Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio
Debated as did sarah palin and joe biden. Nothing has been anything close to this debate and what we have seen leading up to. The pressure on donald trump tonight is enormous. He has come under immense fire with several demanding that he withdraw from the ticket and allow mike pence or rnc to select somebody else. There were reports that mike pence would be seeing how donald trump before he decides his course forward. We should point out that the polls before this incident with the audio that we have seen and cable news, we are heading the wrong direction for donald trump. On the flip side you have Hillary Clinton who is dealing with the wiki leaks emails and all of the different transcripts and speeches to wall street firms that specifically Say Something completely different than what she said on the primary frailtrail. Not only that. Trump has raised the stakes by having the Facebook Event with four women, three of whom are accusing bill clinton of having sexually assaulted them. No
Debated as did sarah palin and joe biden. Nothing has been anything close to this debate and what we have seen leading up to. The pressure on donald trump tonight is enormous. He has come under immense fire with several demanding that he withdraw from the ticket and allow mike pence or rnc to select somebody else. There were reports that mike pence would be seeing how donald trump before he decides his course forward. We should point out that the polls before this incident with the audio that we have seen and cable news, we are heading the wrong direction for donald trump. On the flip side you have Hillary Clinton who is dealing with the wiki leaks emails and all of the different transcripts and speeches to wall street firms that specifically Say Something completely different than what she said on the primary frailtrail. Not only that. Trump has raised the stakes by having the Facebook Event with four women, three of whom are accusing bill clinton of having sexually assaulted them. No
If you lead with an issue, lead like you have conviction, you can get peoples attention. Its amazing. Thats why sometimes i shouldnt say this on the air i fantasize that maybe joe shoot all the Political Consultants because they dont understand how you get a message across in a way that the American People can grasp and say, yes, this is the way we should go. Host you have been talking about the flat tax for a long time. Your second book what flat texas resolution. Your moe recent book is reviving america. What is a flat tax. Guest it takes the current code, get rid of it. A couple years ago the taxwriting committee in congress, tried to rationalize the current code. The bill came in at 997 pages, which tells you all you need to know. So bury the tax code but the epa may not allow it, its so tox. But throw away the code, put in a sinkle rate. We friend the book 17 . General his exemptions for adults and children, nobody gets a tax increase in this thing. For example, a family of four,
He wanted deck holders around the country to have a stake in a success of this New Enterprise so he took the shambles of the debt situation from the revolutionary war rationalized it and he established the mans. He got a system of finance going that was critical and unappreciated by historians. Maybe people will look atge hamilton in a more serious way. The critical reason why we went from a small east coast nation largely farming to the mightiest industrial nation in the world within 100 years come extraordinary and even more impressive than what written did hamilton put the system and that made that possible and we take it for granted raves to make every have you seen hamilton on broadway . Guest i havent. It will probably be three years before i can get a ticket. They are hard to get. Host 202 is the area code if you want to continue with her conversation is steve forbes free will put the phone line and social media dresses up and we are going to put up the text addressed by this is