if he sold the newspaper in rochester new york. that meant he could no longer billow out his message to that part of the country. but the committee now has the fiscal power to be routeless. hurst agreed to part off with 1/10 of his collection. art,tapestry, armour. he paid more than for their arts of work than he was sold. now that he was selling he was getting less than what they were worth. the same could be said for his new york real estate. it just wasn't worth what he paid for. >> this whole system of income taxation has degenerated into a racket. in which the public tries to cheat the government and the government tries to rob the public. >> at a time when the bankers would not borrow him any money. he gave wr a million dollars interest free loan. it was a true mark of the woman who would share so much of his woman with hurst. she was his mistress but she was also his best friend. and she was shrewd enough to get a million dollars in her hand during the depression. far beyond the capabilities of randolph hurst. the war that h

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host: rochester, new york. hi, bud. caller: mr. forbes, i have been a fan of yours since i first saw you're running for president. guest: thank you. caller: my issue is, what is your opinion about the tax not on income but on consumption with a floor and a cost of living? guest: the fair tax is a national sales tax. the sensible rate is 23%. it is actually 30%. it would replace the income tax with the payroll tax. eight salesave f tax instead. you have to be sure you amend the constitution and rid of the 16th amendment to the constitution, which allows washington to impose an income tax. if you don't do that, you'll end up with most states and countries have and that is an income tax and a sales tax. that is why europe is so heavily the unitedsurvevis-a-vis states. you have the challenge of enforcement. it is one thing to put a 30% tax on a product, but another to put it on a service. a kid comes and cuts your lawn. are people going to pay a tax on that? i don't think so. there are a lot of challenges. i think is faster and easier

host: rochester, new york. hi, bud. caller: mr. forbes, i have been a fan of yours since i first saw you're running for president. guest: thank you. caller: my issue is, what is your opinion about the tax not on income but on consumption with a floor and a cost of living? guest: the fair tax is a national sales tax. the sensible rate is 23%. it is actually 30%. it would replace the income tax with the payroll tax. eight salesave f tax instead. you have to be sure you amend the constitution and rid of the 16th amendment to the constitution, which allows washington to impose an income tax. if you don't do that, you'll end up with most states and countries have and that is an income tax and a sales tax. that is why europe is so heavily the unitedsurvevis-a-vis states. you have the challenge of enforcement. it is one thing to put a 30% tax on a product, but another to put it on a service. a kid comes and cuts your lawn. are people going to pay a tax on that? i don't think so. there are a lot of challenges. i think is faster and easier

host: rochester, new york.r: all this stuff about the mortgages goes back to the fannie mae and freddie mac. why isn't the investigations going back to that and fighting with the real wrongdoing was with those agencies? they made a loan to people who work below par. why isn't everything going back to that? guest: i do know that the sec has looked at fannie and freddie. we have not heard anything publicly on where those investigations stand. it's tricky now because fannie and freddie are owned by the taxpayer. it will be interesting to see if investigators go with full force looking into those companies. there is still some ongoing cases that have gone on for years with fannie and freddie related to accounting maneuvers back in 2004 and 2005, and those are still all but -- those are still ongoing. host: nytimes.com is the website where our guest writes regularly. louise story, thank you. we continue our series of looking at aspects of medicare. we'll have that discussion when we come back. >> orders for durable

host: let's go to rob, republican, from rochester, new york. caller: for mr.ler, he keeps referring to revenue, an increase in taxes. i'm a real estate broker in rochester, and the market shot. i sold one house here. they're hiding all these houses in foreclosure already. there are hundreds of houses in foreclosure that day are not telling anybody about. if you go to hothomes.com, if you live in rochester, there are four houses. that is a bunch of hooey. there are hundreds of homes in foreclosure. you keep referring to it as increase in revenue, you mean increasing taxes. maybe last year we made $60,000. you cannot increase my revenue anymore. it is like taking blood out of a stone. host: we will get a response from the christian weller. guest: throwing around these buzzwords, if they mean it -- they do not mean anything to real people. important point here is that there are ways to generate more revenue without taxing somebody who makes $60,000. that is clear. when you look at what is on the table, you need to close loopholes for corporations, taking back som

host: let's go to rob, republican, from rochester, new york. caller: for mr. weller, he keeps referring to revenue, an increase in taxes. i'm a real estate broker in rochester, and the market shot. i sold one house here. they're hiding all these houses in foreclosure already. there are hundreds of houses in foreclosure that day are not telling anybody about. if you go to hothomes.com, if you live in rochester, there are four houses. that is a bunch of hooey. there are hundreds of homes in foreclure. you keep referring to it as increase in revenue, you mean increasing taxes. maybe last year we made $60,000. you cannot increase my revenue anymore. it is like taking blood out of a stone. host: we will get a response from the christian weller. guest: throwing around these buzzwords, if they mean it -- they do not mean anything to real people. important point here is that there are ways to generate more revenue without taxing somebody who makes $60,000. that is clear. when you look at what is on the table, you need to close loopholes for corporations, taking back s

you can start selling in rochester, new york, paris. there are incredible opportunities in terms of business growth and requires a connection to all of these markets. the days are gone work in the business is going to succeed just by selling right where they are located. that is why we make such a big investment in this. i am pleased to see that it is working. in terms of those things folks' confidence, -- of boosting the folks' confidence, i think it would fill, and if they felt like their leaders were working together. that is my belief. i also think they are looking for some practical common sense. i know it is not election season yet. the debates the other party candidate for having the other day, when they were asked to reduce our deficit, are dead, would you be willing to take a deal where -- our debt, would be willing to take a deal where there was $5 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenues? he would take? everybody said know. how about 10 to 1? none of you would take it. none of them would take it. think about that.

