Deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the socalled debt tax but reduction of Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 , a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise institute. Welcome, senator, great to have you here. Thank you, paul. Paul so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy . I think its very good in terms of helping the economy. I think with what we are doing legislatively through rulemaking, through executive order and and and lessening regulatory burden, we would guaranty that we would return to 3 plus growth, more jobs, better jobs, higherpaying jobs and, of course, the government would get 2. 2 trillion in new revenue. Economically i think the plan is right and i think politically its very strong because its exactly what republicans promised in the campaign they would do and voters dont like to be surprised, they dont like it when you say, im going to do something and then you turn around and do something else. Im very pleased with the outline. Paul all right, from an Economic Growth point of view, the big changes seem to be cut in Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20, they are cutting the business tax rate for passthroughs, sub expecter s companies. Are those the key provisions in your view . There are important and there could be others that can be more, territorial treatment, American Companies can be competitive abroad. Paul right. And it means that they are going to bring back vast amounts of money to the United States that can be invested here. I think repealing the debt tax is a big issue economically, youve got a lot of people that have Small Businesses, they they are tired of running the business but they are afraid to sell it because theyll have to pay a big capital tax and you will open those up if bill becomes law and the Economic Growth impact of that is grossly underestimated. Paul thats interesting because the rap on the tax, the only people who pay that 2 of estates pay that so it only goes to the wealthiest people. Youre saying that, in fact, i guess this is true if you look at the evidence. The wealthy, warren buffet, they will create own foundations and never pay the tax, its the rancher, Small Business person, the person who builds up a more modest portfolio who ends up paying for it. Yeah, people build up assets, they build up a successful farm, a successful business and then they get to the age where they dont want to run it, they are not doing a terribly good job at it but they cant afford to sell it and so you get assets that are misused, misused, it affects Economic Growth and if you let them sell it, they pay Capital Gains tax on it. So youre going to gain revenues immediately but more importantly, you are going to get businesses in the hands of people who want to run them and, look, nobody except a very small group of redistributionists is in favor of the death tax. People work all their lives, build up assets and business and then you come and tax them again when they die, i would say that 80 of the American People are not for that tax. Paul all right, lets talk about the individual tax rate particularly at the top because as you know, they say in the outline they are going to reduce it from 39. 6 to 35 but behind the scenes they are really talking about no cut in the rate at all. Is that a mistake and will that hurt . Yeah, i think its a mistake. Yeah, i think it hurts growth. I have a hard time differentiating the rate people ought to pay based on how they earn their income myself and so did reagan. Look, we are talking about trying to do this so that we dont change the distribution of the tax burden, but obama changed the distribution of the tax burden. He imposed income tax for only highincome individuals and he raised the Capital Gains tax and dividend tax 59 . If we are going to be neutral effect on distribution of the tax burden, it ought to be preobama and not post obama or do we have to enshrine what obama did in the tax code, i dont think so. Paul im with you on that one, senator and just about Everything Else but i want to ask you about the deficit charge because a lot of people are saying, hey, this is going to increase the deficit, theres no plan right now in the details to pay for that, finance the rate cuts, youre a spending hawk, been a deficit hawk, what do you make of that charge . Well, first of all, well in the hell were the people when obama doubled the debt of the country in eight years, where were they then . Secondly the reagan tax cut actually raised revenue by 19 by the time reagan left office even though it broke the back of inflation and index tax code inflation and i think that this can and i believe it will work and secondly we can never deal with the deficit with a weak economy. If we are going to have a european economy, we are going to have european debt and we are going to have european taxes and also, remember, obama raised taxes on highincome individuals, he was going to get 690 billion of taxes, well, what happened . What happened was we ended up with slow growth and so we lost 3. 