how unusual is it for any party to be this gung ho about a bill with this low of public ratings. only 26% of americans at the moment approve or support this republican tax plan. if you dive into it a little bit deeper, does it make you more or less likely to vote for a candidate who supports this? 43% less likely to vote for them. so why are republicans so gung ho. republicans are looking at this and saying we made a promise about tax reform. here s one we can actually deliver on. we will try to sweeten the deal. we re giving a little bit less of a corporate break, a little bit more on upper income individuals to make up for the hit they might take in high resident tax states. california, new york, new jersey, et cetera. and the gamble is making good is
our citizens to be able to make these discussions. ted should be up here fighting unless he wants his state to have an income tax or something, i m not sure exactly what he wants people to do, but we should allow we have had this deductbility for 100 years, 100 years. why all of a sudden are we giving it away? and we re giving it away so you can pay for a cooperate tax break. it s the middle class who s hurting. cooperate s making huge profits. they are not the people we should be dealing with right now. we should be helping the middle class. you want to respond? yes? senator cruz, do you want to respond? it s interesting. bernie and maria and the rest of the democrats are all for raising taxes. they want to raise taxes on every taxpayer. but, you know, people vote if their feet. if you look at the states with the highest tax rates, people are fleeing the states. if you look at the ten highest tax states in america, in 2,015,240,000 people fled those states. the top three, by
to jump on board with this. melissa: what would you do to the bill? no. absolutely. it s going to be a republican fix only. republicans are the only ones that are going to participate on it is what it seems. repealing the individual mandate, i think, is a good thing. if you look at the survey when the individual mandate was applied, you saw a lot of young people just pay the tax penalty. that being the case it makes sense. melissa: let me stop you, what would you too to dinker with this if you were trying to get anyone on board. one more vote, what change would you make? i would look at those four tax states, california, new york, new jersey, and maryland. who obviously are going to be impacted the most from this tax reform bill. for example, being new york state, which pays in about $41 billion more than they receive in services, you guys right over there in new york city and new york state, that will be something that i would be looking at because folks are concerned about be
here in topeka, kansas on business. interestingly he voted for trump. he also has two sons that live in california. one of those high state and local tax states. even despite that he says low tax states shouldn t support his son and folks like those there in those high tax states. why do you say that? well, i feel like states like kansas and nebraska we re overtaxed and those high populated states, we need to keep our money. todd: understood. but you also said as somebody who works in bridge construction which is the reason you are here in topeka, you still have to have money for major infrastructure projects here. exactly. todd: talk about that. the commercial industries have skyrocketed. you look around and all the building going on in the commercial business, but the infrastructures need money.
country. along with the removal of the state and local taxes, this is kind of a one-two bunch for many in the higher tax states. up next, the medical expense deduction. the bar is already pretty high for this. meaning only the chronically ill or family of a disabled person generally use this deduction. according to the joint taxation committee, most people who take this earn less than $10,000 a year and spend upwards of $10,000 a year on medical expenses. remember, medical expenses are the single biggest reason why people go into personal bankruptcy in the united states. and as we ve mentioned, the individual mandate is eliminated by the senate bill. this has to do with the affordable care act with health care. this is despite the fact that nearly 1.5 million people signed up for or renewed their plans so far this month. that s a nearly 50% increase in the affordable care act from last year. and according to the congressional budget office, 13 million more people will be uninsured by 2