could scarlet fu become scarlet fu llc?ends who you ask, but you want to be careful because the irs may come after you. they have been dealing with reduced resources over the past decade and audit classifications are down. you would want to be careful that the irs would not come knocking at your door. >> could this lead to a $1.5 trillion deficit over the next several years? where would the revenue come from? >> the cost of it is important to the text of eight. under senate rules, if you want tax changes to be permanent you have to offset them. if you would be taxed at the higher corporate rate it will cost $1.3 trillion and you have find out where you will pay for that in other places. >> you mentioned that something like this in kansas. give us the lay of the land. it?did they try to address there was a change in kansas where pass-throughs no longer had to pay state income taxes. the expectation was this would be to job hiring and economic growth, but you had a rush of people looking to qualify as pass-throughs. proposal,

that is the secord, subchapter, llc, and prior, i would like to shoot for 15%. actually, the top corporate you are right, it's 45. we are almost twice as high as the average of developed countries around the world. that's why we are not competitive and why a lot of our cash and businesses have moved offshore. i think it is the most direct way to go about this, legislatively. maybe we can talk about paying for it in a minute. host: that's what i was going to ask for as far as next. what do you do about that loss of revenue, so to speak? guest: that's an important phrase, so to speak, i appreciate that. look, i would argue, pedro, that these business tax cuts would increase the rate of economic growth to roughly 3%, ok? maybe even more. experienced in

their escorts or llcs. were still discussing the way forward on that. it's pretty clear that will have to use a reconciliation vehicle because today's democratic party is very different than the democratic party of the 80s which was actually interested in progrowth tax reform. for example, bill bradley was the leader of the democrats and happening to facilitate the conference of tax reform in the late '80s. today's democratic party seem to be preoccupied with wealth transfer from those who had done well to those who have done less well. no matter how you feel about that, that's unrelated to having eight set up tax laws that promote growth and as others were saying here, were in a slog here. we haven't had a single year with 3% growth rate in eight years. not one. we need to get the country moving. the two things that will get the country moving our deregulation, were working on that. and comprehensive progrowth tax reform that creates more jobs and opportunities and makes it less likely for people to take jobs overseas. all of those are important to the

. >> why don't we all change ourselves into llcs?id hear the treasury secretary say we won't allow that. but you can probably figure out a way to do that. >> yeah. >> get a tax rate down -- >> i think it's the same thing when reagan -- they were so concerned about this idea of making i would so that your actually business became a capital gain business. but let's deal with the substance of this. this is a much more organized approach. i feel like that the president's leading, not like they're out there in the wilderness. we haven't heard -- tomorrow, i know "squawk" going down there. i think that they would be crazy in congress to say we'll fight this tax cut, because americans like tax cuts. even if it's corporate they don't want that 401(k) thing -- get that thing out of there. >> even as mnuchin was on stage, ryan made a headline saying that the plan as it stands is about within 80% agreement of what he had put forward on the house floor. >> well, 80% is -- well, let's see what the 20% is. >> interesting because when you think of

the llc's, the wholly-owned proprietorships. you are getting into middle and mainstream america here. this is very important. they pay the corporate tax rate, ok? i want to ameliorate the burden. they are the people who will benefit. is other point i will make the issue of wages and corporate taxes, which is interesting because one of the great researchers on this point is a has been thee, who top economist at the american enterprise institute. it's a center-right think tank in washington, d.c., he is moving into the chairman of president trump's economic advisers. kevin and his colleagues have done work for years that the biggest beneficiaries of across-the-board production and business tax rates are middle and lower income wage earners. he has de in norma's research and it was a controversial point, but more and more people in the economics profession have followed suit and taken a look. they may not agree precisely, but i believe that one of his first numbers was 70% of the benefits of a business tax cut a crew to the middle

i mean the reagan tax cut -- >> it's to save taxes, an llc, i mean i have an llc. it may be good for me, but i'm not sure there's a lot of coal workers or miners that have llc. >> it was the reagan-clinton combination that brought down the deficit, that balanced the budget eventually, that caused about 20 years of economic growth. >> do you really believe these tax cut also pay for themselveses? >> >> you have to have the cuts in spending to go with them. therein when ronald reagan's political problem, because the republicans controlled the house, they didn't control the senate for the first few years, but they did control the house which controls the purse strings and that was tip o'neill and he wasn't going to go down that path. and in the clinton white house, we got there with balanced budgets. >> he doubled the federal revenue. but he also ended the cold war, so that bill clinton could reduce defense spending, yes? remember that? >> that just seems like a stretch to me, i mean we have to accept the fact that his economic plan did lead to a huge deficit, and ult

