Will massive tax cuts unite the GOP?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"Tax reform" is a process that's full of political pitfalls. That's one reason it's only tried every few decades. President Trump has promised "the biggest tax cuts ever" — which is — even in times of bipartisan unity -- easier said than done.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | Tax cuts. Who gets the benefits? Who pays the cost? |
| 0:14.4 | Hello again. I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point. Political veterans call the promise of tax reform a cruel hoax because it always amounts |
| 0:22.0 | to just shifting money from one group to another. With President Trump needing something to call a win, |
| 0:27.6 | Congress is looking at big tax cuts for the top 1% and little ones for everyone else. That's |
| 0:33.4 | only if divided Republicans can come to agreement. Today's public dispute between the president and Tennessee Senator Bob Corker won't help. |
| 0:41.3 | Meantime, the GOP vision of renewed prosperity is beginning to sound like a new version of trickle-down economics. |
| 0:48.6 | Later on today's talking point, dangerous chemicals are being regulated, or not, by a former industry insider at the Trump EPA. |
| 0:57.1 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:21.4 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:30.2 | Hello again, Mormon. I'll be back with To the Point. A new executive of the FEPA is now regulating the industry she once worked for. |
| 1:37.2 | Internal memos warn she's making it harder to track the health consequences of hazardous chemicals in drinking water. |
| 1:43.7 | We'll hear alarms about public safety. |
| 1:45.5 | That's on our talking point at the end of our program. |
| 1:48.2 | But first, this news update, |
| 1:49.4 | as Republican senators prepared to lunch with President Trump |
| 1:52.7 | to talk about tax cuts, |
| 1:54.5 | Bob Corker of Tennessee told reporters |
| 1:56.5 | that chief executive is debasing the country. |
| 1:59.3 | As the two renewed their unprecedented feud, |
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