laid out the steps which we have talked about here on msnbc. the example of the deployment of rapid tests for free or reimbursed through a web site. those will be available next month. you heard the president say it is not a failure in his view. there are so few at-home tests right now. citing the shockingly fast spread of the omicron variant. i want to bring from monica alba and sam brock and dr. natalie azar and dr. roy. monica, let me start with you. the president emphasized. schools and businesses should stay open. he was not, he was clear, we are not where we were in march 2020. anecdo anecdotally, you and i feel we are returning to that. we have boosters and treatments. we are not in a lockdown phase. he alluded to a change for
a crimp in this latest report? because by that logic, i mean, we had them in full effect in the prior month and you could make the argument that they ve been there for a while. your thoughts? well, there s no doubt in the aggregate that they didn t have the major impact that david thinks and other people anecdo anecdotally, that it happened in the margin. there s essentially a study not a difference in hiring between the states that pulled back the benefits and those that didn t. i would say that covid is the number one factor here. i like your optimism about the cases peaking, but we really need to see them go down and then there s probably a lag after that before the people who are holding back are comfortable again. it just takes time. we ve already seen that from the three previous surges. neil: you know what is interesting, guys, step away
your tax code. they re not as republicans put it the determinative part. you think that the economy is a simple equation in which taxes are on one side and growth is on the other. if you get taxes and get everything else right. since 1950, the period of time in which americans had the most impressive growth was when our tax rate, our highest marginal tax rate was between 85% and 90%. the second high was at 39% and the third highest at 39.6% and one of the lowest was in the bush years down at 35%. so there s not a really good record of low marginal tax rates on the richest americans leading to very impressive levels of growth and/or job creation. nick, you ve been out there in this economy making an awful lot the money for yourself. hundreds of millions of dollars, seeing others do it. working with job creators. what do you hear just anecdo anecdotally in the world of real