we'll be trying to figure out whether we have our own llc. maybe we should form a company together. we can radically cut our zpaxs may be they find out that we did it and maybe they don't. >> i was going to and you, isn't this incentivizing every individual to become an llc? >> he was asking my accountant how i would do. i'll get killed on the deduction. in terms of businesses i have that could be llc, scene me ign. >> after my show, you know where folks are tuning in. their tuning in to you. >> it's tough to top cramer in getting fired up. but michael steele, is this a die hard republican, you look at what you see today? is this exactly what you've dreamed of sense reagan? >> i know a lot of folks are very, very happy. particularly on the corporate side and even on the individual side. they're going to be populations within various communities will do better than others. i think the real challenge will be on the deduction side. people will have a real problem. and at the end of the day -- >> i have a whole list of them. >> yeah. it's a pretty extensive list. >> these popular tax de

if you own an entity, corporation, an llc and it does not separately file a tax return and pay taxes, the prophets, the alles, the debt payments, of those flow-through your taxes, the taxpayer. you fill out these forms they would disclose these incoming payments to those entities such as the form on information return of u.s. persons with respect to certain foreign corporations. do you know what form that is? 5471. take a look at it. or information return of a shareholder or a passive foreign investment company or qualified elected -- electing fund, form 8621. i shall return. is expired. you recognize, strike the last word. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. a lot of things have in said today. i understand the passion of debate. i understand the heat of the moment, but i want to be crystal clear for the record. this was not about drama, this was not about data, this was a very real question and it deserves a real answer. if the shoe were on the other foot, we would not be afraid to hold our presidents to speak. -- when we came in for voting, we saw a very dark cloud hanging over th

i think what you're hitting on are the abuse. >> what happens if you are an llc? real estate developer. should you be taxed at 15% or taxed at the income you get? >> i think we're creating a circumstance where we're giving folks an insent tiff to leave their money in their business. different discussion for law firms and such. but you're in the real estate business, i wanted to leave my money in the business and i can do that and that's one of the ways we get to the 3% growth. >> thank you for having me. i understand schweikert was here earlier. he's a young -- >> the best coffee on the hill in david eaves office. >> please when we return, minority whip steny hoyer is going to join us. and you don't want to miss the cnbc stock draft. 18 stocks, just one winner we return after a short break from washington, d.c. ♪ ♪ i'm dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. ♪ energy lives here. why pause a spontaneous moment? cialis for daily use treats ed and the urinary symptoms of bph. tell your doctor about your medicines, and ask if your hea

jan castle, will llc, address listed as a p.o. box. who knows? that's just like a mystery donation from out of nowhere to the inaugural committee that we don't know anything about. >> that we don't know anything about, that the inaugural committee is looking for. they're trying to find out who this is. you know, so companies are allowed to donate to inaugural committees, and that's one of the reasons that there's so much money here and that there's such big numbers. but what you're not allowed to do is use a full shell corporation. so your company has to be operational. it has to be real and do something. and so when we saw this company that had been founded just eight weeks before, chances are in eight weeks they haven't had enough time to do enough of anything to make that $25,000 that they then turned over to the trump inauguration. so it really should -- i mean it raises big red flags, and it's exactly the kind of shell corporation -- this is part of the reason you're not allowed to give straight corporate money to political campaigns, becaus

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for all of the businesses in louisiana, escort, llc and partnerships, there will be no percentage tax. rather, those entities will be instead assessed with a set and graduated tax based on the gross receipts are for example, if a gas station operates as an llc and has a gross receipts of less than a half-million dollars, their income tax, would only be $250. a doctor's office in shreveport with receipts of $2.5 million would pay $1500. why these taxes don't vote -- flow-through entities, they would also be fixed and the minimal. it's to ensure that these businesses only pay their fair share for using louisiana roads and bridges and father having their employees educated in our schools, and universities. [applause] >> this box the base of our business income tax system to ensure that everyone pays their fair share. as i've said to you all in announcing this plan, i open to dialogue. i open to compromise. we can find a balance of spending cuts and revenue that help us fund our priorities. however, in the almost 50 months i've been in office, only a minimal amount of cuts in services bey

