Is theyre what weve had for 10 years. Businesses have made their plans predicated on a tax rate. I dont think we should increase the tax rates on anybody. I dont care if youre rich, middle class or poor. We shouldnt divide up people. We should divide people into two sectors. Private sector, public sector. I dont want to grow the public sector, i want to grow the private sector. So that means means, leaving as much money in the private sector as possible. I dont want to tax anybody any more to take any money out of the private sector. Why . Because thats where jobs have created. Weve tried this before, the vilify cation of the rich. We tried this one time having is certain surtax on yachts, same as having one on millionaires and anything else. The things we lost were men and women making 50,000 60,000 a year making the yachts. What happens is it doesnt work. Its hard to punish one set of people. Also very not american to say i want to go after those successful people. It also ignores th
But three years ago, i made the decision to go back and use what i know i am in a unique situation to take what i know and apply it to the Education Community and say we can make special education better. There are ways we can use the data we collect. I have to say i am a little proud of this, too. I am proud of standing up at this point of time. I wanted to be a politician. I did not do it because i wanted power. I did it because, after september 11, i wanted to find a way to serve my country. I was too old to join the army. I thought about applying to the fbi. I should never have a gun in my hand. [laughter] this, i can do. I can stand up and speak and contribute to the conversation. I am very proud of this and proud of you guys because everybody has talked to me and said, we can do better. We, the electorate, can increase the conversation. We can make government better. I will answer the other part of the question, something i would take back. I was offered a job at amazon. [laughte
I remember someone who came to me and his son had been sentenced on his first drug offense to 15 and a half years to a state penitentiary. On the day president clinton left the white house, he signed a president ial pardon saving Cory Springfield a decade in a federal penitentiary. There is someone sitting in a federal penitentiary today with a 55year sentence for selling marijuana on three occasions because the informant said there was a gun around. Not that he had used it. So a gun enhancement, mandatory gun enhancement from the judge that entered the sentence said it was an outrage. It was unjust. But 55 years. This is the kind of human toll in this country. We dont just need to legalize marijuana, we need to end drug prohibition, just like we ended alcohol prohibition and treat drug use and abuse as a Public Health and education issue and get it entirely out of the criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] we have the highest incarceration rate. We have 5 of the worlds populat
From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, this morning people in jamaica bracing for a direct hit from sandy. Thats right, residents are busy, very busy, boarding up their homes and stocking up on supplies, and depending where this storm goes, it has the potential to cause real problems for southern florida and the east coast as well. Al is going to explain the track of the storm in a few minutes. Eligible for parole today for the First Time Since his conviction in the 1975 murder of his young neighbor Martha Moxley. On a much lighter note, this is something youre going to love, a thrilling finish to a High School Football game to a kicker who gets the winning field goal. Thats not what makes the story so great, that kicker is living with autism. And were going to get a first look at letters from the queen mother just released and the lessons they could bring for todays royal family. Lets start wi
The. Not when it is sucked up by the School District itself and so until we shine a light on return on investment for these expenditures i think we will continue to live in a world where we spend more money per kid but dont get the results. Talk about student voucher tell us how you change your thinking on this interesting topic. This topic gets people really riled up if you want to have the debate just bring up the word voucher. I am a democrat and have spent my entire life when i asked my dad the difference he said democrats care more about the people that have less than republican make more money and i said i made democrat and i have been ever since. So when i got to washington d. C. I had clear views about what education reform should look like right to allied with the vouchers because the democrats think they are bad because you take the money away from the pork that needed them or let the core that need it the most but when i arrived in washington there is a publicly funded Vouch