anything, just take exactly that money where right now taxpayers are subsidizing ceos, how about if we take that money and make a one-time payment to the social security recipients and the vets, make a one-time payment to make up for the fact that they re not getting a cost of living this year? we ve got the money. this how we want to spend it. here s my question to you. this sounds like a good idea as policy goes. but you ve got a minority in the senate. the author of the ryan budget which just a few years back the first iteration of it wanted to essentially privatize medicare is now the speaker of the house. have you had any interest from republicans on any of this? is this a doable, accomplishable thing with the current congress? so let me point out that republicans have criticized this particular loophole already, which is really interesting.
senate. the author of the ryan budget which just a few years back the first iteration of it wanted to essentially privatize medicare is now the speaker of the house. have you had any interest from republicans on any of this? is this a doable, accomplishable thing with the current congress? so let me point out that republicans have criticized this particular loophole already, which is really interesting. senator grassley has gone after it. senator mccain partnered up with senator levin a couple of years ago to eliminate this loophole. and the republicans in the house, in 2014, said a big part of what they were doing in their whole tax reform passage package included stitching up this loophole. so look, here s the deal. we know how to do this. we know where the money is.
what has happened to the republican party? well, my question is where has john kasich been for, like, the last 30 year sfs he described each of those positions as being held by one guy a piece. there s an entire wing of his base s party that wants a flat tax and says so on right wing talk radio every day. as far as changing medicare and medicaid, there are 247 or so house member, republican members who voted every year for the ryan budget which would turn medicare into a voucher, into a coupon, essentially. they voted for that year after year after year. some of these ideas, most of them have been swirling around the republican base for years, if not for decades. it s just now that each of them has a candidate to represent the views. maria teresa, as we ve seen in this primary republican electorate, massive numbers of them, 50% maybe, firmly believe you should get rid of every undocumented person in this country, 11 million, whatever that number is, and you should spend every day t
question, joy. what has happened to the republican party? well, my question is where has john kasich been for, like, the last 30 year sfs he described each of those positions as being held by one guy a piece. there s an entire wing of his base s party that wants a flat tax and says so on right wing talk radio every day. as far as changing medicare and medicaid, there are 247 or so house member, republican members who voted every year for the ryan budget which would turn medicare into a voucher, into a coupon, essentially. they voted for that year after year after year. some of these ideas, most of them have been swirling around the republican base for years, if not for decades. it s just now that each of them has a candidate to represent the views. maria teresa, as we ve seen in this primary republican electorate, massive numbers of them, 50% maybe, firmly believe you should get rid of every undocumented person in this country, 11 million, whatever that number is, and you should
for re-election as a senator from vermont and he showed no reservations when it came to attacking his republican opponent. john, i think you did say, if i remember correctly, that the ryan budget was quote/unquote, too timid and you would be bolder. did you say that? i did. i did. and let s be clear, what the ryan budget does is make devastating cuts in virtually every social program. $700 billion over a ten-year program in medicaid, ending medicare as we know it right now, major cuts in pell grants, major cuts in nutrition programs and i have no doubt that that s there as well. there are ways to do deficit reduction and do it not on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor, and that s by asking elderly corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes. sanders won that race in a