because it seems to partisan. everybody is fighting about it. so how do we fix it? jack kennedy in the 60s cut tax rates dramatically. republicans all opposed it. then ronald reagan and all democrats opposed it for a while there. then bill clinton, who was a great president, he cut tax rates dramatically. we had boom during that period. it is not republican, democrat, liberal or conservative. it is common sense economics. it should be bipartisan pro-growth like it was in 86. that unfortunately is not the way it is. today it is a problem primarily with the democrats. but it has not always been. jerry brown, governor of california, ran for president of the united states on getting rid of the progressive income tax in america, with 13% as highest tax rate in america. can you imagine that. he came in number two, almost beating clinton in the primary. you look at this stuff. just straightforward common sense. jenna: what do you think about grow very norquist? he is on capitol hill right
supposed to do about growing inequality. the reason you have wage inequality is the different productivity levels and you h e have growing gaps of inequality because the economy is changing in ways such as the returns to labor are getting bigger and bigger for people at the top. a much, much more complicated story. this is a big part of the story. one of the key things the government can do to alleviate this is transfer right. so yes, this is a concern. actually concerned more often voiced on right pap growing class of people living, who are living and requiring government subsidies to be able to support themselves at a level that is deemed by society to be aç level a lot of things to do about inequality. have a more progressive income tax. make access to higher education more affordable. i mean, there are just endless numbers of things that you can do about inequality. in terms of, reaffirm inequality. the income games during the
there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it s interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we re three and a half years later and he has not yet created a single net new job in america where three and a half years later there were job losses and 93% of the people that lost jobs had been women. on the measure that he himself put in place, creating jobs where people could pay mortgages, he fails, and there was another measure that he laid out. he said in a setting where you were having progress, you could measure i
when people like representative west have no ideals or principles, they rely on personal attacks. we will not engage in base and childish conversations that lower the level of discourse americans rightly expect from their representatives. let s turn to bob shrum, democratic strategist and also professor at nyu. bob, what s your reaction to this? why is he going down this road? he knows it s not true?ç well, first of all, ed, i ve got to say, i know why sarah palin s for him for vice president, because he ll make her look like she was qualified for the job. look, in his view, his folks are members of the communist party, because they re for the medicare guarantee, which republicans are trying end to. they re for tax fairness, the progressive income tax, which of course was promoted in this country by that great communist leader, theodore roosevelt. look, these folks have a vocabulary of lies and smears. he s just the outlier, the wha canko, the extreme edge of it. if you think ratio
allen west is degenerating the millions of american who is voted to elect congressional progressive caucus members. when people like representative west have no ideals or principles, they rely on personal attacks. we will not engage in base and childish conversations that lower the level of discourse americans rightly expect from their representatives. let s turn to bob shrum, democratic strategist and also professor at nyu. bob, what s your reaction to this? why is he going down this road? he knows it s not true? well, first of all, ed, i ve got to say, i know why sarah palin s for him for vice president, because he ll make her look like she was qualified for the job. look, in his view, his folks are members of the communist party, because they re for the medicare guarantee, which republicans are trying end to. they re for tax fairness, the progressive income tax, which of course was promoted in this country by that great communist leader, theodore roosevelt. look, these folks have