Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
he showed his criticism of haley so far, calling her an establishment figure, and haley s failure to mention slavery when she was asked in a new hampshire town hall what caused the civil war. i don t know it s going to have an impact. you know, i d say slavery is the obvious answer. as opposed to about three paragraphs of [ bleep ] she just talked. haley recently said our voters will need to be corrected by other states. now, i don t know if look, i don t know. but it doesn t seem nice, right? haley, who is also campaigning in i, was lashed out at her former boss. she said chaos follows trump and she pitched herself as a new generational leader that will leave the baggage behind. for those that want me to hit trump more, i just am not going to do it. i told you, i m not going to do it.
actually the threat to democracy. and pointed to the series of indictments that he is facing as proof of his argument. now, trump also spent a lot of time this weekend attacking nikki haley, something that is really interesting. as someone who has covered the trump campaign for quite a bit, i can tell you that these are some of the sharpest attacks we ve heard from donald trump on the campaign trail so far. trump argued that nikki haley is in the pocket of biden donors and also tried to paint her as an establishment figure. take a listen to what he had to say. people who fund nikki haley and ron aren t working for your interests, they are working for the other nations and themselves. nikki would sell you out like she tsold me out. reporter: i think the context is important to note. we see nikki haley is rising in the polls in new hampshire,
some of the sharpest attacks we ve heard from donald trump on the campaign trail so far. trump argued that nikki haley is in the pocket of biden donors and tried to paint her as an establishment figure. take a listen to what he had to say. people who fund nikki haley and ron aren t working for your interests. they re working for the interests of other nations and themselves. and so are those two. nikki would tell you out just like she sold me out. i ll never run, he was a great president, why would i run? reporter: i think the context of these haley attacks is important. we see nikki haley rising in the polls in new hampshire. it s something that donald trump s team is very carefully watching as well. and i think that it also comes as he s spending a lot of money, not only the campaign but his leading superpac, are pouring millions of dollars into attacking nikki haley in new hampshire. so i think we re going to continue to see him train that