for example, if a gas station in chalmette runs as a llc and has gross receipts of less than $500,000their income tax, the mcat, would only be $250. a doctor's office in shreveport with gross receipts of $2.5 million would pay $1,500. while these taxes on flow-through entities, as they are called, would be new, they would also be fixed and minimal. it's to ensure that these businesses only pay their share for using louisiana's roads and bridges, for having their employees educated and trained in our schools and universities. [applause] this broadens the base of our business income tax system to ensure that everyone pays their fair share. as i have said to you all in announcing this plan, i am open to dialogue. i am open to compromise. we can find a balance of spending cuts and revenue that helps us find our priorities. however, in almost 15 months that i've been in office only a minimal amount of cuts in services beyond the $509 that i put on the table have been made by the legislature. criticism is only as valuable as the input and action that follows it, but we have seen very little

they were to llcs which are to hide the identity of the person making the purchase. the review of sales of trump owned real estate found dozens of transactions during and since the campaign involving buyers who have business in or connections with foreign countries, or are shielded by purchasing under the name of an llc. now, so far "usa today" says none of the sales they reviewed appear to be above market value, but imagine someone wanting to pad the price a little bit to fey president a little bit. because it's nice for the president to owe you a favor or at least to think caninely about your transistor because you once slipped him a few million dollars. remember the russian oligarch, the fertilizer king? the one who bought the mansion in palm beach? trump got this property in 2006 for just over $40 million. he barely touched it, never moved in, but a couple years later he sold it to the fertilizer king, this russian oligarch guy, for not $40 million $100 billion. if you took $60 million off someone in a sweet transaction like that, you might reasonably be thankful

aspiring rocket manjeff bezos, who said he sells $1 billion a year in amazon.com stock to fund blue 0rigin llcthe company which is fuelling his dream of sending people into space. and finally, good news for the clumsy among us, who regularly drop their iphones. the times reports that apple has secured a patent for a system that deploys protective bumpers automatically when a phone is falling towards the ground. joining us is nina trentmann from the wall streetjournal. good to see you. let's start with the daily telegraph story. the deadly attack, the horrific attack in syria. it has forced donald trump's hand in terms of defining or clarifying his position on the country. it has. it has led to him stating this could not be tolerated, which i think is departing from previous positions that the new government in the us and also in the previous one had in terms of saying we would not engage in syria. i am interested that mr trump did not refer to russia, which is one of the key allies in syria, and of course it is quite interesting to see how this is playing out, because mr trump has also been ve

morgan chase the warriors arena, llc and the office of economic workforce development and the mayor for putting this training together to make a change in my life and many other lives also standing on the staple with me today thank you guys. >> (clapping.) >> next up i want to invite jesse martinez. >> (clapping.) >> how is everybody doing today good good i did not come prepared i have a short notice so laura great story by the way, i'd like to say what when i first started off doing in program my father passed away the night before i was supposed to come here and so there was a lot of things going through my head whether or not i was going to come here i know i came here to do right by my father growing up in the bay area time in and out a lot of minority like myself we don't get great opportunity like this the fact that olsen and clark and the warriors arena and citibuild the mayor, rasp and department staff johnson given us this opportunity more than auditorium they'll give us trades and skills we'll be able to build careers that's man, i i mean, i'm very thankful not only me but on

they were to llcs which are to hide the identity of the person making the purchase. the review of sales of trump owned real estate found dozens of transactions during and since the campaign involving buyers who have business in or connections with foreign countries, or are shielded by purchasing under the name of an llc. now, so far "usa today" says none of the sales they reviewed appear to be above market value, but imagine someone wanting to pad the price a little bit to fey president a little bit. because it's nice for the president to owe you a favor or at least to think caninely about your transistor because you once slipped him a few million dollars. remember the russian oligarch, the fertilizer king? the one who bought the mansion in palm beach? trump got this property in 2006 for just over $40 million. he barely touched it, never moved in, but a couple years later he sold it to the fertilizer king, this russian oligarch guy, for not $40 million $100 billion. if you took $60 million off someone in a sweet transaction like that, you might reasonably be thankful

