things, he said that republicans are putting the demands of 30 tea party members of congress over the needs of 300 million americans. he also said that the very successful people, the job creators, they got to pay more. listen to this. 22,000 millionaires pay less effective tax rate. under 15%. so we have inequities, the american people are screaming out saying it s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments, the lobbyists have along with lawmakers have cooked into the books here. i don t know if david plouffe is the guy that devised the class warfare strategy, he sure was grinding it out yesterday. the problem for him is his performances yesterday across the sunday shows was woefully inaccurate. why? woefully inadequate. because he can t even explain
democrat versus republican, is pro wrestling partisan theater at its best. dare i say, worse, either way they did get an outcome. not to say the intention in this case was not good both from senator coburn and senator feinstein as i do believe we must begin to level the playing field when it comes to our energy sources. our fuel sources, as long as we play favorites with different subsidies in different tax treatments for different fuels it will be impossible to realize the true cost of each type of fuel and actually move forward. our megapanel here on standby to discuss both the pro wrestling of the legislative process and the implications of the piece of legislation which is where i think we should start, susan. your thoughts on the fact that we are getting some kind of a debate on energy subsidies. great thing and you raid a good point it should be across the board. awe subsidies we should be talking about. and instead of talking about certain ways to further regulate
but he has a plan, a tax plan which he touts to give preferential tax treatments. so that s picking winners and losers where they argue that obama it is an economic policy. no, that s a great argument to make. a valid point. that s a nuanced point to say okay. hang on with your nuance for a moment. dr. peterson, romney has outspent santorum 7-1. he is ahead in the polls and everyone expects another win. can you or anyone else summon any enthusiasm for this dumb, sorry, dull, i men, dull mathematically successful candidate? no. in fact, there is not much enthusiasm amongst republican primary and caucusgoers, period. so no, there is no way to get more these yam behind romney. what he is trying to do is inundate the low percentage turnout folks that will come out
money. chris: but they are paying 70% of the taxes. 22,000 millionaires a un15%. we had inequities. the american people are screaming out saying it is unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can an for the best attorneys the best accountants take advantage of these special tax treatments that lobbyists have along with lawmakers have cooked into the books. the question is, how are we going to move forward as a country? are we going to do some spending guts? are we gonna ask the wealthiest to pay a little bit more? all we re talking is chris: 70% enough? again, they make a ton of money. chris: and they pay a ton of taxes. the question is, chris: so they pay more than a ton. from a percentage standpoint they are paying less effective rate.
through without any problems and there are certain people to blame and certain people who need to pay up. 22,000 millionaires pay less tax rate. under 15% so we have inequities. the american people are screaming out saying it s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments, the lobbyists along with lawmakers have cooked into the books here. david plouffe mounted the tv talk shows yesterday totally unprepared as if he s been hibernating for the entire last two months. he came out and said these statements. chris wallace nailed him to the floor. how much do you want them to pay? top 1% pay 38% and the top 1% pay 37%. when he talks about millionaires not paying their taxes, they re paying on the most part according to the irs