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It also slashes rates on pass-through businesses in which owners report their earnings after expenses as personal income to just 25%. it taxes corporations on u.s. income only, not worldwide income, the way theyre taxed now, and it gives business immediate write-offs on the full cost of new equipment. but these big giveaways to corporate america have to be paid for somehow and the tax writers do it off the backs of middle class families. the bill limits deductions on new mortgage interest and pr...

There have been revisions. >> id like to see more. im going to continue fighting. i hear its a fluid process. well continue negotiating. i appreciate that weve had some changes. weve obviously increased the so-called property tax deductions to an amount capped at $10,000. i still think its low considering new yorkers. im from upstate new york. all eight of my counties are in the top 36 highest property taxes in the nation, meaning they have the highest property tax based on value. so its a perce...

>> im an outright no. this plan is so bad in many ways, it has to be rewritten, and you have to look at something else. when the tax code was rewritten in the mid 80s, there were hundreds of hours of hearings, months of consideration. this plan comes out, we see the text of it just the other day and they are going to try to ram it through before people can understand the implications and see these, you know, all of these things, and all of this was done behind closed doors and only by republican...

Are still not sure in this tax plan. explain. >> overall we need tax reform. we desperately have needed it. 31 years since reagan rolled out historic tax reform. talk about growth. we have to protect and make sure we help hard working americans so they can have more of their money. interesting though, the taxation issue as good as it may be, there is this thing called salt. its called the state and local tax deduction. people like me from high tax states especially upstate new york we have some ...

The tax cuts that theyre proposing and eliminating these deductions is one way theyre hoping to do that, at least for now. julie? julie: how open is the gop leadership to making changes to its current plan? >> reporter: well, on friday kevin brady, chairman of the house ways and means committee, said hes learned to never say never when it comes to negotiations on tax reform. theyve already made a number of technical modifications and slight adjustments to the plan since it was introduced on thur...

Going away and a lot of lobbyists made a living on those deductions. a lot of friends on my left are terrified of the republicans having a pretty big victory of delivering these tax reductions and something that expands the economy. so, theres a lot of push, theres the political side. theres the business community where its always trying to push each other for in-- >> youre making the point that the democrats are sounding the alarm bells. take a listen to chuck schumer. >> this plan is a tax bur...

Campaign was in her words anemic and had taken on the quote owner of failure. apparently, for brazil to dump mrs. clinton she would have needed the nominees agreement and the approval of the dnc board. s p7 to the republicans now in the gop tax plan which is drawing criticism from both sides of the aisle. democrats are blasting the bill saying it only benefits the wealthy while some republicans are taking issue with the elimination of state and local deductions. garrett is live in washington wit...

Youll pay 12 president up to $45,000 of income, 25% up to 200,000, 35% up to half a million and in the top rate for anything other that. as for married couples, lets switch the screen, earning less than $90,000, you get that 12% rate. families with incomes topping $1 million, theyre taxed at nearly 40%. to a appeal to middle class families and, quite honestly, to criticism from democrats, there is a doabling of the standard deduction. a bigger child tax credit of $1600 ands -- and also $300 for ...

Joins us. congressman, thanks for coming on.on >> good to be with you, tucker. thanks for having me. >> tucker: if the message of the last election was, the middle class feels neglected, and an awful lot of americans make less than their parents made, and if that is the core problem inin american politics, and i think it probably is, how does this bill address that problem?ee >> two things. one, as you mentioned in your intro, we let more middle-income americans keep more of their income, which ...

Deductions. this is also -- lets just talk about how it affects the poor. with people whose incomes are below the standard deduction, $12,000 for an individual or $24,000 for a couple, most of them will see no change at all. some people in the lower income range will see no benefit or no disadvantage. but fundamentally, the middle class, youre right, its not a giveaway to everybody. >> if the deficit soars, were going to see programs cut, programs that serve the poor. carried interest is somethi...