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber is class warfare, then sign me up. sign me up. i ll wear that charge with a badge of ho
warren said i think it s ineffectual for this reason. he pays a higher tax rate than anybody else, contributes more taxes than anyone else and hires all of these people and gives them jobs and quite frankly, he s the indispensable person when it comes to job creation. but the factory owner, i think it s class warfare. does the gop think it can get any class warfare argument? i think they have gotten quite a bit of traction. it s dominated this entire week the president s jobs plan. i m sure the president would like to hear more excitement about the jobs plan but we re hearing people question whether it s fair to tax people that make more than that. but when you re talking about a million dollar salary and
go hard to win them back. i think the left believes in this country we don t have enough revenues. we need to raise taxes on rich people. the class warfare argument they like to rely on in an election year. i think the president believes it s in his best interest to do that. it may be good politics for him with his political base but it s the wrong track to get this country back on track economically. martha: get ready for a huge showdown at the u.n. this week. the president and rick perry both in new york. they are facing off over the issue of israel and why this may be a pivotal week for hillary clinton s future. bill: look above. a huge satellite plunging towards planet earth. could you be in the line of fire?
$50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million? anybody who says we can t change the tax code to correct that, anyone who has signed some pledge to protect every single tax loophole so long as they live, they should be called out. they should have to defend that unfairness. unfairness. how do they get around the fact that it is just blatantly unfair, dana? i think sometimes the problem is the president gets bogged down in this debate about how much we cut from this program, $10 billion here, $100 billion here. he doesn t speak to that larger issue. he did that today. he said, this isn t about the ledger or the balance sheet. it is about what s fair. that s why i think he should invite that class warfare argument there because he may find the republicans will back down. but at the very least, he s finally going to have people in
result, you don t have to make a choice. you can later do spending cuts. but it increases growth, and it stimulates economy and a tax debt at the same time. bret: okay, last thing. down the row quickly. does he go for the long ball, does he go for that in this speech? no, he does partisan and political and short. he ll do the class warfare argument. i think he promises something like that if he gets a second term. he goes aggressive when the republicans don t want to buy on to the rest of what is in the package he blames them. bret: next up, the 2012 race on the g.o.p. side.