If you want to implement European-sized government, you'll need to impose European-styled taxes.
Lester Johnson
The Public Record
It's worth 85 cents. That is driving an awful lot of the numbers on your budget there.
Unfortunately, this budget is another lost opportunity for the President to demonstrate leadership on pressing fiscal challenges.
I mean it's a fantasy if you make the rich pay their fair share, and by the way, the top 1 percent garner about 20 percent of the income and pay about 40 percent of the income tax.
If you want to implement European-sized government, you'll need to impose European-styled taxes.
I challenge them to set a date to mark this budget up. It won't happen because even most Democrats wouldn't vote for this calamity.
Let me stop right there, okay, obesity. You say lack of exercise. What about what we're putting into our foods?
We have a completely broken healthcare financing system which incentivizes specialties, that disincentivizes primary care physicians.





