The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
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it s just a big pay back for the major donors. this return on investment concept is useful when you talk about major donors. these are the gop heirs. and donors that stand to gain from this. my favorite is sheldon miriam adelson, contributed $82.5 million in 2016 alone to republicans. that s a lot of money. but they re looking at an estate tax cut of almost $15 billion. that is an incredible turn on investment, and it goes on and on and on. you can understand why the donor class is so motivated by this. they re not only motivated right now, but look at over the next 30 years. the really rich billionaire and semi billionaire baby boomers are going to be transferring about $30 trillion to their children. i mean, you re going to have the biggest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. and if they can eliminate the estate tax and if they can actually wrangle things so there is no capital gains tax, we are creating a dynastic class in america as fast as we possibly can.
they are very aware of the fact that the donor class i m talking about, you know, the mercers and the rickettes and the koch brothers and all of the people who have invested so much in the gop. what they want is, they look at this as any other kind of development. they want to return on that investment, and the return on the investment was going to be a huge tax cut. the stock market has been going up in anticipation of a corporate tax cut. it has nothing to do with the real economy. it has nothing to do with what s happening to average people. it s just a big pay back for the major donors. this return on investment concept is useful when you talk about major donors. these are the gop heirs. and donors that stand to gain from this. my favorite is sheldon miriam adelson, contributed $82.5 million in 2016 alone to republicans. that s a lot of money. but they re looking at an estate tax cut of almost $15 billion. that is an incredible turn on investment, and it goes on and on and on