agree the level of complexity has gotten to the point where it is obfuscating what is going on and simplicity sometimes for its own sake is really an improvement. if we can all understand it we can all behave accordingly and we all can have a sense of transparency. part of the problem in our tax code is it is so difficult to understand you can t understand what s being written as it s being written. right. and also it frees up any politician or republican aspirant, democratic aspirant, whoever, to say whatever they want about what they re going to do with the tax code and if they get the right headline lowering taxes. okay. great. that guy is going to lower taxes. the reality is there is no better indication of where two sets of rules has really started to rot at the core of this country than in the way our tax code is written across the board. if nothing else i would hope what the president is doing will open a gateway to massive tax simplification. we ll see whether that happens. s
governor romney s answer. broadly, how have you have you been satisfied with the answers that you do get? no, not in the least. i think what we re trying to do with the power of 12 and at mtv right now is humanize this world. and, you know, i recently had an experience with a young woman in the hospital who has cancer and we were sitting in that hospital in the emergency room. she was worried that the cancer may be back. and i asked her how she was feeling. she said i m really worried about tomorrow. and i assumed she was speaking about what the results would be the next day. and i, you know, had to took a setback and was like oh, god, gee, that s really wheresome. it s about the results huh? and she said no. i have a job interview tomorrow. i want to make sure i can make that interview. it is making sure i think that the candidates understand that, that this is what we re going through. understand that we re growing up in a country where our own
sounds good. at the same time the president and the administration claiming that they will close many of the loop holes that corporations currently enjoy. also sounds good. besides, who is going to fight lower taxes in an election year? the president would take us in one direction. i d take us in a different one. his plan with regards to jobs is very simple. he wants to raise taxes. that will kill jobs in this country. he wants to lower taxes or so they will tell you. imogene lloyd webber is with us in lexington. the rest of the megapanel are on the east coast. before we get into tax policy i want to address imogene s early morning confusion when you saw the uk. i did. i was taking an early morning walk. it was before i had my tea so i wasn t really awake. i saw a sign saying uk housing and i thought finally britain s exports are working.
their degrees at all. that does not count the millions of innovative, enthusiastic, and driven students who will graduate in our own country in 2012. over the next three days we ll talk a lot about how we as a country can match our students, their passion, their potential, their desire to help like the wildcats here in kentucky with the great needs of our nation be it through full-time work, volunteering, experimentation, a word i like, or ultimately by freeing them from the things that are barriers like student debt, hoping to bring their ideas to change america to life at a time when we must change and change fast. we must create a culture of experimentation in this country in order to keep up with the incredibly fast changing time we find ourselves in. we begin with the big question on every under grad and every parent s mind for that matter. enough with the talk. how is the student to find a job this spring? university of kentucky alum rebecca christopher graduated in 2011 with a d