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Protecting illegal immigrants and legalizing pot its priorities. is it time for the golden state to secede and become its own country. the man who says yes joins us right now. he's the president and co-founder of yes, california. marcus, why do you want to leave us? >> we need money and our cultures are not intact. look at the war the federal government launched on california. you never had a california governor talk like that. now you have 30 lawsuits from california against the federal government. i agree with jeff sessions is saying. this is unsustainable. california is a donor state. we ha...

Raise the taxes. municipalities, to access the bonds market for murch of the infrastructure, and really can't borrow more. that's why the federal government especially for infrastructure, it's so critically important. and all they're trying to do is shift all of those costs back over to local governments who can't afford them. >> so, andre, how do you pay for this? i mean, some of the available pay-fors were used in the tax reform bill. and now when it comes to infrastructure, initially, it was a trillion dollar plan. now $200 billion we're hearing of federal investments trying to get entities...

You take away those deductions and you replace that with a $24,000 deduction and that winds up being a tax increase for many new yorkers. you talk about the average new yorker. a hard working, middle class taxpayer. in new york that's a schoolteacher and a firefighter, a police officer and a nurse. a construction worker and a bus driver. making $200,000 as a family income doesn't make them rich. that's middle income here. but that will result in eliminating those deductions for those hard-working people. >> what do you think will happen with this next plan? >> the house passed the version that...

Number one, we are a donor state. what does that mean? that means in the state of connecticut we will send to the federal government we will send more than we receive. and we do that gladly because we think it's important especially on veterans day to make sure we are taking care of our veterans and our national parks, inf infrastructure, health, we believe in tall all of that. but since 1913 when the code was first established, there was put in there a provision for state and local tax deductions. so for more than 100 years people have been able to take advantage of it. why? because without i...

What would allow you to support this piece of legislation? >> the only way to even be considered would be if the full property tax deduction was restored. and if the state income tax is restored. other than that, this is going to be a tax increase on my constituents. first of all, they'd be losing two major deductions that have been in the tax code for years. and new york is a donor state. we give more money to the federal government than we get back. so we're subsidizing the rest of the country anyway. to add to that now, to take away this deduction which would have a uniquely dangerous impac...