income families. this is honestly, you can look at our post card. by doubling the standard deduction, 95% of americans can fill out their taxes on a post card if they want to. we re excited about this. we believe, dana, this will help our economic potential. faster economic growth, more jobs. also means higher wages. cutting their tax rates, increasing child credit. you just get bigger pay checks. you keep more of your own money in your pay check. that s really good for families and very good for the economy. dana: kevin mccarthy, the majority leader, said every single american will keep more of what they earn. is that gonna hold up? yeah. look, we don t lower the tax rate for millionaires. that s something the president felt strongly about. but for all the vast vast vast majority of americans, they re getting a tax rate cut. for people with kids, they re getting an increased child tax credit.
committee. we heard the president talk on tax cuts and reform to the american people. anything new coming out of the meeting that you just left? i think the key for the meeting that we just left was, number one, the president was very clear that he wanted to produce a middle class miracle for hard working americans, and he would love to do it in a bipartisan fashion. we are ready to go it alone. the focus of this tax reform package is centered on how do we make sure everyday americans get to keep more of their money in their pay checks. that means reducing their taxes. the focus was very clear. we are hopeful there will be a bipartisan opportunity, but we are prepared to make sure that we deliver to the american people the ability to keep most of their pay checks every single pay check. harris: i can almost hear the cheering from the middle class and really everybody, in every income level. when you look at middle class and small sinesses, those are the people worng at those small
they all modernize their tax codes, lower their rates. they are just handing our heads to us on the tax code. so we have to compete and win. we have to simplify and be pro growth. our businesses on main street in every community in this country will be stronger hiring more and increasing those pay checks. maria: good to talk with you, we ll be following it. thank you so much. president trump says he has full confidence in his secretary of state. rex tillerson, could his days be numbered? video-game dance music [burke] abstract accident. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we ve seen a thing or two.
people want to see that corporate rate higher than that? we aren t. we think it s the sweet spot in a major way. it will allow main street businesses to invest more in their workers and success and their community. if we get this right so you are businesses can compete and win anywhere in the world including here at home, guess what happens? pay checks go up. that s what we are driving toward. families having more money in their pocketbooks. maria: it feels like we have two steps forward and two steps back in terms of the economy. we did not get a good jobs number this last friday but it was distorted by the hurricanes. the big picture is it s been 31 years since washington changed the tax code.
propaganda group that is anti-tax reform. they are literally making up detail, assuming what congress will or will not do in order to come up with these talking points. we re talking about cleaning up the tax code making it so that nine out of ten taxpayers can fill out their taxes on a post card. getting a tax cut for middle income workers who are struggling to raise families. getting our tax rates down so they can compete in this global economy. we know. we get tax reform done, that gets us faster economic growth. we get tax reform done, that s bigger pay checks. we close loopholes, it s a fairer tax system so people don t rig the system. we re basically trying to unrig the tax system by getting rid of all the special interest loopholes. hasn t been done sin 1986. since you were showing tiny sheep at the county fair. dana: i was barrel racing, by the way. i was pretty close.