. >> reporter: bob patterson is an accountant who has been in the business 40 years. he says there are wins here for some taxpayers, but not all. for example, the standard deduction almost doubled for individuals to $12,000 and married couples to $24,000. >> who is that going to help? >> that will help low to middle class people. >> that could make taxes simp r simpler. but if you're used to itemizing things like medical expenses to bring taxable income down, that goes away. >> in the nursing home, they are going to be paying tax they are not paying. >> the changes could be particularly significant to your new jersey where taxes are higher and people are used to deducting their property and income tax. new jersey congress man doesn't mince words. >> if you have a home here, you're getting screwed. this is terrible. >> reporter: you're still able to deduct property taxes up to $10,000 but not income taxes. bob patterson's office is in south jersey where 85% of his clients deduct state and local taxes. he will be trying to figure out how it affects them one client at a

. >> reporter: bob patterson is an accountant who has been in the business 40 years. he says there are wins here for some taxpayers, but not all. for example, the standard deduction almost doubled for individuals to $12,000 and married couples to $24,000. >> who is that g

specifically the backers of trump and one of the people who worked with bob burser at renaissance technologies, man named nick pattersonn't think trump would be president without the help from the mercer family. they've poured millions into the trump project and they are, i think most interestingly, as you said, the money behind breitbart which has stirred so much did i have advice sieveness and hatred that it worked to trump's advantage in the country. they're very close with bannon. they've really pretty much been the sponsors of his career and they are now working with bannon to try to put money behind far right candidates who will run for congress in 2018 and senate candidates to try to keep disrupting the regular old republican party and replace it with really far right trump supporters. >> and as we just showed this diagram in october of last year, this piece showed the web of connections during the campaign of robert and rebecca mercer. the mersers are funders of kellyanne conway who worked for ted cruz and switched to trump. they're the big funders behind steve bannon. talk about robert mercer's ideology. he ha