you want to get government revenues up and make deficits look smaller by comparison. reduce spending and get the economy growing again. we aren t putting the right policies in place to do that. i know i harp on this a lot, i think most americans would feel more inspired to pay their taxes, more inspired to build their businesses if they saw any good example coming from washington. midwestern values, was waste people don t like waste in the midwest and sit here tonight and listen to all the discussions night after night here of the billions of dollars of waste, they must think what are you doing? i think that s why one of the reason this is such low approval ratings from the public. when you re from the west and we have a balanced budget- not to criticize everybody else in the country. i m not saying that. is there an ethic you don t spend what you don t have and have to live within your means. it s a common sense thing most people around the country get.
taxes. you want to get government revenues up and make deficits by comparison. you want to get the economy growing again and we are not putting the right policies in place in order to do that. i know i harp on this a lot. but i think most americans would be more inspired to pay their taxes and build their businesses if they saw any good example coming from washington. you know, the midwestern values, people don t like waste in the midwest. and they sit here and listen to all the discussions night after night after night here of the billions in waste. and they must think what in the world are y all doing? and i think there is a reason why there is such low approval ratings. and you re right, when you come from an area like the midwest. we have a balanced budget amendment. that i am saying that there is an ethic that you can t spend money you don t have. you have to live within your means. and i think that is sort of a
i would say you hold a contractor, they re motivated to make the best profit they can as they should by the way. they will cut costs in order to do that. unless you lose all government revenues because you screw up. does the police department did a great job? they do a great job here in new york. this is an essential service. the army does a good job and private manning leaked classified information. what is the argument that an essential service just because it s a government, just because it might happen to be with a union, will do a lousy job? gary, you have the last word on this. the argument is simple. we just want the best people whether it s from the unions or not. the issue is using the political side of it, going after one guy who we already called him a few names and using them to get more of your people in there. i don t want that. i want things done right. i want the best people for the
norquist is that in 2012, and this is an important point to make, revenue is the percentage of gdp was 15.8%. that was the lowest that it has been in 60 years. the last time we had a balanced budget under clinton in 2000 revenue was a percentage of gdp of over 20%. my concern right now is that you have one out of four major corporations who are paying zero in taxes at a time when corporate profits are at an all time high. if we are serious about deficit reduction, you don t cut social security. you don t cut medicare. you don t cut disabled vets benefits. what you do is ask the wealthy and large, profitable corporations. some of them paying zero in taxes after making billions in profits. they ve got to start contributing to deficit reduction. go ahead, grover. what s wrong with that? well everything. the reason why we have very low government revenues is so many people are unemployed and income
day. say, hey, listen mr. obama, look what happened over the last four years. businesses had to cutback and stop spending. and by doing that a lot of corporations actually inc increased their bottom line. what the government wants to do is bring in more revenue by taxing but keep spending the same amount. at the end of the day nothing changes. they need to give president obama a business 101 course, stop spending and bring in more revenue. the budget is actually going to grow even if the sequester were to go into place okay. the budget would grow. the federal government would continue spending even more. we are on a trajectory that is unsustainable here. bill: could you bend that curve with different policy? sure, i am ever hopeful that, and you allowed american business to be incensted to do business, brings would tkpwroerbgs it would list government revenues, it would lift this economy out of its f u.n. k and improve hiring.