mulvaney, talking to new york reporters and basically saying it s new york s problem, it s new york s own fault, that is not a good way to be a spokesman for the administration. that hurts all republicans were running for office, it makes it sound like the administration is anti-new york. my district is a democratic district, president trump carried it. it s going to be hard to keep caring district like that if they think the administration is giving up on new york. that s part of why that s what i said. as far as the other argument, the fact is, he said of all things are equal all things are not equal. we give $48 billion more to the federal government then we get in return, and thus the largest deficit of any state in the country. new jersey actually, percentagewise, is even worse. they get $0.61 back on every dollar. if everything was equal, fine. but everything is not equal. right now you have states like new york and new jersey subsidizing the rest of the country and now they ar
tax reform bill which is going to raise their taxes. they are the areas that are hurt the most. my suburban district voted for barack obama twice, voted for donald trump by nine points. it was a 14-point turnaround and they are going to lose most of their property tax deduction, all of the state income tax deduction, the family of four will lose $18,000, the individual exemption, medical bills you ll lose that especially if they have someone with a long term illness. all of that this is going to have a devastating impact on areas like mine and long island and it s unfair and when people say it s a high tax state one of the reasons we re high taxed is because so much of our revenue that goes to the federal government doesn t come back to us. we get $0.79 back on the dollar. other states get much more back than they contribute into the federal government. new jersey gets about $0.61 back on every dollar so we get murdered on one end and now we ll get it again by taking away the property
be moving in the right direction. sandra: it reminds me of something i had in front of me. the va health care costs are eating the defense department alive. i thought that was important to get in there and we did talk about the change that is being brought about for our veterans in the va on the state. no doubt about that. health care costs are rising in the private sector for every american, and it s certainly no different inside the united states military and inside the va. health care is expensive no matter who is administrating it, and those costs are rising every single year. in the defense department, the personnel costs to include paying our troops, taking care of health care, taking care of retired community is somewhere around $0.61 on a dollar. that is staggering and it s going up. sandra: i also wanted to ask you, thank you for hanging on here for us, we are waiting to hear out of the white house shortly here holding that off-camera gaggle. iran holding the annual
you know, his willingness to take on the billionaire class, to deal with our rigged economy, to deal with the corrupt campaign finance system. he s not using a super pac as secretary clinton is. his willingness to take on wall street, break up the big banks, his desire to lift the cap on taxable income around social security so we can expand benefits to all seniors. his support, his strong support for legislation, pending legislation in the house and senate that would create 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, paid for with a small payroll tax of $1.61 for the average worker. something the secretary has not come out for. so these are the types of issues we are talking about on the campaign trail. these are the types of issues that are resonating with voters and that is why you are seeing this movement in the polls. jeff, one of the big issues has been guns and she opened up an attack on face the nation when asked about that. let me play her comment and ask you to react to it
economy. they are paying in the mid-west $2.61. that s workable for a lot of middle class families. what will that do. the lower prices operate like a tax cut so there s a tremendous benefit to that. the people it will hurt are people in energy-alternatives like wind and solar, and they are of course are trying to renew their tax credits. it won t be good for industries who rely on high prices. overall will help us add jobs and build the economy and get back to where we should be. where we have grown tremendous out of the 2008 recession, we are not where we could be if we are congress willing to invest in america s future. where does energy go with the shale boom in north dakota, apparently it will slow down. what do you think?