at a fair rate. but it has to be realistic. can we tax unrealized gains? should we tax inrealized gains or focus our energy on taxing high income earners with the marginal rate by 2.6% and with a very high wealth, high earner 3% sur tax. to me what we did with the ways and means committee product is more predictable, certainly clearly constitutional and what i can t understand is why is it that we re avoiding taking what we know will work and coming up with ideas that are unclear when to a great extent we re talking about taxes derived from many of the same people. i don t think people will say i don t think those that are high wealth earners will say something like i don t mind paying more taxes but at least you didn t increase the marginal rate. that s not realistic.
energy and china when he was campaigning. he promised us thousands of green jobs. he shut down drilling in the gulf more or less. he hasn t replaced them with another industry. in china he simply hasn t acted. that trade debt is choking the economy, there s not enough demand for what americans make and the economy doesn t move forward. he doesn t have a compliant congress at the moment, specifically parts of the house of representatives. that s true. the reason he doesn t is because he squandered his first year. now as a consequence, the country elected a congress that wants a change in direction. the congress for its part doesn t seem much capable of providing it. to say mr. obama is alone in not getting us out of this mess would not be fair. the republicans aren t providing a path either. this is a senior fellow at demos and author of it takes a pillage, epic power, deceit and untold trillions. the americans condition to give president obama low marks, only 9% say t
u.s. he simple hasn t aktd. that trade debt is choking the economy, there s not enough demand for what americans make and the economy doesn t move forward. he doesn t have a compliant congress, specifically the house of representatives. that s true. the reason he doesn t is because he squandered his first year. now as a consequence, the country elect add congress that wants a change in direction. the congress for its part doesn t seem much capable of providing it. to say mr. obama is alone in getting us out of this mess isn t fair. the republicans aren t providing a path either. the author of it takes a pillage an epic tale of power, deceit and untold trillions. welcome. the public gives president obama trouble on the economy. only 9% said better, 37 made it worse. 37% said he made it worse. is the president a victim of the economy or has he exacerbated here. certain policies haven t made things better. on the other hand, it s because those policies haven t really a