Game of governing and politics. Phil, you made a point that tweeting wasnt the same. Some people dont know what the hell it is now but it has changed dramatically since 2008. I put it even further context in, when i was in the white house, a couple of oust would meet up with leon panetta every night and we would look at the three tvs, abc, cbs, whatever the other one was and, see whether our good stories had risen or whether the bad stories had gone down. You could see wolf kind of standing out in the yard there without even an umbrella sometimes. That was a good day if your good story was up. Or down. That was all we dealt with. Now the, the onslaught of information, moving information all sorts of sinister reasons has fundamentally changed governing and strategies. Just three things that kind of pop out to me. And just in phrases. Its, what i hear you guys saying is that that youre underlying fundamental belief that people are coming to washington to get something done. You have look
there are a number of ways to get there, and the way i like best, the easiest way to get there would be to allow full and immediate expensing of all investments and no taxation of dividends, no taxation of capital gains. the flat tax are pretty close to the. that s a property the flat tax is also something else called the x. factor which is a more progressive version of the flat tax. that doesn t sound to me like the above attacks at all. because in real life i don t think warren buffett doesn t pay any taxes. we will get back to that. steve forbes. that sounds like a flat tax, single raid generous exemptions for adults and children, everything else is out of the code. you have a low 17% rate, instant depreciation, instant right off, no tax on investments, whether it is interest, dividends or capital gains and no death taxes. you should be allowed to leave the world unmolested by the irs, or as our founders would