Donation see me afterwards and i can introduce you to the right people who would love to talk to you. A little bit of housekeeping. I will going to introduce our offer Erick Erickson and Erick Erickson will speak a little bit and read through his book and we will open the floor to questions. If you do have a question, we are live on booktv so we want the audience at home to hear. Erick erickson is the popular host of atlantas evening news, 95. 5 fm and a. M. 750, former editor of red states. His website, the resurgent, he is a Fox News Contributor who at the atlantic called the most powerful conservative in America Today. He studied Political Science and history of university and earned a law degree at Walter F George school. He lives in georgia with his family. In late 2016 he and his wife were diagnosed with grave medical conditions. In the midst of his wifes battle with cancer he was rushed to the hospital, potentially fatal influx of blood clots and leaving permanent scarring. Faci
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There students are graduating without mountains of debt and because they have a larger government that is investing in ways that help all citizens they end up with a substantially more equal society. So if you take a step back you can say about what the book is trying to do is address the question what should fiscal policy, taxing and spending what should our fiscal policy be in an age of inequality . What the book answers is it has to be a larger pace because we are the smallest government of any large economy. It needs to be a larger based more tax. Does not have to be super high rates on the rich. We need to collect more revenue and we need to spend those remedies wisely by investing and ensuring an all caps. So start with the spending, then come spending, then come up with the tax systems. The tax system is not that difficult. I have done this for decades. We can argue like all academics are policy wonks can about this feature that feature but in the end it is just not that difficu
It would buy actual investment in infrastructure positive economic returns to just building bridges and roads, economic returns and time saved and it creates great quality jobs. Not everyone in america is going to invent the next great. Some people are not interested. So getting back to america where there are good quality jobs in construction well that is a kind of double pay off s. So we can go from net zero to some significant investment in infrastructure. We can do better 2 percent of gdp is enough to make a meaningful impacts. Then we can decide that is the right number. We dont have to do it in one day. 2 percent of gdp would change our lives for the better. Some would argue our current tax code is harmful the productivity and that if s and that if we want to spend 24 percent of gdp estimate to a flat tax. Well the book considers these issues in detail. It is true that our tax systems for particularly our Corporate Tax system is inefficient. It inefficient. It wastes money. A won
The ebola crisis is not a political crisis, its a public crisis. The ebola scare goes to the heart of a single question, do you trust the government . Audience, do you trust the government . No. And why would you . I mean, remember these . As i said from the beginning, under the reform we seek, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, if you like your private Health Insurance plan, you can keep your planning. Period. We will start by reducing premiums by as much as 2,500 per family. No corruption. Not even a smidgeon of corruption. This is a response to a hateful and offensive video that was widely disseminated throughout the arab and muslim world. Okay, so now you can add a new promise to that list. In the unlikely event that someone with ebola does reach our shores, we have taken new measures so that were prepared here at home. Yeah, you know, less than a week after the president told us that it was unlikely ebola came to the u. S. When a liberian citizen lied about having