It's Wednesday, March 25th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.

The show that just wants President Donald Trump to tell us whatever he told Secretary of War

slash little boy, Pete Hegsef. Here's Hegsef on Tuesday.

This is not Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not a president who's interested in vague end states. He's been very

clear with us about what we need to accomplish. If he's been very clear with you about the war

in Iran, could he be clear with us? Maybe. On today's show, new polling shows Trump's approval rating is on the decline.

Shocking.

And the Wall Street Journal's March Madness bracket is AI amazing.

But let's start with taxes, one of the two certainties in life.

A new report published by Fortune Magazine on Tuesday found that Americans pay more than

$140 billion in out-of-pocket expenses and spend more than 11 billion hours just to fill out

their individual tax returns. And that's before they actually, you know, pay their taxes. In 2022, for

example, Americans paid more than $2 trillion in individual income taxes. That's a ton of money.

And at a time when, according to the Guardian, nearly half of Americans think their financial

security is getting worse, not better. And the richest people in America often pay remarkably

little in income taxes. So after decades of Republicans seizing the opportunity to promote lower

taxes to voters, Democrats are getting in on the action and talking lower taxes themselves. New Jersey

Senator Cory Booker and Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen have put together separate measures

aimed at easing the tax burden on middle and lower income people. Here Senator Booker and Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen have put together separate measures aimed at easing the tax burden on middle and lower income people. Here's Senator Booker discussing his legislation.

So here's the big idea I want to share with you. No household in America should pay federal

income tax on their first $75,000 of earnings. Keep your money. But here's my issue with this. It sounds incredibly basic to say, but taxes pay for public goods, as in goods that everyone gets to enjoy, from parks to roads to schools.

I had a lot of questions about how taxing rich people to lower taxes on less rich people ensures we have the money we need for the buses, trains, public pools, and traffic lights we all rely on. So I spoke with Maryland Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen

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