time for choosing. the trump indictment forces republican candidates to make a choice, tiptoe around the former president or take their best shot at the front-runner. he s saying i m more important than the country. this is vanity run amok. republican presidential candidate chris christie joins me live next and out in the open. trump s team starts to prepare his defense. what do experts charge with our national defense say about the classified documents stored at mar-a-lago? house intelligence committee chairman mike turner and former trump defense secretary mark esper will be here exclusively. plus a way forward? america s cities confront challenges on crime and justice and a new mayor is delivering on a promise to end homelessness, but now her city faces a new test. this does not catch us off guard nor will it intimidate us. l.a. mayor karen bass joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is thanking dad. happy
A couple with two kids pays $80,000 to send their kids to daycare and feels financially strapped despite making $180,000 a year. They're not alone, however, and if childcare costs continue to rise, the service will become a luxury instead of the necessity it is.
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respond to a problem is raising taxes and i would not raise taxes for people over $150,000. in my state of new jersey a couple making $160,000 is a police officer and a teacher. do i really think they should be paying higher taxes here? i don t. look, i think if we give people plenty time to plan, and i m talking about raising retirement age for people currently in their 30s and 40s. people who are in their 50s and 60s, they have already passed the time when they can do planning for their retirement and social security has to remain where it is for them, but people in their 30s and 40s, we can save a significant amount of money for the program and let me remind everybody that if we don t make changes at all by 2034, what we ll be dealing with in ten years is a 24% cut in everyone s benefit. so we need to come up with a bipartisan solution, but taxes would not be a part of the bipartisan solution for me,
i will start with where you start. 83% of west virginias itemize, they will get double child tax credits and by our calculations a couple making $73,000 could get as much as $2,000 back, and that s dollars in the pocket that you have earned and for families that s significant. this is all through the earning scale where everybody is in every bracket is going to have much-tax relief. the tactics that it s only for corporations we asked them to join us in the tax relief and a competitive tax system around the world, and they didn t get onboard. i think it will hit our middle earners the best and small businesses, and in a state like