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Poll: Stark racial gap in views on Black woman on high court
"A new poll finds Americans are sharply divided by race when it comes to president Biden's promise to nominate a black woman to the U. S. Supreme Court forty eight percent of Americans overall say it's not important to them that a black woman will likely be the next Supreme Court justice according to the Associated Press norc poll just twenty nine percent think it's extremely or very important but among black Americans the president's promise is resonating sixty three percent of black Americans say it's very or extremely important compared to just twenty one percent of white Americans and thirty three percent of Hispanics the numbers are much higher among black women seventy percent place high importance on a black female Supreme Court justice there's also a political divide most Democrats think it's at least somewhat important but eight in ten Republicans do not I'm Jackie Quinn
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US casinos won $53 billion in 2021, their best year ever
"Twenty twenty one was a great year for casinos if you lost money at a casino last year you're not alone America's commercial casinos had their best year ever in twenty twenty one winning fifty three billion dollars that's according to figures from the American gaming association which is the industry's national trade group in person gambling continues to be the main source of revenue for the industry even as internet and sports betting continues to grow the fifty three billion won by casinos is more than twenty one percent higher than the previous best year which was in twenty nineteen I'm Shelley Adler
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US lifts pandemic travel ban, opens doors to visitors
"The U. S. lifted travel restrictions Monday from a long list of countries including Mexico Canada and most of Europe the new rules allow air travel from previously restricted countries as long as the traveler has proof of vaccination ended negative code test land travel from Mexico and Canada requires proof of vaccination but no test airlines are expecting more travelers from Europe and elsewhere and are increasing flights between the UK and the U. S. by twenty one percent this month over last month US towns on the southern border have been devastated by a lack of business and are hoping Monday's re opening will bring a flood of visitors to the businesses that rely on them I'm Julie Walker
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Big changes in White House ideas to pay for $2 trillion plan
"With the clock ticking toward a self imposed deadline the White House is offering to shift off a key component of how to pay for president Joe Biden's two trillion dollar social services and climate package the White House is prepared to keep the corporate tax rate at twenty one percent shelving a hike to twenty six point five percent favored by many Democrats for companies earning more than five billion dollars a year instead there would be a new tax on gains of those with more than one billion dollars in assets in his hometown of Scranton Pennsylvania Wednesday Biden was sounding confident this is been declared dead on arrival from the moment I introduced but I think we're going to surprise them but the clock is ticking democratic leaders in Congress want agreement by week's end Mike Rossio Washington
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Microsoft: Russia behind 58% of detected state-backed hacks
"Microsoft's digital defense report shows Russia is responsible for a majority of the state sponsored hacks it is detected in the past year Microsoft says Russia accounted for fifty eight percent of the hacks mainly targeting government agencies and think tanks in the U. S. followed by Ukraine Britain and European NATO members the effectiveness of the solar winds hack which mainly breaches information technology systems boosted the success rate of Russian hacks from twenty one percent the previous year two thirty two percent China meanwhile accounted for only eight percent of the hacking attempts that Microsoft detected but successfully broke into targeted networks forty four percent of the time I'm
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Biden wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. Here's why that's going to be hard
"Biden has said he wants profitable corporations to pay their fair share in taxes but under the latest tax legislation some companies would still be able to pay nothing. According to the democratic proposal approved this month by the house ways and means committee the top corporate tax rate would jump from twenty one percent to twenty six point five percent but our reporter richard rubin says the bill doesn't address the reasons that profitable companies sometimes don't pay taxes the company that aren't paying taxes or paying. None are often doing things that the government is encouraged them to do by giving them tax breaks the do it so for example that includes investing in equipment where you get a full and immediate deduction it includes doing corporate research so that you are you get a tax credit for that and i think what democrats are doing is they're saying look we know there's some companies out there that don't pay taxes and are profitable but we're not going to solve the equation for that. We're not gonna fix eight on that we're going to address what we see. Is maybe bigger issues. And they're going to focus on trying to encourage companies to do things that democrats want them to do invest in solar power invest in low income housing. And they're not willing to give up those goals. In order to fully address. This idea that every profitable company has to pay something in taxes. But a white house official. Says that. The committee's bill does markelle step forward in biden's effort to get companies to pay
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House Democrats Propose New Tax Hikes to Pay for Their $3.5 Trillion Bill
"In congress are moving ahead with president biden spending plan. It includes up to three point. Five trillion dollars for new programs mostly aimed at helping lower income americans. They plan to finish work today on a long list of new tax increases to make that spending possible. Npr congressional correspondent kelsey. Snell has been looking into this story. Good morning kelsey. good morning. What are democrats proposing re taxes. So democrats say they can raise at least two trillion dollars in as much as three trillion dollars with this plan. You know the big ticket items are increases to the top corporate and individual rates. You know basically they're trying to roll back. The tax cuts republicans passed under president trump. In two thousand seventeen okay. Let's parse those two out. What would this mean for taxes on individuals on the individual side. Democrats promised voters that they'd undo taxes for the wealthy and this is really their moment to do that. They want to return the top tax rate to thirty nine point six for individuals. Earning over four hundred thousand dollars. They also want to increase the rate high income. People pay for selling things like stocks and other assets. It's called the capital gains rate. And they wanna make the top rate for that twenty five percent which is a pretty big hike and what would it mean for businesses. Their plan would increase the top corporate tax rate from twenty one percent to twenty six and a half percent. Now that is not a full reversal of the tax cuts. Republicans passed and it's lower than what biden proposed they also plan to include changes to the rules for pass through businesses. Now sometimes that includes doctors and lawyers but it basically means that someone reports business income on their individual taxes and they wanna make it harder for companies to avoid the new higher taxes. How are republicans responding to these proposals while republicans say that the bill will actually have some pretty harmful effects on the economy. Mostly by making the us an unattractive place to run a company and they say it would penalize companies. That would normally use the money. They'd have to pay in new taxes to reinvest in their
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Democrats try delicate tax maneuvers for $3.5 trillion bill
"Hi Mike Rossi a reporting Democrats tried delicate tax maneuvers to fund their three point five trillion dollar national rebuilding bill house Democrats started work Tuesday on funding president Joe Biden's three point five trillion dollar rebuilding plan but they have little margin for missteps Biden has said revenue to pay for the package must come only from Americans who earn more than four hundred thousand dollars a year to do that Democrats are proposing raising the top tax rate back to thirty nine point six percent on individuals earning more than four hundred thousand dollars and couples earning four hundred fifty thousand dollars the corporate tax rate would rise from twenty one percent to twenty six point five percent on companies with annual income over five million dollars but passage in the fifty fifty Senate is uncertain with Democrat Joe Manchin saying the package needs to be cut to between one trillion dollars and one point five trillion dollars to get his support might cross yet Washington
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House Democrats Set to Propose Corporate Tax Rate of 26.5%
"House. Democrats set to propose a twenty six point. Five percent corporate tax rate hike from twenty one percent. Now the top individual rate would go to thirty nine point six percent the rate on capital gains would jump to twenty five percent that proposal also includes three percentage point sur tax on individual income above five million dollars. The tax hikes would be part of the plan to pay for the democrats budget. Bill between the obamacare surcharge and the five million dollars surcharge. You could be looking at doing the math right. You'd be looking at about forty six percent before you hit state for you at that that top surtax kicks in. I think after five million dollars right
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Did Ending Pandemic UI Benefits Push Americans Back To Work?
