government services. david: we have all criticized. you seem to think the poor are some dennis go ahead. at what level quentin do you think a person shouldn t pay income tax? plenty of low income people own hd tv sets, their own car, their own home, yet they can t afford to give the government $1,000? i know a gal who runs an l.a. charity tarted charging for the first time [ talking over each other ] it gives them a stake in improving their lives. i think we could do the same if more americans start paying i m a hedge fund manager, i pay 15%, shouldn t i pay 17? dennis is right, it is not a coincidence that government spending as a percentage of the overall economy has increased just as the amount of families that pay all about greedy poor people. when people think they are
for the middle and create a massive debt. we payoff the debt by taxing the poor? no, i don t think so, bad idea. david: dennis? do the poor amount to 40 or 45% of the people in the delay don t pay federal income tax? we used to worry about the haves and the have nots. the bigger divide today is the taxed and taxed not. 45% of u.s. household now get social security, medicare, unemployment payments. 45% get it, 45% don t pay taxes these people are never going to be in favor of cutting government spending. 1% controls 25% of the wealth but pays 40% of federal taxes. let s tax them more? it won t work any more. david: we do the this constituency knew is into government so deep we are never gonna get out. curious we have conservatives like mike who are sensitive to how taxes might depress the work effort
checking passports? we are so politically correct we are afraid to do any kind of check on people s background. no, i think connecting the data dots looking at where someone has traveled, we should be doing that. when you throw race into the mix or someones ethnicity, i don t think we are going to get good data. look at the profile of terrorists [ talking over each other ] we re talking behavior. [ talking over each other ] david: hold on. dennis if we talk about behavior, more money. it costs more to train people. we are not going to be talking tsa guys. more like what they have at el al. dennis can we afford it? the big problem is, we have the presumption we have to check 99.9% of all travelers because of the one in a million who is going to try to do something bad. if we try to work on csi and