transactional, taxes, let s raise them? trump understands his conservative base. i think he does understand, look, if i start raising taxes and do things that alienate voters i won t win in 2020. he may make some deals with pelosi but he s not going to he s not going to give up these kind of core principles that help win him an election. the tax cut was big election. paul: i would argue that it helped him. it helped him enormously. the polls are wrong. in 2020 that democrats run on repealing tax cuts it s not a winning issue. paul: would he be willing to do a deal, somebody asked him in the press conference recently, well, if you want that middle-tax class cuts you are
the press conference recently, well, if you want that middle-tax class cuts you are talking before the election would you make adjustment in the raising rates on steve moore? [laughter] paul: would he do? i don t believe he would. he understands that top 1% are business owners. you have to cut the corporate rate. he would say, yeah, i kept that, what are we going to do, that s why we cut the highest rate and that s the tax that the small business paul: signs of a slowdown. business investment is a shaky right now. what s going on? well, look, i m not i m still pretty bullish, i think we
you. what did you make of the president s speech today? i think the overall message is, i m willing and ready to work with anyone who is ready and reasonable but i m not going to be run over and there s certain principles i m not willing to compromise on. you played the clip of him saying, let s extend the class cuts for the middle class, for everyone up to the top 2%, let s do that right now. and i think that makes a lot of sense both in terms of what the american people think and also politically. you know, it doesn t there is no argument that republicans can make against doing that. we all agree ongoing ahead and extending the bush tax cuts up to $250,000 and then let s work out the rest down the road. of course, they won t do that because then it looks so bad if they are just arguing for keeping tax rates low on the wealthiest individuals in the country. now, e.j., speaker bone, it
now is not the right thing to get the economy where we want it to be. martha: republicans are going to want to hold the line to want awful the tax cuts to stawant all of the tax cuts to stay in place. the president and democrats say they are going to point that right back at you and all republicans that vote as you likely will and say why wouldn t you be willing to allow the class cuts to stay in place for the middle class, then we ll go back and fight for the rest of it? that is not exactly what we ll be talking about at all. the proposal that send reid it going to bring to the florida actually takes the inheritance tax, the death tax back to the 2000 standard, much beyond where the president would have gone. it increases farm taxes on family farmers by 20 times and small business taxes nine times, as many small businesses have to comply. they are going to raise dividend taxes which really impact senior citizens to a higher level than