progressivity of our tax system. the effect of tax rate on the 1% is back up to about what it was in 1979. if you just look at that measure, it obama has rolled us back to prerate levels of average. not all the rates are the same, but the overall level of taxation on 1% is back up what used to be considered reasonably high levels. health reform is a huge benefit in terms of economic security to lower income americans essentially lower income working americans because people who are too affluent to didn t qualify for poverty programs but many of them lacked health insurance. so that s one thing. obama has actually done a pretty significant job of mitigating some of the extremes. beyond that, you do things like the minimum wage. minimum wage has overwhelming public support. it s not going to pass in congress probably even so but raising the pim wage would do a substantial amount for incomes at the bottom. he s going to propose raising it for federal contractor who