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Now be bold. Throw a little obamacare into the mix, why not . We expect to see some action this afternoon in the Senate Finance committee as members work on their tax package, supporters are noting there is nonpartisan analysis saying the middle class would benefit from their tax package. To Mitch Mcconnells point, every group gets tax relief here. The differences that the burden of Taxation Shifts so that those at the top and are going to pay a little bit more of the burden and those in the middle class are going to pay less of the burden. Bob corker of tennessee, jeff flake of arizona have e...

Seven brackets, why? speak of the complexity of taxes comes not from the number of bracts is to my brackets, turbotax takes care of that. it also allows distributional equity, if you will. we thought that was important. >> harris: you did not keep any portion of the state and local tax deductions, you took it completely away, you know that when this hits the house, you are going to have some real problems, why did you take it all out? >> inevitably the disagreements between the two go chambers, on the other hand we are united on how we increase tax cuts to middle-class families. if it gives a ...

Or there's something in the senate that has to do with a fund for coal miners who are owed payments. they want to use this for that. republicans previously proposed to use this to repeal the medical device task. >> the underlying thing is we haven't raised the gas tax. that strikes me as -- there are arguments against the gas tax and arguments on distributional equity in terms of who gets hit by a gas tax. that, to me, is the problem. >> right. so given we haven't raised the gas tax in 21 years, it's fallen by 31% in real terms. cars have gotten more fuel efficient. gas tax is like a user fee....