host: let's go to rob, republican, from rochester, new york. caller: for mr. weller, he keeps referring to revenue, an increase in taxes. i'm a real estate broker in rochester, and the market shot. i sold one house here. they're hiding all these houses in foreclosure already. there are hundreds of houses in foreclosure that day are not telling anybody about. if you go to hothomes.com, if you live in rochester, there are four houses. that is a bunch of hooey. there are hundreds of homes in foreclosure. you keep referring to it as increase in revenue, you mean increasing taxes. maybe last year we made $60,000. you cannot increase my revenue anymore. it is like taking blood out of a stone. host: we will get a response from the christian weller. guest: throwing around these buzzwords, if they mean it -- they do not mean anything to real people. important point here is that there are ways to generate more revenue without taxing somebody who makes $60,000. that is clear. when you look at what is on the table, you need to close loopholes for corporations, taking back

for the purpose of debate only i yield the customary to my good friend, the gentlewoman from rochester, new york, the ranking member of the committee on rules, ms. slaughter. i -- yield myself such time as i may consume and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dreier: all time i will be yielded -- yielding will be for debate purposes only and i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dreier: after months and months of debate we have arrived at the ultimate goal of which we are committed, a bipartisan commit to avert the debt ceiling crisis looming right before us. even more important, we have addressed the real underlying challenge of our ballooning national debt. the bipartisan agreement before us today is an historic achievement. mr. speaker, this is the 76th time that we have raised the debt ceiling since 1962. 75 times it's been raised. this is the 76th time. mr. speaker,

you can start selling in rochester, new york, paris.here are incredible opportunities in terms of business growth and requires a connection to all of these markets. the days are gone work in the business is going to succeed just by selling right where they are located. that is why we make such a big investment in this. i am pleased to see that it is working. in terms of boosting the folks' confidence, i think it would if they felt like their leaders were working together. that is my belief. i also think they are looking for some practical common sense. i know it is not election season yet. the debates the other party candidate for having the other day, when they were asked to reduce our deficit, our debt, would you be willing to take a deal where there was $5 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenues? everybody said no. how about 10 to 1? none of you would take it. none of them would take it. think about that. that is not common sense. ronald reagan, george h. w. bush, bill clinton, all of them understood that you have to take

host: let's go to rob, republican, from rochester, new york. caller: for mr. he keeps referring to revenue, an increase in taxes. i'm a real estate broker in rochester, and the market shot. i sold one house here. they're hiding all these houses in foreclosure already. there are hundreds of houses in foreclosure that day are not telling anybody about. if you go to hothomes.com, if you live in rochester, there are four houses. that is a bunch of hooey. there are hundreds of homes in foreclosure. you keep referring to it as increase in revenue, you mean increasing taxes. maybe last year we made $60,000. u cannot increase my revenue anymor it is like taking bloodut of a stone. host: we will get a response from the christian weller. guest: throwing around these buzzwords, if they mean it -- they do not mean anything to real people. important point here is that there are ways to generate more revenue without taxing somebody who makes $60,000. that is clear. when you look at what is on the table, you need to close loopholes for corporations, taking back some tax cred

confine your market to cannon falls, you can start selling in rochester, and then you start selling in des moines, and then you start to sell in new york, and maybe you start selling something in paris. and there are incredible opportunities in terms of business growth, but it requires a connection to all of these wider markets. the days are gone where any business will succeed just by selling right where they are located. that's why we have made such a big investment in this, and i am pleased to see that it's working. in terms of boosting folks' confidence, i think people would actually feel pretty confident if they felt like their leaders were working together. that's my belief. i also think they are looking for practical common sense. you know, i know it's not election season yet, but i have to mention, you know, the debate -- the other party candidates were having the other day, when they were asked to reduce our deficit, and reduce our debt, and would you be willing to take a deal where it was $5 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenues. who would take it? everybody said no. and they said how about 10 to 1, $10 of cuts

including new york, where i was a professor in rochester, but i will tell you this state, there is aly. we have reformed our court system so where we have loser pays now so stop some of these frivolous lawsuits. we also don't have hand out a lot of welfare. you might think that when a state hands out welfare that attracts a lot of people. runs off more people that don't want to pay the taxes than that that attracts recipients. >> michael cox, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it? >> thank you. >> all righty. it was the deadliest single incident in the deadly afghan war. 20 navy seals killed when chopper shot down. live report coming up from kabul on the latest. another amazing story. the manual you are about to beet living proof beating cancer takes more than medicine. it took talking to god. eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories. listen to this. three out of four americans don't get enough vegetables. so here's five bucks to help you buy v8

your market to cannon balls, you can start selling in rochester, and then you start selling in the morning, and then you start selling in new yorkand maybe start selling something in paris. there are incredible opportunities in terms of business growth, but it requires a connection to all of these wider markets. the days are gone when any business will succeed just by selling reichardt -- where they're located. that is why we have made such a big investment in this. i am pleased to see it is working. in terms of boosting confidence, i think people would feel pretty confident if they felt like their leaders were working together. and that is my belief. i also think they are looking for practical common sense. i know it is not the election season yet, but i have to mention that the debate that the other candidates were having the other day, when they were asked to reduce the deficit, reduce the debt, would you be willing to take a deal where it was $5 in spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenue. who would take it? everyone said no. they said how about 10 to one? $10 of cuts for every $1 increase in revenue. are you saying t