that money back and use it to build the wall. tucker: i m just a little bit confused because it sounds like it s not that it didn t work in california. it sounds like it was a flaming disaster. a fireball of lies and embarrassment. and so why would you take that and make it the centerpiece of your energy policy? well, you had a lot ofor crony corporatism and big labor involved in selling this to the public. so, it narrowly passed in 2008 with obama at the top of the ticket. got 52.7% of the vote. it was backed by corporations like see men s, the locomotive manufacturer out of germany and big labor. and it s basically been a crony corporate gravy train from day one. now, the problem is at the rate they are spending money, they wouldn t finish the route for about 100 years. r and as i recall, we are all supposed to be dead by then. isn t that how it s supposed totois work. tucker: actually, i think it s 12 years. what you are saying is they
that the chinese should not step up to the table. tucker: step up to the table? they are destroying the earth. they should absolutely do. this of course calling on them to do this as much as we are. i m saying we cannot politically approach them. tucker: what do you mean politically this is not geopolitical. it s 340r8. ask our government to go join us and when we won t do it ourselves. tucker: you are telling us we need to shut down every power plant. we need to put our money where our mouth is. tucker: i m not talking about money i m talking about savingeth. a moral rhetoric of every democratic presidential candidate right now today and applying it to a foreign country that they like much more than they like the united states and you are making excuses for that country. i m not. i m approaching this from a very logical standpoint. tucker: really? saying that the u.s. government cannot demand. tucker: why? they should demand but it s not going to be effective u
education. having more kids, helping the families to be able to have higher living standards and create a situation where families, parents can be brave enough to have more kids. tucker: could you end with telling us you think the most important thing that hungary has done to encourage people to get marriedd and have children? well, actually, we have formulated our economy policy in the way that supports families. we introduced a flat tax system and if you have kids, then you have deduction fromav your tax. you get exemption from payingax tax baled on the number of kids being raised in a family. so if you are around around average salary and if you have three kids or more, you basically do not pay personal income tax. which aleaves a lot let s say a significant amount of money in your pocket.
to build a high speed rail line between san francisco and l.a. yet, yesterday, it cancelled that route. why? because it didn t work. the cost rose to a staggering $77 billion. chuck devore has watched this up close. a former california assemblyman and vice president of the national initiative of public policy foundation and he joins us tonight. chuck, what was sudden lay california story is now a national story because light rail is a centerpiece of the green new deal. why didn t it work in california? well, it got too expensive. the travel times were way too slow. ticket prices were about double what you would pay for southwest airlines. and it became very apparent that they promised something that they couldn t deliver. they said they were going to have this project that would have all this private money and investment. it wouldn t have to cause taxes to go up. look, they haven t gotten a penny in private investment. the federal government has put $3.5 billion into it. and now they
that money back and use it to build the wall. tucker: i m just a little bit confused because it sounds like it s not that it didn t work in california. it sounds like it was a flaming disaster. a fireball of lies and embarrassment. and so why would you take that and make it the centerpiece of your energy policy? well, you had a lot of crony corporatism and big labor involved in selling this to the public. so, it narrowly passed in 2008 with obama at the top of the ticket. got 52.7% of the vote. it was backed by corporations like see men s, the locomotive manufacturer out of germany and big labor. and it s basically been a crony corporate gravy train from day one. now, the problem is at the rate they are spending money, they wouldn t finish the route for about 100 years. and as i recall, we are all supposed to be dead by then. isn t that how it s supposed to work. tucker: actually, i think