businesses hire more. i think we re already in a situation where business is finding it hard to find qualified workers. talking about the middle and we can t get truck drivers because they can t pass a drug test. adam, i ll give you the last word on this. here s the thing, to charmie s point, businesses have been crying. we do have the highest taxes out there. we can t repatriate money and the average person watching this show who does shop at walmart would like some relief. i would be very interested in a candidate talking about comprehensive tax reform. but what does it mean? at least he s saying something. we know the direction. what does it mean? it means lower taxes. yes, i would like to pay lower taxes. give me that one choice, would i like to pay lower tax ts, yes.
for a holiday weekend, closing state parks. mike tobin is live with this unfolding story. reporter: there is not much getting done in minnesota today. the road projects are stopped. 23,000 state employees are looking at the future of no paychecks. campers out for the busiest weekend at the minnesota state parks. we are told, pull up the tent stakes, park is closed. state employees are told, take home their plants if they need water, this could be a little while. republicans and democrats a half billion apart and absolutely opposed. the governor was elected on increasing the burned on the wealthiest minnesotans. the past six months i proposed raising tax ts on only the wealthiest 2% of all
boehner saying is, he appears to be a compromiser and almost extending an olive branch and knows that democrats would not push this democrats won t have the votes for the middle class only tax cuts because people would have to walk the plank looking like tax raisers. interesting strategy. i don t understand, though. this idea of tax raisers. are the american people not listening? all they hear is taxhi that s all they hear. do they not understand that it real only affects the wealthiest of americans? what president obama has is proposing, what he s pushing fo is very similar to what republicans are proposing for everybody who makes, say, less than $500,000. only after $500,000 it is staunchly different. certainly been an issue chos who defines it better. what democrats tried to do is sort of say, look, you give tax ts to billionaires and millionai millionaires. however, when you go into these districts, go into places on the ground like ohio, pennsylvania,
overtime to make john boehner republican the opposition. even after he appeared to back off his position on tax cuts for the wealthy on sunday. listen. if the only option i have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, i ll vote for it. but i ve been makinhsg point now formonths that we need to extend all the current rates for all americans ife want to get our economy going again and wnt to get jobs in america. if he wants to do that, i think that would be a good thing and a bipartisan. we ll see whether what we get is what congressman boehner said, what his spokesman said and a wholhost of things. mark murray, eeokay, last we, we saw the white house trying to elevate john boehner. they got that elevation in the form o a new york times profile that was pretty rough on the republican and now, this back and forth over which tax
and sll business, as everyone knows, is the engine of hearing in the country, as obama himself has said and it s wrong with the what the white house says is, i mean, you guys are saying, wait a minute, don t raise taxes at a time when the economy is on shaqi ground andoh then you say, oh, but in fact, he s endorsing whal,t president bush did. well, yes, hs endorsing it at this time. it s not just raising taxes in the abstract. you re raising it on precisely on the people in the economy who hire and said today, as the president said today, the stimulative effect of giving tax cuts to those folks has not bn demonstrated that it will have greater benefit than giving tax breaks to actual these are the engines are economic growth and what the president is talking about doing is taxing them at a segher rate and then giving them these sort of, these tax ts if they do the things that he wants them to do. so if they buy new equipm hent, they can have the accelerated depreciation, if