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“The Seventeen Solutions” author Ralph Nader on the flaws with the tax code and how the government spends its tax revenue.
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-- heard it once or twice about this fiscal -- it is coming -- over talk about it or not and the debt is soaring in Washington.
Well there their business model.
The economy still struggling.
New report showing the government is spending -- on welfare programs.
Last year than almost anything else.
Ralph Nader says this country is in crisis and needs a series of old ideas he proposes re examining almost everything we do.
It's all part of the 78 solutions.
And its alternate -- -- is here Ralph good to see you.
-- what do we do The Who left and the right what do we do wrong.
In.
In doing budgets.
Within -- main areas that -- fairness and economic development for the majority of people.
They're dumped into military weapons systems long obsolete -- wars of aggression.
-- hundred -- are very productive for jobs back home.
The other thing is -- -- tax system has perverse incentives.
It doesn't really an end in -- provide incentives for productive things it provides incentive for Wall Street speculation type stuff.
And the third and most relevant is that we don't have an adequate public works program.
We should take this -- welfare get rid of it.
Have fairer taxation of corporations are paying no federal income tax like General Electric are rising and cut that bloated military budget.
Put it in repairing America and every single community.
You know the list schools clinics public transit sewage water systems good jobs that can't be exported to -- -- So you would -- this increases on corporations well do all of that sort of thing.
And Florida and -- is sort of like.
You know infrastructure on steroids here that -- -- work like a charm but in the past.
Who's to say to just throwing a lot more money at it will yield any different results.
Well -- second act the second -- make sure -- The auditors -- -- -- make sure local communities.
Have this money spent properly so it doesn't get wasted no I don't usually happens.
We've we had a -- -- -- security right we had targeted.
If you lower dark regarding schools to make sure.
That that the you know the money that was gonna go to education would land directly at those schools doorsteps.
Didn't happen if you're if you're saying we can't have a society that's fair and productive without citizen engagement and taxpayer -- and I agree with -- -- We got that that's why in this book I have.
Them ways to have Pacific power civic education in the schools and a congressional watchdog groups in every congressional.
District when you have more poverty you're gonna have more food stamps you know and hello sorry that we need.
