by the way, ben, the bidens all hail from baltimore beginning in 1850. i don t know how the hell they kicked me out. but ben, what s your question? a study shows the top 5% of income earners pay 60% of the income taxes in this country. i hear you repeatedly say that the wealthy are not paying their fair share of income taxes. what is the percentage of income that you believe is fair? well, i think what s fair is that the present tax code, the highest tax rate is 35%. number one. okay? number two, you re in a circumstance where corporate america is not paying their fair share. and i come from the corporate state of the world, delaware. more corporations in delaware than every other state in the union combined. okay? now, here s the deal, though. you have 55 corporations, for example, in the united states of america making over $40 billion, don t pay a cent. not a single little red cent.
Enormous. but part of what i have in here is we also increased access to the affordable care act and we reduced the price an average of 60 bucks a month for anyone in the affordable care act plus on top of that we have another $300 billion of healthcare in it. so i would say this is a bigger darn deal. mr. president, thank you very much. appreciate your time. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ]. we want to thank our audience for being here and for their questions. we also want to thank baltimore for hosting us. cuomo primetime starts right now. all right.
Because what he did wasn t enormous, he broke the ice enormous. but part of what i have in here is we also increased access to the affordable care act and we reduced the price an average of 60 bucks a month for anyone in the affordable care act plus on top of that we have another $300 billion of healthcare in it. so i would say this is a bigger darn deal. mr. president, thank you very much. appreciate your time. thank you very much. we want to thank our audience for being here and for their questions. we also want to thank baltimore for hosting us. cuomo primetime starts right now. all right. our thanks to anderson and
Same dose but a smaller dose. and they re doing a lot of tests on it right now. and those of you who have children or brothers or sisters who are between, you know, in that age category above 12, get the vaccine for them. get the vaccine. get it now. let me ask you mr. president, mr. president by the way, there s two famous guys in this audience i just noticed. ben cardin. and chris van hollen. and the mayor. holy mack roll. this is a busman s holiday for you guys. thank you. mr. president, let me ask you a followup about that. as many as one in three emergency responders in some cities like chicago, los angeles, right here in baltimore, are refusing to comply with city vaccine mandates. i m wondering where you stand on that.
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