a backlash over what people see as his broken promise to protect american workers. and set to appear in a russian court after admitting they intentionally ignored orders to stop their ships and follow sunday s clash with russian and ukrainian vessels in the coach straight crimea. either wednesday morning at nine here in moscow a bomb welcome for me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow your news this morning julian assange in the headlines once again with wiki leaks saying it s ready to sue britain s guardian newspaper it s accused of fabricating a story of a secretly meeting donald trump s former election campaign chairman paul manifold wiki leaks has already launched a fund to support the legal action with a santa instructing lawyers on the case the notion of those secret talks is rapidly spread across the media and comes as a force also accused of lying to the f.b.i. in a russian collusion probe on the former campaign manager was jailed earlier this year after being foun
get outhey told us to of the classroom and go over to the synagogue because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. what happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 dockets in the plate. two rows back, and even cancer guy puts 2000 up it s in the plate. finally, a gets back to the public row, where the poor people sit in the back, and the story goes that this poor widow dug into this moth-eaten bag and pulled out a coin worth two cents, and she dropped it into the collection plate, and that was the lesson through jesus christ said to his disciples, verily i say into you, that poor widow gave more than anyone else. host: what was the point of telling that story in this chapter? guest: it is a basic point about just taxation, that it has to be proportionate to wealth. the important question is not how much
guest: of course. they told us to get out of the classroom and go over to the synagogue for today s lesson because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. what happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 dockets in the plate. maybe two rows back, an even fancier guy puts 2000 dockets in the plate. finally, a gets back to the public row, where the poor people sit in the back, and the story goes that this poor widow dug into this moth-eaten bag and pulled out a coin worth two cents, and she dropped it into the collection plate, and that was the lesson through jesus christ said to his disciples, verily i say into you, that poor widow gave more than anyone else. host: what was the point of telling that story in this chapter? guest: it is a basic point about fair, just taxation, that it has to be proportionat
29, and june 3rd on c-span s and c-span.org. announcer: this week on q&a, author and journalist t.r. reid. he discusses his book a fine mess: a global quest for a simpler, fairer, and more efficient tax system. brian: t.r. reid, better known as tom, in your new book, a fine mess, you start out in chapter three under taxes: what are they good for? with on one saturday afternoon, a great teacher of ethics told his students , do you remember the rest of it? tom: of course. said,t teacher of ethics let s get out of the classroom and go over to the synagogue for today s lesson because he has a lesson on paying for community goods, for taxes. what happened if the teacher and his students went to the synagogue and halfway through the service, they passed the collection plate and a guy in the front row with beautiful robes, the rich guy puts 1000 ducets in the plate. maybe two rows back, an even fancier guy puts 2000 ducets in the plate. finally, a gets back to the p
smartphone maker. samsung losing ground to apple. and some some electronics posting the biggest drop in quarterly profit in almost five years. is as samsung struggled to maintain its leadership in the smartphone business. its other divisions are now putting these in the spotlight. the company announced yesterday it plans to build a $15 billion chip plant in south korea. for more on samsung s involving our guest joins me now. in mu of the smartphone sales, the chip business is doing well. it is. one of the things happening with chip sales and specifically memory is that you have a consolidated market. you have fewer suppliers. there is not much supply coming on line, and as a result prices are controlled. and demand is ok. lots of memory going into smartphones and tablets, and even the pc business. the good old pc business. exactly. they are not dead yet. fewer players control pricing, and so they are doing fine. as one business struggles with samsung, they are trying to