2 trillion in revenues. Paul and with faster grow to 2 to 3 we will get a lot more of that back. Thank you, senator for being here. Oh, thank you, paul. Paul still ahead as the gop gears up for coming tax fight on capitol hill, can the parties stick together and get a bill to the president s desk before the end of the year . When it comes to strong bones, are you on the right path . We have postmenopausal osteoporosis. And a high risk for fracture, so with our doctors. We chose prolia®. To help make our bones stronger. Only prolia® helps strengthen bones. By stopping cells that damage them. With 1 shot every 6 months. 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We come to the talking heads on tv and special interest who want to maintain the status quo or we can Work Together to seize this moment and do what the American People sent us here to do. Paul calling gop push to overhaul the tax code and now or never moment but for vulnerable republicans facing reelection in 2018 it could be a do or die moment as well as they look for a legislative achievement to run on, can Congress Deliver a bill to President Trumps desk by years end. Lets ask wall street journal Dan Henninger, editorial page, Kate Bachelder oh dell and mary ogrady. Do you share senator grahams enthusiasm . Republicans have come up with consensus document but means they cant afford to give in to this or that Interest Group and already we are seeing pushback from realtors, redistribution of the right that wants bigger credits and they are going to have to hang tough and hang together. Paul the cuts and the rates where they are, its a good plan, the danger is it will erode as the political process goes ahead . Thats true. Most of the element is on the business side. Basically on personal side they want to give as progressive as it is. Thats disappointment. Thats right, the tax code has gotten so much progressive since 1986 reform. Even as rates have gone up at the top, bigger refundable tax credits tat bottom have made the code a lot more progressive. Paul when reagan in 86 got reform done, the top rate is 88, now 39. 6. [laughter] dont tell democrats that. They are making it an issue of class warfare, thats a big talking point of chuck schumer. Paul even some rightwing intellectuals are doing that. On the republican side, what i fear is that you have a lot of republicans in hightaxed states that are also going to push back against people like peter king, dan donman in new york, you know n manhattan, on the island of manhattan alone something the average of claims is like 25,000 and people wont give that up easily and ask state representatives to fight for it. Paul james thats 1. 25 trillion or so over ten years, state and local Tax Deduction to finance lower rates, you take that out, you dont get lower rates . Its a good reform even though its going to hurt People Like Us temporarily, what it does it creates a big incentive for the hightaxed poorly run states like we live in to reform. [laughter] you look at the big picture. This is about growing the economy, getting out of the sort of obamaera slump that we are still bumping along. Second quarter was good but we have to sustain it. I think that is what they need to focus on, how do you grow jobs. Paul dan, where do you see the political vol washingtons getting through congress . You have classwar issue, special interest, any others . Yeah, the ego of senate. Paul who are you talking about when youre talking about egos or is it all 52 republicans . We will get to that in a second. With the Health Care Bill, it began to get into trouble when the Freedom Caucus began to raise objections. I talked to the chairman of the haus Freedom Caucus mark meadows in washington this week and he said they thought they were going to be okay and get it done. I dont see the big problem coming out of the house this time. When you go over to the senate, what happened with the Health Care Bill with senators mccain and rand paul, Lisa Murkowski and susan collins, theres something about the senators who just dont feel like they can they want to win, that they have to express themselves more for reasons of their own egos than actually getting a bill done. Now youve got senator marco rubio and mike lee already proposing to double the Child Tax Credit which could really through a spanner in the bill, it completely disrupts the calculations theyve made to make the bill work out all right. I would say thats just the beginning in the senate and its going to be a real test for the republicans to see if they can get the senators to pass tax legislation. Whats wrong with this Child Tax Credit proposal . Well, we dont know much about it yet, the current tax credit is a thousand dollars and it is refundable and paul which means . Basically if you have no Tax Liability you get a check. Thats what it will be whenever we are done with this political commerce, more spending through the tax code. Paul also very expensive, as youre talking a trillion dollars again in payout to people who have children, a form of redistribution throw the tax code. Right, straight subsidy. Prevents you from deeper rate cut that is produce the Economic Growth that parents and families want. And the problem as kate has layed out is that politically it will be the democrats will be spinning this as corporations are getting this big subsidy from the government and so therefore people with children should get it. Thats how its going to be told. Paul if you look at the economic evidence, mary, and you know this because you look at it a lot, the benefits of a rate cut flow to workers. Shareholders get some but flow to