Our Main Task Is Not To See

A One-time Tax Does Not Get Figured Into People's Investment Decisions.

If Our Nation Goes Over A Financial Niagara, We Won't Have Much Strength And, Eventually, We Won't Have Peace. We Are Currently Borrowing The Entire Defense Budget From Foreign Investors. Within A Few Years, We Will Be Spending More On Interest Payments Than On National Security. That Is Not, As Our Military Friends Say, A 'robust Strategy.'

Our Main Task Is Not To See That People Of Great Wealth Add To It, But That Those Without Much Money Have A Greater Chance To Earn Some.

So Tonight I Propose One More Step That I Would Rather Not Propose. I Ask The Most Fortunate Among Us, Those Citizens Earning Over $100,000 Per Year, For One Year, To Pay An Additional One Percent On The Income They Receive.

If Freedom's Best Friends Cannot Unify Around A Realistic, Actionable Program Of Fundamental Change, One That Attracts And Persuades A Broad Majority Of Our Fellow Citizens, Big Change Will Not Come