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff.n the newshour tonight: after 16 years of u.s. military presence and sacrifice in afghanistan, and yesterday's historic bomb drop, where does that country stand? then, as easter approaches, we go to seville, spain, where the decline of cloistered life is on full display in the city's crumbling convents. >> reporter: convents like santa inez here in seville are hidden treasures from an earlier era. small, once bustling communities, but with fewer inhabitants now, and the walls themselves decaying. >> woodruff: and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. all that and more, on tonight's

llc, single operator companies. >> that is not priced in. >> that would have a major. i think that's the catalyst. whether or not that gets done, i don't know. if they say it, that's the good. >> here's the question, what to buy and also what if we get nothing, are fundamental also enough to keep us higher? >> today we had new home sales. 1,000 short of a cycle high, folks. yet, still the good news is that it's still relatively off these crazy numbers from the bubble feed. you had consumer confident, despite these failures, it's down a couple points, six-to-seven year global bmis. this is the one place that people said was really the trump trade gone bad and in fact 245i gave me some of the best earnings so far. >> that is left to do. >> dovetail on that, i still think that names mike massachusettsercard and visa are teflon in this environment. especially if the consumer is in better shape. those stocks win, games we talked about for a long time. look at the move in home depot. american express seems to get its mojo back. there is still some individual names that still

. >> yes, a self-llc, because the highest tax rate for the individual income tax will be under his plan 35%. but if you're a company, if you can call yourself a company, it's 15%. this is going to lead to a huge tax sheltering bonanza. we saw something very similar happen in kansas where you had zero percent tax rates for pass-through entities. lots of workers started calling themselves companies and basically dodging taxes and putting a huge hole in the budget there. >> a crafty way for people to get big fat paychecks to avoid having to kick in what they're supposed to to the federal government based on what the rates are currently. mich the committee for responble federal budgets, a bipartisan group, they estimate the tax cut would reduce revenue by roughly $3 to $7 trillion over the next decade. where we stand right now as a nation, how do we afford that? >> that's a big question the president is going to have to answer. i think that's why in some ways this was such a vague tax plan. they realize they'll have to go into intense negotiations with congress. this is the moment of reckon

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, bill o'reilly forced out of fox news, following a stream of sexual harassment complaints. also ahead, close call in georgia. examining the results from the special congressional election. then, playground fight at the supreme court. should state dollars fund repairs in a church day care? and, inside america's militia movement. why armed right-wing groups are active across the nation. >> it could be our own government, overreaching. if

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almost half the sales since trump became a candidate were also sold to llcs. the potential of a purchase by some person or entity wanting to obscure their identity is clear. trump himself has never disclosed a complete list of his holdings and is not required by law to do so, but he's broken decades of norms by not releasing his tax returns. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston. real estate is an interesting case because it's sort of easy to game. we know from a lot of investigative reporting that high-end real estate is used by the sort of financial elite the world to park money, to evade taxes at home, sometimes to launder money. if you buy it through a shell company, no one knows who did it. if you were looking to curry favor of the president of the united states, it would be easy as essentially buying over market rate as a means of essentially donating to, paying him. >> well, even if you don't pay above market rates, an unsold unit is revenue you haven't made. it's a drag on your profits, and there are many, many unsold uni

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, in the aftermath of president trump's missile strikes on syria, a look at next moves in a moment of heightened global tensions. then... >> we are here to celebrate history. >> woodruff: as neil gorsuch is sworn in as an associate supreme court justice, how the newest member may tip the scales in some key upcoming cases. and, fighting corruption with education-- how one university in ghana incorporates ethics courses to help guide the next generation of africa's leaders. >> we need a lot of innovation. we need people who are trained to drive that and we need people who are going to be working on the government side. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> supported by the rockefeller foundation. promoting the well-

they were to llcs, which are a common real estate thing to hide the identity of the person who is actually making the purchase. quote, "usa today's" review of sales of trump-owned real estate found dozens of transactions during and since the campaign involving buyers who have business in or connections with foreign countries or they were shielded by purchasing under the name of an llc. so far "usa today" says so far none of the sales they've reviewed appear to be above mark value, but imagine someone wanted to pad the price a little bit to pay the president a little bit because it is nice for the president to owe you a favor or think kindly about your interests because you once slipped him a few dollars or a few million dollars. remember the russian potash, the oligarch, fertilizer king? he's the guy that bought that mansion from donald trump in palm beach in 2006 for just over $40 million. he barely touched it. he never moved in. a couple years later, he sold it to the fertilizer king, this russian oligarch guy, not for $40 million, but $100 million. donald trump made a $60 million profit

findings of sikh wit cequa as well as the agreement between the city and related california or llc as noted in the title. really, this -- those are the amendments here and in the body we've add the address 1 1500 mission and happy to answer any questions on that from a process standpoint, if you have any. >> i want to make sure that the amendment language before us actually allows us to vote on the $321 million an $321 million, and $122 million appropriations separately. is that how you presented it? no. we'll turn to the analyst. >> as i understand it, this item is going to be continue, so i won't review all the details of the report. let me make a comment on this legislation. this amended legislation just submitted. mr. jup dyke says this address the concerns of the budget analyst. this do not any way shape or form address the budget of the legislative analyst. this doses not -- there are two major concerns in our report. one is that will after obtaining an additional 154,000 and that number comes from mr. updyke of additional new space after getting this new building after selling

