biden s agenda. progressive system must move in tandem with the big president biden budget bill, that contains the rest of his economic agenda for his presidency. this is been a standoff by democrats that has been a opaque, from a lot of different quarters. will try to penetrate some of that opacity tonight. plus we have lots more to cover. stay with us. it s a busy evening here. stay with us it s a busy evening here it s a busy evening here with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair enamel in its weakened state. it s innovative. my go to toothpaste is going to be pronamel repair. my go to toothpaste you need an ecolab scientific clean here. and you need it here. and here. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean is now helping the places you go every day too.
fund things like green infrastructure and medicare for all. let s look at how taxes run right now. the current highest tax bracket at a federal 11 is 37% on all become above $500,000 a year, down from 39.6% on income that was made because of the republican tax law that trump signed in late 2017. the united states has a progressive federal income tax system where americans are taxed at higher rates with rising income brackets. a progressive system spreads the burden more equitiably between the rich and the poor. here s how it works practically speaking. you pay a 10% rate on the first $9,525 of annual income. anything above that, you get a 12% rate. up to the next 82.5, you go to
and for good reasons that republicans are worried about. so many of them spent much of the time defending themselves on the preexisting conditions issue. they would have to try to make good or make a deal with the democrats. that s not going to be easy. the democrats are moving to the left when it comes to health care. more people are talking about medicare for all and the single payer plan. the idea of having a grand bargaining for trump and the republicans is a fantasy right now. republicans don t want to deal with health care and they spent time trying to deal with health care and the democrats ran on health care and won and they are trying to push as far as they can to have a more progressive system. it doesn t appear that there is any middle ground they can reach on this. republicans in the house have the wall street journal editorial board say this is probably a problem for
these 18, 19, 20-year-old young mental and women that raise their right hand and make that step they are not wealthy for the most part. they made that courage success step as well. pete: different kind of leaders that we need in washington right now. let s get your book though it s your tenth called dark winter about domestic terrorism. a timely topic. tell us about it. dark winter is about an internet mogul that wants to change the united states know a more progressive system of government. he hacks the world s nuclear fleet and decides that he wants to take away mutual assured destruction. and he does so and then he begins to blackmail the united states and blackmail iran and north korea and whoever can pay the most and come forward is able to win the gam but the here and