american democracy. it exists to serve you. that s the know the only kind of democracy, there s also the soviet version of democracy, same word but very different definition. bowl has conviction took power by promising more democracy. the country that created the soviet union became the most impressive police state in human history. yet it was, you should know, a democracy. that s what they called it. east germany was a democracy, too, so was north vietnam, and ethiopia, and albania. democracies all. in his first speech as leader of north korea in 1946, kim i will sung talked about destruction of opposition to his rule, killing of political opponents as democratic reform. almost 80 years later, kim jong-un continues to run north korea as a democracy, a soviet style democracy. so again, they re using a very different definition of the word. in their version of democracy all decisions are made by a shadowy oligarchy. front by a strong man. the point isn t to find out what the p
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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the democratic party continuing to control what democrato s say and what ultimately happens invt our government. but i don t think we re going to let that happen. happen many more .e send five days, tucker, is when we send a big message. that s not how it works inan this country any longer. last question. lasvance. maybe the last time we speak before the election chan buthe election you were a bes t selling author and a businessman. you reallyse didn t need this job. payc of hassle for your family. you did it anyway. because you wanted to be a citizen legislator. le candidatesislator. this cycle on the republican side who did exactly the same thing. isn t that whaisn t a t a democy is supposed to produce and yet you re attacked as a threat to democracy? how does that workt ? well, it s because i m not a threat to democracy, tucker. i m aat threat to the existia power structure in this country that we have to remembero remems gotten rich by shipping our industrial base to china an
continuing to control what democrats say and what ultimately happens in our government. i don t think we re going to let it happen any more. five days, tucker, we send a big message, that s not how it works in this country any longer. last question, jd advance, may be the last chance we speak before the election, and god speed. you were a best selling author, businessman, didn t need the job, big paycut, hassle for the family. you did it because you wanted to be a citizen legislator. there are a lot of candidates on the republican side that did the same thing. isn t that what a democracy is supposed to produce? yet you re attacked as threat to democracy. how does that work? well, it is because i m not a threat to democracy, tucker, i m a threat to the existing power structure in this country that we have to remember has gotten rich by shipping our industrial base to china and has thrown a set of values in our schools, even in our military onto the american people, that the american
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