i pulled touch from the. video. smiling. for a sense for you in the palm of your. call . a launch our been in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. it was definitely a happy monday for federal workers who dodged a potential government shutdown disaster so even though the republicans backed down their fight against planned parenthood funding bill is still vote on the new proposed budget. plus the race for madison's new supreme court justice period of the two thousand florida bush gore voting scandal i'll tell you were fourteen

thousand votes against the program on friday for our son. and we all know if he has a job is to randomly perform pat down searches the search one agent did to a six year old is just ridiculous or illegal the full video and it's crazy. you need to know this the government is open today thanks to a last minute deal late friday night that avoid a government shutdown for at least one more week two hours before the deadline on friday house republicans finally gave in and dropped their demand to defund planned parenthood clearing the way for a short term spending. the pass keeps the government funded for just this week to

allow for more negotiations before another vote is held to keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year which ends in october that new budget deal will cut thirty five point thirty eight point five billion dollars in spending over the remainder of two thousand and eleven that's last week's the or this week's deal a number that was much closer to republican demands the democrats it's still since the government will continue to fund basic women's health care services with the planned parenthood many republicans are saying they're going to vote no for the measure meaning speaker john boehner is going to have to have to appeal across the aisle the democrats to get what you just so even though the government shutdown was averted republicans caved on their planned parenthood demands the democrats already lost the larger debate by rolling over on so many painful spending cuts though kirk is the vice president of policy at americans for prosperity and me now to offer his take on this bill welcome back to the program my pleasure tom great to have you

with us let me just share quickly a graphic with you like to get your thoughts on maybe we can pop it up on the screen here or can we not here it is this is our national debt as a percentage of g.d.p. and of course the the peak there is world war two and then we paid off our debt and then ronald reagan came into office and put into place about halfway through his presidency is notorious tax cuts on the rich and clinton then raised taxes on the rich the debt went down bush cut taxes on the rich the get went back up obama continued bush's taxes on the rich tax cut on the rich and the and it continues to go up doesn't this suggest something like really kind of fundamental and basic like cutting taxes on the rich is stupid and it leaves the gods know it says nothing of the sort naturally if you had revenue as a percent of g.d.p. across this period you would see that even when rates go up and down the top marginal to. it has no more almost no impact on the revenue that's collected which

is the flat line of about eighteen to twenty percent of g.d.p. no matter what the tax rates are the big variance here were changes in spending levels particularly the military buildup on or under ronald reagan in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the big surge in think you're the spending post nine eleven under president bush i agree with you we've got to get these deficits under control but the variance is on the phone spending side and i would suggest that's where we need to focus on his own stunning sight world war two that's a variation on the theme that world war two saved us from the great depression right know. the fact that our deficits are being driven out of them and so i think if you if you said that what we're looking at here is not national debt as a percent of g.d.p. is there is a chart says rather a spend on national that's driven by inventing a better than the logic associated with that is typically also in associated with the notion that what got us out of the great depression was world war two and i would completely disagree one has nothing to do with the other the point that i'm making good i don't agree with that either i thought that's where you were going

with it so so the question then is. all actually. i don't know it's this this is this is the result of tax cuts i mean tom risen new here it here with the percent this year it would be until reagan became president he lays out the theme of this twenty percent if you prodded revenue as a percent of g.d.p. if you read between eighteen and twenty throughout the whole post world war two period everywhere from the eisenhower top rate going up around revenue revenue goes up and down along really sessions of course it does tax you right no tax receipts are lower than they've ever been tax receipts right now are at a fifty year low and you know if you look at the obama administration's own projections they've got to i'm going to turn my libertarian g.g. to a knowledge of what i just said is the truth taxes go to actually have resident revenue there in a nineteen revenue share is the percent of g.d.p. it's not sensitive to the marginal rate and there's also and if you're talking about total government revenue let's just say for a minute you're right twenty percent right across the board it was all the governor

of new during that period time there when when eisenhower was running the show and . when nixon was running the show and johnson and kennedy then thirty percent of the total revenue of the federal government was coming from corporations now it's six point six percent there's clearly more to it than just saying oh gee this is something. well it makes a big difference how you collect the revenue in terms of its economic impact and how neutral it is and how much you've been and how much it affects the economic blockade making the reality of it i'm talking about just the do you say let's talk about that you know corporations tom do not pay taxes no matter what rate the corporate tax may be corporations collect taxes all the tax crap and all taxes are paid by human beings but i don't want to talk this paid one of three ways it's either card that you consume or is in higher prices out of workers and higher wages or out of shareholders and are you going to tell me are you going to tell me to fill my you should be a your company does not use police or fire services that you don't use educated well i'm not saying anything like that are you think only the