"Hiring slowed really sharply last month. Us employers added just two hundred thirty five thousand jobs in august restaurants in stores. Actually cut workers as a new wave of current. A virus cases made people nervous about eating out and in-person shopping but in the two months before that the economy was adding tons of jobs. More than a million jobs in july alone it seemed like there were help. Wanted signs everywhere. A lot of employers were complaining that they couldn't find enough workers and some of them blamed the relatively generous unemployment benefits and that was the logic behind the states that decided to end those benefits early. Which is what set up. Michael's experiment she speak to business owners. They say got jobs open. We can't sold them and the thought was that the reason they can't sell them because people would rather be on unemployment benefits then applying for work and as soon as we removed those benefits the labor market would start booming. People would start returning to work. Businesses would find the workers. They're looking for and all would be well now. That might have been a reasonable theory. But it's not what actually happened as we've talked about on the indicator before some earlier research showed unemployed workers in states that took away benefits. Were only a little more likely to find jobs than those in states that left the benefits in place and now michaels research is showing exactly the same thing. That's right in michael's experiment. Twenty five percent of the workers who lost their benefits in june had gone back to work by august now in states that left the benefits in place. Twenty one percent of unemployed people found jobs so there was only four percentage point difference when these benefits went away so all those employers were pointing to the benefits as the cause of all of these workers. Not taking jobs. Michael's research says that is not what happened. The thought was that. Removing people's benefits would really produce a surge in employment. And that's not what we see panning out
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COVID Anxiety Rising Amid Delta Surge, AP-NORC Poll Finds
"A new poll finds Americans anxiety over covert nineteen at its highest level since last winter's search the Associated Press and O. R. C. center for public affairs research poll comes amid another nationwide spike in infections spurred largely by the highly contagious delta variant forty one percent of respondents said they are extremely or very worried about themselves or their family becoming infected that's up from twenty one percent in June and about the same as in January during the country's last major search close to sixty percent say they favor requiring people to be fully vaccinated against covert nineteen to travel on an airplane or attend crowded public events only about a quarter of Americans oppose such measures meanwhile fifty five percent support requiring Americans to wear masks outside their homes I'm Ben Thomas
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Californians endure intense weekend of wildfire fears
"The Dixie bar which started on July fourteenth has now grown to become the largest single wildfire in California history the blaze was twenty one percent contained Sunday morning according to cal fire and had grown to more than four hundred and sixty three thousand acres Dixie fire public information officer Ryan Bain says they're playing catch up and it's very hard to get out in front of the fire because it's fueled by strong winds and bone dry vegetation you older ninety nine percent receptive in the afternoon that means out of out of a hundred hundred embers that are cast up into the air ninety nine out of a hundred of them all will likely Starfire the Dixie fire has destroyed at least five hundred and eighty nine structures damaged another thirty eight and forced tens of thousands of evacuations since it began according to officials I'm Julie Walker
Pop Fashion
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Pop Fashion
"Victoria. Secret is retiring. The angels you know like those model ladies on the ads and in the fashion show no more. Instead they will have a collective the collective right now they have seven women. Rain like a starbucks burp right. Now they're gonna have seven women ranging from a seventeen year old chinese american freestyle skier. Who is i think. Olympic bound to priyanka chopra. Jonas who is thirty eight They're going to advise the brand and appear in advertisements. You might recall that. Doria secret has overhauled. Its cease we in the past year or so and just weeks ago now announced. It would spin off victoria secret from the rest of parent company albums. The new york times reported that in. Twenty fifteen victoria's secret have thirty two percent of the women's underwear market in the us. What percent while last year in twenty twenty a had just twenty one percent dying that's like a eleven percentage point drop in five years. That's pretty drastic. pretty drastic. Lot of competition came into the market and a lot of people were like. You know. I don't know if i want to buy what batory secret selling. So martin waters of the former. Had victoria's secrets so many a in here say vicky house martin law martin waters who was recently appointed a ceo of the company. He was appointed in february. He said to the new york times when the world was changing. We were too slow to respond. We needed to stop being about what men want to be about what women want
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Victoria’s Secret Ditches Angels to Push Empowerment
"Victoria. Secret is retiring. The angels you know like those model ladies on the ads and in the fashion show no more. Instead they will have a collective the collective right now they have seven women. Rain like a starbucks burp right. Now they're gonna have seven women ranging from a seventeen year old chinese american freestyle skier. Who is i think. Olympic bound to priyanka chopra. Jonas who is thirty eight They're going to advise the brand and appear in advertisements. You might recall that. Doria secret has overhauled. Its cease we in the past year or so and just weeks ago now announced. It would spin off victoria secret from the rest of parent company albums. The new york times reported that in. Twenty fifteen victoria's secret have thirty two percent of the women's underwear market in the us. What percent while last year in twenty twenty a had just twenty one percent dying that's like a eleven percentage point drop in five years. That's pretty drastic. pretty drastic. Lot of competition came into the market and a lot of people were like. You know. I don't know if i want to buy what batory secret selling. So martin waters of the former. Had victoria's secrets so many a in here say vicky house martin law martin waters who was recently appointed a ceo of the company. He was appointed in february. He said to the new york times when the world was changing. We were too slow to respond. We needed to stop being about what men want to be about what women want
The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"twenty one percent" Discussed on The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard & Rob Parker
"Don't think series is over again. I picked the clippers and savon. But i don't think they're like in total control. Now a lot of people would say you know. They got the jazz where they want them. I never sat total control. They wanna series. I yeah. I think it's going to be a six game. Series minimum. Could be six. Yeah but i mean like yeah. I meant that it could end in six if they go and get that win in utah. You know what. I mean taking go back and close it out is what i meant So i think the jazz still has a shot. Even though i think the clippers better team every time you think you've got a handle in the clippers. I it seems like you don't whether good or bad you know. You think their role in and then somehow we were rolling year. Know they were up right. Yeah they were looking great. And here's the thing. Utah is much better at home. And you've been up there rob today at a real. I'm up to the old salt palace right place right. But they They had the best home record in the league this year. And then get this rob on the road. They had the same road. Record as the indiana pacers tell. Yes that now. Granted the pacers for a bad or mediocre team. Were good on the road but still. They didn't make the playoffs in the east. So that tells you how different utah is at home on the road so utah still got some fight left. Obviously they could. Mike conley come back. He would make a difference if he comes back. Air rob the niewoudt kawai. Now i said after the game. I'm fine in no big deal tie lou who's talked about it has said he's good but we saw winston and we saw him take himself out for the last four minutes and so hopefully it doesn't become an issue but i'm just saying these are little things that tell me. This thing is far from over. But the hearing what we're gonna alto let me just say this real quick there were by fifteen or whatever you should come out in the final four minutes. You know what. I mean like the like the game i know they got it down very reasons. Yeah because everybody else stayed in but they should have come but seeing right but they never really liked you. They cut it to ten. And then the clippers put it back up to thirteen and it was fifteen. You know what i mean. It wasn't like ten and they got a shot to make it eight or seven. It wasn't like that they got it down to ten and then right away. They got a three and thirteen. And then it was my right. He's been really good in the clutch. He's like the fourth. I the clutch. They've had their problems in the clutch but in the fourth quarters like he's really put up nice numbers even when he didn't shoot it well throughout the first three quarters. He's done that. He's done in the four. So but here's the other thing as you know a lot of these games not all of them but a lot of these games throughout the postseason. The clippers have kinda gone as marcus morris. Go as crazy as that sounds. Because he's far from their best player. He shoots fifth in the playoffs. Eleven games. He is shot fifty percent from three at home in the staple center on the road. Twenty one percent..
