what did reagan get out of that? well, reagan got, in 1951, a nice little ranch in malibu., when he sold it, enabled him to run for governor in the mid—1960s. so it was a huge gift. and then in 1954, mca agent taft schreiber also got reagan a rather promising gig as the front man for a tv drama show called general electric theater. in 1959, he was given quarter ownership of the show. there is no question that mca and taft schreiber particularly had a huge stake in ronald reagan. mca and reagan were kind of interlocking members of the same corporation. reagan had a stake in their success, and they had a stake in his. here, then, is lou costello, in blaze of glory. in the beginning, ronald reagan would come on and tell america just what they were going to see, now. and so he became theirfriend. their uncle. the guy next door. and that was usually important for his political career. reagan's mind was turning more and more in that direction. by 1963, he had become a republican, and was writing what was to become his political launch memoir, where's the rest of me? yet now, he f

why, ronald reagan. but reagan had generally been a good guy.st thinking of the success of the job? so why did he agree to play a role so completely at odds with his public persona? reagan was working on his memoir, the — where is the rest of me? and he was busy. and i think he was focused much more at that point on the political. ronald reagan never wanted to play a bad guy. he didn't see himself as a bad guy. he didn't want to do that movie at all. but his friend, lew wasserman, who owned the studio, had made him a lot of money. so he owed him big—time. big—time. i asked him, why did he do this movie, and he immediately said lew wanted me to do it. there was no — i mean, don't blame mean. i like what you're doing with the car. just stick with that. and so, like an ageing movie gangster do one last bankjob, the ageing movie actor decided to do one last film. go back to the hotel and stay there. i like it here. reagan later said his fans kept waiting for him to be revealed as a good guy. i like it here. in one shocking scene, he lashes out at hi

why, ronald reagan. but reagan had generally played a good guy.ust thinking of the success of the job? so why did he agree to play a role so completely at odds with his public persona? reagan was working on his memoir, the where's the rest of me and he was busy and i think he was focussed much more at that point for the political. reagan never wanted to play a bad guy. he didn't see himself as a bad guy. he didn't want to do that movie at all. but his friend, lew wasserman, who owned the studio at universal had made him a lot of money so he owed lew big time. big time. i asked him why did he do this movie and he just said immediately, lew wanted me to do it. i mean don't blame me, you know. i like what you're doing with the car, just stick with that. so like an ageing movie gangster doing one last bankjob, the ageing movie actor decided to do one last film. i like it here. reagan later said his fans kept waiting for him to be revealed as good guy. in one shocking scene, he lashes out at his screen wife angie dickinson. i can change that in a hurry

reagan for the first time.g. reagan for the first time. his impression of him was surprisingli was there, and the all—american boy, who at that time was extremely left—wing — i thought he was a communist — it was ronald reagan. left—wing — i thought he was a communist — it was ronald reaganm fa ct, communist — it was ronald reaganm fact, his politics were on the move. in1947, he fact, his politics were on the move. in 1947, he became the president of the screen actors to, known as sag. he appeared on television denouncing communism from a liberal point of view. on the basis that democracy is strong enough to fight for itself against every ideology, no matter how much we disagree. by the early 19505, how much we disagree. by the early 1950s, ronald reagan was that once promising movie career was stalling. when his limited range landed him leads it was only in pedestrian movies like this. but then a whole new phenomenon on began to sweep through hollywood. television transformed hollywood and american politics. a

the topic, reagan-era tax reform. our guest is henry olson, senior fellow of the ethics public policy center and the author of "the working class republican: ronald reagan and the return of blue-collar conservativism." tax reform is a top legislative priority for president trump. this interview looks at president reagan's efforts to reform the tax code in the 1980's. this is "american history tv" on c-span3. >> henry olson, a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center, out with a new book titled "the working class republican: ronald reagan and the return of blue-collar conservativism." let's talk about tax reform because you wrote a piece that republicans are chomping at the bit to pass tax reform. how do they get there? henry olsen: to passing this tax reform, they need to pass something that gives everybody a stake in the system. i think they need to not just focus on corporate tax reduction and higher rate reduction, but include payroll tax cuts for the working-class people who put donald trump in the whi

