it's a fundamentally conservative idea supported by milton freedman that eats away at inequality by investingore in americans. can washington get over the polarization enough to say yes to a good bipartisan idea? >>> next on "gps," the other crisis ukraine. will germany support tougher measures against vladimir putin? i'll ask the german defense minister when we come back. shingles affected me tremendously as a pilot. the blisters and the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space with the rash to move to change radio frequencies. i would just stop and literally freeze up. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. when my doctor told me that shingles came from the chickenpox virus i was very surprised. for two weeks i sat up in bed because i couldn't lay down. i had the scabs all throughout the side of my head and into the upper neck region. i didn't want to do anything except go to sleep and have the pain be over. as a pilot that meant i was g

. >> charlie: there are other economists like milton freedman who suggest it is "poisonous" to look at the distribution system. >> to me, it's a lack of confidence in democracy. it's not poisonous to have transparency and know more about income and wealth and how the different groups are doing. let me say right away, to me, showing our wealth to different groups is not to conclude we'll solve every program just by taxing the top. but if we want to avoid national debate and hatred between social groups we just need more transparency about how the different groups are doing. >> charlie: and more taxation of the wealth of the -- >> depending on what we have. depending on what we see. if what we see in the data is that the different income and wealth groups are doing equally well and that they're all rising at the same rate, then why would you need more -- >> charlie: and when have you seen that since the 1980s? >> well, i can tell you rising inequality is much less of a concern in europe than the united states. >> charlie: much less of a concern? >> much less of a concern, yes, because yo