Dishing Up Nutrition
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Dishing Up Nutrition
"We've cautioned lives listeners to avoid cooking on aluminum pans in in an article published an integrative psychiatry nineteen ninety-one reported that there is an increasing body of evidence indicating that aluminum is more than just an innocent bystander in the cerebral neurons so think brain of alzheimer's to be safe air on the side of caution and avoid cooking with aluminum pans and Replace your aluminum foil with parchment paper. And for the love of pete know. Tom's house thumbs you'd aluminum addition. Yes mel agreed So before break. We're kind of talking about Process carbs and sneaking back into the diet and how we both are kind of seeing that people struggle with that in clinic. But i just want to say that. The relationship between poor blood. Sugar control and alzheimer's disease is so strong that researchers are now calling alzheimer's type three diabetes. And so what does that really mean you know. What does that mean. It means the higher the blood sugars the more it affects the brain and memory whole host of symptoms and problems exam from high blood sugars. It's a big deal now. I want to share a study from the mayo clinic. Published in the journal of alzheimer's disease. This study looked at one thousand two hundred and thirty minnesota residents in olmsted county and found that those who got most of their calories from pasta rice bread and other process. Carbs had the higher risk of alzheimer's while people who loaded up on protein. I'm talking protein. Anything with a face who loaded up on protein had a twenty one percent lower risk and though then those following a and those i'm sorry let me reiterate that while people who loaded on protein had a twenty one percent lower risk and those following a high fat diet or a forty two percent lower risk while yup the lead epidemic miala. Just that all fats seemed to be good for the brain but s carbs and sugar may affect blood vessels in the brain or an increase the development of amyloid plaque. Well what is that. What is that. So i actually look that up because i i mean i kind of understood but i wanted to kind of be able to tell our listeners. What's an amyloid plaque. So those are plaques that form in the spaces between nerve cells and their thought to play a central role in hall of famers disease. So think it's like they kinda clog up your brain space. Your nervous system brain spaces like plaque in the brain. Yeah but he wants that. Yeah so it's And at first develops in areas in the brain concerned with memory..
Radio Boston
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Radio Boston
"That's a high travel and tourism season as well as fall when many people just wanna be outside and enjoying the outdoors susan injure. That poll asked a lot of questions. Are there other ways that people would like to see. Streets transformed yeah. The massing poll found three quarters of boston area. Voters want bike lanes and roughly around seventy percent want more parking for bikes as well as more stations for bike share and i should note to. People were also thinking about buses. Nearly two-thirds said they support implementing more bus lanes. This is something we've been seeing more cities towns implementing in recent years in an effort to make bus rides more quicker and more efficient. So here's the million dollar question. All of that uses street space. So do people say that they will drive less while now. This was a really interesting part of the poll. Twenty seven percent of people said they actually planned to drive more post pandemic which was higher than the percentage of people who said they will drive less now. Some of that may be because some folks don't plan to use public transit as much but it's interesting to think about. What does this mean for traffic. If people wanna take away car space for other purposes yet people want to drive more. It seems people in this poll. Were very concerned about traffic congestion. Forty two percent think it will be the same as it was before the pandemic which we all know was bad and nearly a third think it will actually be worse. Only twenty one percent think it will be better so we have a little bit of optimism there for some folks but we'll have to wait and see and really some of this may depend on what companies in the region decide to do about their future. Work plans you know. It's it's also a challenge for cities and traffic planners if they're going to be taking space away from cars for things like outdoor dining and walkable streets and bike lanes. They're going to need to figure out how where all of those people in cars are going to travel w our reporters and enjoy will mecca. Thanks for walking us through it. Appreciate it.
The Audio Long Read
"twenty one percent" Discussed on The Audio Long Read
"The guardian. i'm scott sayer. i'm a magazine writer. I was based in france for a long time and now based in the us in new york but the story. Here was one that i wrote while i was in france in two thousand seventeen. This piece was written in a period of astonishment. I think at the rise of a sort of reactionary populism across the west brexit had happened in the summer of two thousand sixteen trump had been elected president of the us that fall. And i've been following the the national front as it was then known the fullness journal and its leader marine le pen and they were on the rise but that rise was really much less if a surprise than the the sudden emergence of of this reactionary populism elsewhere. She'd been around for decades. The party had been around for decades and they'd been laying the groundwork of their emergence. The elections in two thousand seventeen were being seen as perhaps. The party's first big breakthrough and i was particularly curious about how the media were covering them. The way that the french media covered the national front which is to say with with all sorts of opprobrium and denunciation didn't seem to have the effect that the french journalists seemed to be after say the national front just kept rising in popularity. All of that the spoke a certain failure within within the french lead to understand that its own prescriptions and even its attention to this phenomenon that had detested might have the opposite effect of the one that they desired. When the piece was written marine le pen had been for several years in the midst of of a campaign of what of what infringe was called. Did jeffords official which means demonization marina pen was trying to normalize the party more palatable to the electorate in general and she was widely seen as as having been quite successful and this is going to be her first big electoral breakthrough. The piece came out three days ahead of the first round in the french elections and she got twenty one percent of the vote which was good enough to get into the second round the second round run-off and in the second round she did thirty four percent which is the highest score by far the national front has ever received. I was just looking at the polls this year. There's an election coming up. I suppose next year in twenty twenty two marine. The pen remains as she was in two thousand seventeen and really as the national front has been for the past twenty years the most important political force in france. She is currently polling at twenty eight percent in the first round which would make her the winner of the first rammed and she's pulling it forty four percent in a run-off with mackall the current president in the second round so ten points ahead of where she was in in two thousand seventeen. I think the press has learned some of. Its some of its lessons. My sense is that the french press despite wishing that my independent was not the political force that she is has resigned itself to that reality and has begun to cover her mostly as a normal candidate. And i suspect that that's going to be the reality moving forward for at least the next several years. If not decades marine le pen is not going anywhere and the press accepted that. Welcome to the guardian long read showcasing the best long form journalism covering culture politics new thinking for the text version of this in all our long reads. Go to the guardian dot com for slash among.
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Biden Ends GOP Infrastructure Talks, Starts New Negotiations
"President Joe Biden walks away from talks with Republican senators on a big infrastructure package president Joe Biden has ended talks with Republican senators on his proposed infrastructure package now plans to try to build a bipartisan compromise with Republicans and Democrats Biden walked away from talks led by senator Shelley Moore capital after the two spoke Tuesday the size of the package and how to pay for it remain stumbling blocks the president wants a one point seven trillion dollar infrastructure investment plan Republican senators offered nine hundred twenty eight billion dollars and proposed tapping unspent covert nineteen money Biden has rejected dipping at the cove in nineteen funds and proposes raising the corporate tax rate from twenty one percent to twenty eight percent Mike Rossio Washington
Democracy Now! Audio
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"No by sunny sang. The song is a sick devotional song often sung at funerals. It's about finding solace in connection and dark and desperate times. this is democracy now. I mean he good minutes. We turn to the fight over corporate taxes. President biden's proposed scrapping his plan to raise the corporate tax rate. If republican lawmakers agreed to support at least a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending biden had previously called for rolling back trump's corporate tax cuts by increasing the rate from twenty one to twenty eight percent. But he is now offering to keep trump's tax cut and shrink the size of his infrastructure proposal in exchange for minimum fifteen percent tax rate for all companies. This all comes as president biden heading to the g seven meeting in britain where he's expected to push for a global minimum tax rate to make it harder for companies to stash their earnings in tax havens. Still with us. Jeffrey sachs director of the center for sustainable development at columbia university. So your comments on what's happening here in the united states and also the corporate overall tax rate You are very critical of biden for not his original infrastructure plan but what he's doing now with the republicans well. I was shocked and dismayed and hope that it doesn't go anywhere but the corporations have had an unbelievable run of unjust an audible tax cuts that's true for decades. The corporate taxes right now collected a little bit more than one percent of gdp in a booming period of corporate profits. Another words we given away the store. The republicans especially gave away the store and twenty seventeen president biden said okay. We'll restore half of what was given away still leaving the company's effectively with a tax cut from thirty five percent to twenty eight percent under biden's plan and then yesterday apparently he's said to the republicans. Well maybe we'll leave it at twenty one percent god. I hope that this doesn't happen. It would be the biggest single defeat for basic social justice and affordability of what we need to do through government that i can imagine because everybody that looks at this understands what was given away to. The corporations was both unjust and unaffordable. And so biden's plan. Well it was only partial at least pointed in the right direction. Why did he put that on the table. He didn't even have a deal. What kind of negotiating is that. And of course this is because we are a plutocracy. we are a corporate driven society. Our infrastructure is crumbling and the company. Say yeah build the infrastructure. But don't charge us for any of it in the meantime. The ceo's are at laughing at us because their compensation is now more than three hundred pounds average. So please president biden. We put you in office to help fix this country not to continue with the trump plan. For god's sake it's simple. It's not complicated. What is this negotiation about to preserve the trump tax cut. That's why we had the twenty twenty election. So what do you think it would take. Part of. The problem is we. Have we have two democrats who are seemingly more republican than republican in this Senators cinema mansion. I don't get it because joe mansions constituents need this program perhaps more than any other state in the whole country and mansions holding out. Saying i don't know i don't want to vote for anything that the republicans don't agree to in the meantime mitch. Mcconnell says his hundred percent effort is to destroy this administration and to preserve the trump 'isms of the last four years. So what what is mentioned doing is he representing. The people of west virginia is he laughing as the corporate shell. I don't get it but this is what we're facing right now. This is a big issue for this country because if we can't pay for the basic things we need if we can't pay for a clean energy system for safe water for digital people who can't afford it for a transport system that can work for the twenty first century and if the corporation say count us out we just love our billions and we don't wanna put in anything. Well what are we going to have as a country and president biden is there to turn this around and he made perfectly fine proposal and he should take to the american people and make the case because right now all of the opinion polls show overwhelming american support for taxing the corporation's overwhelming american support for taxing the rich. It's probably the biggest consensus in this country. It's not the consensus of the plutocrats in congress. The republican party in the hands of billionaires. It's pretty simple stuff so should not be backing down. So president biden calls out cinema and mansion on tuesday when he gave this Tulsa race massacre address in oklahoma and on thursday he caves to the republicans and mentioned in cinema continuing to say they will not back off of Supporting the filibuster. But let me take that corporate tax global your comment. Finally we just have about thirty seconds on the g. Seven finance ministers agreeing to support a global minimum corporation tax rate What would that mean globally. Well this is an important step. Let's make sure. It's also not filled with the united states. The uk switzerland netherlands and very few other countries created a tax abuse system which we call tax havens. It's a system for cheating so they need to close it up. They made it and they can stop it and putting in a minimum tax for corporations so that they can't abuse all of us is a first step. So i'm hoping that this is real and that it's going to go through. It is important positive. Step jeffrey sachs. Thank you for being with us director of the center for sustainable columbia university president of the us sustainable development solutions network coming up disaster patriarchy. How the pandemic's unleashed war on women.
