his first event was a $25,000 a person affair at a billionaire s estate. but that wasn t even the big ticket event of the day. that s right. an event held on the property with places wasn t the big moneymaker. no, no. that was a $75,000 a couple fund raiser. another billionaire. held at the home of david koch. yes, that david koch. the billionaire whose corporation plans to funnel $400 million to defeat president obama. now, let me be clear. there s nothing wrong with making money. what s wrong is that romney s policies are aimed to benefit the 1%. the people who can donate $25,000 a head. they get a say. the rest of us, no dice. no wonder he says corporations are people. no wonder he thinks we don t need more firefighters. no wonder he makes $10,000 bets. and according to newspaper reports, this event seemed right out of the pages of the great gatsby. the lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile. running over brick yards and burning g
they said at the fund raiser. these are real quotes. i don t think the common person is getting it. we ve got the message. but my college kid, the babysitter, the nails ladies, all these people who have the right to vote, they don t get what s going on. i just feel that if you re lower income, one, you re not as educated. two, they don t get how it works. right. common people don t get it. don t understand how it works. are you series? he is a socialist. his idea is find a problem that doesn t exist and get government to intervene. a socialist. really? so much for the people who got the message. it s not helping the economy to put the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine. he s been biting the hand that fed him since 08. since when is trying to make the system more fair biting the hand that fete you? these guys can t be serious. did you see the wait out there? i kept asking is there a vip entrance because we re a
romney s tax returns show he made $45 million over the last two years. in 2010, he paid a tax rate of just under 14%, yet millions of americans, like warren buffett s secretary, who are not rich like romney, pay nearly a 30% tax rate and romney s paying half that? even though he makes $57,000 in one day, that s far from the $33,000 an lit median income an american makes. look at that. no wonder romney was scared democrats would use this. i know the democrats will go after me on that basis and that s why i want to release these things all at the same time. now, romney s taxes show nothing illegal but someone working a system that s deeply unfair. you start by earning more than $21 million a year without having a job, then you pay less than 14% in taxes and you park your money in offshore accounts and places like switzerland and the cayman islands. what these taxes tell us is that willard mitt romney is the perfect person to represent the 1%. but can he really claim to have
americans, like warren buffett s secretary, who are not rich like romney, pay nearly a 30% tax rate and romney s paying half that? even though he makes $57,000 in one day, that s far from the $33,000 an lit median income an american makes. look at that. no wonder romney was scared democrats would use this. i know the democrats will go after me on that basis and that s why i want to release these things all at the same time. now, romney s taxes show nothing illegal but someone working a system that s deeply unfair. you start by earning more than $21 million a year without having a job, then you pay less than 14% in taxes and you park your money in offshore accounts and places like switzerland and the cayman islands. what these taxes tell us is that willard mitt romney is the perfect person to represent the 1%. but can he really claim to have a clue about the rest of us? joining me now is pulitzer prize-winning writer david k. johnston, he s columnist for reuters and author
tiffany s. and live from new york, politics nation goes live on saturday night and we re still laughing about it. play catch the nazi in the back yard. we put a blueberry pie in a box and the nazi would come around and try to get it. suspect that like what the republicans are trying to do? steal our pie? welcome to politics nation. i m al sharpton. tonight s lead, the fight for fairness. it s a conversation we ve been needing to have for a long time in our country. and it s a conversation that president obama intends to make the centerpiece of his reelection. the problem is that our politics has gotten to the point where we can t have an honest conversation about the greatest income inequality since the 1920s and we can t have an honest conversation about the irresponsibility that resulted in the worst financial crisis since the great depression without somebody saying that somehow we re being divisive. we re talking about being honest. the president wants to ta