construction now. getting your permits and getting everything else is going to take a long time. if you get the money in this year s budget on a bill which hillary clinton actually voted for, by the way, hillary clinton among others voted for this bill to build the wall back in 2006. how are we going to pay for this? how are we not going to pay for it. there was a bill last year to enhance border security, a $10 billion bill that didn t go anywhere. the amazing rise we have seen in the stock market and prosperity that s coming. mit technology says a wall of this sort that trump has proposed will be $38 billion. and mexicans are only going to pay one pay so. neither am i. i m getting a big fat tax cut under donald trump because i m prosperous. it s the american middle class. that s who s going to pay for this wall, which by the way, jack, as you know, net migration is to mexico not from. it the wall will only slow down
welcome back to the ed show. let ee go to the middle of the country. in kansas, more than half a million people make less than $25,000 a year. but republicans want them to pay more in taxes and the wealthiest members of the state to get a nice fat tax cut. you got it, kansas house republicans want to pass a plan raising taxes on the lowest income residents by $72. people making more than $250,000 would see a tax cut of $1500. republican governor sam brownback and former senator has his own tax proposal on the table. it s worse. the poorest kansas residences would pay $156 more each year, and the people at the top will pay $5200 less. democratic state senator anthony hinsley said i call throb in had no reverse. in my 36 years in kansas politics i have never seen anything like this and anything as regressive.
middle class lost badly. yet, in the face of this, the republican candidates continue to roll out plans that are designed to only increase the disparity. for more on this, i m joined now by the senior fellow of the center on budget and policy priorities. with us from washington, good afternoon. good afternoon. thank you for having me. these figures are just staggering. the top 1%, more than doubling their share of the nation s income. yet herman cain, rick perry, they would like to hand the richest a big fat tax cut in the form of a flat tax. please explain this to me. i don t think i can. i can describe it. i can talk about what s wrong with it. explaining it? there s a rule in football. it s called unnecessary roughness. if somebody has been tackled already and maybe there are a bunch of people on top of him, you re not supposed to jump on
what he offered was something much more fundamental. you just played the clip. he said if you want to get from here to there if you want to get an economy where the middle class has a fair shot where we achieve fiscal stability through fairness, not where billionaires pay a tax rate that s half that of the middle class, you have to fundamentally change the political system that s blocking you. and the only way we re going to get there is to have precisely the debate we re having. i thought the president laid out clearly a vision in which he said government is a thing we get together to do things we didn t do for ourselves. we re in this together versus a you re on your own. here s a fat tax cut. go out, good luck, middle class fend for yourself. opposed to we re in this together. i think the contract is quite