american who in her support remark is are going to go to every poor comic incidents of every taxes on human beings it's not true. it's just simply not we'll have the money to pay a tax they corporation it's a money to pay for it already is using the government's house the corporation is used here to. that's where i know i come from that's a phony question so i don't want to you are seeing where does a person get the money to pay their taxes they where do you get the money to pay their taxes you get your money from from from you know from however you're going to write from your income source what are my point is your question is a phony baloney question i don't think the actual question is is who is using the commons and who's paying for it and you've got corporations now that are dumping poisons into our that are causing millions of dollars in damage and deaths and in diseases you have corporations sure you've been either to use in a play or using police and now you've got corporations that are using the commons they're using our educated workforce and they're not paying taxes for they should they if they want to claim that they're entities if they want to contribute

hundreds of millions of dollars to political campaigns then they shouldn't sit around go oh but we we don't have to pay any taxes we shouldn't i think would be much better fish and much more transparent and much more fair to have passed through treatment for corporations the same as we have for partnerships if people take a shit if people take a profit that should be taxed but i don't think that entity level taxation you can't you can't get good at what you've got fifty thousand stockholders and you know what we have publicly traded partnership like the black riders that have that tax treatment into work and maybe twelve partners rajon their publicly trade anyone can buy into the partnership groups trade on the american stock exchange they. point out that the upper one percent of americans are not taking a quarter of the nation's income over year in terms of wealth which are quoting us i don't predict on forty percent well actually you can you can find these numbers anywhere i mean roger rogers quoting what was in the new york times two weeks ago twenty five years ago the corresponding figures of twelve and there are thirty three percent but half of that. i think just out of control i mean haven't. aren't you aren't you frankly concerned as an american for prosperity that america is

going down the tubes because the rich are basically taking over. well i don't buy into this sort of class warfare and the mentality and to me the northern israel welfare bill none of the top of the income distribution has no bearing on the quality of life for anyone else and i believe as kennedy did that a rising tide can lift all boats here's a thought experiment really and. if a martian landed tomorrow who was worth one hundred quadrillion dollars would be all for your feel poor soul in the russian revolution half would be believe you look at really wondering and louie louie and what's her name you know let them eat cake which is simply taking all the money and people having bread riots that was just that didn't happen economic behavior is not the people who have prospered in this country tons of by creating wealth the benefits of your fill all that you have that is the last word thank you for showing up and i got it. during this debate republicans have shown this debate into the thread true colors as far as these

takers these guys are willing to spend or to send excuse me eight hundred thousand federal workers home oh i see the debate on my apologies here during the debate in the house of representatives in the sun on this whole crazy issue about the deficit the debt. they have been willing to send eight hundred thousand federal workers come out on paid vacations put at risk our economic recovery and screw over senior citizens and military veterans who depend on new federal assistance all to make sure the poor woman can't receive cancer screenings yes that was the issue of the strike just imagine what republicans will do next month when the stability entire global economy hangs in the balance over a vote to increase our nation's debt ceiling vote the speaker of the house john boehner has already said they're going to try to leverage for more cuts on the backs of average americans and this is really really simple stuff i mean it's just really simple stuff cons are going to tell you that reagan brought us prosperity you saw the graph just a few minutes ago he actually brought us to recessions he brought us the total

failure of the u.s. now industry the smaller part of the banking industry because he had. a few years earlier and he tripled our debt it was all part of the hope of a very specific plan to bankrupt the nation it was openly discussed in newspapers by jude wood in ski who first editorialized about it by grover norquist by david stockman and others you know grover say no i just want to shrink the government down to the point where i can drown it in a bathtub fills boss this is so democrats and why did they want to do this so the democrats couldn't help the phrase conservatives would use would be make dependent couldn't help people why would they not want democrats to help people because then the democrats would get people's votes and after all that's buying votes and if you do things people want this is the republican logic stop the democrats from being able to help people and people won't vote for them anymore really simple clinton stopped this thing in their tracks without a single republican vote clinton raised the tax on the top on the top one percent

by three percentage points and brought us a balanced budget and a surplus but bush jr put it back on steroids that obama has inherited and by the way has extended the bush tax cut which i think is insane but you know he was he was in a box i think he's going to change this and frankly it's time to roll back the reagan tax cuts and get us back to the kind of fiscal sanity it will bring this country back to where it's working. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's the question by the report shows the four hundred richest in america are taxed at an average of sixteen percent while the rest of us pay up to thirty five percent will this continue. possible answers a yes every c.e.o.

