It is totally bizarre to me that the people we expect to do the most lifting are the people that we put the most burden on.
You can only borrow if somebody is saving. There has to be a lender on the other side of that transaction.
The fact that we send out a stimulus check is not going to stimulate the economy.
Discuss the benefits of that premium support concept generally because I think it is not necessarily well understood.
All of those I think are very useful suggestions, and I appreciate them all. Thank you.
I think that is a very clever way to do this.
I think you could do great harm by effectively doubling the capital gains and dividends taxes
I hope those aren't a message from above.
Are we heading towards that unintended consequence of making it harder, making it more difficult, taking away choices...
I agree with that.
To the extent they are lower than the previous year's, would it not cut that amount from your baseline?
The President is the commander-in-chief. He is the person that deploys troops, not Congress.
An important observation. Thank you.
So this memorandum that was sent should have distinguished between mandatory and discretionary spending when it talks about CBO's policy.
So the old saw that corporations don't pay taxes, people do is actually true.
We will put the burden on him to answer the question then.
There was a tax rebate under Bush, and then more recently we had a payroll tax one-year policy, which some would like to see extended.
Cause and effect is complicated in the economy.
