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Years, and so now it's about a $50 billion a year worth of these refundable tax credits. paul: what about the impact of this particular tax provision on economic growth? republicans have long sold tax cuts as contributing to growth, i think fairly so. but does this do the same thing as, say, an income tax cut? >> well, good tax policy should promote economic growth, higher wages and better living standards. but tax credits don't do that. they are simply a income transfer. so in some cases they can actually reduce the incentives to work. new studies have found that expanding this tax credit to ...

He wants, and i don't think the supreme court is going to take us back to 1770. paul: all right, let's hope not. when we come back, making civility great again, we'll talk to veteran pollsters about their bipartisan quest to bring respect back to politics, culture and conversation.

Committee numbers, have been able to sometimes persuade a joe manchin, kyrsten sinema or another holdout to vote with hem. it would become much, much harder if this were to happen. one thing to point out, paul, on the flipside, this has made it harder for walker, because he's lost a really big argument that he had which is that, look, if you elect me, we will, we will keep -- we can turn the senate back to republicans. that's long gone now because of what happened in the other races. and that's why you see people like graham talking about these alternate stakes which are sill really high but a...

Biggest protests in years in china, but they look to be being snuffed out here at least in the short term. what kind of risks does this pose for chinese the authorities? chinese authorities? >> it poses tremendous risk, paul. this is really building into a crisis of legitimacy for xi jinping and the communist party. the covid lockdowns have been draconian. as you noted, they've been going on for three years. the covid virus is apolitical, and now if it breaks out in china causing deaths or serious hospitalizations across china as the rest of the world has experienced but not in china because t...

>> well, all of those come into play, but i think it starts off for a very lowers teem for all the major institutions today when it's government, media, religion or unions, all of those are at an all-time low mainly because there's a feeling that they are not fixing their problems, they're not dealing with their problems. and that brings the sinnism. and sinnism then plays -- cynicism plays into being more open to demagoguery. so when you do see demagoguery on social media or superpacs or campaigns or in the media, it drives that polarization. paul: pollsters tell us and hen politicians and ca...