pay increase dramatically and they have a budget for a lobbyist a pride congress of course they won't pay taxes or be no president obama has announced that those making over a quarter million dollars a year will be taxed and it will be in the next budget so far about seventy five percent of the light leaning toward yes cynics well i got a tarp and i got a telephone thank you paul will be open until probably coming out middle class america may have dodged a bullet with a failed government shutdown but they're still not out of the woods you may still be footing the expense of those well.

let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here. i think it may be the one well. we never got the says they're going to keep him safe get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

even though a government shutdown was averted working class people will still be screwed over in america a report by well for the common good shows that the four hundred richest people in america are nations all the darks have never had it so good they are paying the

lowest taxes ever in their life times these four hundred super rich americans control more while in this nation then the bottom one hundred fifty million other americans. and yet they're effectively taxed that a rate of just over sixteen percent while the rest of us pay up to thirty five percent plus higher levels of sales property and other taxes to put that in perspective these four hundred rich oligarchy effective tax rate has dropped by more than two thirds since dwight eisenhower's administration while the rate for working people has nearly doubled rich people get a two thirds tax cut over the last fifty years working people get screwed with a one hundred percent tax rate seems fair so considering that this new budget is likely to pass this week doesn't raise a dime in taxes on the rich are we once again glossing over the real problems

plaguing america problems like wealth inequality joining me now to speak to this issue is chuck collins senior scholar at the institute for policy studies and director of i.p.s. his program on any quality in the common good he's also the co-author of the book economic apartheid in america a primer on economic inequality and insecurity charke welcome i time good to be with you great to have you with us here chuck why is this so difficult to get anybody to talk about taxes particularly the media i. just it doesn't seem to happen i constantly find myself yelling at the t.v. as they're having these long discussions about well should we cut this or that who was that the republicans want to cut more than democrats and nobody says let's raise taxes. you know it's clearly the option that's not on table you know here we are every governor and you know members of congress saying we're broke and the thing that's not on the table is simply even just reversing the tax cuts that have

gone to the richest one percent and huge offshore tax havens that open up loopholes for corporation simply if we reversed some of those we wouldn't be having to have this deep cut discussion this austerity discussion you know i i was speaking with a kirpan a little earlier and suggested that it really all began with the reagan tax cuts that if you know he tripled our national debt and in eight years and bush sr added another almost two trillion of that and then clinton actually kind of cleaned it up with a three percent tax increase on the rich. not only no republicans voted for but newt gingrich took to the floor and said we'd be in a great depression within a year if you did it and then george bush came in cut taxes again and and which has his standing to this day and so we've got this disaster his response was that ever since the one nine hundred forty s.

income has actually been flat it's been steady at eighteen to twenty percent other was taxes of all we read the news always been the same assuming that he wasn't just one small cabbie how's that possible. well i think there's been a shift so that the bet that the top one percent in those top four hundred houses that you're talking about their share continues to go down but the overall income has become so much more unequal so part of our of our budget bind is wealth has become much more concentrated in the very top and we stop taxing the top so here's a statistic actually even going back to one thousand nine hundred sixty one think about the year barack obama was born if we had the same rules in effect today that we had in one nine hundred sixty one for millionaires and at the local companies we would bring in the treasury would bring in another seven hundred sixteen billion dollars year just under nine hundred sixty one rules so that's an example of how

the rules have shifted and that affects small businesses small businesses who pay their taxes as individuals you know nine hundred sixty one corporations paid. a half or a third of the revenue by individuals and small businesses you know two thirds today small businesses pay and individuals pay five times more than corporations or a portion of corporations so it's again about thirty percent to about six point six percent or seven percent of them though. today let's just so so it's it's the revenue may be constant but that who's paying the allocation of who pays is changed well and and it's not just the the rich and everybody it's not just the working people are paying a whole lot more particularly when you know everybody just loves the conservatives always love to just talk about income tax but when you include things like payroll taxes and sales taxes and property taxes and fees and everything else as a percentage of income those are huge for the middle class but not only that but.

the rich are paying less and corporations are paying less and corporations are taking our jobs off shore making a profit on that labor you know david ricardo revisited making a profit on their labor and then keeping that profit off shore so that never comes back and calling themselves i mean g.e. last year made more business did more business outside the united states than inside the united states and yet it calls itself an american corporation and runs a in a row owns forty nine percent of a major television. what's going on yet i think it's fair every night i think though here's my here's my bit. it just it is this is these are really going to but you know crash the standard of living for many people and many people are going to see the american dream under attack and are going to say why do we have to keep making these cuts when general electric and arise and boeing are paying nothing nothing toward our taxpayer s.g.