what was reagan able to do? henry olsen: at the time democrats were reacting to reagan's theft of their voter base. millions of people who said they were democrats actually at that time voted for ronald reagan and he was somebody who held a lot of sway among their constituents. they moved in a way to neutralize the tax issue so that was no longer a thing that could cause their voters to leave. they also recognized that the united states suffered from real competitiveness issues, particularly at a time where there were tax shelters that did not provide economic benefit that allowed wealthy people and corporations to get income. they found a way for republicans to get on board. get allver realized to of that. how did that play along conservatives? henry olsen: they wrestled with that. they were so in love with the issue that the compromise gave -- hard-line conservatives sometimes opposed compromises. for the social security tax and benefit compromise, newt gingrich and ron paul and jack either abstained, but they

and more hostility to reagan's nominees. reagan understood. with the recession going in 1982, the republican prospects in the house looked dim. did told himter , there was still in a percent chance republicans would hold the senate. it will be disastrous if we don't, reagan wrote in his diary. the canal issue on the long senate debate that kept the argument before the country through the international public radio, those were the first broadcasts of the senate doing business, helped the right to to raise moneyd and visibility, and helped develop political techniques that are with us today. the first independent spending , $16,000 from the american conservative union a pittance , compared to what moveon.org or the veterans for truth spent in 2004, was done on the canal issue. it was to help reagan in 1976 in the primaries. another innovation that came out of the canal years and lives on was the idea of a very top attack ads on it incumbent, often before anyone was to run against him. on another higher level no one , even his harshest critics, d

charlie black a reagan aide who was from carolina explained there were a lot of elements in reagan's policy but that was the most emotional. trying to educate people about how they were given up on eastern europe most couldn't remember that but they could try to do something about keeping the panama canal and that is vote for reagan. to the surprise of his supporters and the kid -- candidate he won in north carolina. it was no fluke. this comeback continued as he pressed the conditional issue in texas where he won all 96 delegateses an 37 in alabama and 85 in georgia. by mid may he had drawn even with ford in the delegate count. of course, for the was president and he had weapons, too. for example, he invited wavering delegates to sit with him on the carrier for rest at all in new york hardware bore and watch them parade by. he ultimately won the nomination. but reagan staked a firm claim on the republican party's future with a brilliant speech at the convention in kansas city. he left that city as the front-runner for the 1980 nomination. the canal issue had rescued his campaign and

reagan and mr. >> the people believe because iceland has an american airbase they likely will be soviet targets in event of a nuclear war. >> there's so many nuclear bomb in the world that accident might happen. >> this is only the size of canton, ohio, but finding a place here for the two most powerful people on earth to meet has been a problem. both moscow and washington want something modest, intimate, suitable for one-on-one meetings. both have already rejected the icelandic government's first choice, a big hotel, because they felt it was too big, too slick and might give the impression that the summit was a media event instead of a low-key working conferenc >> are you going to suggest a date when he comes to the united states. >> i'm not going to predict. >> mr. president. >> do we have an agreement, mr. president? >> do we have an agreement, sir? >> will you meet again? >> have you agreed on anything? >> did you set a date? >> will you meet again before -- >> there's a great sense of disappoin

it was authentic reagan. you couldn't ask reagan to come to berlin and stand before the berlin wall and not say that, but as a courtesy we finally got the final draft, i think, 24 hours in advance and as a courtesy i gave it to the governing mayor of berlin. i mentioned him already, everhart deacon and he read it and immediately came back to me and said you've got to take this passage out. you've got to take this passage out, and i said, mr. burgermeister, we can't do that. this is ronald reagan, and he said -- i said what's wrong with that? he said we've got intelligence that there will be protests on the other side of the wall and there were a smattering of protests, nothing very large, but we're afraid that if they hear that this will create or potentially create a riot, unrest and we could have a real scene on our hands and i just said, look, there's no way. i said, you don't know how hard it was to get ronald reagan here this year, and it was. it was very difficult to kind of get that organized the way w

reagan and mr.able place. >> the people believe because iceland has an american air base they likely will be soviet targets in event of a nuclear war. >> there's so many nuclear bomb in the world that accident might happen. >> this is only the size of can ton, ohio, but finding a place here for the two most powerful people on earth to meet has been a problem. both moscow and washington want something modest, intimate, suitable for one-on-one meetings. both have already rejected the icelandic government's first choice, a big hotel, because they felt it was too big, too slick and might give the impression that the summit was a media event instead >>> are you going to suggest a date when he comes to the united states? >> again, i'm not going to predict. >> mr. president, mr. president do you have an agreement, sir? >> will you meet again? >> have you agreed on anything? >> have you set a date? >> will you meet again? >> there is a great sense of disappointment that at least at this meeting a tremendous

