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Extra dollars in their paychecks next year, but its not going to make a huge material difference in their lives the way the president explained it, and that could end up backfiring when people believe people at the top end of the spectrum and corporations are getting the bulk of the tax cut and that could lead to the class warfare and the fairness argument and democrats are using that to attack this bill and thats part of the reason that the popularity of the bill is somewhere in the high 20s or...

Responsibility. the people of this country have the responsibility of choosing our president they have chosen. >> let me ask you this about the tax bill. youve been chosen to be on the conference committee. one of the biggest disputes that some have have to do with this idea of writing off state and local taxes. let me ask you this philosophically. why is it that corporations are going to be able to write off state and local taxes but not individuals? do you see where the fairness argument in th...

Call glamorous occupations. right? hollywood, television news. other places where wrongdoers will get a lot of press attention. >> not factories or people with single proprietors. >> right. if the law makes it harder for women who have been harassed to come forward, theres a fairness argument for the accused but also a disincentive and unless women can come forward publicly. you heard in the conyers story that accuser didnt want to besmirch his name and couldnt guess confidently. all of these th...

Deduct -- >> in exchange for a tax cut. you get to keep your money more in the first place so you can decide what you want to do with your money. chris: why repeal the estate tax? were only talking 5000 people a year that already an 11 million-dollar exemption -- >> two things. fairness argument in a job argument. you create jobs by getting rid of this that text because what kills one family business from passing the business onto the next generation, the estate tax. chris: but theres a lot of p...

To pay for. isnt that the right criticism? >> i guess so. i think, really, i agree with jimmy kimmel here particularly on pre-existing conditions which are important to a lot of americans, that the cassidy graham bill would let insurance companies charge more for cancer and -- >> thats what im saying. dont say you cant have it. you can still have it. we are not ruling out pre-existing conditions like we used to, and it just will cost differently. they will make a fairness argument. >> yeah, for ...

Ways than what barack obama did in the first six months. what does a winning message look like for democrats between now and next november? >> this is the most important question for democrats and i think we have to challenge ourselves. i think we were been hyper confused over the course of the past five years. some of the time we talk about economic growth, some of the time we talk about economic fairness. i dont know whether weve won the economic fairness argument. that sounds like taking mone...

And i think the appeal that a republican can make to democrats is this meets the fairness argument. because it is only the rich, it is the only the powerful who have the lawyers and accountants who can exploit these cutouts, and anybody cant use them. and i think by doing that, youre a -- thats the genius of the reagan tax reform. it is only an outline, so we dont flow know if it will end this way. you can probably cap the interest rate, because so many people demapend on it and the charity, whi...

And i think the appeal that a republican can make to democrats is this meets the fairness argument. because it is only the rich, it is the only the powerful who have the lawyers and accountants who can exploit these cutouts, and anybody cant use them. and i think by doing that, youre a -- thats the genius of the reagan tax reform. it is only an outline, so we dont flow know if it will end this way. you can probably cap the interest rate, because so many people demapend on it and the charity, whi...

>> that is definitely true. i think that in some ways you get a situation here where theres political hay to be made. whats interesting to me is theres a fairness argument being made by trump and its the kind of argument that is pretty anathema to republicans. right? so the actual amount of money were talking about, talking about the carried interest loophole, its pretty small. its not going to plug any huge deficits. its not going to pay for a new social program on the grand scheme of things on...

Lower rates. >> that is definitely true. i think that in some ways you get a situation here where theres political hay to be made. theres a fairness argument being made by trump and its the kind of argument that is pretty anathema. the money were talking about is pretty small. its not going to plug any huge deficits. its not going to pay for a new social program on the government balance sheet its pretty small. its fundamental argument about fairness. and i do wonder whether from your perspectiv...