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went to washington, d.c. yesterday to call for higher tax on wealthy americans and tara dowdell is with us. democratic consultant. great to have both of you with us. nick, you first. thank you for having us. what kind of impact can you have on lawmakers? you have quite a group put together. wealthy americans who said, look at my finances, this is what we can do, this is what we ve got to do. what kind of impact can you have? i think it s important to make the argument to these lawmakers that not only are we willing to be taxed more, but more particularly, that the prosperity of the country depends on us being taxed more. this fiscal cliff issue and the campaign itself was an argument between two competing ideas about where prosperity and jobs come from. the republican trickle-down idea if you pour money into somebody like me like an ingredient jobs will pop out of us like donuts or the alternative, which is middle out economics, in a
let s turn to nick hanauer who went to washington, d.c. yesterday to call for higher tax on wealthy americans and tara dowdell is with us. democratic consultant. great to have both of you with us. nick, you first. thank you for having us. what kind of impact can you have on lawmakers? you have quite a group put together. wealthy americans who said, look at my finances, this is what we can do, this is what we ve got to do. what kind of impact can you have? i think it s important to make the argument to these lawmakers that not only are we willing to be taxed more, but more particularly, that the prosperity of the country depends on us being taxed more. this fiscal cliff issue and the campaign itself was an argument between two competing ideas about where prosperity and jobs come from. the republican trickle-down idea if you pour money into somebody like me like an ingredient jobs will pop out of us like donuts or the alternative, which is middle out economics, in a capitalist econ
on wealthy americans and tara dowdell is with us. great to have both of you with us. thank you for having us. what kind of impact can you have on lawmakers? you have quite a group put together. wealthy americans who said, look at my finances, this is what we have to do. what kind of impact can you have? i think it s important to make the argument to these lawmakers that not only are we willing to be taxed more, but more particularly, that the prosperity of the country depends on us being taxed more. this fiscal cliff issue and the campaign itself was an argument between two competing ideas about where prosperity and jobs come from. the republican trickle-down idea if you pour money into somebody like me like an ingredient jobs will pop out of us like donuts or the alternative, which is middle out economics, in a capitalist economy it comes from
those who labeled him an immigrant and a tax cheat are wrong. we begin this evening with an important lesson in attack politics. a plan no matter how controversial or audatious is useless unless someone is willing to bank roll it. at the moment, no one is willing to pay the estimated $10 million price tag to implement this plan. the defeat of barack hussein obama but think again. i repudiate that effort. i think it is the wrong course for a pack or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues. you heard governor romney there. implementing this campaign. this is about the president s past, more specifically, his two decades of attending the chicago church with the controversial pastor, jeremiah wright. he want us to sing god bless america, no, no, not god bless america, god damn america. that s in the bible, for killing innocent people. now, in the pitch trying to sell this plan to a superpac, gop ad guru wrote, while mu