Democracy Now! Audio
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"No by sunny sang. The song is a sick devotional song often sung at funerals. It's about finding solace in connection and dark and desperate times. this is democracy now. I mean he good minutes. We turn to the fight over corporate taxes. President biden's proposed scrapping his plan to raise the corporate tax rate. If republican lawmakers agreed to support at least a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending biden had previously called for rolling back trump's corporate tax cuts by increasing the rate from twenty one to twenty eight percent. But he is now offering to keep trump's tax cut and shrink the size of his infrastructure proposal in exchange for minimum fifteen percent tax rate for all companies. This all comes as president biden heading to the g seven meeting in britain where he's expected to push for a global minimum tax rate to make it harder for companies to stash their earnings in tax havens. Still with us. Jeffrey sachs director of the center for sustainable development at columbia university. So your comments on what's happening here in the united states and also the corporate overall tax rate You are very critical of biden for not his original infrastructure plan but what he's doing now with the republicans well. I was shocked and dismayed and hope that it doesn't go anywhere but the corporations have had an unbelievable run of unjust an unaffordable tax cuts. That's true for decades. The corporate taxes right now collected a little bit more than one percent of gdp in a booming period of corporate profits. Another words we given away the store. The republicans especially gave away the store and twenty seventeen president biden said okay. We'll restore half of what was given away still leaving the company's effectively with a tax cut from thirty five percent to twenty eight percent under biden's plan and then yesterday apparently he's said to the republicans. Well maybe we'll leave it at twenty one percent god i. I hope that this doesn't happen. It would be the biggest single defeat for basic social justice and affordability of what we need to do through government that i can imagine because everybody that looks at this understands what was given away to. The corporations was both unjust and unaffordable. And so biden's plan. Well it was only partial at least pointed in the right direction. Why did he put that on the table. He didn't even have a deal. What kind of negotiating is that. And of course this is because we are a plutocracy. we are a corporate driven society. Our infrastructure is crumbling and the company. Say yeah build the infrastructure. But don't charge us for any of it in the meantime. The ceo's are at laughing at us because their compensation is now more than three hundred pounds average. So please president biden. We put you in office to help fix this country not to continue with the trump plan. For god's sake it's simple it's complicated. What is this negotiation about to preserve the trump tax cut. That's why we had the twenty twenty election. So what do you think it would take. Part of. The problem is we. Have we have two democrats who are seemingly more republican than republican in this Senators cinema mansion. I don't get it because joe mansions constituents need this program perhaps more than any other state in the whole country and mansions holding out. Saying i don't know i don't want to vote for anything that the republicans don't agree to in the meantime mitch. Mcconnell says his hundred percent effort is to destroy this administration and to preserve the trump 'isms of the last four years. So what what is mentioned doing is he representing. The people of west virginia is he laughing as the corporate shell. I don't get it but this is what we're facing right now. This is a big issue for this country because if we can't pay for the basic things we need if we can't pay for a clean energy system for safe water for digital with people who can't afford it for a transport system that can work for the twenty first century and if the corporation say count us out we just love our billions and we don't wanna put in anything. Well what are we going to have as a country and president biden is there to turn this around and he made perfectly fine proposal and he should take to the american people and make the case because right now all of the opinion polls show overwhelming american support for taxing the corporation's overwhelming american support for taxing the rich. It's probably the biggest consensus in this country. It's not the consensus of the plutocrats in congress. The republican party in the hands of billionaires. It's pretty simple stuff so should not be backing down. So president biden calls out cinema and mansion on tuesday when he gave this Tulsa race massacre address in oklahoma and on thursday he caves to the republicans and mentioned in cinema continuing to say they will not back off of Supporting the filibuster. But let me take that corporate tax global your comment. Finally we just have about thirty seconds on the g. Seven finance ministers agreeing to support a global minimum corporation tax rate What would that mean globally. Well this is an important step. Let's make sure. It's also not filled with the united states. The uk switzerland netherlands and very few other countries created a tax abuse system which we call tax havens. It's a system for cheating so they need to close it up. They made it and they can stop it and putting in a minimum tax for corporations so that they can't abuse all of us is a first step. So i'm hoping that this is real and that it's going to go through. It is important positive. Step jeffrey sachs. Thank you for being with us director of the center for sustainable columbia university president of the us sustainable development solutions network coming up disaster patriarchy. How the pandemic's unleashed war on women.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
G7 Finance Ministers to Meet in London
"Ministers from the g seven group of nations. Meet in person here in london. Later and britain's chancellor has ambitions to forge a joint path on one of the thorniest economic issues of all time business taxation. His plans for proposed a proposal earlier this week by the us to introduce global minimum corporation tax rate of fifteen percent while to assess what nations will want from plan and whether she soon equil- convince all of the g seven ministers to agree. I'm joined by rob cox global editor reuters breaking news breaking views and he joins us on the line from our xerox. Judy ever good morning to europe. Good morning how are you very well. Thank you good to have you with us on the globalist. This is the first meeting for some time. All these ministers isn't it not lethal logistical reasons. Yon i mean it is. I think their first face-to-face meeting of jesus just g seven finance ministers since the since the pandemic began so quite significant. They'll get to look each other in the eye and try to get to some consensus on what has been one of the thorniest as you pointed out issues among rich countries for for decade. Doing know what that plan is what the idea is at the moment. Well there is. There are various plans out there. But the main idea is the one being pulled together has been pulled together for for years now by the oecd. It involves something like one hundred and thirty seven countries and the idea is to basically come up with with a minimum corporate tax rate. The administration has well yellen. Ah janet yellen the treasury sectors ford fifteen percent joe conto seems to be holding out the idea that could be higher if we don't get my way i think he put forward originally twenty one percent That seems to be in line with what you're hearing from the uk from other members of the g. seven italy
Inside Europe
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Inside Europe
"A female perspective to be hurt. Experi when you're woman to know that's most decisions are made by men and by others. You're the last month to to be and that's what we need to change. Amanda coakley d-w. Zagreb i'm keith. Walker in bomb. This is inside europe so come. Spain's ambitions to become climate neutral by twenty fifty first. Germany has formally recognized as genocide the crimes committed by its colonial troops against the herero and nama people. This genocide took place at the beginning of the twentieth century in. What is now the southern african nation of namibia. Dwi africa correspondent. Kite neighbor is following the story for inside europe kite. Colonialism is Somewhat and neglected chapter in germany's history. I mean even germans know little about their colonial past. Can you fill us in. yes keith. Unfortunately german colonial history is seen as something of a forgotten and in some cases neglected post and this could be to do with the fact that german colonial history probably was a little bit shorter than that of the other colonial powers of the time. Germany lost all of its colonies as a consequence of the treaty of versailles at the end of will one and then in german classrooms anyway. A lot of the focus has been on what happened during world war two and of course the holocaust which essentially means lot of teaching in a history classes spends a lot of time focused on those events rather than looking at germany's colonial history. But that doesn't necessarily mean. The german colonial history is insignificant at the of its colonial empire. Germany had the third biggest colonial empire in africa. One of those colonies was namibia. Can you can you just explain what happened in the past and the extent of the atrocities sky. Namibia was one of the german colonies. The other ones being tanganyika in east africa togoland and cameroon in west africa but namibia in south west africa was one of germany's most important colonies as it were. It was also the place. Where a lot of germany's colonial brutality actually played out and the land that is now known as namibia became annexed by germany as a result of the eighteen eighty. Four eighteen eighty five berlin conference and as german settlers and forces moved in. They removed many people that were living there and seized land. And what. This essentially culminated in was a very dark period of colonialism between nineteen o