or intersection provides free internet access to human rights activists and other cubin teaches basic information technology, skills and provides training to independent journalists. to cuba and other governments across the hemisphere our message must be clear, nonviolent dissent not criminal behavior, opposition to the government is not criminal behavior. exercise of free speech is not criminal behavior. to the contrary, free speech is a right that must be defended. i know that the subcommittee is continuing to ensure respect for freedom of expression in the americas and in some countries in the region we have seen new tactics used by governments and other actors determined to silence those who challenge them including threats and violence against joyless and government regulations aimed at silencing critics. wherever the kurds in the hemisphere we need to come from these new measures to limit freedom of expression. in closing let me emphasize that we will be the first to hear what a democratically chosen government in cuba reasons its full participation in the system. the hemisphere

. >> [speaking spanish] >> translator: for those of you that your interest in the cubin current affairs can see the act so take place at her home characterized as state terrorism. >> [speaking spanish] >> translator: she let one of the protests that has been widely mentioned in cuba in the recent years which took place on the stairs of the capitol building in havana. >> so is crossing the red line then meeting gaining public space, gaining recognition for your peacefully activities inside of cuba that is what the regime does not permit, that is what gets you arrested. >> [speaking spanish] >> translator: any attempt to gain any kind of public space or activity by the dissidents were the positions to try to get some kind of representation in society, any kind of attempt to do this is what the regime does not allow and that constitutes crossing the red line. >> so to summarize if you are a dissident and what you are doing is sending information about what is happening inside of cuba to the rest of the world coming to our oprah's to but you are not necessarily a arrested. if you are a diss

this is the famous cubin mccardle to beat the -- card.this is supposed to maintain you for a whole month. as you can see this only lasts two or three days. after that, you're back to hunger. it's a free interesting phenomena that people don't understand when they see cuba. how the government controls you through ponder, to control food. all the food, there is no slow business they are trying to sell you everything. it's in the hands of the government. so, you have this food you go to work and that work they give you some lunch. but that's how they control you. so there's all kind of walls about things you cannot do. this is not enough 80% of the food that you eat you buy in the black market. so the moment you go in the black market you are violating the law. so all the cubans get that in the morning how many highlight today and how many i by late. so this is an interesting concept. the person that is constantly breaking the law is constantly scared of the police. some, many times journalists go to cuba they don't see any police. people ca

cubin institutes we have done a lot of work on trying to calculate the taxes.the first draft which you actually see here on the screen is the same as the figure in my testimony. it shows close to the maximum benefits for which a single head of household and two children may be eligible and then held a phase out as income increases. rates are low or even negative up to about 10,000 to $15,000 of income. that the rise quickly in the next figure that i will be showing which is the zenas figure three of my testimony. i show the effective tax rate for household income rises from 10,000 to $40,000. income and social security taxes take away about 30% of earnings and then universally available programs, by universally i mean available to all of us if we have children. these are items like the eitc that raises the rate to about 55% and for those households that happen to be into welfare programs such as tanif it can rise above 80%. what used to be called a poverty trap has moved into what we would call the twice poverty trap, that is the highway households more than at