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Terms of their pay check. >> sandra: senator, sorry to interrupt. it's a very simple question. does everybody in the middle class get a tax cut or not? >> i think everybody does get a tax cut on this. one of the things that's missing in the joint tax study and is missing is this issue with regard to individual mandate. they view that as somehow a tax increase. sandra, that's going to be a tax decrease because, remember, you have millions of american families who are paying that tax, the individual mandate tax because they can't afford health insurance under the affordable care act. 80%, 80% of...

Claims. >> it is a huge challenge. a lot of economists, both left and right, would make the argument there is room for some changes to policy to help jump-start economic growth. we have been stuck around 1% gdp growth year over year for the last couple of years. there is room for growth. certainly, tax reform would be part of that. there has to be a point at which a tax reform plan becomes overly burdensome looking at our debt load. the question is how is he going to pay for it? >> that's exactly what a tax study came out from wharton. they said, yes, his tax proposal would spur growth at the ...

Attacking us and we are talking about fantasy football? martha: they made that work for themselves. >> it's always an applause line. the moderators gave them plenty of ammunition to do that. beyond the bias and loaded tone of many of those questions. it's also executing the confidence of the question. john harwood was asking marco rubio a question about a tax study and harwood denied this at the time but he himself had to correct on the same point a few weeks earlier. and the other moderators challenging truck temperature, trump pushed back, she said, where did i read this and come back with t...

The rich who spent less of the income will make out pretty well under this and the poor who spend almost all of their income and paying sales tax will pay the most or at least the highest percentage. >> they have it exactly wrong. in fact it's the bottom third of the economy who benefit the most from the fair tax and people at the top third benefit least. everybody benefits some. that tax study is one that has been discredited by the people who spent over $20 million very thorough thoughtful economic study developing the fair tax. it's not just some political idea -- >> doesn't that stand to r...