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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Gillaspie. However, what were not showing right there, though, and let me just tell you right now is when you look at it right there, to support donald trump, 16 of people went out to vote to support donald trump. Look at that number, 34 , more than double of people went out as an Opposition Vote against donald trump. As we talk about this election, as we talk about 2018, clearly trump had an effect on this race. Thats the president mark. What are people saying about the republican and democratic parties in virginia . Good news for democrats, bad news for republicans. If you look at there, it shows that democrats right now had a 51 Approval Rating coming out of this exit poll. If you look at the Disproval Rating was 45 . Now, if you look at the republican numbers, their Approval Rating was only at 45 , don. If you look at these numbers right now it just goes to show you that democrats were doing
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The restaurant offers a special percentage equal your age. Good news is, turning 109, she got a free meal and the restaurant paid her the extra percent. 1. 25. Im ed henry. Heres shep. Shepard its noon on the west coast, 3 00 in new york. The Trump Organizations finance chief has immunity. The investigation into Hush Money Payments to women. The head of the National Inquirers also talking to the feds. Now theres word that the tabloid had on stories that they caught for President Trump before the election. The president firing the latest round with his own Attorney General. Jeff sessions is standing his ground in a new way for now. Also Hurricane Sirens in hawaii. Forecasters say the flooding is catastrophic. Were live in honolulu. Lets get to it. Handle the payment when it came to payment time. Need to open a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david, so that im going to do that right away. Im spoken to Alan Wiselberg about how to set the whole thing up w
scheduled to appear before congress. let s bring in our political panel to react. former new york state senator and democratic strategist david car lucy a new york city business owner who ran against usc cheryl murray and executive vice chairman john burnett. thank you for joining. i will start with you. it seems like every time the president is hit with another indictment or another probe goes up in the polls with republican voters. how does this impact him during this primary election? well, we will all actually see because we are also going into a president or primary debate in a few weeks. and we ll see if president trump takes the stage i think he should, why? because no one is better than donald trump to be a lawyer in his own defense in terms of bringing his message to the american people. and what he will say whether he takes the stage or not to say that this is a set up, if you will, piling it on and at the
you have the county speaking up, the state speaking up. what s important about the state, it s one of one of those freshmen congressmen is the state party gop chairman. it s unusual to have state leadership in washington not follow the lead of state and local leadership. this is clearly what ali pointed to, it s all about numbers and all about having mccarthy holding on to power. to your point, robert zimmerman who ran against santos, it s not clear why more wasn t done with that information. susan, before we let you go, there s new reporting from the washington post about his background. they say he worked for a company in florida called harbor city capital. it s no longer in operation. the s.e.c. accused it of running a classic ponzi scheme. the s.e.c. complaint froze the company s assets. he s denied alleged wrongdoing.