progressives start by putting people first, putting working families first. they started with a huge tax cut for the largest companies. that s probably 600, $700 billion. then they decide they had to match that by giving the most well off people who have partnerships or s-corpses a huge tax cut. at the end of the day they really did not have very much left over for middle class families. so many are getting an actual tax increase, which is truly stunning. and bob corker, who has been pretending you might even say to be a holdout on this thing. he voted for it procedurally today, his big worry has been the deficit. today he said after agreeing in principle with senate membership on a trigger mechanism to ensure greater fiscal responsibility should economic growth estimates not be realized, uvoted to advance this important piece of
tax increase. people wonder how is that possible when you have a $1.5 trillion that they have given themselves permission to increase the deficit. and the answer is that it really does go to your priorities. progressives start by putting people first, putting working families first. they started with a huge tax cut for the largest companies. that s probably 600, $700 billion. then they decide they had to match that by giving the most well off people who have partnerships or s-corpses a huge tax cut. at the end of the day they really did not have very much left over for middle class families. so many are getting an actual tax increase, which is truly stunning. and bob corker, who has been pretending you might even say to be a holdout on this thing. he voted for it procedurally today, his big worry has been the deficit.