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Senate legislation
Mast REFORM. ‘Raddatz: “About 4s pereent of Americans don't pay income tax, and many
af those are the working poor. So, how does it help them?
Seott: "Well you don’ pay income taxes and we inerease your refund by
40 percent, that ia direct dollar impact. nother words, youll have more
‘money to use to keep those ends together, those single mother ike mine, who
are working paycheck to paycheck, they will now not get a $9,300
deduction.
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“Treasury Soeretary Steve Mnuchin, one ofthe White House's leading advocates for
‘the Republican tax bills pending in the House ad Senate, took to the Sunday-
:mornng airwaves to promote the measures
(on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace cited an enalyss by the nonpartisan Joint
‘Committee on Taxation on the House version ofthe tax hil. "They ay it delivers 80
percent of seus to corporations, busineses, and wealthy familie,” Wallace sid
‘Machin responded, "Chris, these mumbers are very complicated, and it depends on
hhow you allocate them, So one of the things theyre doing isthe’ taking pass
{hrough allocation, which sll about small and medium-size businesses, and they're
allocating it back to the wealthy And the same thing with the corporate tax cts, We
don't believe that.
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personal taxes going up 0 down, onthe personal tax side, middle ineome people ae
setting cuts and rich people are getting very itl exts or, in certain cases, increase.”
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benefit from the tax bills: However, his suggestion that ich people" wil somehow
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Republican efforts to pas tox bill during
an intervie on CNW State of the Union,
including the impact ofthe deduction for tat nd local taxes andi effects onthe
balance of federal venues and pending.
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Repulican il to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act had been crated
behind closed doors and without normal sep such as committe hearings.
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