ronald reagan live every week.t a time when he harnessed one of the social media outlets, twitter, unfiltered and uses it. what is really different about the two of them is ronald reagan needled the press a lot, treated us as a foil sometimes, but he wasn't afraid of the press and he didn't hate the press. donald trump has demonized the press and called us enemies of the american people. two very different approaches. >> the other thing, doug, is that ronald reagan -- you know, president trump was new to politics, he just was. ronald reagan spent two decades at the center of american politics before he became president. >> exactly. i mean as governor of california in the 1960s we got to watch ronald reagan in action. some people didn't like him, but everybody knew he was a good governor, that he was competent. we could look at his managerial style. he would be very flexible. the big thing is reagan was a conservative, but he also wanted to be seen as a pragmatic conservative. so he did things to promote wilderness

reagan took years for his message and reagan had a good plan to articulate which makes it much easier to sell. as trump himself as said, his tax plan does not help people like him. the last i checked, the rich paid the majority of the taxes. if we're not cutting taxes on the rich, that means we're not cutting taxes. how do you sell that. david: rich, there's a one similarity, a simplification program. we saw president reagan, back then 11 different tax brackets and brought them down to three. now president trump is suggesting our seven brackets on the left converted to three. so there's a similarity here. >> somewhat. you know, if donald trump really wanted this to happen if a big way, he could make it happen, but it's not clear to me that he really wants it to happen or that it's his stop priority because he's so easily distracted picking on mark zuckerberg or nfl players. if he would do that -- that separates him from ronald reagan. ronald reagan would not have allowed himself to be distracted like he's being distracted. david: and i don't think you like either reagan on president t

that was reagan. "opposing evil" meant not only pending abortion and reinstituting school prayer, it also meant defeating america's great enemy, the soviet union. "let us pray for the civilization of all those who live in that totalitarian darkness, pray that they will discover the joy of knowing god, but until they do, let us be aware that while they preach, the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict the eventual domination of all peoples on earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world." in the days following, his geopolitical framing of good and evil, it would be repeated over and over and over again in the secular and christian media. his framing became normalized. i want to get back to the issue of framing in the question and answer time, because i think that we have to understand how crucial media is in framing the way that we think about issues and the way we look at the world. that evil empire speech, was key to a world view that affirmed the r

the reagan crusade. in collaboration with the pope. and he he made a lot of investment in bringing some freedom into poland which resulted in the overthrow of the communist regime in one thousand nine hundred one or two which led to the. establishment of bowen's house democratic government which. lose the before of the dominus of communists communism in europe it sounds like what you're describing is a situation in which the united states would encourage some sort of color revolution in order to reunify under the south under a more capitalist and pro western system. that is still hoped for by by the book of the south korean population i was honestly surprised by how honest and open mr lee was in our discussion but that's just one of the very many interesting things he had to say in an interview with me which will be featured at length in a special report i'll put together upon my return to washington in seoul on your part until r.t. . president trump has said the latest sanctions. are only a small step i

would be running the reagan foundation?nthony: fred ryan was ronald reagan's chief-of-staff in retirement and he actually founded the foundation and founded the presidential library. he's the longest serving of any presidential library foundation director so that came first. you're right that he was one of the co-founders and ran politico and then the "washington post." i would argue that the coverage of the reagan library and the "washington post" is maybe not as -- rememberle, i don't ever rreading an article in the post that mentions that. brian: i think it changes a couple of things. anthony: you know, when presidents leave office they immediately start losing their ability to raise as much money as they could while they were in office. so you need someone with connections and reach and clout to be able to continue that high fundraising and the reagan foundation continues to be the highest fundraising of all. brian: one of the things tim, the first federal director of the nixon library and museum wanted to do was change

reagan had a policy. the closer you get to a vote, you get your forces and start early with your op-eds and have the gipper deliver the final blow about two nights before the vote. that's what we did. >> neil: we know in history how that went. the president got a lot of support from democrats and the house particularly, the so-called boll weevils. there's hope that democrats will inspire about it and inspire democratic senators to do the same. what do you think? >> look, we had the democrats control the house in october of 1986. but the republicans had the senate. dick gephard and bill bradley. the president after he won that, he thanked them all. he worked with them all. rostenkowski was a good buddy of his. let me tell you what the key was for reagan. it was an emotional issue. almost a moral issue. he talked about the tax code and what i did to american workers and called it repeatedly un-american. we have to unleash these workers. it was something that came out of the heart and came out of ronald reag

