Joining me now to talk about that and more is congressman ro khanna. He represents the 17th district covering much of silicon valley. Congressman, nice to have you here. Great to be back. This week the house passed a gopled tax reform bill. The senate is now working on its own version. What do you think of republican efforts to change the tax code . Well, theyre basically giving tax cuts to corporations at the expense of middleclass families. That is their priority. Theyre eliminating deductions for graduate students. Theyre eliminating deductions for medical expenses. Theyre eliminating deductions for state or local property taxes to pay for what . To pay for tax cuts for corporations. You have proposed your own tax idea. Right. Its a 1 trillion plan, though. What would it do . Heres the difference. Theyre theory of the case is youve cut taxes for corporations, and somehow thats going to raise wages or create jobs. My point is if you want to raise wages, just raise wages. What we ough
Joining me now to talk about that and more is congressman ro khanna. He represents the 17th district covering much of silicon valley. Congressman, nice to have you here. Great to be back. This week the house passed a gopled tax reform bill. The senate is now working on its own version. What do you think of republican efforts to change the tax code . Well, theyre basically giving tax cuts to corporations at the expense of middleclass families. That is their priority. Theyre eliminating deductions for graduate students. Theyre eliminating deductions for medical expenses. Theyre eliminating deductions for state or local property taxes to pay for what . To pay for tax cuts for corporations. You have proposed your own tax idea. Right. Its a 1 trillion plan, though. What would it do . Heres the difference. Theyre theory of the case is youve cut taxes for corporations, and somehow thats going to raise wages or create jobs. My point is if you want to raise wages, just raise wages. What we ough
Joining me now to talk about that and more is congressman ro khanna. He represents the 17th district covering much of silicon valley. Congressman, nice to have you here. Great to be back. This week the house passed a gopled tax reform bill. The senate is now working on its own version. What do you think of republican efforts to change the tax code . Well, theyre basically giving tax cuts to corporations at the expense of middleclass families. That is their priority. Theyre eliminating deductions for graduate students. Theyre eliminating deductions for medical expenses. Theyre eliminating deductions for state or local property taxes to pay for what . To pay for tax cuts for corporations. You have proposed your own tax idea. Right. Its a 1 trillion plan, though. What would it do . Heres the difference. Theyre theory of the case is youve cut taxes for corporations, and somehow thats going to raise wages or create jobs. My point is if you want to raise wages, just raise wages. What we ough
Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally about talking about the bigger and bolder issues. We have a great panel here today. They are going to be with us talking about issues. Im going to let each person kind of say whatever they want to about themselves, other than a brief introduction, everyone has five minutes to make initial comments. And then we will ask a couple questions from the panel based on that discussion and then well like t
Welcome to the panel everybody. Thank you for coming. I am mark spokane and i represent the second Congressional District in wisconsin and cochair the progressive the progressive caucus. Strong and the largest valuesbased caucus among the Democratic Party in congress. We are very happy to have you here and todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We would like to take a look at what happened in the last election, and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things that the progressive caucus has always done, for a number of years is we have our annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth, that is full of those big ideas, trying to move the ball forward. It is a big bold way, of trying to get policy solutions that people are asking for, but also trying to help elect early by chuck electoral early by talking about those big issues. Person kind of briefat does a introduction a