civilized society. we all need to pay our fair share. john: progressives say taking from the rich to help the poor is the fairest system. no. the fairest system is the one that rewards the makers in society as opposed to rewarding the takers in society. reporter: arthur brooks wrote the battle which argues a fight between free enterprise and big government will shape our future. our culture is moving towards more redistribution, more taxation, loading more taxes on to the top earners in our society. john: but i m wealthy it is kind to take it from me and give people who need it more. actually, it is not. the government does not create wealth, it uses wealth that has been created by the private sector. americans are in open rebellion today, because the government is threatening to take us from a maker nation into taker nation status. john: a taker nation? there are plenty of takers.
it costs to live in a civilized society. we all need to pay our fair share. john: progressives say taking from the rich to help the poor is the fairest system. no. the fairest system is the one that rewards the makers in society as opposed to rewarding the takers in society. reporter: arthur brooks wrote the battle which argues a fight between free enterprise and big government will shape our future. our culture is moving towards more redistribution, more taxation, loading more taxes on to the top earners in our society. john: but i m wealthy it is kind to take it from me and give people who need it more. actually, it is not. the government does not create wealth, it uses wealth that has been created by the private sector. americans are in open rebellion today, because the government is threatening to take us from a maker nation into taker nation status. john: a taker nation?
probably not the best course of action. basing postseason bans on graduation rates, penalizes the wrong students. the ncaa currently uses a complex point system to ban teams from postseason play but it s much harder to get kicked out. many colleges think it s the fairest system. as for the president of butler i didn t think the ncaa would go for it, but i d be in support of it. reporter: he s all for the tougher system. gary tuchman, cnn, indianapolis. let s take a look at some of the headlines this hour. a 6.9 magnitude earthquake and a string of aftershocks in western china have killed an estimate 400 people and injured 10,000. reps cuers managed to pull 900 people out alive from rubble of villages, this comes two years after another quake rocked china killing 87,000 people, many of them children in shoddily constructed schools. in poland, the remain of more than 30 victims have finally come home from saturday s plane kicial that killed lech kaczynski and other
yet, some people say we should pay more. all those taxes are just fine, say progressives. it costs to live in a civilized society. we all need to pay our fair share. john: progressives say taking from the rich to help the poor is the fairest system. no. the fairest system is the one that rewards the makers in society as opposed to rewarding the takers in society. reporter: arthur brooks wrote the battle which argues a fight between free enterprise and big government will shape our future. our culture is moving towards more redistribution, more taxation, loading more taxes on to the top earners in our society. john: but i m wealthy it is kind to take it from me and give people who need it more. actually, it is not. the government does not create wealth, it uses wealth that has been created by the private sector. americans are in open
long. so many taxes. i need a drink. i m lucky i don t smoke. yet, some people say we should pay more. all those taxes are just fine, say progressives. it costs to live in a civilized society. we all need to pay our fair share. john: progressives say taking from the rich to help the poor is the fairest system. no. the fairest system is the one that rewards the makers in society as opposed to rewarding the takers in society. reporter: arthur brooks wrote the battle which argues a fight between free enterprise and big government will shape our future. our culture is moving towards more redistribution, more taxation, loading more taxes on to the top earners in our society. john: but i m wealthy it is kind to take it from me and give people who need it more.