down to these lower brackets. are you talking a housing deduction, house pricing will fall with an after tax value of your mortgage payment. well, i think, you know, i thought insulation because of a tax break. all of this consumerism happens because it granted shouldn t be there. to make them go poof overnight. jonas, to have more money in your pocket? how much consumerism would that cause? if you didn t go out and spend all the money on your accounttant, you would have more money to spend at home depot. i m glad you brought that up. someone who makes $10 million a year, i m not quite there, they see the bracket go from 25% to 36. somebody making $100,000, a lot of families, who loses deductions might not see a tax cut. it s revenue neutral i don t think it s good for the economy in the short run. guys, let s get to david,
health care reform in this country really is a redistribution of wealth. it is. so if they re trying to redistribute things, stuart, if they tacked a vat on, that would not be helpful to the people they re trying to give the money from the top to the bottom. look at alone health care reform is increment redistribution. looked at in total entitlement and how to pay for them, that comes down the food chain, everybody pays a bit more. once you start this, you can t stop. no going back. i remember when it was started, they said here comes the vat. pretty soon, we ll be able to really reduce income taxes. might be able to get rid of income taxes. sounded great. what do you know? now we have a 18%, 19% vat and a 50% income tax bracket. doesn t sound like a tax value added. sounds wonderful. sounds like a benefit. like a value meal. absolutely. i have to have a vat. absolutely. as they supersize, paying the
quite value. that s one of the allegations we have heard, free cars, free apartments, free tuition. what that adds up to and what was the lost tax value to new york. if they believe they should have paid packs on them and they didn t, how much actual money was lost. that s going to go a long way to determining how bad are the penalties or the possible penalties for weisselberg. to that point, andrew, if it was huge apartments, free cars, not paying taxes on them, what would that mean in terms of how serious the charges would be? because when you just hear, oh, he want paying taxes on perks, it doesn t feel like that s enough to get him to flip on trump. well, tax charges themselves are not a huge amount of pressure to get somebody to flip even if you are talking about a few million dollars because the criminal liability is just the portion that s not paid in taxes. you know, you may get millions