not letting reagan be reagan. how insulting is that. >> it strikes me today, maybe even more so today, that if you were to kind of look for the -- you would be like a poster child for what this activist republican base hates. you know, you believe in global institutions. you believe in trade. you believe in climate change. you believe in the -- >> now, you're too far there. i think the climate may be changing, but i do not have any idea of the extent to which man is responsible for it. and by the way, i and some of my fellow conservatives have come with a very good proposal with a carbon tax with dividends back to the american people so it doesn't grow the government. but i understand what you're saying. and yes, that's -- >> does it bother you? >> no. does it bother me that i would be a poster -- >> for the group that -- >> no, because while there are four of those things that you said, and i may be in a different position, they're also for getting things done. what we were able to do, and ronald reagan's adminis

reagan? >> $29.rian: and some of the nongovernment places like the washington and mount one is $18. with . brian: what do you think of a $29 entry fee? anthony: it's going to the foundation, not archives, number one. officials in the archives say our role is to preserve and records and e the we have appropriated funds for that. the foundations get to charge of admission to help defray their costs. most of the exhibits are, the exhibit, right, physical, the screens and the printed materials and the cases, paid for by the foundation. the people who work on the help curate are a mix. they believe the foundations are mess to help support the ongoing efforts at public programming and exhibits at speaker series programming, so they, they tend to acquiesce to the foundation's wishes. i want to show you a and the a statue of lbj library that you went you and the museum and ask you who would this?paid for anthony: that was most likely the foundation, the lbj foundation. been the t have national archives. bria

reagan is a good negotiator. as evidence he describes how the president decided to put gorbachev on the defensive by asking him to autograph a baseball. >> and he looked sort of puzzled and the interpreters took about five minutes trying to explain all this to him. and finally he signed the president's world series baseball and from that moment forward the president had control of the proceedings for the second day of the summit. >> the question, sam, is whether we have a change of heart that's commensurate with the change of face and i haven't seen the evidence of it yet. the president believes we do. i don't think so. >> i urge the senate to give its advice and consent to ratification of this landmark agreement. >> and many of your closest conservative supporters are troubled by your arms control policy. they're afraid that it really could seriously put the security of the united states and the west at risk. what do you say to them? >> i say to them they don't know what they're talking about. i think that some

reagan that boil down to whether he really runs the government.re are charges he relies too much on his staff, that he's too passive. when he finishes his current trip to california, he won't spend one day on vacation. even when he's working, top administration officials describe a disengaged president who spends one-third of his time shaping policy, two-thirds on ceremony and public relations. >> i think he has a very good mind when he chooses to use it. unfortunately i don't think he chooses to use it. he lives, i think unfortunately, in a world of norman rockwell and reader's digest of 40 years ago that he remembers nostalgically. it's not the real world today. >> testing, one, two, three. we're at the ranch in santa barbara, california. the president's going to ride horses and chop wood. >> oh, boy. oh. >> there we go. there we go. there we go. super! all right, great. >> i've got an idea for another picture. just one more. i've got the chain saw. no, and you're blocking me off, stopping me from -- don't just stand there. you're supposed to be

and that trump is the new ronald reagan.e also said donald trump is theodore roosevelt. reagan was big-hearted, sensitive toward the gop, toward immigration. they're very different. reagan used oxygen as a generation, and as you can see donald trump covets enemies daily. >> how do you think president reagan would judge president trump? >> nancy reagan gave me all his diaries but never put words in what he would have done and how he would have judged things because reagan was a conservative pragmatic. his pragmatism was pure william james. he always thought you had to keep your box office over 50%, meaning you had to be 50% popular on any issue. you see donald trump working in the 35, 40% zone. for ronald reagan, that would be political failure. >> very quickly, what would be the big takeaway with this show tonight? >> reminding us of how funny ronald reagan could be, how ende endearing. even when he's making mistakes or flubbing things, there was something very likeable about him. >> and you said he always had a joke when he

