toy charles talked to russian foreign ministry spokesman. about the blog problems and she while blamed brussels for playing politics. it would. let's be realists the european union simply last time it could have been a leader in an occupation and a leader in vaccine production but they didn't happen why politicisation tied the hands e.u. officials tied the hands of industrialists and businesses and ultimately to the hands of the own people the you went against the interests of its own members and i don't know whether you are allowed to talk about this in the e.u. but this is the objective reality it's a fact just like the fact that called it in 2020 highlighted the immense problems in the european union and in the west in general do you has not been able to do with a worldwide catastrophe but it's not like we haven't had them before yes the world hadn't dealt with the ground in of planes and border closures and such scale but the world has dealt with fund diamonds before and it turns out that those who call themselves leaders of the world ar

charles. it's been toyed the idea of bringing the rate back up to 39. 6%. the notion that this would be combined with personal rate -- you get the idea. the markets for the first time digest it and say this is looking more real. what do you think? >> yeah, you're right, neil. the forehandle -- nobody was thinking -- there's a reason to have 39.5%. felt like you didn't want to go into the 40% range. so the 43.4 was a jarring number. you talked earlier how that adds in obamacare to pay for that. my social media blew up over this. bothers me there's two narratives here. one, i don't make a million dollars a year. i don't care. two, these people are rich. you know, this is -- this kind of thinking is going to kill this country. we saw the reaction to the stock market. we do not want a stock market -- we don't want a prolonged bear market because the poorest people in this country would suffer the most. who invests in the market? 35% americans invest in individual stocks. 55% have their money in retirement. that's 65% of the middle class, 26% of the lower income