Joining me now to talk about that and more is congressman ro khanna. He represents the 17th district covering much of silicon valley. Congressman, nice to have you here. Great to be back. This week the house passed a gopled tax reform bill. The senate is now working on its own version. What do you think of republican efforts to change the tax code . Well, theyre basically giving tax cuts to corporations at the expense of middleclass families. That is their priority. Theyre eliminating deductions for graduate students. Theyre eliminating deductions for medical expenses. Theyre eliminating deductions for state or local property taxes to pay for what . To pay for tax cuts for corporations. You have proposed your own tax idea. Right. Its a 1 trillion plan, though. What would it do . Heres the difference. Theyre theory of the case is youve cut taxes for corporations, and somehow thats going to raise wages or create jobs. My point is if you want to raise wages, just raise wages. What we ough
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thank you for joining us. The republican tax reform bill that would cut business and personal taxes by 1. 5 trillion over the next decade is heading for a u. S. Senate showdown. Like the house of representatives bill that passed three days ago, the senate plan would also lower the top Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 20 , lower income taxes for roughly half of u. S. Households, end deductions for state and local taxes and student loan interest, double the estate Tax Exemption from 5. 5 million to 11 million. Republicans have only a twoseat majority in the senate, and at lea
The Anderson Family fund. Rosalind p. Walter, in memory of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening, and thank you for joining us. Theres confusion tonight over whos in charge of a federal agency created to protect americans in their banking and financial dealings. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by president obama and congress after the 2008 financial crisis. The uncertainty began yesterday when the agencys director, richard cordray, an obama appointee, officially resigned and immediately promoted his chief of staff, Leandra English, to deputy director. That
Keep all your inventory . Yeah, this is where we display all our edibles for our bud bar. We see hundreds of patients every day. Do you have anything on special . Reporter the Marijuana Law will go into effect in california and anyone 21 and over can walk into a dispensary and buy pot. How will that impact your business . Its going to impact it a lot. Its going to increase our patient database probably double, i would say. That means the demands are higher and well have to satisfy demand from those products as well. How will you satisfy demand . Because of the new state regulations we can only buy after 2018 from state cultivators. We may go from seeing 500 vendors to seeing five vendors. They may not meet the regulations put into place or they dont have the finances to apply for the state permit or the state may lag on actually approving those permits meaning the couple may only get through. Those are the only cultivators we are actually purchasing from at that time. Youre saying that
Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, megan thompson. Thompson good evening and thank you for joining us. The longestserving member of congress, 88yearold john conyers of michigan, announced today hes giving up his post as top democrat on the house Judiciary Committee, but he wont resign. The move follows last weeks disclosure by buzzfeed that conyers settled a Sexual Harassment claim by a former staff member in 2015 with a confidential 27,000 payment. The House Ethics Committee is now investigating the payment. Conyers denies the allegations. Conyers said today in a statement i cannot in good conscience allow these charges to un