reagan administration. president i mention reagan is, when you deal with iran, you have to take a page from the reagan playbook. it is worth remembering that when ronald reagan came in a office in 1980, he inherited a mess, it a global dogs breakfast. reagan had to shift the u.s. policy from policy of to one of aggressive neutralization and rollback. he identified the soviet union in many respects. it was a revolutionary regime and internal -- internally fragile regime. administration had developed something he call national security decision directive 75. that was a government approach using all and show mad american power to subvert soviet power i know heritage played how toficant role on build off and expand military potency. there was an element of economic and military warfare. i know heritage played a role in the idea that train the resources of the soviet state. was support for anti-soviet proxies and dissidents and reaching out around the world for those who were under soviet domination and figuring

yes it is true the economy booms fantastically in the reagan years. was it because we were coming out of one of the worst recessions ever? was it because we had reagan raised taxes every single year after 1981 and raised them very dramatically in 1986? we don't know the causes of the boom in the reagan years. >> neil: ben i mean, they were a lot lower when he left office than when he came in. a lot lower. they were significantly lower. >> brian: i know but they're also many other factors at work we were coming off cyclical recession and a cyclical boom. >> what happens to the recession this time? >> neil: well let's go back here and we can debate. >> brian: we are having a cyclical boom. >> neil: adam here is what i'm raising because i know there's a limit to even republicans are saying how far they can cut taxes that's why they're debating how far to go on the corporate rate 15% looks unrealistic. maybe it's in low 20s as a starting point leave the rich out of it. so what does it mean in the end it doesn't sound much like tax reform as much as just a

reagan, we had an increase in the. in the reagan years, it doubled. trillionsnto the during the reagan time. 43% increase in data debtg george bush's -- in during george bush's years. debt is a problem. it seems to only be a problem when it is a democratic president. ebt.blicans create more d this republican president should have more debt. the reality of cutting taxes, the government is not a bogeyman. we are the government. the government is the people. when the government has less money the people get less money than they need. they want to make the reagan years sound like prosperity. in reality, it didn't work for most people. the created more debt. host: for republicans. go ahead. caller: the only thing i would agree with with the last caller government -- i had three points of wanted to say quickly. people need understand every single cent a corporation pays in taxes, regulation, paper towels or matching social security gets down to the price of the product or service you are buying. there is no way around it. we all pay their taxes. i would lik

the 10% reckitt goes to zero, just as president reagan did. he lowered the bracket and made it zero. their next level was a little higher, 50%. poor of modest income, the are better off under the tax reform we bring forward. clear, if i hear any more democrats talking about the bottom rate is going up, i will remind them they might want to contact vice president joe biden, vice president al gore, or have secretary john kerry, because they voted with president reagan to lower that rate to zero, just as we are lowering the rate to zero as well. >> thank you. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, aching for being here. we are adjourned. -- think you for being here. we are adjourned. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, the discussion about republican efforts on tax reform, the budget, and health care. for puerto rican studies talks about the current amount of federal aid needed for puerto rico. and then travel rules for public officials. be sure to watch c-span's washingt

can donald trump pull a ronald reagan and sell this thing.nald reagan was incredibly popular president. donald trump is incredibly unpopular president. our viewers are going nuts because they voted for him. the majority of the country didn't. neil: remember ronald reagan, the assassination attempt garnered support and rallied the country he would have gotten the tax cuts, but not by the margins he did. >> right, what is the last thing we remember donald trump doing, which was last week getting embroiled in take a knee, you see what i'm saying? these are different people. neil: you think in the end he'll get it? >> logic says no only because they gave it -- as i said before, they gave it -- neil: doesn't know. >> no. neil: deneen? >> i don't think so. neil: really? >> i'm optimistic, they cannot come to the plate and strike out again. the gop and congress needs to deliver 100%. >> i hope you're right. >> i hope i'm right, too [ laughter ] . neil: charlie mentioned the whole nfl thing, nfl ticket sales are down, ratings are down, and now it's u

reagan got shot on march 30.nt to congress on april 30th, made a big speech and went to the country a month later and made a big speech. he ended up getting 48 house members, democrats to vote with him and 37 democrats in the senate to vote with him. by the time he got to 85-86, he had the democrat chairman of the ways and means committee and overwhelming numbers of democrats supporting. he sold it. he explained to people how it worked and why it was good. one of the things that bothered me, because charlie knows this better, i worry about the fourth bracket. we ought to be arguing that people that pay a lot of taxes, if they don't pay a lot, they can save their money and spend their money and invest their money. all three of those things are good for the economy. that's what we ought to encourage every american to do. those that can be most productive needs to do that, too. >> neil: the difference between then and now, the economy was in worse shape when the president was pushing this. there was a more compellin

