And that we regret that there was not a disclosure. I happened to call them on it that one day. Your viewers never knew this but on their website it is mentioned. I asked about it one day and it was suddenly outed, but how frequently does that happen . Does the public know . Host if you go to cspan. Org, you can find event eric is talking about, the passenger preclearance was the topic. What has been the reaction from think tanks . You feature several of them in your story, but what is the reaction, and have they changed policy . Guest even as we were working on the story, and it took us quite a long time, the think tanks were changing their policies. We did a survey late last year of like 25 think tanks and ask them about their policies regarding projectbased and outside scholars and potential conflicts of interest. We asked them a series of questions that were pointed. It is clear we were headed with the story. Even as we were asking those questions, the think tanks were starting to
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On hower a discussion the Founding Fathers viewed free trade. Historically, the United States was not a free trade country. An indepth examination of the wto. The body that enforces global trade rules. At the time it was being , 800 more pages of specifics, rules and regulations. My book would be very different. When the two were being negotiated, the u. S. Had official advisers, 500 corporate advisors. Spotlight onissue trade deals saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org. The New York Times has published a series on corporate influence on think tanks. On washington journal we talked to the reporter who wrote that series. This is 40 minutes. Journal continues. Host back at our table this morning. Ric lipton, New York Times washington correspondent here to talk about a series he did looking at think tanks and corporate influence. I want to read from your first piece where you wrote in the chase for funds, and tanks are pushing agendas important to corporate donors. Explai
Wonderful example so assuming some social and economic provisions ought to be in the tax laws, lets think about tax credits. Every dollar of tax credit saves you one dollar. It doesnt matter what your marginal tax bracket is. So if you owe a thousand dollars and you get a thousand dollar tax credit, you dont owe anything. If you owe a million dollars, you owe a million minus 1,000. Now, the tax credits also should be refundable in many cases where they are social programs because a refundable tax credit like the earned income tax credit which says people who are working but dont earn a living wage are going to get extra money to help them have a living wage. And so if you make it refundable if you dont owe the income tax, youll get a direct grant. Both commissions said that about the Home Mortgage interest deduction, replace it by a credit. Congress ignored that. Finally, you might have the largest credit for people who need the help most and the least credits for people who need the h
From cotton. Thousands of workers, dock workers and people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and gambling houses and brothels where plantation owner would come up and treat new york city as their home away from home during the summer months. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade, which means they sought in their best interests to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also feared that if the four million mill enslaved in souse are south were subtly set free they would flood up north and take their jobs away. The big irony there is that the 12,000 free blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their jobs from them, froze them out of the unions, so there one really going to be a problem with fighting for the white white guys fighting for jobs again black workers. So because of cotton and because of to the ties and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of,