every day. david: meanwhile, call it the gift that keeps on giving. more companies are sharing the tax cut with workers this week, walgreens saying the corporate tax cut will allow it to give employees a raise and mcdonald s is using it to triple the tuition benefits for its workers all this as the upcoming corporate earnings season is expected to be the best in seven years but some democrats are still calling cuts a scheme. here now is the ranking member of the house budget committee democratic congressman from kentucky, john yarmoth. john you don t think all these benefits are just crumbs do you? well, no. i think if somebody in the middle income range gets $50 a week, $2500 a year or so, that s significant. david: not if you re a wealthy millionaire congresswoman though like nancy pelosi then it s just crumbs. well but you look on the other side at a company like
the state constitution. you don t need age and gender protected in our state constitution because thankfully we already have a federal constitution that protects people of all protected classes. age, gender, sex, orientation, anything like that, why already have federal and city and state laws. ainsley: why waste time. this is fundamentally about giving citizenship rights to people who are not citizens. this is everything from instate tuition benefits to whether even private companies have the ability or local town police department has the ability to not hire someone based on citizenship status. this is fundamentally what happens when the resist trump agenda gets mac kin nateed at state and local levels. ainsley: what about military status. question whether we should include the military status as a protected class. new york city has that because we have seen cases of housing and employment descrintle in thdiscrimination e city that was left out theft bill because it is not a pr
thing, this is one of those opportunities. so i wanted to move to another question from the audience. one group that could face higher taxes under the house republican tax plan is graduate students because the bill would count tuition that the university waives for students, count it as tax. i want to bring in sarah, he s getting her phd at michigan state university, and she has a question for senator scott. the average student at my university currently makes $15,000 a year. if we were to be taxed on the tuition benefits that we receive, many of us would be paying almost a third of our salary towards federal taxes. at other universities with higher tuition rates, the situation is even worse. when the senate and house bills had a reconciliation, how will you guaranteety that graduate students don t bear the burden