robert rice, you heard marty feldstein on that. you're pessimistic in the jobs market in your op-ed piece in the paper this morning. wouldn't therefore a value added tax be an absolute bone crusher to this economy? >> larry, i'm not in favor of a value added tax for two reasons. number one, i think that any tax that hides itself, and a value added tax would be a hidden tax, because most of it would be on every stage of production up to a consumer goods. that means consumers would not really know how much they were paying. any tax that hides itself is not a good tax. it's not a democratically accountable tax. secondly, i worry that a value added tax, because it is a kind of super sales tax, is a regressive tax. it does not take a bigger bite out of the incomes of the wealthy than it does out of the incomes of the poor. therefore, it's a step backwards toward greater tax regressivity as is every sales tax. >> marty, do you agree with that? >> i do. and i think one thing that reinforces it is that about half of all americans who file

after that we will return to our discussion on the economy with robert rice, former labor secretary and california professor. first a news update from c-span radio. >> let's meet another video from our studentcam documentary competition. we asked students to share their thoughts on one of the greatest strengths or challenges facing the country. today we face a third prize winner from berkeley, california. guthrie, congratulations. >> thank you. >> why did you select a topic of health care? >> i felt it was very important, maybe the most important issue facing the country right now. people could get sick or died because of not having a public option. >> how did you become interested in health care? >> on the internet, reading an article about it. i was captivated by the stories that i sought. >> why do you think that the public option should be included in health care? >> i think that everyone deserves to have coverage in health care. i have seen the results of it in france, like in the michael more movie, "sicko." >> president obama did not include a public option in the reason health c

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rice had been violated. but the press coverage, the headline said roberts has no hard to and there was a column that said thatorsed the manacling of a urals etc.. never mind the fact if you read his opinion he is very witty in the way he writes and very wittily sort of been settled, the behavior of the metro police about whether they did something stupid is different from something constitutional. that sort of gets lost in the press cycle. there were similar examples from the the court of confirmation entering the a justice sotomayor confirmation there was their reach the case which was important, but i think the thing that most people on the public knew about that case was involved white firefighters and that's it to appear in everything about firefighters does press coverage and everything about race concedes it was those aspects of my get focus on, not the particular legal issues and questions were. i don't mean to necessarily below the press, they give the people what they wanted. the cover story is the way they think people want to read them. the other of his recent the processes of political is the stak