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The EU and India held their first high-level dialogue in early February, which included discussions on trade, market access and COVID vaccine distribution.

So his title the cut, cut, cut bill is actually an accurate representation of what he wants to do. >> taxes, he said, will be so easy. >> yes, yes. it was that health care thing that was hard. >> its a reason why its 31 years since comprehensive tax reform and the reason is that every provision in our broke tax code sprawling over 70,000 pages is there because an interest group put it there and will lie in the last ditch defending it or put there to create a grateful interest group and lie in th...

Every provision in our broke tax code sprawling over 70,000 pages is there because an interest group put it there and will lie in the last ditch defending it or put there to create a grateful interest group and lie in the last ditch defending it. cut taxes. lower rates and we are going to recoup a trillion dollars worth of border adjustment. all the retailers in the country including walmart, the largest -- >> months ago. one of the first draft ideas. >> thats right. so they said, we are going t...

>> scaramucci will be the keeper of the keys according to the president. maria: wow, lets talk economics for a second, did you hear anything that struck you from my interview with paul ryan or kevin brady and whats important on economics? >> brady sounds optimistic and determined on the tax reform front. so that struck me more than anything. this whole idea that they got rid of border adjustment. they are trying to get sources of division out of the way so they can reach -- maria: good idea. you...

I totally believe that. >> is not over the fence. winds are better than losses. the fishers and the republican party over healthcare reform are real and they will carry over to text a form for lack of trust. democrats dont want any part of the truck to win. steve: is an interesting perspective. >> i do think it is less contentious. theres a discussion about border adjustment. steve: you made me feel less optimistic that we have to get out to text more but anyway. coming up weve got the diagnosis...

>> is not over the fence. winds are better than losses. the fishers and the republican party over healthcare reform are real and they will carry over to text a form for lack of trust. democrats dont want any part of the truck to win. steve: is an interesting perspective. >> i do think it is less contentious. theres a discussion about border adjustment. steve: you made me feel less optimistic that we have to get out to text more but anyway. coming up weve got the diagnosis whats wrong with the ph...

>> is not over the fence. winds are better than losses. the fishers and the republican party over healthcare reform are real and they will carry over to text a form for lack of trust. democrats dont want any part of the truck to win. steve: is an interesting perspective. >> i do think it is less contentious. theres a discussion about border adjustment. steve: you made me feel less optimistic that we have to get out to text more but anyway. coming up weve got the diagnosis whats wrong with the ph...

Two main, you have to reduce the corporate rate. you have to get that down, i like the presidents number of 15. itf you can move to 15 that will gin up the economy. and you have reduce the rates, compress the brackets for the individuals. maria: that sounds straight forward. if they agree, your colleagues agree to 15% corporate tax rate. are you going to have to raise revenue somewhere else? you know keep certain issues in there like a border adjustment tax? >> i dont think so. some of th the ex...

Maria: real quick, youve hit on exactly the issue that theyre fighting over. so one part of it is a border adjustment tax. the house has this border adjustment tax in there because they want to raise a trillion dollars so that they can be deficit this neutral. you say forget about being deficit-neutral -- >> no, no, no. heres the problem. if you try to write a revenue-neutral bill, all of it has to occur in the tax cold. and that means youre in a situation where youve got to raise taxes on someb...

Adjustment could either have a transition that would make it more palatable or some kind of half border adjustment? >> i think you can say yes to a just said. what we have to do, and as an old tax writer, i would say this, you have to weigh alternatives off one another. it is obvious that you can and should have some kind of an adjustment and phase in period if youre going to have a border adjustment. i think it is the smart way to go. i think it makes the tax code the most internationally compe...