for example, the 15% bracket 12% purity just as president reagan did. bracket 20.he 11% those of modest incomes, the poor and middle income are better off on the plan we bring forward. just to be clear, if i hear any more democrats talking about the autumn rate is going up, i will remind them, they might want to contact vice president joe biden, vice president al gore, perhaps secretary john kerry, because they voted with president reagan to lower the zero.te to zero, as all.t to >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here, we are adjourned. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. friday morning, a discussion on the budget and health care with douglas holds eakin. then, we talk about the current amount of federal aid needed for puerto rico. then, travel rules for

grover this is harder for trump than reagan, right? what should trump do to build a bipartisan coalition? the messaging needs to get done, right grover? i mean the democrats are killing the democrat policies killing killing the middle class. >> they are, and if the democrats cared, they would stop it, but they don't. the democrat parties move significantly to the left from when ted kennedy and tip o'neill and rostenkowski were in congress. the new setup leadership is way to the left and the republicans have moved towards where reagan was. there used to be republicans to the left of reagan but most republicans are now and the democrats have gone way to the left of where ted kennedy was. >> liz: but they're lying about it and the democrats are lying about it and misleading the american people. reagan didn't have to deal with the lies that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi are saying now about tax cuts. >> well, there was a fair amount of opposition before reagan won. >> liz: but we're talking hyperbole right now. let's show it right now. de

just as president reagan did. he lowered the 11% bracket and made it zero. their next level was a little higher, 15%. ours is lower which means those with modest income, the poor, middle class are better off under the tax reform plan we bring forward. and just to be clear, so if i hear any more democrats talking about the bottom rate is going up, i'll remind them, they may want to contact the vice president, joe biden, vapt al gore. perhaps secretary john kerry because they voted with president reagan to lower that 11% rate to zero. just as we're lowering the 10% ate to zero as well. question. >> mr. chairman, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. thank you. [applause] mike: ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for being here. we're adjourned. >> saturday, "book tv" has coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival. starting at noon eastern, michael eric dyson discussing his book "fears we cannot stop," a seruman to white america." and 25 myths and misconceptions about transgender and nontransgender conforming people. -- "police violence against and -- >

through their teeth about how their tax cuts for the rich are actually tax cuts for the middle class reagan did it george w. bush did it and now that he's officially unveiled his own so-called tax reform plan donald trump is doing it to we're going to cut taxes for the middle class make the tax code simpler and more fair for every day america is and we are going to bring back the jobs and wealth that have left our country and most people thought left our country for good this is just flat out not true populist rhetoric aside the people who are going to actually benefit from donald trump's tax plan are the same people who benefited from every single report. wiccan tax cut plan ever people like trump is kids the oligarchy joining me now to explain why is economist michael hudson distinguished research professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city and author of the brilliant new book j is for junk economics professor michael hudson welcome. could be here great having you with us so we're still short on details i think so far it's just a nine page outline whatever but based o

what they don't want to admit, the same problem they had with attacking the reagan tax cut's. cut.n was a 25% tax are givingt said you them to rich people. we are treating everybody the same. peoplegest kites are for moving into the zero tax bracket. taxcrats always attack reductions for all americans as tax cut's on the rich because that is what they say. they don't have the votes to stop it. they have started aacking the lower tax on past due corporations companies, individual soul partnerships. small businesses. there are 30 million of them. they have been single should cut taxes on the big corporations. they said they were for it. now they don't want to reduce the tax rates on mom and pop small businesses. democrats are making a phenomenal political mistake. i'm not giving away any secrets. they will go back tomorrow and do it again. that is what they do. they usually don't do it in public on television. you will see tell -- democratic smallrs trashing businessmen saying they don't deserve a lower rate. to new ideas. one was we would do for small business people -- we woul

everyone gets up on stage and says, i am ronald reagan. no, i am ronald reagan. [laughter] -- just full disclosure -- i like ronald reagan. what has two thumbs and thinks ronald reagan is awesome? this guy. ronald reagan was put on this earth to do two things -- chew gum and kick ass and he ran out in about 1974. [applause] jonah: but what people do not appreciate about ronald reagan was that yes, ok, fine, here principles. love those principles, he was a conservative. love that. he was also a really good politician, and he understood how to talk to people and persuade them, and this is a huge part of problem with conservatism. and a huge part of the problem with a lot of the campus speakers that conservatives bring to campus these days. again, normally, under normal circumstances, historically, i come to these things and you know, just become a sprinkler system of red meat. tiers areliber delicious, and that stuff. i get it. but there is a problem. for the last decade or two, it has got to a point where first of all, you can make a pretty good living only talkin

