Administrations. now, secretary of state rex tillerson called trump s words tongue in cheek, but it was a huge departure from his usual tough talk. trump often calls the trade dealings unfair and that they hurt u.s. workers. he made these remarks after two hours of talk. he also announced $250 billion in agreements between u.s. companies and china. but that figure won t make a dent in the $309 billion trade deficit with china. that happens to be the biggest for the u.s. republican lawmakers trying to recover their footing after big election losses tuesday night and now it remains to be seen if the party can get anything done ledge slaytively and if the gop can avoid disaster in the 2018 mid terms. polls show anger at president trump energized democrats. they voted in ig aboutbigger nu
Tillerson called trump s words tongue in cheek. but it was a huge departure from his usual tough talk. he often talks about the dealings as being unfair and that they hurt u.s. workers. he made these remarks after two hours of talks with the chinese president. he also announced a $250 billion in agreements between u.s. companies and china but that won t make a dent in the $309 billion trade deficit with china. republican lawmakers trying to regain their footing after big election losses on tuesday, now it remains to see if the party can get anything done legislatively and if the gop can avoid a disaster. exit polling shows anger at president trump energized democrats. they voted in bigger numbers than in recent past, especially in the suburbs where the most competitive house seats are located. republicans appear divided about what drove their defeat.
Your individual taxes and in fact, in the last three years, it has been very good for states. last year states collected more than $309 billion on individual income taxes, and that is 10% more than the states received the year before, and in this cash, it is crucial, because the income taxes make up more than one-third of total state revenues. i am joined by the washington post reed wilson who analyzed all of the census data, and reed, why are we seeing the increase recently? well, two reasons. first of all, coming out of the economic recession, and the recovery has been good for income incomes as the incomes have gotten stronger, so have the tax revenues, and the second has to do with the fiscal cliff from back in 2012/2013, and a lot of the wealthier individuals took their income out of the market, and took it out of the market before the fiscal cliff hit, because they thought they would have to pay more taxes after the cliff hit, so that the money taken out of the market ended up
$1309 billion $1 09 billion piece of legislation, and more on college loans but i see a lot of zeal for adding to the pile of debt, and not much to at least start digging through that debt. guest: that is right, the same kind of spending problems that is gotten us $16 trillion in debt, that have led us to point where we have gone three years without a budget resulting in our continuing to have $1.3 trillion annual deficits. that is the same kind of things we are following right now and that is a big problem one thing the american people will look at when they go to ballot box in november. neil: what do you think of the possibility should the president lose at least the mandatory coverage part of the health care law that a lot of people seem to think would torpedo the law that would keep it thriving, but the president will have that wind at his back and embolden by polls showing him all the problems you and
2 1/2 trillion, annualized. good years, bad years. we spent 2 1/2 trillion dollars under president bush. we re spending $3.4 trillion under president obama. that comes to $309 billion under bush. 1.31 trillion. when he says i m not spending any more than my predecessors, how can you say that? i wanted to give you a little more relatable feel. gretchen: i wondered. cause i m starving and i keep smelling the doughnut. each one of these doughnuts represents $10 billion. under president bush brian: and 10 billion calories. under president bush, this is how much we added to the deficit every year. right there. steve: side by side. under president obama, here is the pile that every year. how in the world can this look like this? how is that equal? how does president obama say i m not increasing debt any faster than anyone else? there this is. brian: not only that, even though president bush has less, he s got more jelly doughnuts.