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they re getting very little out of this tax bill. tim and nathan are back with me. it seems as though there is a lot of affirmation of what the president was saying, you listen to ann, it s incon grgruent messaging. the president has been saying for small businesses for the forgotten people of this land, this is exactly who he s thinking about when proposing these tax cut plans. well, and fred, i think that the president has laid out a challenge today and we ll see if the democrats can meet that challenge. i mean, after all, there s some very interesting where we heard very important personal stories. we heard about a family that
appreciate their efforts, but the i think john, to your point, for the reason that health care failed was that the republican party was intellectually bankrupt and donald trump was assured they had a replacement and a plan for what they were going to do with obamacare, and they didn t have one. his interventions were not helpful, but the fundamental problem was republicans said they had something ready to go and they did not. what they had at the end of the year was budget tax cut. republicans know how to do that. they had tax cut plans in the hopper for years and years. they passed one. they re good at passing tax cuts. they re not good at reforming an american economy. all donald trump learned was at the beginning of the year no one controlled him in the white house. and at the end of the year kelly was able to say to him if you just let the republicans do what they know how to do which is cut
saying it only benefits the wealthy, 24% that it benefits the middle class, only 9% believe it helps middle class americans, and the president s approval rate sinking to 38%. you know, this is less popular than prior tax cut plans. it s actually less popular than some tax increase plans, and my thesis here is that it s unpopular because everybody knows it s not true. ali, it s one of the more unpopular pieces of major legislation that any party has attempted for decades, and this just shows the towering challenge they have on this plan in messaging this. americans believe the plan favors the rich over the middle class, and by a 2-1 margin they believe their taxes will go up rather than go down. that s not quite true in the plan, at least in the early years. but it illustrates that
tree into one of the places the rates of my lower seen as a great supply-side experiment, you are the treasurer at the time. this is what usa today had to say if the tax reform discussion began about the lowering of rates in kansas. brownback may need the governor there, but for the rest of america, it was a useful experiment. it empirically disprove the supply-side hypothesis for lower taxes pay for themselves by generating robust revenue. congress taken now. you are now in congress. what were the lessons learned in kansas you are talking to fellow members about? one of the things they missed a night train to compare apples and oranges. the tax cut plans are basically just that, focusing on tax cuts and particularly with small businesses, taxes were cut as well. we want to do an