four nine thousand nine hundred eight which is now known as the herero nama genocide by the German colonial forces and there is no way to overstate the absolute brutality. Of what happened with talking about the Herrero losing up to seventy five percent of their population during this period of time and just to put it into context talking about a time when german forces actually seized land. There were people shot an armed refugees within put into the first concentration camps of that period and forced to work on german colonial Projects to build up their colony so it is a small matter even though it did happen. More than one hundred years ago Let's bring you up to date on what what has been agreed between the two governments germany and namibia. Germany are already in two thousand and four agreed that it had a moral responsibility towards and especially the victims of the herero nama genocide and what has transpired is. The germany has decided to officially say that what happened between the years. One thousand nine hundred four nine hundred ninety eight was in fact genocide and that german forces were responsible for this and the key thing of course is that there was always a question of. Will there be reparations involved and to be clear. Germany has not to pay reparations to the descendants of the victims. what they have agreed is a one point. One billion euro aid package essentially to be paid over thirty years with the namibian government and that has essentially been agreed on on what has the response from the leaders of the herero and number of people being. It's a sensitive question this because throughout the negotiations. The negotiations themselves were criticized right from the start by certain leaders within the herero and nama communities because they did not see the namibian government as the vehicle in which to carry out these negotiations because they wanted to deal directly with the german government itself and the german government specifically wanted to deal on a bilateral basis with the namibian government herrero leaders as well as now leaders have said. They think that this aid package were is an insult and that this is not enough to compensate for the Land losses the loss of humans or dignity that the herero nama people suffered. Thanks a lot. Thanks keys to the correspondent neighbor speaking to me earlier in the week. And i'm keith walker. This is inside europe The spanish government has been debasing climate change and energy transition bill which should hopes to pass through congress later this year. It aims to put spain on the path to become climate neutral by twenty fifty in terms of wind power. Spain already generates twenty one percent of its energy from onshore wind farms preventing the emission of over twenty nine.
John Bartolo Show
"twenty one percent" Discussed on John Bartolo Show
"Market market saturation. Not as the piece of it. But if there's seventy six thousand three hundred and forty. nfl's there's forty six hundred of those are brick and motor. How many of those brick and mortar have my product in and that's market saturation. So brand recognizing but recognition that that can matter there but then again there's been a lot of calls where people have called and said. Hey i've never heard blackout before. Don't my responses will. There was a day where you first heard this company. This company that's coming. Today's the first one day you heard this and it's once past that part of the conversation. It will never matter again. So lot of people focus on something that is the fifes first. Five seconds of the conversation. They get done with that now. What right. now. What are you got. You know who. I am The word exposure right. Ooh hate it. And i every salesman that calls them gives me some exposure. Pitch always do the same thing icy. Let's say snakes franklin. Frank frank do. Are you aware that every day hundreds of this race dee dark are you wear to hundreds of children die of starvation around the world. Yes unicef right. You're aware when was the last time you wrote a check. Never okay exposures bullshit. Just because you know if something doesn't mean well qualified customer but we're so worrying about who knows about us we're not even focusing on qualifying who our customer and we both know exposures like a dirty word. That was the that was the word like recoiled. Tv tried to us. You know it's like we can. We can reach seventy five thousand fuckin-. Tv's would this. Would this thing on recoil tv. And you're sitting there near seventy five thousand. I'm like for one hundred dollars on youtube. I can hit double. I'm talking about like but but that's a that's a that's an old man's marketing. It's like the minute i hear it. I'm like what and even with the tv thing. They may have watched it because they're clicking through and there's just nothing better but an internet clicked. They didn't accidentally watch the video right. The intentionally did it. And if you can take them and we're so focused on creating content which believe me. It's very important and a huge part of what we're doing But if you're just making content to talk to people and not getting anything in there that creates a conversation that makes them call you text you talk to you if you're not generating those conversations then either you're selling which is a waste of time or you're just talking to them you have to first be entertaining and and there's about there's about four people that are entertaining in the firearms business as well. Four hundred. that think they're entertaining. Listen entertaining actually gives you the listen to the don't don't sound like they're in their mother's kitchen and i just hired one of them that's his job video. We hired this guy because of his pages his stories He was Is former marine. We knew he was in every day was just doing these great stories. And we're like that's what we need to tell so. We quite literally now. He's doing other stuff. he's answering everybody. That orders he gets a sprint. He's doing that stuff to tell a story but his job is to tell stories. And can i track a direct. Roi from that. Hell no but i can definitely do is the fact that he's been on for months and on youtube and comments on our videos that he's not in people are using his name. Hey i talked to dave. And he's not even in in the video but there's a brand recognition from watching that video too. I remember my experience right. You mean the video is not all about the product never talking about. Hey talking about product. Doen't no sacrilege and the stopped showing. What do you mean. Stop selling qvc. S to be like qvc. Though years ago when i sold cars it was really freaking. Good at it. And i hated every day i hated going work. Unfortunately i was selling lot or making lot transactions. What i soon realized was never sold a car. Put a lot of people in exactly what they wanted. But if someone comes to you and you have to sell them. They're not qualified and ready to buy. Get them to the point where they are get to know them. Have a conversation build a relationship. Those things will follow but coming in with a sale is so short sighted and the rule in our company no selling. There's no one with the name that says sales. I thought i was the only guy that sounded like tony robbins. In this business shrew looks a lot better than you He's taller than me jaw. That's for sure but yeah you not wrong. You're one hundred percent right if i ever wrote a book called. Stop for consoling. If i can write the book exists exists. Somebody in stop selling alcohol. Took your name get a trademark that stuff And let me check. I think let me go check to the pow. The let me let me go on. The powerful amazon stopped selling. Stop selling book. Let's say but that's literally where our growth is coming from. We don't anything. The there's the product distribute. That's not what they're buying. They're buying the experience. And the reason i say we don't have any competitors is because that's our product and no one. No one even comes close in each week each month for we're doing stuff this week to where we're improving that even more reciting that benchmark even higher when you focus your product on experience rather than the physical good. You're distributing you. Don't have any competitor's listen might have got lucky. Yeah i think in is not on somebody get online and copyright stop song ben. If you're listening policemen immediately process we might we might. There's this a few. There's a few close calls but well mine will be f- asterik some selling but now available. My people be mad. If i said the actual title write that down right so listen to me. I love doing what we're doing a lot and yes right now. We're making optics. That's that's the first thing. I want to get into optics and all that stuff yet brady on. He did a really good job that meant until he told the whole truth. He's got everything you need to know about. The market was on episode. So if anybody's wondering about the optics market go watch brady right But that's just the first product we've gone into this less of a want to be the top scope company and more of i wanna be vista in seven years. I wanna create a. This is the first one this got us. In with that product we get to have hundreds and hundreds of conversations a week and we learn and we database we put them into basecamp we take the keywords. I talked to every single employee every day. And what you learned. Who'd you talk to. We database it. That's where you develop your where your company's going if you focus solely on the product. Yep we're we're going to keep growing optics we're gonna get some cool stuff in but the next step we're going on is how we can service the industry we've got to. Acs we're going into retail space design for these gunshops because let's think what a gunshot pass. They have a security protocol. They have to maintain they are filling a product. That's federally regulated and requires certain processes. They have all these different requirements and that has translated into a retail designed format. That is pushing away. More potential gun owners. The reason they're buying on gun broker and then stopping when they realize they have to go to a gun store to get. It is because that environment. Is you know that that twenty one percent. Those regional governments are environment. Were comfortable.
