The proceedings from today are to be published and moreover potential to be discontinued by policy makers and advocates and consumers as part of the 2017 political agenda. Todays event is open to the press and is being live streamed and televised. For those who are not physically present, im told you can join in on twitter also using the votefood2016. There are also twitter handles were available for the speakers on the biopages. Please help us keep the conversation on social media and dont forget to add votefood2016. Oscar cabrera, executive director, sarah roach and allyson and alissa. Thank you to them. Welcome to georgetown from the Oneil Institute and it is my great pleasure to introduce to you as the next speaker david vladeck. David. Prof. Vladeck thank you very much. [applause] good morning, everybody. We have a busy day ahead of us and wonderful potentialists, before we get started, i want to point out that ive been slided, everyone else is the honorable and im not. So i wonde
When third no voices parties are excluded. Amy its official. When the first president ial debate takes place next a week monday, from today, it will exclude Third Party Candidates from the debate stage. The commission on president ial debates announced friday that both dr. Jill stein of the green party and libertarian gary johnson failed to qualify by polling at 15 or higher. What is this commission . Well get reaction from former third Party President ial candidate ralph nader. He has been excluded himself in the past. Then, what does it mean to break througugh power . It means citizens organizing, having fulltime advocates, and taking back the power from their elected officials who are often in the pockets of business interests. It is basically sovereignty as a people. It is s been done on so many areas, local, national, international am a throughout our history that we ought to learn from our forebears and go forward and exercise sovereignty of the people. Nader,day, ralph longtime
Wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, lets think about tax credits. Every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. It doesnt matter what your marginal tax bracket is. So if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you dont owe anything. If you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus 1,000. Now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but dont earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. And so if you make it refundable if you dont owe the income tax, youll get a direct grant. Both commissions said that about the Home Mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. Congress ignored that. Finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for people who need the h
Monday, from today, it will exclude Third Party Candidates from the debate stage. The commission on president ial debates announced friday that both dr. Jill stein of the green party and libertarian gary johnson failed to qualify by polling at 15 or higher. What is this commission . Well get reaction from former third Party President ial candidate ralph nader. He has been excluded himself in the past. Then, what does it mean to break through power . It means citizens organizing, having fulltime advocates, and taking back the power from their elected officials who are often in the pockets of business interests. It is basically sovereignty as a people. It is been done on so many areas, local, national, international am a throughout our history that we ought to learn from our forebears and go forward and exercise sovereignty of the people. Nader,day, ralph longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, threetime president ial candidate. We will discuss his forthcoming book ahead of a natio
Abroad. And that is what it all means. When third no voices parties are excluded. Amy its official. When the first president ial debate takes place next a week monday, from today, it will exclude Third Party Candidates from the debate stage. The commission on president ial debates announced friday that both dr. Jill stein of the green party and libertarian gary johnson failed to qualify by polling at 15 or higher. What is this commission . Well get reaction from former third Party President ial candidate ralph nader. He has been excluded himself in the past. Then, what does it mean to break througugh power . It means citizens organizing, having fulltime advocates, and taking back the power from their elected officials who are often in the pockets of business interests. It is basically sovereignty as a people. It is s been done on so many areas, local, national, international am a throughout our history that we ought to learn from our forebears and go forward and exercise sovereignty of