sense, a national clean energy standard which is every one of the 50 states has targets they have to hit. here s the standard, go out and hit it. without that, we can t hit the targets. today, there were promising news. the white house signals that the standard push would be in budget reconciliation. how much do you think this stuff is in flux from were the folks that you re talking with us and? people are following news just like you are. but the thing about that clean energy standard, it s critical. the 30 states have already passed a clean energy standard. it s a common sense proposal. it s a moderate proposal. we should have, it should be included in that plan. but there should also be a plan for transportation. and currently, the manchin, romney plan has reduced the investment in electric vehicles by 90%. it s also reduced the amount of money going into cleanup lead plates for clean water by half. so, if we re going to if we re not going to take this opportunity to make the do
and take a look at new hampshire, donald trump has a bigger lead there in the recent polls in new hampshire. up 12.6. let s bring in our panel. charlie hurt, political columnist for the washington times, amy walter, national he hadder for the political report and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? well the trump interview was extremely interesting. he s extremely good at this. because he dances and he dekes and he faineints and he disa appears. without backing down, when you asked him about his critique of the romney plan, which was self-deportation, which is a lot softer than a forceable deportation, which he s advocating now, and you said well didn t you say it was crazy and mean-spirited? he denied ever having said it was mean-spirited. in fact he did. we ve got the clothe from 2012. in an interview. republics didn t have anything go for them with respect to latinos and asians, the
current seven income tax brackets to four. individuals earning less th$25,0 and couples earning less than $50,000 would pay no tax. the wealthiest americans would see their tax rates slashed to 25% from nearly 40%. trump s plan also eliminates the estate tax paid by the wealthiest americans. meantime, the corporate tax rate would be cut to 15%. but how to pay for all of that is not clear. trump promises to get rid of unspecified deductions and close tax loopholes now available to special interests and the very wealthy. he says critics who charge that the numbers don t add up are wrong. they re wrong because we re bringing in at least $2.5 trillion is stuck outside of this country. that money now will be able to flow back in under my plan. that money will be able to flow back in to the country, we re going to be reducing corporate taxes, jobs will be created, the economy is going to expand tremendously like it hasn t
what you really want to know is what your effective tax rate is, whether it goes up or whether it goes down. yes with be these rates look like they re going to go very low. but if you lose all your deductions, it could not come out in the wash the way you want it to. i agree there are a lot of details to be learned on the plan. but this was a big part of this announcement yesterday, was that finally we would hear some details from trump about a policy. when you talk to him about syria, for example, he kind of says let them fight it out, then we pick up the remnants if you want to consider that a specific policy on this. but this is pretty fair. look, let s give him his due. i mean this is a reasonable tax plan. this is about as much detail as you get when someone s running for president. we know that it s very clear that if donald trump gets the nomination and is elected president, he is going to take bold steps to make sure that we no longer have the highest corporate tax rate or
romney did in 2012. we can compare it to what george bush i m sorry, jeb bush proposed a few weeks ago. this plan is much more generous and very unlikely to be revenue neutral. when trump says that people are wrong, that they would be bringing in at least $2.5 trillion in money that s stuck outside of this country, does that make any sense to you? i m afraid it doesn t, because when you do the math, when you bring in that $2.5 trillion, for example, the most that would raise would be $250 billion, which is a lot of money, of course. however, mr. trump has other aspects of his plans which are extremely generous. for example, he would reduce the corporate rate from 35% to 15%. when you do that, just in one year, that would more than offset the extra revenue that he would get from that repatriation provision. so, yes, we could get money from the component that he s