Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec
But i submit to legalism. What i want to talk about is the world that robert kagan and Bret Stephens once that is undergirded by American Power and i think that is the world we all believe has been vastly beneficial for the United States, for canada but for by and large the whole world. It allowed the transformation i talked about are not in america. The question is what is made that possible . I would argue the image you should think about is Franklin Roosevelt after winning decisively in world war ii. Decides he wants to create the United Nations an institution which all countries would be represented and try to make a systematic and institutionalized effort to produce a new kind of Global Politics in which other countries are respected, their voices heard and that is really what the United States has at its core been trying to do since 1945. Its not really because the United States has gone into lots of third world countries and intervened and beaten up people and killed leaders tha
Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to
That World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me. Because it is the best effort again that i have seen in my lifetime. And it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle. If we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look at what everybody else is doing and lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to lead. I want to lead. What we do with the Corporate Income tax rate in the fair tax is take it to zero for one reason and one reason only. That is theres not a business on this planet that pays taxes. As you all know, bigs business collect taxes. Consumers pay taxes. Walmart doesnt pay taxes. They collect it from me when i buy and shop at walmart. The case for the fair ta
Coverage and risk coverage by the federal government. Not on a whim, but optimistic perspective. 2015 is a better indication of how they view in the level of 2014. Thats why the average premium change between 2014 and 2015 being negative 0. 8 is so amazing. Yes, there is variability. Nashville has a positive 887 and denver an 18. Thats the to which the subsidies are paid. The Second Lowest is actually stable or going down on average across the country. Thats amazing. What about quality . Well, most of you know if you know the quality world, it moves like a glacier. What this shows you is the percentage of recommended care that adults get across the country and researchers got a lot of attention back in the mid2,000s and we are up to 69. Thats impressive. That occurred before the Affordable Care. Quality moves slowly. You cannot claim it has been improved. If you do your power point directly, you can do this. The statistic that has been focused on the most, readmission percentages in th