brutal stew that beats up the working people. isn t this budget really steroids or fuel on the fire for vulture chart, that this would separate income inequality far beyond what we have right now? this budget is inherently immoral. the founding fathers who were extremely concerned that a business aristocracy would ruin or democracy would be absolutely appalled. and you know what, if they just cut in half the amount they spend buying stock back, they could raise the workers wages and get them out of having food stamps. and they re terribly against the employees organizing. mr. greenwalt, you have done some work on this about how they intimidate, how they move people out. and there have been some demonstrations around the country. and i think as this story gets out there and compare to the budget, there is no turning back with these folks, is there. no, there isn t.
text a for yes, b for no, 67622. you can go to our blog. and another thing about the ryan budget that we have to understand. walmart being the big corporation and we re using them as an example because they have so many employees who are on public assistance, ryan wants to lower the corporate tax rate down to 25%. gosh, the last election the guy that was running for the republicans paid i think 16% with all the writeoffs. if we lower the corporate tax down to 25%, where would they really be on the scale when it comes to all the tax incentives that are out there and where would they park their money offshore so they wouldn t have to pay anything? we got a lot of problems in this country and a lot of it starts with people who aren t paying their fair share. for more, let me bring in david k. johnson and robert greenwalt.
gentlemen, great to have both of you you with us. david, you first. if paul ryan got his way on everything, what type of life would a poor person lead in this country and what kind of opportunity would they have? hell on earth and remember, ryan also wants to increase military spending because we spend more than 40% of all the mill area spending in the world and he doesn t think that is enough. so clearly mr. ryan s view is that our fundamental problem is that the poor have too much and the rich don t have enough. and you at least should give him credit for being honest in his budget for what he s proposing. they will vote for this on thursday. it will probably pass. it s as radical as we ve seen, yet can t even get a vote on extended unemployment on the floor, complaint get a vote on the minimum wage, can t get a vote on the paycheck fairness act which we ll talk more about later. wi mr. greenwalt, is ryan s budget
passed it when they had the power, david k. johnson, what would this have done to the economy? oh, it would have improved the economy greatly. one of the fundamental problems we have is that workers have no bargaining you power, as individuals and when all these people are out of work. and this is being ruthlessly exploited by the walton family who are the wealthiest family in america. their whole fortune is well north of $100 billion. you ve heard me say before, if you believe in market economics, you should believe in unions. just read the supreme court definition of market economics and you should believe in unions. robert greenwalt, do you think they will ever change their ways? since the demonstrations have been out in some of these city, have you seen them move on the wage chart at all? they have barely moved on the wage chart. but it s a fight that needs to be had as you said before. they re a huge employer. we have the waltons, we have the koch brothers.
cheese might cost. anyone can afford food there except people who work at walmart. that is one penny per box of mac and cheese to save u.s. taxpayers $300 million. we cannot look at our budget through rose colored glasses. good to have you with us. if you want to know what the people think, you got to go out and listen to them. that s really been our mission here the first quarter of 2014, to get out with the folks, see what is happening. so of course we here on the ed show traveled the country, talked to a lot of folks. we ve been to four red states, three blues, and of course the swing state of florida. that s right. ohio, florida, south dakota, arizona, wisconsin, nebraska. we re not done. i ve talked to a lot of folks from the steel workers to the native americans out on the prairie in south dakota. not one person, not one, has said that they want to cut government spending. they re just not there. no one has said you know what, we got a real problem with medicare