Care, period. And what aggravates me the most is they think about themselves, period. And the editor of the Tax Policy Centers blog, tax walks. And ill be the host, moderator for this panel. Our format will be very simple, were just going to have a discussion, informal discussion here about when we heard so far this morning. And then well leave some time for questions for you all. Let me just briefly introduce the panelists. You know them all, im sure. To my immediate left is rosanne altshuler, professor of economics at rutgers and former director of tax policy center. Always great to have her back. John buckley, tax counsel with the house ways and means committee. Pam olson is the u. S. Deputy tax leader at pricewaterhousecoopers. And former assistant secretary for tax policy at treasury. And alan viard, resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute. I should also mention that rosanne many years ago was one of the authors of the get, which was a predecessor to the destinationb
Night as officials assess the damage. A scansal involved a exgirlfriend damage the bolivian president s chances for running for a fourth term. In sport, chelsea are in to the quarter teams of the english f. A. Cup. They are beat on their strength. Manchester city side 51. As manager gus maintains his unbeaten run in the competition. Syria has suffered two devastating sets of explosions in 24 hours. In the first homs was hit by a car bombing. At least 46 people were killed and more than 100 injured in one of the deadliest attacks to date in the governmentheld city. Hours later a southern suburb of damascus was hit by a number of explosions, this time killing at least 83 people and injuring dozens, the attacks came as Government Forces captured 31 villages in aleppo province in the north from the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. And also co incited with the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry saying hes reached a provisional agreement with russia on the terms of a ceasefire in syria
No now. We begin with the zika virus. So the outbreak may be here in the middle of america in omaha, its top of mind. Its in 66 countries, its spreading. It can cause devastating birth desks. The virus is impacting tourism plans around the world. President obama is asking for almost 2 billion to fight it. Thats our cover story. While the mosquitoborne disease is name for the zika forest. It is ground zero for the outbreak and brazil being the start of the summer olympics in three month, it could have an impact. It expects a tourism boost. Here, zika may cause it to be 20 . If toll the zika could cost latin america and the caribbean at least 3. 5 billion this year. Mostly from lost tourism from jamaica and aare you ba. Dengue cost more than 8. 5 billion. In the sars outbreak. Chyna lost 2. 5 billion in investment. The u. S. Costs could surge, president obama has requested 1. 9 billion from congress to battle zika. So where is that money being best to protect potential mothers and newbor
You can also send us an email. We will get your thoughts in just a minute. First i want to see you from as tothe press yesterday pollsters were talking about who has the edge in republicans are trying to will something coming on. Jobresident obamas approval is. 3 in the south. Is too far of a stretch here to political gravity is too much. Thet made me feel like things we need to have happen on election day may be coming to fruition. Enthusiasmeen an gap. Democrats are catching up. With registered voters, which is democratsdemographic, have an edge. Meet the press yesterday. They were talking about who has the edge heading in to tomorrow. Who should control congress . The phone lines are open. The wall street journal has a new poll. This is on the front page. Voters favor the gop by a slim margin for control of congress. Voters favor a republican in congress while 45 favor a democratic congress. In first color is a democrat gainesville. Caller thank you. Host which party should control
Longterm. Unfortunately because of the shortterm thinking that reigned supreme in this question of sustainability hasnt really come up at all. As i said before for all the money the International Community is spending on the Afghan Government to build the judiciary, the parliament to build capacity worldwide money is also going to warlords and strongmen. The u. S. Taxpayer dollars are still going to warlords and strongmen around the country and thats bad in and of itself but its also bad because it ensures continued weakness of the Afghan Government. So adjusting that will be the other aspect of the thing that the u. S. Should do. The last question im left here. You spoke about growing your beard out in getting a motorcycle and going and actually meeting with the taliban warlord. Can you speak a little more about that and were you ever afraid for your life at any point . Well you know, in 2008 in 2009 it was different than it is today. At the time the taliban headache coherent command