workers in higher salaries. Thats why its important for the president to talk about this in terms of growth, in terms of more investment and more jobs for people, thats in fact, what the goal is, it has nothing to do with, you know, the redistribution. The president said that its not going higher than 20. When you throw in state tax, we are still going to be above the average in europe, we are still going to be above the average in asia. I think we will be competitive enough. This is good news. They let that corporate go higher than 20, you start wondering, is this going to be the paul because the average Corporate Tax 4 , 24 . When we come back as hhs secretary tom price resigns a look at ouster means few future efforts to repeal and replace obamacare . Long before the november election we are going to have a vote and we are going to be able to get that through. Im. Im so in love with you. Whatever you want to do. Is alright with me. Ooo baby lets. Lets stay together. If you have moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis or crohns, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. If other treatments havent worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohns. 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In 2013 charles grassley, senator grassley, released accountability that eric holder, attorney general and of all people robert mueller, former fbi director, now special prosecutor himself engaged in this sort of practice reimbursing the government at some sort of set rate. So that is basically what tom price did. Paul but now it sounds like this is new standard. These other people werent disqualified from doing that, why tom price . Well, because tom price is Donald Trumps hhs secretary and trump promised to drain the swamp and in some sense this is part of the swamp. The question is whether trump threw him over the side too quickly because trump puts distance between any member of government and him that causes him any problem and do remember even the past week theres been story that trump is now trying to push attorney general Jeff Sessions out, hes still angry at him for not recusing over the russian probe, so theres a kind of tense relationship between donald trump and his own cabinet. Paul yeah, look, i dont think he should have made himself a target by taking these trips, on the other hand, im told that he had council from inside hhs, people telling him, look, this is okay, you know, and what do you think . Yeah, doing anything in government including dialing up a private jet, they are going to be a lot of people involved, probably ethics opinions, probably a lot of paperwork and this is this is a common practice. A lot of people might wish if they were going to make an example of someone, it would have been you mentioned eric holder after he took family in new york. Lovely horse race, im sure. They end up reimbursing a fraction of what it actually costs to fly everyone up there. But as you say, i think if youre in the trump cabinet, you have to understand both that the media is at war with donald trump, so its going to be a bigger deal than it is going to be than Obama Administration but also you have to understand that there is a tendency of people in these positions not to last very long. He has trigger paul you want to know something, i dont think this is the reason. The reason that he fired him, he didnt price and him never mashed. He blames him for the failure of obamacare. Price came from the house. People said, mr. President , he can help you sell to the house and the senate and he didnt get it done and trump didnt say its my fault, sorry, your fault, youre out. James made a good point, this story originated originated in , the press, the Beltway Press is at war with donald trump as are the democrats and this is going to be used, this argument, another wedge to drive between Trump Administration internally and between donald trump and the Republican Party and inside the Republican Party. May we go back to alabama election where you had the Republican Party divided and this is just not helping the trump presidency. Paul all right, what about reviving the repeal and replace, james, you have the president this week saying we can get it done next week, we have the votes, im not he doesnt have the way the way im counting them. Is there any chance of that . I think probably it is going to be a little tougher now. I guess if its true that paul tougher now . The president got rid of tom price because of this, i think its a miscalculation. I think price has been a positive force both in this job and in his previous job in terms of health policy. In terms of looking at the votes, no, i dont think hes there yet but he is close and i think they knew that this week. I wouldnt rule it out that happens and i dont think while its a setback not having price, i dont think we should assume now that it cant happen in the first few months of next year. Paul here is key for replacement. Tom price knows the law, Affordable Care act. He know it is Waiver Authority that the executive has and its extensive and trump has to have somebody in that job who understands that authority, understands otherwise youre going to have exchange in the states deteriorate even more. So he has to have a replacement who knows the traps, work bureaucracy, otherwise hes going to be in big trouble. Replacement thats willing to take on the job, at this point youre basically repairing obamacare, youre not repealing and replacing it. Who is willing to come in and basically take over a fixit job. Senator from oklahoma, maybe fha director. Those would be good names. 