John Bartolo Show
"twenty one percent" Discussed on John Bartolo Show
"With that. I agree with that. I think i think there's a lot of that. I would sprinkle in on top like nice. Little donut. dust sprinkling That i think there's this underlying theme that hope is dying to that we will cannibalize and eat our own whether it's because they don't have enough experience whether they don't know who the real customer is whether and and i'm guilty of us and we're all guilty of it but there's this underlying current that almost somebody's gotta win and for somebody to win. Someone's gonna lose so we're constantly fighting these nuclear wars within our own borders. It's like Massachusetts decide to on florida and florida's trouble in and we have that all the time. And i would say more so in this business than any other industry i've ever been around now. I know nobody likes to have their heads stepped on somebody rise above them. That's common james. Everybody has that. But i see it as very dangerous in our industry because we reveal ourselves like you were getting to the other side. Yeah and it's a whole lot easier to become a victim. Then go do something you can talk and you can complain and you can say all the reasons this wrong and these things happen to me right. That's easy that's lazy but doing something about it and making something somebody doing something to actually grow that. Actually take something. And that's unfortunately something. Our industry has traditionally not been very good at well. We'll see we'll see we'll see how it plays out. I'm less optimistic about where we'll be in five years. Maybe even you are in this business. But i'm jaded. I admit salty. I'm not there. I'm not prepared to to say we can figure it out especially when we have such struggles that leadership. Well i think We choose our leaders and we've gone with the people that are the loudest not the smartest we've gone with the people that can get the most views can get the most exposure can but not the people that actually do something about it right and if we get as i like to say if you take the whole pie right of the entire population of this country thirty percent are going to be in our boat. They're jewish people there as passionate as we are forty nine percent. Were never going to convince any of them of anything. The only grows point we have. Is that twenty one percent and we need to invest everything in that nothing in the own. The lips do what are so scattered. Put everything in a twenty one. Because that's where we have a chance to grow if if we keep putting everything in our own market in our thirty percent we're gonna keep building up that thirty percent but we're gonna keep selling but we won't grow. We have to go after that twenty one percent. It means we're going to have to change the way we do a few things. So i look at it and try to blow your mind right now. No type all right. So i i d constructed a little differently. Here's what i say since this run on firearms ammunition anything you wanna talk about around our industry accessories whatever covert. We have had the opportunity to deconstruct some very powerful evidence as an industry right. I could ask everybody in this room. What's probably one of the most powerful things to sway californians thinking towards firearms which is very large percentage of the percentages. You're talking about. How do you sway their opinion. Well i think there was a lot of recent gun buyers in california that like what do you mean. I have a wait period. They don't understand the laws that are passed. They don't understand what they checked. Yes to or whatever. But they're going to understand. They waited seven days for a firearm that they needed during the pandemic. My point james is if you deconstruct. I could name a couple examples during covid. That will come up that being one in a state. Where is the nra say and we need a blitz campaign around this. Don't want to wait seven days. We're putting a piece of legislation through now or we're going to attempt to or whatever But where's that so. We don't look at the metadata or the micro data around us okay. There's a gazillion people that would love to see you know. I'm a greater emphasis on things that don't speak to an audience of like exclusivity which is a problem around this industry. Dumbing it down and there are some people doing some good work. So i don't wanna say it's all bad but when we can't even deconstruct that metadata in boil down to a campaigner to initiative or something then moves the industry forward. If we can't do that we're in trouble. We're in trouble in my opinion. And who's running these these houses that no one can sit back and do that because that would be a great push. Didn't realize your guns seven days to get to you. Oh wow but instead. We're worried about giving out pouch and a hat. I think that we have. It's so easy to answer. Email make a donation of feel like you did something. but let's think about in nineteen ninety-five. I read my first american rifleman. Or whatever the interim mag was that i have. Oh god i can tell you that the message. Seven but american rifle one's a good reference yet i don't i don't know which one it was but it was about ninety five right right and it has the kid you not. It's the exact same format years later. Right it's the same message and has worked. Are we any better off. Now than we were. Nineteen ninety-five with a substantial yardage gained. No no of course the answer is no but if you go twenty five years and it's not working maybe the anti air anti nsf. But maybe we should stop trying to hire. These needs to fight our battle. Let me say this in a in. And i say this i think everybody in the room agree with us. The act works the move. Works like every every every person's room has had a move that works the move worked but the move has an aged well so ten years ago. Fifteen years ago maybe it was giving away a pouch. Maybe it was doing this just but you got to evolve. You see what i'm saying. Like i give you an example. How many times have you heard an old guy. Tell a corny joke that he probably using barham to pick up a girl. Why do it all the time before right. But i'm saying my grandfather's our dads did that all the time and we'd be like that's so dumb that worked at one point for him. You know that. Move work but sometimes the moves. Don't age well and i and i don't like to say like over this fifty year period. You know they didn't. That didn't work whatever i don't like tha. I am more optimistic than people think. So i'm giving you hope. But i also see it as like we. Just we bang the the shitty joke the the moves age well and we just keep like you said you know for ten years bom bom it will eventually if we just keep keep going and it speaks to what i told you about Presented the same idea over and over again. You'll have a job. Yup dare to shake branches. Your or you try something once fails. You're gone gone but if you do the same thing and you hit the status quo. You're going to stay whether that be the leadership of an organization or a marketing director right for a company. That doesn't actually have real metrics. Well we're an organization. Let's not even go to the to the genius marketing directors of the universe but I think if we could evolve enough to look at the metadata that covert in this run on like i think what f. l.'s need is some education on how they could push loss into effect. Could help them that. Could maybe get the more involved in the community is there. Any group is teaching local gunshops. How the nsf post. Speak to them I don't know that they do a great job. You know what. I'm just bringing examples. That i witnessed during covid. You know that could be harnessed. So there's that what about educating f. L.'s on how to better allocate their inventory post covid. I think that's something you'd love to be involved in right. I think that's something that a lot of companies would love to get but your console. The best ball kim by to undergo keep our stop it on unfilled electron. So how'd you get the mouse golden. Teach stop to run boxall too long to learn to learn food tomato. God another took an thoughts. Who do you grow to a podcast. Format evolve into trudeau. Sloan obstacles to post on news. Talk mark fellas orton. Like daughter about are not enough teachers on metadata cook comes to go interesting. Relationship spun the of kong on that and spend hours talking brooklyn and discover discovered buner south because assumption moves to members other sorts of popular the. 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The Stem Cell Podcast
"twenty one percent" Discussed on The Stem Cell Podcast
"Multicellular life on the whole has undergone these cycles of growth and decline. Look what we're talking about here today. Perhaps most vividly marked by events such as the cambrian explosion of life where there is just a large huge number of multicellular life forms. That emerged not light but a very short period of time in the grand scale of the aeons of life right and on the other hand there's these catastrophic extinction events like what actually happened at the end of the dinosaurs gender the age of the dinosaurs. Maybe what happened right before the dinosaurs emerged as well right. Do you think stem cells had some role in determining what species might survive through say an extinction event like that or in other words. Do you think that enhanced adult stem cell renewal and function might shield some species from these massive environmental changes that we're talking about like some these extinction events for example. I think the those are really good questions. And i do think for sure. The stem cell capacity that differs between animals. And i would say that differ the most between invertebrates and vertebrates that has defined how those big animal groups have have evolved over time. You know if i if i suggest for example that in vertebrates have lower capacity for stem cell maintenance oxyde conditions and they were. I mean they've been dominant all along but invertebrate animals. Like molluscs and arthropods. They they they really hard hit. When oxygen finally increased to modern level. So you can you. Can you can think of low. That earth was a low oxygen environment for almost a hundred million years after the cambridge explosion and the invertebrates. You were just happy and have this. You have this huge ammonites in the in the in the oceans and you have all kinds of trial by s- fund ones that we can see at museums today but eventually oxygen increased to twenty one percent and i would predict that invertebrates that did not have a way to maintain their stem their hypoc and their stem cells. Inside were hardly hit..
