independent evaluations of the cut don t agree with the assessment. president trump and congressional republicans made a lot of promises about their tax plan. it is focused on the middle class. it s not. won t benefit the rich. it will. it is bad for trump s family fortune. not even close. they also claim, despite the $1.4 trillion price tag, that the tax cuts will pay for themselves. even more, they say it will actually help pay down the national debt. how? by boosting economic growth so high, that government revenues will increase from taxes, even as businesses and households pay a smaller share of their incomes to the government. numerous republicans say that tax cuts need only boost the economy by 0.4% we are year to cover the price tag of their tax plan. how hard can it be? apparently, really hard. there have been huge changes made to the tax code throughout u.s. history, yet we ve seen no observable shift to long-term growth rates in the last 150 years. which have hovered at an
coming in. and the heard gets cold a it usually at straw poll. two or three of the folks that didn t make the cut don t move on. there s no real opportunity for a real boost to raise more money if you do badly at this point. they ll have a fewer number of people in the race a couple weeks for now than you do right now. do you see contender emerging not necessarily at the top of the minds of the voters and certainly the media? i m talking about newt gingrich, herman cains. do you think they have a shot at surviving this and continuing strongly in the campaigns? surviving as viable candidates, i m doubtful. the way i look at the race, you have two races. one is for the really conservative wing of the party.