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You know, theres i think its also evidence that trumpism might be bigger than trump in that sense. I think that the style of politician that roy moore is something that is in this country and that too scares the Establishment Republicans, sort of attitude that everyone is corrupted in washington. I mean, the idea that you could run against a Luther Strange, the way Roy Moore Paul conservative. The way he did, was quite amazing. I mean, that to me was one of the bigger take aways. Paul on policies, not much different between the two but attitude thing. Hes the outsider, hes if you ask me, james, i wonder if you agree, i think the failure of Obamacare Repeal particularly the second round coming right ahead of the election basically played right into moores argument, they cant get anything done, you need somebody else, john mccain, susan collins, rand paul, they might as well have been Campaign Managers for roy moore. If voters we wanted to send a message that they are ticked off that republicans with control of congress have not been able to get anything done, anyone would say that they have a legitimate gripe here. Im not sure i agree too much into this. I like big luther. I think he would continued to be a good senator, im not sure he really carved out, really had to time to carve out much of an paul he was an appointed senator. Yes. Roy moore, obviously, a lot of questions about his message in terms of defying federal court orderers. I think he had built an identity in the state for years as a guy standing up for traditional values and for a lot of voters who feel like religion has been pushed out of the public square, this is a guy who was kind of shoving it back in and i think that did cheer a lot of people. Paul dan, roy moore, alabama republicans sending, assuming he wins the general in december 12th, are they sending somebody who could be as difficult to coral for a vote as rand paul . Absolutely. I think roy moore could be a very difficult vote and i think something significant happened down there, paul. I mean, President Trump, donald trump went to alabama and campaigned hard for Luther Strange but steve bannon, who until recently was chief political adviser in the white house, steve bannon went to alabama and campaigned for judge moore, against donald trump. Sarah palin went to alabama and campaigned for judge moore. And i think what youre beginning to see is the emergence of a populist party inside the Republican Party thats always been there but i think the bannontivity makes it clear that this is being formalized inside the Republican Party and they intend to challenge what they call the establishment and if donald trump is standing in their way they will campaign against him as well. Jason had a point. Trump was being overtaken by trumpism. The question is what are the republicans in washington going to do if they have a group at their back constantly trying to call them into account. Paul here is what i would do, i would get things done. I would pass tax reform, fulfill promises on health care, i will confirm judges. Having moore might make that more difficult, hes a wild card. You dont have wiggle room. You only have 52 votes. The other people paying attention is jeff flake, dean heller in nevada. I think youre going to see the more of the challengers come out of the bannon wing of the party against the establishment. So, yes, Mitch Mcconnells job might have gotten a lot harder. Paul what they are going to do with the challenges, james, they are going to force to republican incumbent senators to spend the money that they could party could be spend to go defeat democrats, you will have more vulnerable republicans and fewer democratic incumbents who will have challengers who can beat them. Some of the challengers, i like jeff flake a lot but i think you have to ask why did he spend so much time writing a book attacking the president. You look at the record, so little achievement this year in the congress, maybe their time paul in defense of flake he voted for obamacare. Hes going to be great on taxes, hes good on spending, you know, the big difference he has is on immigration. Thats right. Paul i mean, you know, thats going to be one more thing, if you want to look at alabama as healthy sign, this is not a culted personality for donald trump. Obviously voters make up their own minds and his endorsement doesnt pull everyone in his coalition automatically behind him. Paul still ahead, amid criticism of response to Hurricane Maria, steps up Recovery Efforts on stormravaged puerto rico. We will look at the challenges that lie ahead next to everyone else, i look like everyone else. But on the inside, i feel chronic, widespread pain. 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The pentagon has appointed liewlt general Jeffrey Buchanan to oversee federal Recovery Efforts and on thursday the government authorized 10day waiver of jones act, puerto ricos governor requested the waiver arguing that it would expedite the shipment of much needed supplies to stormravaged areas. President trump is schedule today visit puerto rico next week. We are back with wall street journal Mary Anastasia ograd. How bad was it . 