Kottke Ride Home
Rural Oregon Tries to Become Greater Idaho
"Counties in rural eastern oregon have voted to secede from their states and join neighboring idaho to become greater idaho. The proposed move is precipitated. by growing. tensions between the rural counties in the state's urban population centers. The greater idaho movement is calling for eighteen full counties three partial counties in total to depart from oregon and joined greater idaho accounting for seventy percent of oregon's land but only twenty one percent of the population or about eight hundred sixty thousand residents. The move would make idaho the third largest state in the us after alaska in texas. Oh that land accounts for so few people that idaho would still remain in the latter third of states population. Wise such a move would require approval from oregon and idaho legislature's as well as the us. Congress and the tension between the eastern and western halves of oregon are a bit of a microcosm of the nation writ large quoting the new york times. The shoots river divides the high prairies of the eastern half agricultural and politically conservative largely from the wetter. Woody your western half which has long been more populated and more liberal. The statewide shutdown orders that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic last year deepened those divisions crippling businesses. At a time when some rural counties had few cases the protests and riots over race and police conduct in portland the state's largest city widened the gap further still and the defeat of former president. Donald j trump who won most counties but still lost the state by a big margin after president biden's strong showing in the city's capped off a litany of frustrations and quotes.
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
U.S. Proposes Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate of 15%
"Treasury department says it supports a global minimum corporate tax rate at least fifteen percent far below the twenty one percent. It's been asking for on the foreign profits of a us based companies you offer comes as the g. twenty zeke's deal on. The minimum corporate tax
AP News Radio
McConnell Says GOP Open to $600 Billion for Infrastructure
"Hi Mike Crossey a reporting the Senate GOP leader says Republicans are open to spending six hundred billion dollars for infrastructure improvements Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is floating a national infrastructure investment spending plan that's about a quarter of the size of the two point three trillion dollar proposal president Joe Biden has laid out speaking at the university of Louisville Monday McConnell said Republicans are willing to spend up to six hundred billion dollars on infrastructure Connell also came out against Biden's plan to pay for the infrastructure package by raising the corporate tax rate from twenty one percent back to twenty eight percent instead McConnell said he favors increasing user fees Mike Rossio Washington
The Real Agenda Network
"twenty one percent" Discussed on The Real Agenda Network
"These conventions can take a really long time to draft and steer through the united nations processes and sometimes the initial conventions are weak and they will require strengthening. But i think we just have to accept. That's the case what's needed more than anything else has to have a global counterweight to the rules set by the organization for economic cooperation and development. Now was the rules. Don't have legal status in their own. Right they are typically adopted into the tax laws of member states and states across the rest of the world and they become a reference point which show courts and tribunals will use when they're assessing the legality or otherwise tax avoidance scheme so tax convention could become a really powerful mechanism and a reference point for the whole process of reshaping tax rules to make them fit for the twenty th century and the needs of all countries not just ocd member states and perhaps with the new administration biden administration. There may be more support for some meaningful activity on tax rules global tax rules and perhaps even more support for a un involvement in that and they just announced to twenty one percent minimum corporate tax rate proposal. So that's interesting and alongside that of course the us. I'm not also. I'm very excited about this. I'm also talking about completely rebooting. The internal revenue service massively. Refunding it to make an effective body so that is exciting. But joe biden has spoken very publicly and for a long time about the united states. Reengaging internationally and there's no better place the him to demonstrate that leadership role and engagement with the rest of the world then in the area of taxation again getting this one sort of this has caused so many problems across the world. Now it would be really good to see a biden administration take a leadership role in this area. Yes it would speaking of fair the power of blocks and nations. Let's look at the year in european union. There is some movement there to do something about the us. Lovable list of non-cooperative jurisdictions their listeners. We've said many times on the tax castle the more ridiculous because e eu member states themselves on included on that list when many of them are you know major offenders and then you get sort of craziness is like the removal of the cayman islands from the e u list..
CATS Roundtable
"twenty one percent" Discussed on CATS Roundtable
"Percent and the twenty one percent tax on Us funds Hell overseas these are gigantic tax types. And i just summarize it it. Means less investment less capital formation it means less innovation and invention and research and development. It means fewer wages and lower family income it will knock at least one percentage point off of gdp over the longer term. This is not good. And i will another point here. This economy is in good shape because right now before new legislation tax rates are low and the regulatory burdens are low and we still have energy independence and the main these are trump's principles and we are in a boom. This economy could grow this year by ten percent. And that's here is to grow by in a way above average six seven eight percent but if these policies go through it's going to throw a wet blanket over the boom and i will say again if it ain't broke don't fix it then are going well. Don't use your ideology from the left to smother this boom for heaven sakes use common sense. Why would you start taxing the daylights out of an economy which is roaring at. I don't get especially when you're going to be the primary beneficiary of it. The president in other words if he leaves it the way it is from what you're saying they will be more jobs. There will be more investment. They will be less poverty and therefore this goes on his ledger as an accomplishment. Well that's correct. That is correct. It could take credit for it like any president does look is taking credit for the vaccines. Even though it was trump's operation warp speed. But you know what time passes. All i want is for america to heal and be a healthy insecure. He can take credit for the boom. Okay i don't care. I'm mostly interested in america's wellbeing. I want the blue collar. Middle class to flourish like it did the pandemic. So yes you have. A point governor and Again if it ain't broke don't fix it. This is ideology. This is progressive wing ideology tax the rich redistributed income build up.
Politics: Meet Me in the Middle
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Politics: Meet Me in the Middle
"The idea that the pentagon was found to be totally inaudible in how come we don't have a program that says well maybe it would be easier or a better philosophy to fund plan by saying it's going to be one third serious reconsideration in review of current government. Spending and two thirds is going to be paid for by tax. I find with trying to look at ways to get better contracts For the government. I do think certainly we should try to tighten any waste fraud and abuse. That is out there. The government has huge programs out there for people to file complaints that they see waste fraud abuse. You've got entire press corps out there who will report stories about a waste fraud and abuse if you actually look at the enormous number of government contracts. That happened every day from the federal government state and local government. You don't ask you read a huge number of stories about waste fraud and abuse but you will read some of them every now and then and those should be taken care of. It's not as if we could simply say oh would just going to change some processes here and then you come up with who joined dollars that that just isn't going to. We've talked about a corporate tax hike. The only tax. I'd really like to talk about is the idea of a global minimum tax basically asking other countries to cooperate with us. It's almost like when you're competing between different towns that want an amazon warehouse. And you say well. Let's cooperate and standardize are offering. It's not realistic cow. Are we going to other countries to agree to cooperate with us on such things as global minimum taxes. You know. I don't actually know the answer to that. I will look into that issue until you raise it. I had actually not not thought of that issue about a global tax. Let me let me look at issue. But i do want to talk about the corporate tax rate. The republican tax law took the corporate tax rate. Thirty five percent brought it down to twenty one percent at the same time. They actually raised taxes on middle class families across california because of the salt tax limit that they put in which i believe should be repealed..
