That was president Joe Biden Wednesday Night calling on congress to raise taxes to pay for an astonishing 6 Trillion in new Government Spending that has been proposed or passed in his first 100 days in office. The President Outline aring the third outlining the third part we say night, the 1. 8 trillion american families plan which includes universal prek, paid Family Leave and to two years of free Community College for all americans, among other things, paid for in part by raising the top Income Tax Rate to the Pre2017 Level of 39. 6 and nearly doubling taxes on Capital Gains. Lets bring in Texas Congressman Kevin brady. Hes the top republican on the taxwriting house ways and means committee. Welcome, good to see you. Youre one to to one of the architects of the 2017 tax reform, historic piece of legislation. Does it look to you like President Biden and the democrats are going to try to take a hatchet to that and try to chop it into bits . Yeah, they are, paul. Thanks for having me. T
all of that with these two. there they are, the eu commissioner in charge of its new care strategy, and the boss of partou it s one of the world s biggest childcare providers. also on the show, i m going to be asking the head honcho of the global hotel giant radisson group about the surging dollar, china lockdowns and how he s growing the company in the era of aianb. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, while the covid pandemic set off an economic firestorm across the world, as we sheltered in our homes, millions of us had to take up home schooling. is mummy a good school teacher? no. but after covid came the war in ukraine, which sparked rising living costs around the world. while governments have focused much of their efforts on help with things like energy bills for businesses and families, there are also new schemes in different parts of the world to help with the cost of childcare. and it s i
where the skies are clear and the winds are light, east anglia and the south east. some of the countryside is close to freezing tomorrow. it will feel cold but a lot of sunshine continues during the day. northern ireland and scotland, the rain moves through with strong winds, even severe gales in the western isles. some of the rain reaching cumbria and anglesey in the afternoon. most of england and wales will be dry and a touch milder here. the headlines. police say ten people have been killed and eight injured in an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal, in the republic of ireland. a massive fire has severely damaged the strategically important road and rail bridge connecting occupied crimea to russia. ukrainian officials say they ve found two mass burial sites in the recently liberated town of lyman one with around 200 graves. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly, with me, aaron heselhurst. let s tak
Need to be competitive. it depends on which country you are. in the netherlands, workplace benefits are highly regulated. once a year for example, employers and employees via the unions, may negotiate a wage that reflects the living standards. education levels we desire in the sector. 0r work life balance, all those things. and ithis way, i believe, a sector can compete and protect itself against undesirous effects. if i look at the uk, where we are also present, we are more free to determine the wages of our staff. and we do, of course, change the wages as the local market requires these adaptations. but the risk is that the sector starts competing against itself. fixed staff in childcare is hugely important when it
Businesses? the netherlands based company partou has 900 centres, it employs 9,000 child carers who look after some 70,000 kids. jeanine lemmens, the big boss of partou. a real pleasure having you on the show. jeanine, can we start with this, because the european union wants to see more affordable childcare so, well, so more kids can go to care centres. the eu has asked countries to agree to more ambitious targets. do you think these are achievable? well, in order to achieve the eu targets, individual member nations need to address the infrastructure and the provision that already exists. and the difference are really huge at the moment. overall, the childcare sector in europe is in its infancy. there is a lack of consistency between member nations, and nations are all inventing the wheel. and lessons from more advanced markets are not necessarily learned. so a lot needs to change in