out immediately. and that s you have another side of this negotiation with some of your fellow democrats, which i want to get to in a second. let s stay on what they call in washington the pay fors. they re looking at increasing the corporate tax rate, closing existing loop holes, raising taxes on wealthy americans, trying to get money back from get the irs i agree with all of that. they say they can add that up to 3.5 and there will not be a dollar no. that s what they re saying. you don t believe that? those rates are not going to be competitive. here is the difference. they re looking for 3.5 trillion. i m looking for a competitive tax rate. i want to make adjustments and changes. what does competitive tax rate mean? globally competitive. you have to be globally competitive. can you explain first of all, it can t be at 39% as far as capital gains. i said 28 all in, okay?
like a spending cut off sets what we call in washington the pay fors, then the ball will stall out and that s when congress will be in real peril of fumbling the ball here. i want to talk about today and what we saw, the president has been making the rounds first in texas and now he s in louisiana. this is a side of the president that maybe we haven t even seen before. he was hugging children, squatting down on the floor. he was speaking with flood victims. even helped serve food to some of those storm victims. is this the side of the president that america needed to see after harvey? i think they did, if he was going to go there at all. i have to mention ana, that someone i talked to a republican i talked to in texas said that law enforcement there would have preferred they either be dealing with the what s going on in houston and beaumont or taking care of their own homes. so the they think that the president s visit has taken some resources away that should have been used el