CATS Roundtable
"twenty one percent" Discussed on CATS Roundtable
"The morning america. This is the castro table. John cats cheetahs here sunday morning. It's easter sunday morning and witnesses. Dr peter me. Uber sim update. What's going on in the world of medicine and one of the subjects we're going to talk about is lifelong jeopardy and anti-aging and good morning Acclimate hello how are you this morning. Good morning john. And i hope everyone had a wonderful passover and a happy easter today. And today i'm going to talk about some very interesting things happening. And the new way that we're thinking about the aging process and labeling aging disease because mostly these occur as we age so we're not only interested in life span but we're interested in extending our health span and how long we are healthy for later into life and there's been a lot of fascinating research being done on the molecular level relating to our teams. What's involved in the aging process. And we have these things in our chromosomes ankle telomere. They're basically like the little clocks in our jeans and there are these protective cats. At the end of our chromosomes that protect our dna from damage as we age and they get shorter as we age. And then they're finding things that can help extend the length of these things telomeres and some of the things that they're finding out now and they're really understanding what in the mediterranean diets example helps people to live longer and to avoid certain diseases. And there's something an extra virgin olive oil at school. The leg assets and that helps our telomeres and another Molecule closer to and which are signaling proteins that regulate our aging and our stress resistant. And we're finding that third. Were things like olive oil and another compound called. nasd's nicotinamide. I mean big name but basically it's called any all ourselves need that when they gave it to mice and some other lower mammals. It extended their life span. Then there's going to be clinical trials and humans right now in addition risk veritable found in red wine. They've been able to isolate that and concentrate a powerful antioxidant and they've shown that it lowers the l the l. level and it also increases the process in the brain where people who have alzheimer's though these proteins in the brain and things like whereas varietals seem to increase our bodies capacity to eat up all the bad breeze. And that's called a tough. I g from the greek word auto eating. So they're like little pacmans. Eat up at cells and the people have virtual and their diet and people who are eating olive oil and their diet. Those people experienced Improvement and less alzheimer's disease. Another interesting finding was also helps bone health. These guys and sounds an extra virgin islands olive oil the people on the mediterranean diet it strictly at twenty one percent less hip fractures and those who didn't follow that by all these things coming together and the lower red meat consumption less sleep plus i though scoring sir. More vegetables mixed nuts whole grains and fish beams to We can add years to your life and then some study that they did on a large scale italy show at those people who follow those guys more strictly after eight sixty five kanada an additional nine years of their lives and some of this stuff originally started in a in the lab where they test is Yeast for example and when they found confidence that increase these big and protein closer to and they made east lip seventy percent longer now research being translated into how we can get humans. Not only about how long we live but the quality the health span and and having health into our seventies and eighties You know versus developing age related diseases. we developed so fascinating air.
The ROI Podcast
"twenty one percent" Discussed on The ROI Podcast
"After tax cash flow as we tax to be to be keeping as much money as you possibly can within the confines of the law because a lot of what i've heard from clients is that they're following the rules but they could be doing more to keep money in their company in general to maximize tax tax rates in certain nations in the. Us is actually pretty favorable. It didn't use to be at all but now the word a flat twenty one percent rates. It's a lot more competitive so we have the ability to keep more money here a and again to to be able to maximize our own the money that we keep as a company so this again is not about you complying with it as complying with all. Of course it is but it's not just about that. It's so much about you saving money and you being able to reuse money that maybe were giving away without even knowing it since us this world. I mean this is. This is your wheelhouse in your ingrained in very knowledgeable and You know full of such wisdom. So i thank you for that You know. I just kind of a fun question for you is as you sit back and look and see how Corporations and small businesses and you know major companies begin to spread out across the globe. More and more you know. What does that landscape like. How do you see the globalization of you know like small businesses in how this impact how much i guess. The better question is what impact will will international tax Begin to have on on smaller businesses as we look toward the future. Yeah a lot and and in ways that we might not think that they do so so an anecdote. Here is one of my favourite countries to our work. With when i was practicing and i still love to talk about this country just in and teaching and brazil is that when i was practicing public accounting brazil was literally creating their tax law as i was trying to help my clients. Enforce it combines. So i use this anecdote so we're going. Hey brazil what is your international. Tax brazil's like just a second. We're writing it right now. We'll get back with you in our client saying. Can you help us understand what we need to do with this international tax thing. You are telling us we have to have an answer. I say this because upcoming markets we developing merck potentially are very very attractive. But it's important to understand one that some of those developing markets. I think a lot about providing incentives for foreign investors like chile is a very good example of this. They're they're closer to developed than developing at this point but accounting tax in particular is very very favorable to foreign investors other developing countries are not as favorable because they want to protect their own markets. But the more important pieces that they are still coming up with their strategy. They're still creating their laws. they're still creating their policies. They're still trying to dig into what it means to have a tax treaties and tariff and borders policies. And so i don't wanna say it's not. It's really not fair to say. Be patient but but be aware that the us has done has been doing this for a long time and many countries are just starting to understand the implications of having four direct investments in their jurisdictions. And they they're having to literally scrambled create that law. I was thinking that's so interesting because you think well of course they have the law we do. But many of these jurisdictions are brand new at this we think about all the chinese investors very recently have been flooding to africa as a very very lucrative market. Perhaps however you're not expecting many countries in that region to have tax law international tax up here so so being generous with that thought process. I think it is very very important because it sounds fine to take advantage of an emerging market.
Daily Tech News Show
"twenty one percent" Discussed on Daily Tech News Show
"Granted special. Api access by reddit pointing to the twitter account. Wsb maude for public communication. All right just in. What's going on with apple. Did they make any money. You know these guys. They're always raking it in. Apple reported. Earn one point six eight a dollars per share in q one on record revenue of a hundred and eleven point four billion dollars up twenty one percent on the year and beating analysts expectations. Iphone revenue was up seventeen percent to sixty five point. Five billion services up twenty four percent to fifteen point seven six billion other revenue including apple. Watch earpods up. Twenty nine point seven percent to twelve point nine seven billion mag revenue was up twenty one percent with eight point six eight billion while i bad revenue grew forty one percent to eight point. Four four billion dollars a lot of cash coming in for old tim. Cook and co. yeah good Good quarter for apple rich. I i know you you were. You had some thoughts on how some of these numbers break down and did anything surprise you. Where there any revenue area where you're like They either did better than i thought or not as good. We'll remember the heady days of last quarter when it was the first time they exceeded one hundred billion dollars in revenue and that was a big deal and it turns out now hundred eleven. Let's just make the little house and we're good. The one that the categories disturbed me actually were on maximum ipads. I mean seeing that. I had revenue jump. Forty-one percent If you look at cumin last year this is a kind of a big reversal for ipad. Is this kind of how ipads go there. A little bit of a People keep them. I think for a little bit longer than something like an iphone or at least. That's the trajectory historically. But last year. To twenty twenty i pencil or revenue. Excuse me was actually down eleven percent. I'm mac revenue down a three and a half percent at that point as well. There's a number of reasons for this. Obviously people You know ipads a way if you need something for To do some zoom calls or something like that have really nice cameras on the front Certainly usable for a lot of education purposes as well so not surprising to see that. Still forty-one percent for kind of an established category like that is surprising to see. Max kind of the big question with that was where are going to be with the m one base. Max obviously you know the reviews that came out. Were pretty enthusiastic. I would say for that still. It was interesting to see how consumers would react It seems like in the first quarter that they've been up for sale You know a definitely.