game? let s bring in michael pillsbury, senior fellow at hudson institute and author of book the 100-year their mono. marathon. michael, thanks very much, indeed, for joining us. thanks. gerry: a lot of sound and tour fury around speaker pelosi s itinerary. did this visit achieve anything? well, it achieved a lot, but a lot depends on what nancy pelosi does when she gets home to washington. she refused to join a series of republican initiatives including a task force to deal with china. she s kind of cold shoulderedded any cooperation across a broad range of issues. so if she changes that approach when she gets back, then trip will have had a huge impact probably on her. as you know, she was quite the china hawk back in the 90s, demonstrating in beijing on behalf of tiananmen students who were killed, doing a whole series of things to hurt china badly. she then shifted over to a more moderate view, and if she shifts back now to how she was in the 1990s, that will b
means wealthy. right. because there s more of those people than already of the super rich, and i think a lot of the money that they re hoping to get is in these sort of pass-through organizations, those small businesses, could be a couple lawyers who have an office together. the other point that i think bears making is that democrats want the irs at the same time that it s failing to do its job as kim says, not answering phobe calls from taxpayers, they phone calls, they want to turn it into a social spending agency. recall that summer when we had these monthly child tax credit payments that came out, and there was the controversy that the only way to control hem was to send the i are rs your face scan through some facial recognition software through a third party. and that s, i think, one of the big questions that deserves to be asked, is why don t we get an irs that can first do the job that it s designed to do which is collect taxes from people and leave it at that? if jen ger