Thank you very much again for being here. Thank you, gary for joining us. Bright and early. The topic is taxes, taxes, taxes. Well start off with alabama. Original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague last night chl well go over that ground and more detail. And ask more some of the more longer term questions. Let me start off with something i did ask secretary last night. See how you answer it. Why is now a good time to be cutting taxes to be increasing the deficit significantly. Know estimates vary. This is a 1. 5 this will Immediate Tax cut. 78 of gdp. Total revenue is about 17 . Quite low. The economy is close to full employment. This is seems an unusual time to add such a huge amount to the deficit. Why now . So let me take that question into piece ts. You ask a loft different pieces in there. Lets start with the core issue here. When you look at whats happened to the u. S. Work force since the recession, yes we have created jobs. Were at 4. 1 unemployment ri
Please welcome them. [ applause ] good morning, thank you very much for being here. Thank you for joining us. So the topic of this session is taxes, taxes, taxes so well start off talking about alabama. Original, original, original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague the treasury secretary but i want to get in more detail and ask you some of the more detail. Let me start off with something i said with s. E. C. Theecretary. This is a one and a half trillion dollar Immediate Tax cut. Federal debt is already at 78 of gdp total federal revenues is at 17 , quite low by historical standards, the economy is close to full employment. This is this seems an unusual time historically to be adding such a huge amount to the deficit. Why now . So let me take that question to pieces because you ask a lot of different pieces in there and lets start with the core issue here. When you look at whats happened to the u. S. Work force since the recession, yes, weve created jobs. Were
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Attack earlier this week. Now, neighbors are taking action too. News4s Megan Mcgrath live with more on this. Megan . Reporter well, aaron, a number of bear sightings in the great falls area including one right behind me here behind the firehouse. Now, take a look at this picture that someone snapped of a one of the bears in the area. Its a decent sized bear Walking Around. You see the back section of the animal as it goes around a stone wall. It is also believed that a bear attacked a dog on river park lane earlier this week. Later today, trail cameras will be installed in the area near where the dog was attacked. The animal control officials are trying to figure out exactly what theyre dealing with and try and track this bear. On tuesday, 6yearold lab named blue was found with claw marks on her side. Her owner at first thought that she was attack by a raccoon but the vet said no, she was likely attacked by a bear. Now, blues family of course very concerned, this happened in their yard