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The wealthy get a massive break. congressman rand, this word loophole causes trouble with me. what they're talking about for the average person working out there, loopholes, how about your homeowner mortgage deductions which everybody lives for. it's the only charity you get. charitable deductions. what are the churches going to do when they're told no more write-off. talking about being anti-religious. if romney gets his way and cuts charitable deductions, these churches will close. look at this. charity -- the other one is state and local. you don't have any choice. you got to pay state and ...

>> let's -- i want to get to him first because you will be surprised what he says. here is conservative columnist doing a job explaining what's wrong with romney's proposal. let's listen to will on romney. >> this uncertainty surrounding the romney/ryan tax cut plan because they have not specified the deductions that will be closed, and we know where the big money is. mortgage deduction, and state and local are what hit stinking details is the message to the public. i think this creates a real big opening and you saw what david gregory was able to do to him or what jay leno does in talking abo...

Going to happen. >> congressman rand, you live in northern virginia, you represent that area. what are people saying about romney? do they get this complication here that he's sort of hiding behind, i'm not telling what you i'm going to do? >> i hope they understand it. i hope they watch shows like yours, chris, but the problem is they're being besieged with these 15 to 30-second ads, and, of course, they also avoid specifics. that's what we're into. we're into all these promises, these vague generalities. we only have ourselves to blame if we let them get away with it. i'm hoping in the debat...

>> i can tell you that people at the high end, high income taxpayers, are going to have fewer deductions and exemptions. >> running mate paul ryan, the didn't fare much better on that question. >> if you take those loopholes, those tax shelters away from high income earners, more of their income is subject to taxation and that allows us to lower tax rates on everybody. what we don't want to do is cut some backroom deal like obama care and hatch it to the country. we want this out in the open. >> why not say right now -- >> because we want to have this -- george, because we want to have this de...

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