you need for an idea we had others that are. right and they made and actually we had a tax payer gave them three billion that subsidy so and you start to see these grass roots movements like us uncut emerging around the country are saying no more budget cuts until the corporate tax structure stay up till we reverse the bush tax cuts why do we have to have a steri for everybody going to the super wealthy and these global corporations are and i think we're going to the end that know nothingism time that texas phobia cure and phil i have a theory just like you to tell me if you think i'm crazy or not we just have about a minute left and that is that we're really only half way into the bush great great recession that it's going to become the bush great depression but i've got a major double dip is common i'm getting all this by the way just from reading the financial times i'm not reading you know conspiracy tracts and i think it's going to get just as bad as one nine hundred thirty two and that's what it's going to take to wake up americans you can you can you please push back against me or do you

think i'm right well i can't really because i kind of see fuel prices and energy and food prices rising and i see that none of the fundamental. reforms that were supposed to be made actually got at the underlying risky p. eight here that these corporations are taking so we have to really fix the system and it's going to it's putting us all at risk so i am fortunately can't can't counter your concern there ok chuck collins thanks so much for being with us tonight thanks don always critical hearing thank you. to make matters worse average c.e.o. pay increased dramatically last year despite a twenty percent real under an unemployment rate plaguing the rest of us and yet now congress says they're going to passing a budget that cuts federal education health care and energy assistance programs for working class americans while doing nothing let me emphasize that nothing n. o. t. h. i t. nothing to make america has four hundred oligarchy supports tens of thousands of

very well the top one percent pay their fair share or sacrifice even one damn thing you know yesterday i was sitting in the frankfurt airport for a long time. and the new t.v. was on and there was freed's a car radio with what it was shows global g.p.s. or something and he was interviewing don regan and i could only half hear at the other everybody was around me and speaking german and what not and but but i could read the cairo ons and you know don regan who was reagan's treasury secretary the current was saying. as. loose nukes are the danger nuclear war isn't that danger something else something big it wasn't a danger the real danger is america's debt problem and it was all i could do sitting in the in in the lounge and in the loop on the lounge not to yell yeah the guy who didn't realize this was that this was don regan this is the guy has

reagan's treasury secretary who put us into this hole who put us into those debt who started this whole raid and then he goes off about how obama's not doing enough to give the car on was in the words of the script obama's not doing enough to cut cut title months which is been their agenda cut entitlements let's do away with social security let's do away with all this stuff and nobody ever calls these criminals out for their crimes. i'm telling you don regan is a criminal against the united states he is the he has a participated in the destruction of the middle class of this country and a lot of people frankly have died as a result from lack of health care from disasters in their families and suicides things like this american democracy is now hanging by a thread and frankly plutocrats like don reagan and the koch brothers and their paid ass kickers or ass kissers excuse me it's time to call them all out it's time

to call out and say ok you guys you had your free ride for thirty years you still pretty much everything now it's so. crazy alert a video surfaced online over the weekend of the t.s.a. giving one of their infamous grow checks to a six year old little girl figure one of the. things we. think because if you're coming. up with.

a. couple. of. so here we now officially say that our nation's security apparatus has completely lost it when a six year old girl is subject to this kind of treatment at the airports i'd say so or maybe republican congressman louie gohmert is right the terror babies are finally coming of age seriously though. yesterday i went through german security i you know i took a couple days off last week thanks thanks to lucy by the way for doing such a wonderful job of filling in for me and i was in germany for a couple of days and yesterday morning going through german security and the americans in front of me were taking the shoes off and putting them on the desk and the woman who was the officer she said why are you taking your shoes off and the

american woman in front of you know well we're supposed she's not put you shoes back up and she. now the flipside of this is on the way out last wednesday i was that i washed in dulles airport and i had to go through a chertoff porno scanner you know you're going to be x. rayed they don't have those in germany by the way germany in fact where we are not eleven was planned so i'm going through this chart of porno scanner and i said to the woman who was standing who you know the officer said you shouldn't dose a meter on you know you should be measuring how much radiation you're getting and she said she looked very concerned she said you know i hear that but management says everything's fine and standing behind her is a guy looking at me like he's management so after i get off the plane a scanner he says come on over here and then he says take off your belt loosen your pants he sticks his hands out of my pants all the way around you know is it was punishment these people at the t.s.a. need a union they need dose of yours the they need and we need fewer lobbyists like our

michael chertoff selling these x. ray chertoff canners it has reached the point not just of absurdity but of obscenity in this country. coming up think your e-mail is for your eyes only. sorry it's not i'll tell you why after the break. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think for us.