155mile an hour winds hitting an electricity grid that was extremely vulnerable, old and fragile and as a result basically the island lost all electricity and it also had a lot of down trees, the roads were not passable and so forth. This was a humanitarian crisis for the first ten days because it meant that there was no electricity for the elderly and the sick, so hospitals and particular people who needed dialiss treatment which needed to be refrigerated. Paul what about water shortages, are those being alleviated as we speak . Again, this had to do with electricity, 45 of the water, the island that was without portable water in the first ten days, those people were dependent on electricity to pump the water. That was the problem. And fema had a plan in place in which they would use generators but they did not have a good plan in place for the getting the diesel to the trucks an getting trucks out to deliver diesel to the generators. Paul how do you explain other than down trees and roads and that sort of thing, how do you plan distribution issue . We have seen containers on the photos, containers in the ports and not being able to move products and relief . This had to do with gasoline and diesel and Truck Drivers. One of the things that fema fouled on and i dont think that the president didnt Pay Attention to puerto rico, but i think fema hes plan whatever that was, failed. You know, the head of fema local on the island of puerto rican said in the middle of last week, we dont understand why the private contractors that weve hired to deliver the diesel are not delivering diesel. If youre Emergency Management agency, you should be on top of the diesel getting delivered because that was essential to maintaining some kind of energy on the island. Paul now, trump later this week has decided to essentially put general there and get the u. S. Military involved. Is this something that you think needs to be done . Yeah, its going to help. I mean, but i still say the execution of that of the delivery of the diesel, doesnt matter military or locals, they had a real problem in execution and i think they are breaking the log jam, Truck Drivers are showing up. Lets face it, the Truck Drivers couldnt communicate with the Emergency Centers because the cell towers were down. Very little cell coverage on the island except for near san juan and the center of the island. Paul if you compare to texas, a lot is essential poverty of the island, the island is much more vulnerable, electrical grid is more vulnerable and cell towers werent as reinforced as they were on the mainland. Yeah, i think when you have a Political Class like you do in puerto rico that has not managed , has not done its job basically, provide basic services and to protect people against these kinds of vulnerabilities. When you have a cat 4 hurricane hit, all of that is going to be exposed and thats what we are seeing right now. Paul what can the United States to help puerto rico so in 15 years from now it wont be like this . Well, im not so sure. Its going to have to its going to require the Puerto Ricans to really decide that they want to demand more of their politicians. I mean, you know, theres a big debt over hang, a lot of the debt, debtors will be haircutted and will lose money. There will have to be a social contract that says, look, we are going to get help but in return we are going to be more responsible in terms of our accountability. Paul make it enterprise zone. Thanks, mary. When we come back our panel weighs in on who wins and who loses the president s brawl with the National Football league. I think they are afraid of their players, if you want to know the truth and i think its disgraceful. The nfl cannot disrespect our country, they cannot disrespect our flag or our National Anthem and they cant have people sitting down or kneeling down during our National Anthem and guess what, most people agree with me and the nfl is in a box, they have to do something about it. Paul President Trump this week on fox doubling down on his criticism of the nfl and players who sit or kneel during the National Anthem. The president says nfl team owners are, quote, afraid of their players and require them to stand. We are back with Dan Henninger and jason riley. Jason, who is winning the fight between trump and the nfl . I think, the nfl, paul, is winning, what started by protests by some players about how police are treating young black men in the country has sort of morphed into an antitrump protest that youre seeing and i think more people are joining it and when you see the owners kneeling with their players as we have seen recently, i think that is evidence of who is winning this. Paul uniting the owners and the players which is some achievement. [laughter] paul but dont most americans, would trump have a point that most americans agree with him about honoring a flag or has this become a much larger issue i think Trump Supporters agree with him. I think that different people view protests differently. Trump has tried to frame this as a questioning patriotism of the players. I think many, Many Americans view this differently. Paul how do they view it . They feel that the players have legitimate grief is how