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: >> we're trying to drive the economic benefit here to the taxpayers in the middle. >> woodruff: white house budget director mick mulvaney joins me to explain the administration's tax reform proposal and president trump's plan to get a spending bill passed. also ahead, a look at president trump's first 100 days in office-- the progress and setbacks on the domestic front for the new administration. then, a wall keeping people and wildlife out. how a political divide could endanger animals living along the u.s.-mexico border. >> long-term, this cld

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: a suspected syrian government attack using chemical weapons leaves dozens dead and many more injured, in a province controlled by rebels. then, the fox news network is on the receiving end of another sexual harassment suit, as some advertisers pull away from the scandal-plagued network. and, texas is the first state in the country to allow classroom cameras to protect students with disabilities, but legal and ethical questions arise. >> parents can't get access to that footage unless they know something's happened. they have to be able to say, "i would like footage from this day," and ideally "from this time o

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captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> sreenivasan: good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, paris attacks. a gunman opens fire on police just three days before the french elections. also ahead, exxon seeks a waiver to do business in russia. are the trump administration's business ties impacting their decisions? plus, news divisions-- how a politically divided nation gets its news. >> i guess there was an element of distrust. as citizens we don't know what we don't know. >> sreenivasan: plus, the turbulent business of the airline industry: record profits, expanding routes, and in some cases bad service. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, it's tax day, and that's sparking new calls for president donald trump to release his own tax returns. we dig into how transparent this white house is. then, british prime minister theresa may calls for a snap election as she seeks more public support to take britain out of the european union. and, a teacher in the navajo nation schools takes a very hands-on approach to learning. >> in a math class, you get the problem wrong, you miss that question. in my program, if you get that math problem wrong, that animal can die. >> woodruff:

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captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight, the trump administration faces several crises overseas. we examine america abroad and the international challenges facing the new president. then, we return to mexico, where the country is strengthening its southern border against central americans fleeing north to escape violence and poverty. >> there's a private security company that prevents migrants from getting on the train, and they have built these concrete barriers, just a few inches from the edge of the train. >> woodruff: and, learning history through song. high school students compose a choral history lesson about world war ii japanese-american internment camps. >> it's my hope that people can really look at this and say, "we can't isolate a group of people just for who they are." >> woodruff: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved

almost half the sales since trump became a candidate were also sold to llcs.potential of a purchase by some person or entity wanting to obscure their identity is clear. trump himself has never disclosed a complete list of his holdings and is not required by law to do so, but he's broken decades of norms by not releasing his tax returns. joining me now, pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston. real estate is an interesting case because it's sort of easy to game. we know from a lot of investigative reporting that high-end real estate is used by the sort of financial elite the world to park money, to evade taxes at home, sometimes to launder money. if you buy it through a shell company, no one knows who did it. if you were looking to curry favor of the president of the united states, it would be easy as essentially buying over market rate as a means of essentially donating to, paying him. >> well, even if you don't pay above market rates, an unsold unit is revenue you haven't made. it's a drag on your profits, and there are many, many unsold units in

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> woodruff: good evening. i'm judy woodruff. on the newshour tonight: the trump administration takes on the government of syria, ordering air strikes in retaliation for chemical weapons attacks. we look at the decision and what could come next. then: >> we have made tremendous progress in our relationship with china. >> woodruff: president trump touts deepening relations with china after his first summit with the leader of the world's other economic powerhouse. then, with passover just around the corner, we join celebrated chef joan nathan in her kitchen to talk about her new cookbook exploring jewish food from around the world. >> you can't mix milk and meat, you can't eat certain shellfish, so that, what happens is, jewish people think about their food a lot. >> woodruff: and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks take on this week's news, including what a rule change in the senate means for the ability of the two parties to work together. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour

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