Chris Matthews: People in Connecticut Need the State Deduction So Their Taxes Are ‘Reasonable’

MATTHEWS: “Let me give you a daily double. How about going to the voters in the suburbs of New Haven and Hartford and telling them, Nnot only has this president become a dawn clown. He gets up in the morning and clowns his way into the day. But secondly I’ll take away your property tax deduction, which you need to get your taxes down to some reasonable level. How can a Republican congressman, for example, survive in a state like — high-tax state like Connecticut by opposing the continuation of the deduction for property taxes?”
MURPHY: “So the Republican Party will be wiped out in California, in New York, in New Jersey, in Connecticut, if they pass any reasonable facsimile of the tax bill that went through the House of Representatives, or is being proposed in the House of Representatives. But remember, it’s not just a handful of states on the east and west coast that take deductions for state and local taxation. The vast majority of states all over the country have taxpayers that get thousands of dollars off their income taxes because they are able to defer and defray the costs of local taxation. So this is a loser wherever you are around the country. If Republicans were angry about last night, they're going to get wiped out in 2018 if they move forward with a tax bill that will be just as popular by the health care bill by the time it gets to the floor.”