mr. bitman quote.ter is a guaranteed basic income simplify matters and help keep the economy moving. how this would be financed of course is a question. we could make the income tax look like it about 60 years ago when the top rate was 91% or institute 100% on wealth over a billion dollars. mr. bitman calling for the federal government to guarantee an income for every american where that american works or not. that's what the far left wants. with us here to react in new york city mary katharine ham and alan colmes. mary katharine, can you believe this first of all? at least bitman, i guess he was eating a sandwich and writing a column at the same time. you know, very few of these people will go that far. but he did. >> very fashionable to talk about income inequality and discuss that and ways to combat it but, can we talk about the glaring historical blind spot you need to say marxist socialist utopia? why not? there are hundreds of millions of reasons why not. they are lying in mostly mass graves acro