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That's right, the tax code has gotten so much progressive since 1986 reform. even as rates have gone up at the top, bigger refundable tax credits tat bottom have made the code a lot more progressive. paul: when reagan in '86 got reform done, the top rate is 88, now 39.6. [laughter] >> don't tell democrats that. they are making it an issue of class warfare, that's a big talking point of chuck schumer. paul: even some right-wing intellectuals are doing that. >> on the republican side, what i fear is that you have a lot of republicans in high-taxed states that are also going to push back against ...

Private jets for government travel. this has the republican promise to repeal obamacare suffers another setback with republican leaders abandoning a plan by senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy that would have allowed them to pass legislation with just 51 votes. we are back with dan henninger and james freeman. first, tom price, dan, he's out, what's behind this? >> well, what's behind it nominally is he was using private jets for both official use and private use and it isn't just tom price who has done this, there's been members of the cabinets of both this administration perhaps and oba...

Question their patriotism. >> dan, do you agree with jason on who is winning? >> not really. i think the nfl has shot itself in the foot with this process. let's understand that donald trump did not start this.it began with colin kaepernick the backup quarterback for the san francisco 49ers. last september we decided to choose the playing of the national anthem, the time when he would take a knee, kneel down and protest. i do not think many americans quite understand what exactly it is he is protesting. in the wake of that, other players started to take amy in the national planthem. there are ...

Average of claims is like $25,000 and people won't give that up easily and ask state representatives to fight for it. paul: james that's 1.25 trillion or so over ten years, state and local tax deduction to finance lower rates, you take that out, you don't get lower rates? >> it's a good reform even though it's going to hurt people like us temporarily, what it does it creates a big incentive for the high-taxed poorly run states like we live in to reform. [laughter] >> you look at the big picture. this is about growing the economy, getting out of the sort of obama-era slump that we are still bum...

That's disappointment. that's right, the tax code has gotten so much progressive since 1986 reform. even as rates have gone up at the top, bigger refundable tax credits tat bottom have made the code a lot more progressive. paul: when reagan in '86 got reform done, the top rate is 88, now 39.6. [laughter] >> don't tell democrats that. they are making it an issue of class warfare, that's a big talking point of chuck schumer. paul: even some right-wing intellectuals are doing that. >> on the republican side, what i fear is that you have a lot of republicans in high-taxed states that are also goin...