When I made the recording, I knew I wanted to just donate every dollar it earned. I had decided to do it that way before I recorded a single note.
If they've pretty much given up on Social Security then what other choice do they have? Whether or not it's politically feasible remains to be seen, but at least it will use up some of the oxygen in the room and crowd out bad ideas.
The tax burden among income groups has been relatively unchanged.
The tax burden among income groups has been relatively unchanged. The administration bent over backwards to make sure that was the case.
There are a lot of trailers that look like a bomb went off.
We all know the answer to tax reform: We want a low-rate, consumption-based tax system. And whether it's a flat tax or a sales tax, that's all gravy; they're different sides of the same coin.
I'm not going to make any money off of this myself.
This is completely and utterly predictable. People who don't pay taxes don't get a tax cut.
It's no coincidence at all that we've had strong economic growth after the tax cuts.
I'll make it simple. We don't want to be like France .
Gates Chili has been struggling, we've had some bad luck and tonight we put both ends of the field together, the defense and the offense,
It's definitely much better news than we had last week when it looked like they were just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, ... But I'll wait until I see the details until I'm convinced that it's unambiguously good news.
The challenge for the White House is that a lot of the base has this 'fool me once shame on you, feel me twice shame on me' attitude. If the president talks about tax reform but there's no follow-through it could end up backfiring.
It's not like they're not getting any redistribution from the government. We want less income redistribution, not more.