tax rolls. we have to put professionals back in the community. we have to revitalize and rebuild these communities and what ems it does, it requires developers to use 30% of at risk youth, 16 to 24 in those communities to do the rehab and the redevelopment. [ applause ] commissioner, thank you very much. at the beginning of this town hall we came out here i lived in chicago for a while, learned to be a reporter in this great city. and the first thing i said to these folks here, and if you re watching at home was we were going to do this hour and everyone was going to walk away frustrated because we didn t get to one one hundredth of what this complex place is about. but i hope for the people that have been that are outside chicago who have watched this city be talked about rather than talked with that you learned a little bit more about what this city is about, the challenges it faces and it s not alone, it s something that every major city in this country is facing right now and
african-americans. the other 10, eight latinos, two whites. and so we ve got a serious crisis in the city of chicago. it s a virtual state of emergency. we need federal assistance, we need additional fbi agents, dea agents, atf, police, though, we can t police our way out of poverty, i agree with that. but we need them to help solve this clearance rate. we need to we ve got recycled killers. look one of the things that i did recently is i introduced the neighborhood revitalization act. that would provide free homes for police officers, teachers, firefighters and paramedics to live in these communities that are epidangered for five years. if they live and work in those communities, it does several things. we ve got 80,000 vacant lots and abandoned buildings in the city of chicago. things that are boarded up. we have to put those back on the tax rolls. we have to put professionals back in the community.
tax code, and he is talking about allowing it to come back to the u.s., maybe a 10% tax to bring it back. what if you could get all of the tax off of that by investing it in infrastructure bonds? safe bonds, good way to pay for it. when i was governor, that s one of the things we did. we rebuilt our entire interstate system. we did it under budget, ahead of schedule, did it without long-term debt. here is another factor. what about taking a lot of the extraordinary federal land that we have, putting it in private sector hands? i m not talking about selling off yellowstone park. i m talking about the millions of acres that we have in many western states, it is not on the tax rolls. the federal government kept an enormous amount of land, it is not in protected forest or park, it is just land. using that in another way, putting the mineral rights up, another great example. mineral rights, that s a great way to do it as well. there are vast amounts of developable energy sector, you
update the country s roads, bridges, tunnels, and airports. the new york times james stewart says this is one way that trump could, quote, unify a bitterly divided america, provide well-paying jobs to millions, many of the millions of disaffected workers who voted for him with, and lift the economy, stock market, and tax rolls. all he needs to do is what he presumably does best, build something, something awe-inspiring, something americans can be proud of. but trump s fellow republicans on capitol hill may be reluctant to give their new president a blank check. house democrat transportation chair bill schuster told politico that he s working with trump s team to figure out how we re going to pay for it. it s got to be fiscally responsible. john thune said $1 trillion is a big number. and alaska republican don young said there s no pie in the sky, no magic want we have to pay for it. james stewart, the guy who wrote it, is a columnist with the new york times. everyone around here l
of the millions disaffected workers who voted for him and lift the economy. stock market, and tax rolls. all he needs to do is do what he presumably does well, build something awe inspiring. a new pew research poll out today shows that 65% of democrats want democratic leaders to stand up to trump on issues that are important to them, even if it means that less gets done in washington. what does this mean for the spirit of bipartisan cooperation? is that even possible anymore? howard dean is the former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national convention. he s seeking to win that post back at the dnc. nina turner is a former ohio state senator and msnbc political analyst. i want to start with the governor now about you know, i look at trump and never know which trump we re going to get. if it s infrastructure, big spending, democrats like to spend and build. that should be a deal, right there and trump has talked about doing that with public/private partners