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Representatives but then when it gets to the senate tell america that it s mean, that it was mean of the house of representatives to raise the bottom tax bracket or mean to eliminate the deductibility of state and will call taxes and the same thing as a tax increase on the people that deduct state and local and property tax cuts. that s a huge issue for new york, california and passing a tax bill in the house without that you are votes is virtually impossible. if the republicans do manage to get the massive tax cuts bill through the house, two republicans in the senate already made demands that would make it impossible for the massive tax cuts bill to get those senators votes in the senate. senator bob corker said there s no way that a tax cut bill that adds to the deficit will pass and there s no way that he, bob ....
Eliminate them completely by 2018. he wants to combine billion in corporate and property tax cuts, and in that same two years, he wants to eliminate 9,000 jobs from the state s workforce. i wonder if there s a connection. even though the state s unemployment in florida is at a stunning 12%, that s gigantic, and he s cutting more jobs, he wants to private tide medicate and the prison system, saying the profit motive will make them more efficient. there s great irony in that, which i ll explain it a moment. he likes to say he wants to run the state like a business. the state s republican legislators don t like being bull dosed by a lone wolf governor, but here s the irony about the so-called ceo governor. he was the ceo of the nation s largest for-profit health care system. resigned in 1997 in the middle ....
Wants to extend across the board tax increases. illinois has a $15 billion budget gap. governor pat quinn raised both personal and corporate tax rates. scott walker found that hysterical. we still have a bumper sticker that says escape to wisconsin and instead of stending it to tourists, we will send it to the state government in illinois. except that the tax rates in illinois are still lower than wisconsin s and governor quinn s plans will net $7 billion of revenue to boot. and yet, many are following the walker model proposing big tax breaks for businesses at the expense of everyone else. rick scott got a $3.5 billion shortfall on his hands and he is calling for $2 billion in corporate and property tax cuts. go figure. rick schneiderman s tax cut ....
Corporate and property tax cuts. go figure. rick schneiderman s tax cut would cost $2 billion and he plans to offset the tax cut by eliminating a tax cut for low income families. an dennis daugaard explains the republican logic, a recession is the worst time to raise taxes. so i guess that when reagan did it, it didn t count. check your history book, big guy in south dakota. time now to call in washington post columnist and senior fellow at the brookings institute e.j. dion and great to have you with us. good to be with you. thank you. and you wrote an article that said they are staying in the comfort zone and where do you come to that conclusion? explain that? well, if you are a con s conservative republican and you come in and cut taxes or keep them steady or cut programs in ....
Deficits as you said. this is junk math. i think what governor walker has overreached. i really think it s clear for the first time since reagan, just tried to break the back of labor. it s the only counterforce for working people in this country. i think there s more sympathy, unity and attention being paid to labor and working people and how these republicans are just out to lunch when it comes to their priorities. katrina, i think you re right in terms of in indiana, iowa and other places, republican governors running for the hills because they re seeing the numbers for walker and it s not good. not good. they re looking at the national numbers we showed earlier in the show. people are in favor of collective bargaining. i get that part. but i wonder if everybody else gets what s happening here. rick scott just won. here s another example from florida, right? and rick scott says he s going to give away $4 billion in corporate tax cuts and property tax cuts and he s going to tak ....