they let me write becomes so i've written about reagan, goldwater, buckley, ed mees. probably written a book about em. >> host: why you are conservative. >> guest: i believe in freedom. that's one for reasons i'm here another freedomfest. libertarians have it right when counties to economics, not so good when it comes to the social issue chez why i'm a conservative, not a libertarian. >> host: you have another book coming. >> guest: it's taken me about 40 years. it is me memoir, looking back on the last 40 or maybe even 50 years and what i have been able to be part of the the conservative movement. working with people like barry goldwater, writing about ronald reagan, getting to know big buckley. the greet giants of americantive tim. >> host: entitled "just right." >> guest: yes. >> host: we invited you to talk about the cold war. when and how did the cold war begin? >> guest: that's one of the reasons why elizabeth and i wrote this book. elizabeth, our daughter, who is a professor at clermont mckenna college and i'm still teaching at catholic university. both of us t

virtually the same plane that got reagan elected and then reagan got enacted in 1986. it's a plan that even liberals they all supported it. walter mondale did not. that got reagan elected in a landslide in 1984. so we ask where is a democrat progrowth tax plan are they sounding like walter mandel. they all used to talk about how tax cuts spur growth. here is jfk and bill clinton. let's listen. it will include across the board top to bottom cut in both personal and income taxes. it will include long needed tax reform that logic and equity demands. every logic that is invested will help create a new job. and in his salary. in these new jobs in the salaries can create other jobs in other salaries. and more customers and more growth. >> i think that is a testament to try to build a different coalition of change. if people have jobs nothing else can happen. the democratic party has changed. super welfare state that the government controls. the democrat policies at the last eight years are not so state-of-the-art. they crushed economic growth and small businesses. they still

we got growth from reagan. i saw you talking about it last night.op marginal rate over 80lo years, 70-28%. why not do it again? the reason is, everyone is afraid they will lose votes in the middle class because there is far more of them than people in the upper bracket. at the 10% are paying 70% of all income taxes and how can you say they are not paying their fair share and why do we want to punish them further? if you really want growth, lower everybody's taxes across the board and get out of the way for all the revenues. >> sean: you are going to have ath corporate tax, trump wanted 15, it is going to be 20, reconciliation kicks in, so they say. what is interesting, the corporate taxes are reduced, their appreciation is good, you are right, new york, californiat get too -- i'm in new york, it's 10%, california is 13.5. a lower rate, 39-35, but they will pay more. >> they will pay more.d i have talked to some very powerful people. i am a powerful, influential member of the media, with access to powerful people. they are laying this on the presiden

cut those taxes basically the reagan philosophy also froze our interest. or to speak of my last question was about economic growth this one's about quality of life when you look at the quality of life that people experience in their countries and what you find if you look at northern european countries where you know taxes. average thirty five to fifty five percent you know at the top end and in some cases much higher but even you know average people are paying fairly high taxes the quality of life is spectacular is there a affirmative definable confirmable relationship between raising taxes and improving the quality of life or is that just a fluke or a coincidence. it's not a fluke or a coincidence but again you have to look at the larger context if the reason you're raising taxes is to fight an expensive war in a foreign corner of the world then raising taxes not going to improve the quality of your life probably the opposite but what you have in large parts of western and northern europe is a case where because of the pressure of the labor movement of t

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effects of but the planet would is a stone yes so in the meantime you know donald and tom ronald reagan came along with a brilliant idea the some actually i forget who wasn't as a ministration but somebody had made the comment back in the eighty's you know the that well i think you saw a science fiction movie when you're drunk that we could have this impenetrable shoot all over the united states laded a science fiction movie where they had this real death parade this this way that was it was able to he was in a movie he was in the movie where you could a limb an ape airplanes rockets at at the speed of light and he got the idea then that wouldn't be great if we could have that and so edward teller who is then at livermore national laboratories says that he has such a device he called it the x. ray laser and he said this one satellite put in space could send out beams of laser energy that could demolish the entire first wave of soviet warheads and that convinced reagan to start the strategic defense initiative so where is there right now do we are are we safe when we do not have a workab

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