Question: looking at the congressional budgets that were released this week, and the one that you released in february, do you see any areas of potential collaboration between the two?
Answer: well, let’s first talk about the contrasting visions in these budgets. i put forward a budget of what i called “middle-class economics” that continues to be fiscally prudent -- we’ve already reduced our deficits by two-thirds -- but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth that we’ve seen over the last several years. so we invest in early childhood education. we invest additional job training dollars. we make sure that we’ve got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses. then you look at the recently released republican budget, which keeps in place a sequester -- a law that is slashing both defense and non-defense spending -- so that we would end up seeing hundreds of thousands of young people having less money for student loans. we would see early childhood education slots slashed. we would see the elimination of the affordable care act, of course, which would mean not only that millions of people are losing health care coverage, but folks who have health care coverage -- 130 million of them -- would no longer be protected against discrimination because of pre-existing conditions. four million seniors would suddenly be paying higher prescription drug prices.so it is the classic trickle-down, top-down approach to economics that we know has failed. and the fact that they are putting this forward once again -- with tax cuts for the wealthiest, so that the average millionaire and billionaire would get a $50,000 tax cut, while middle-class families would end up losing tax credits that help them send their kids to college or help them save for retirement -- makes no sense. the last point, which i don’t think has gotten enough attention -- their main argument for their budget was to balance the budget. this was their no. 1 priority. a couple of days after they released this budget, they introduced a bill that they’re now going to go ahead and try to pass through the house of representatives, to eliminate the estate tax. now understand that right now, you don’t even start paying the estate tax until $11 million worth of assets. so this benefits 0.1 percent of the population, and it would blow a $30 billion-a-year hole in our budget. so if you’re really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.
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  looking at the congressional budgets that were released this week, and the one that you released in february, do you see any areas of potential collaboration between the two?
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  well, let’s first talk about the contrasting visions in these budgets. i put forward a budget of what i called “middle-class economics” that continues to be fiscally prudent -- we’ve already reduced our deficits by two-thirds -- but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth that we’ve seen over the last several years. so we invest in early childhood education. we invest additional job training dollars. we make sure that we’ve got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses. then you look at the recently released republican budget, which keeps in place a sequester -- a law that is slashing both defense and non-defense spending -- so that we would end up seeing hundreds of thousands of young people having less money for student loans. we would see early childhood education slots slashed. we would see the elimination of the affordable care act, of course, which would mean not only that millions of people are losing health care coverage, but folks who have health care coverage -- 130 million of them -- would no longer be protected against discrimination because of pre-existing conditions. four million seniors would suddenly be paying higher prescription drug prices.so it is the classic trickle-down, top-down approach to economics that we know has failed. and the fact that they are putting this forward once again -- with tax cuts for the wealthiest, so that the average millionaire and billionaire would get a $50,000 tax cut, while middle-class families would end up losing tax credits that help them send their kids to college or help them save for retirement -- makes no sense. the last point, which i don’t think has gotten enough attention -- their main argument for their budget was to balance the budget. this was their no. 1 priority. a couple of days after they released this budget, they introduced a bill that they’re now going to go ahead and try to pass through the house of representatives, to eliminate the estate tax. now understand that right now, you don’t even start paying the estate tax until $11 million worth of assets. so this benefits 0.1 percent of the population, and it would blow a $30 billion-a-year hole in our budget. so if you’re really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.