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Author Mike Reagan sounds off on the president’s push for higher taxes on those earning more than $250,000.
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President Obama wants to raise taxes on that so called rich.
But lowered taxes for everyone was a key policy for Ronald Reagan and help to turn this economy around the big time in fact over the week and I question numbers I see -- Ronald Reagan created sixteen million more jobs.
When he left office in when he took over joining us now is Mike Reagan from Reagan dot com.
-- -- -- I gotta tell you that he notion of -- taxing a certain part of the population.
The -- comes out of the president's mouth it's almost more -- punitive action than anything economic.
No I mean he doesn't believe in the people this country Ronald Reagan believed in the heart and soul of the American people.
And and the American people knew that -- understood that and trusted him.
This president doesn't believe in the heart and soul the American people would believe from the heart and soul of the federal government.
And the federal government has no heart the federal government has no soul and that's in fact now the problem we have in America.
You know speaking of -- soleil one thing is by the way I think your father's economy coming into office was actually.
Worse -- the economy that President Obama had to deal with coming into office and secondly.
And arrogant and he never blame Jimmy Carter -- -- that once.
Not ones that -- the first -- is an aggregate hours later forward today.
Everything you know a lot of people are realizing no like for it to the a look at pride I looked at the crime stats in -- to set an all time record robberies were like one and a half million more I mean it was it's amazing.
How devastated our economy was our country was.
And I think it was something about the spirit of Ronald Reagan.
And in addition to these policies that help to turn around I think that's missing from President Obama.
Administration.
Failure you're actually right and I tell -- story about Alec Baldwin.
You know came up one day we're talking and and Alexander recent don't want you tell your family suffers from what -- should I missed your fathers should do you -- my brother.
He's he's saying yes I do if you disagree with everything ever stood for -- -- -- -- But I've come to understand your father had a good soul and what this world is missing today is that soul that's exactly what you just stated.
The deal he had a great and good soul if you just you -- -- -- politically okay but you trusted him.
To make the right decisions when it came to United States of America.
That soul of Ronald Reagan is missing today in American politics.
And you know what else -- he -- is another word trust I gotta tell you I've got a real problem -- that the president just you know it's begun this tore.
You without that some swing states last week -- fed on hold onto things that.
Some of what was -- hot.
And some bubble was just not big bad and some are wondering the sincerity you know that it -- He doesn't have the sincerity that I think your father had back we have an example imagine what -- -- sincerely believes.
He -- -- believe the government is the answer yet on what the answer to the government doesn't.
Yeah apparently balloons that what -- talk about like -- in relaying a message or whether he's talking about job creation while -- talk about unemployment whether he's talk about anything else.
The sincerity -- -- -- had a certain type of sincerity I want to listen to this for moment.
But with regard to whether mr.
Mondale would be strong as he said he would be.
I know that he has a commercial out where he is appearing on the deck of the Nimitz and watching the F fourteens take off that's an image of strength.
Except that if he had had his way when the Nimitz was being planned.
He would have been deep in the water out there because there wouldn't have been any -- to stand -- he was against.
Allison there's humor there and there's a lot of other things but it was also sincerity there.
You know whether when the president talked about and probably being on job exporter when he talks about in hours -- hit that there.
So one -- -- how also making 250000 is hurting this economy.
Small businesses are hurting this economy when he knows when he knows that that 3% he's talking about when he talked about it at -- that's not a big bill.
He knows that his heart that that is a big deal that that 3% a small businesses that's -- 40% of the jobs in the profits.
That's the -- thirty that's missing.
Yeah that is has some serious missing -- Ronald Reagan as you just heard there.
The sincerity Ronald Reagan so big -- -- -- a young man young -- heck I was eight years old you know when I learned about taxes in America learned about the government.
When I simply ask my father for a larger allowance I was getting a buck a wake -- Saudi is pretty damn cheap.
And my father looked at me for 35 and is totally about the tax system in America how he's paying ninety cents out of every dollar to the government he said Michael.
When the government gives me more money and cuts my taxes -- increase your allowance.
It took Kennedy to in fact lower the taxes on Ronald Reagan -- my dad true to form.
You know back in 1964 -- -- for one dollar to five dollars I was in high school that time but the reality is -- and is he understood it.
In his core dismay and has no core -- the president of the United States America hence he has no sincerity.
So what do you what do you think we're gonna go from there I mean obviously that's been advertise everyone acknowledges this is going to be the ugly -- election certainly.
And our lifetime may be in the history this country.
What kind of lasting impact is that gonna have on.
It's.
What I think guys that you're sure it's gonna be an ugly ugly you know ratio is going to be all about class warfare.
You know -- have they have not -- 97% against the 3% of the 98%.
Against a 2% of some other 2% they're -- they're creating jobs working their butts off to and everything they -- to get the economy going.
Are the problems with the world that we live in today is going to be that collaboration you -- -- now with the president -- going to Iowa all over with let's tax everybody making over 250000 dollars a year.
That's what one point two million businesses in this country and in fact create.
Jobs in this country so it's class warfare and is not gonna get better it's going to get progressively worse as the polls start to dip on this president.
My -- and thanks a lot Reagan dot com we'll see you soon.
Talk about -- if you -- missile from Mike Reagan I mean the tax proposal now for the higher taxes for the so called wealthy.
-- working day after that dismal jobs report.
Yeah and while I mean it's just maybe it was that designed to look like by easing the credit isn't designed to deflect from the dismal job supporting -- just piles onto it is certainly the.