they view it and i think we can get into this if you want, i question whether they do have a legitimate grief but i dont question their patriotism. Paul dan, what do you think about this about who is winning . Not really. I think the nfl shot itself in the foot with this protest. Lets understand that donald trump didnt start it. It began with Colin Kaepernick last september who decided to choose the National Anthem, kneel down in protest and i dont think Many Americans quite understand what exactly it is hes protesting but in the wake that, other players started taking a knee during National Anthem. If there are legitimate issues about the relationships between the police and black people in the inner city, let Colin Kaepernick or the rest of them give speeches so people understand the protest. Its been centered at the National Anthem at the beginning of these games and i think a lot of americans were confused and upset that a symbol of unity in the United States do being divided and trump just surfed in on top of it. Paul maybe could both be losers here . Youre right about the attacks thats become larger antitrump movement to some extent but also, as i talked to a lot of americans, whatever grief, grief answers grievances on criminal justice and so on, the flag represents as they say before the event to honor america. I think they could be both be losers in this sense of sports want to tune in and watch football and theyre not looking to the president for guidance on their viewing habits. [laughter] in that sense both can be losing. I do want to make a point about the nature of the protests themselves. What we have is an increase in coverage, Media Coverage of police shoot negotiation this country. We should not confuse that with an increase in Actual Police shootings, thats not what the data shows. The data shows police shoot police using lethal force much, much less than in the past, here in new york city back in 1971, 314 Police Shootings, 93 fatally, down to 23 shootings. Eight of them fatally. Paul argument of kaepernick is not accurate . Exactly. Thats been a decline not only on Police Shootings here in new york but other large cities and nationwide since late 160s, blacks are shot by police are down 70 , paul, this is a false narrative and we cant confuse the fact that social media has has blown exaggerated this. Paul thanks, jason, one more break, when we come back, hits and misses of the week retirement squirrel from voya. I represent the money you save for the future. Whos he . Hes the green money you can spend now. Whats up . Gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. Hes got a killer backhand. When its time to get organized for retirement, its time to get voya. Like paperless, multicar,e and safe driver, that help them save on their car insurance. Any questions . Yeah. How do you go to the bathroom . Great. Any insurancerelated questions . Mmhmm. Do you have a girlfriend . Uh, im actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly 600 when they switch, so. Wheres your belly button . [ sighs ] ive got to start booking better gigs. Paul time now for hits and misses of the week. Dan, start us off. Im giving a miss to Georgetown University law school where Jeff Sessions arrived to give a speech on the subject of free speech on campus as he arrived, he was greeted by at least 30 georgetown law professors taking a knee in opposition and in solidarity with the nfl players who were in a battle with donald trump over speech and the National Anthem. Paul, we sometimes wonder where students get their ideas and these georgetown law professors made it pretty clear. Paul all right, dan. Kate. This is a hit for target which announced they are going to 15 an hour in the next couple of years but also a miss paul per wage. Per wage, also Union Activist who fight for 15 which have been saying we need government mandates and target did it to compete with walmart and other retailers in a tough environment and tight labor market. Just more evidence that whats good for workers is competition. Paul and Economic Growth. Mary. Paul a miss for twitter, as you know and our president knows, only use 140 characters when you tweet but twitter says now they are going to double that, having a trial run anyway to 280. Some of us believe explains why i didnt like fidel castro and we wish that we would stick with the 140. Paul jason. The federal prosecution of College Basketball is not only a miss but air ball. [laughter] the schools are accused of basically trying to bribe kids to come. That may be a violation of ncaa rules but should not be treated as crime. I think the fbi and the u. S. Attorneys office have Better Things to worry about. Discretion is in order here. Paul thank you all. Remember, if you have your own hit or miss, be sure to between it to us. Thanks for watching, im paul gigot, i hope to see you next week right here. President trump firing back at the mayor of san juan. Mayor slamming the administration for, quote, killing us with inefficiency. Welcome to a new hour inside americas news headquarters. President trump accusing the mayor of disparaging First Responder saying that she and other puerto rican leaders want everything to be done for them. The island steel reeling, according to pentagon more than a Million People still dont have access to clean Drinking Water and 95 remain without