clearly a growing divide in that country. the question is what kind of legislative fixes are there to make it less so. the spike of the minimum wage to $10 an hour which senate democrats want to do, most people you talk to on the hill don t think i has a chance. what are the alternatives? you re not going to tax rich anymore. they criticizes as redistributionists. the cupboard is bare when it comes to fixing inequality. the president is speaking out to it. he s trying to assure the base he s aware of their concerns, chris cillizza. that speech he did yesterday resonated with democrats. what can he do. there s one pitch by progressive maebs of congress and allies that he could do mng by executive order. i m not sure that s exactly true. he could affect what federal contractors pay. there s disagreement how much he could do by executive order on the minimum wage.
the need to bury the lead. because you ve now got a president who said he is going to enforce a agenda via regulatory means. bodies like the u.n., they want the united states to be a leader on this issue because they feel that s the only way they can pressure other countries like china and india to also somehow get on board. so they re nothing going to do anything to derail this u.s. movement and this u.s. president to start enforcing some sort of climate program. go ahead. i was going to say it s important for people to understand what a vehicle of convenience a the climate issue has been for classic redistributionists who have always wanted a strong government, a regulatory state, high taxes, who have been averse to to fossil fuels. this was true 50 years ago.
counts. i think the point here is that to go another sentence deep in that quote we didn t play there, he s talking about how we need to do in a way that promotes competition in the private sector. he was saying was totally consistent with a very centrist message. it was consistent with what the democratic party did in the 1990s in response to the success of the republican party and the conservative movement in the 1818 1980s. bill clinton stood up and said the era of big government is over. in a way bill clinton saying and barack obama talking that was a try jump of the conservative movement. the problem is they have not adjusted to that. they re trying to run a campaign still against the old image of democrats as total redistributionists. you don t have to go back that far. obama said similar things in 2008 and said, while president i think at a certain point you d made enough money.
governor rick perry is proposing giving you taxpayers a choice. essentially you can pay your current income tax rate under this code or skip the accountants and software and pay a 20% flat tax rate. the bottom line, most americans choose a 20%, and at the least this would amount to a tax cut for the wealthy. candy crowley is the chief police kp correspondent, and anchor of state of the union on cnn. no one is sure what romney s proposal is, whether it s economically sound. after herman cain s success for getting attention for the 9-9-9 tax plan i can see why perry seized on the idea of a simple tax. this tax code helps us understand that. i m not clear on whether they succeed or fail on the economic plans or how sexy or simple the plan sounds or whether it has nothing to do with that and who has the best chance to beat president obama. it s somewhere in between there, ali. there are certain things to say in this republican primary that would make him or her a non-starter,
i m ali velshi. welcome to your money. rick perry is proposing give you a tax choice. currently you can pay it under the cold or pay a 20% flat tax rate. the bottom line, most americans choose a 20%, and at the least this would amount to a tax cut for the wealthy. candy crowley is the chief political course it dent and anchor of state of the union on cnn. no one is sure what romney s proposal is, whether it s economically sound. after herman cain s success for getting attention for the 9-9-9 tax plan i can see why perry seized on the idea of a simple tax. i m not clear on whether they succeed or fail on the economic plans or how sexy or simple the plan sounds or whether it has nothing to do with that and who has the best chance to beat president obama. it s somewhere in between there, ali. there are certain things to say in this republican primary that would make him or her a non-starter, and that is i m going to raise your taxes. i will make big cuts in defense spendin