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BILL BRADLEY AND AMERICA'S PATH, PART 2
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We've been talking this morning with former U.S. Senator and basketball great Bill Bradley about his new book out today, "We Can All Do Better". Senator, you suggest that money has poisoned our politics in both major parties and that to do better we may need to amend the Constitution. Why do you say that?

Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
"That's the only way that we're going to succeed in dealing with the money problem, because of what the (Supreme) Court has said - that the Court said: 'Money is speech and therefore you can't limit it.'"

You're talking about the Supreme Court decision. The money is coming from corporations and unions mostly, they are groups of people. And under the Constitution people have the right to free speech.

Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
"(Bradley:) I'll believe a corporation is a person when they get married or go to jail.

Well corporations merge, but they don't marry, that's true. More on Bill Bradley's new book, "We Can Al Do Better" after this.

Senator Bradley, you point out in the book that 40 percent of the taxes government collects are taxes on employment paid by employers and employees at a time when we're supposedly trying to encourage employment.

Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
(Bradley:) "Yeah, I think we ought to a tax system where we tax work less and things more. My suggestion is we eliminate the taxes that we pay Medicare, Social Security and unemployment... (crosstalk)
(Osgood:) Not just cut them - but eliminate them.
(Bradley:) Yeah, eliminate them and replace them with taxes on things."

You seem to be saying that have to change the system where the system is the problem and even the Constitution where the Constitution's the problem.

Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
"(Bradley:) We have to face our real problems. And we have to have hope for the future, because we have dealt with problems in the past - and we can deal with problems again that we face now. And I think that the key point here is that you have to understand that unless we deal with our problems, we face the possibility of America being less than it could be in the world. And that means there'll be less hope in the world. And we don't want that happen."

Again the book is "We Can All Do Better" by Bill Bradley.
Charles Osgood
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