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Suddenly 70% of our budget, you know, thats the real concern, isnt it? >> when the formula changes a lot of these states are worried. obama care is a big moving target in terms of things being phased in. the phase-in for small business is changing. every year, the parts of the law will go into effect. every year, therell be changes in what happens with premiums, what happens with state budgets, what happens with the benefits package. and its going to be up to the president and the administration...

8 billion is what theyre shifting right now. you know to pay for this multitrillion dollar obamacare, they had to cut medicare. you know, people talk about plans and what folks are going to do, particularly on our side of the aisle. this is already done. this is in law. but to finance this health care monster, youre going to have to take 700 million out, and you can, you can go 100 million here or there, out of medicare. medicare advantage over 10 years gets a trim of $200 billion. this is the f...

Also federal civilian hiring salaries frozen. then he talks about entitlement reform; specifically, social security. setting up retirement account for younger workers. those are the bullet points quickly. we are starting the panel earlier to make room for center seat segment. steve hayes, "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, thoughts on the plan and the roll back? >> very strong. i like it a lot. it has a lot of aspects ...

Also federal civilian hiring salaries frozen. then he talks about entitlement reform; specifically, social security. setting up retirement account for younger workers. those are the bullet points quickly. we are starting the panel earlier to make room for center seat segment. steve hayes, "weekly standard." a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, thoughts on the plan and the roll back? >> very strong. i like it a lot. it has a lot of aspects ...

Debate about what we do, what the millions of illegal immigrants here in the country, i think americans are looking for reassurance that this is going to be the last time we have to deal with this magnitude of a problem with illegal immigrants in the country. so i think its a step of reassurance that the american people need. i also think thats going to be very difficult with unemployment hovering around 10% in most states, i know california is around 12% -- i think thats going to be a real prob...

In recent days, advocates like roger moore on -- michael moore, last night on keith olbermann show, he was saying that the existing conditions will only apply to children for the first four years. that so much of this is delayed gratification. is it going to be hard for people to really see the benefits between now and election day, november 2010. and if you can hear me, its good over the sirens. >> health care happening right around me. right away, preexisting conditions will be barred as a rea...

Playing with fire and the reason i bring it up, two things that caused problems for the plan and where the icing on the cake were the cornhusker deal in nebraska which made a lot of these deals smack of back room deals that gave some states advantages and other state wouldnt get and the union deal, unions showed up at the white house and got exempt from paying the cadillac tax. are those things going to be gone? >> yes. i think it is very clear that the nebraska deal should go. that wasnt in the...

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Between the house and senate bill that right now lawmakers here in the senate are being briefed on. so to just hit a few, the senate bill would have 5 to 7 tax brackets, that is different than the house bill, that is four tack gets. also we expect different income threshold levels in the senate bill which we do not know those threshold levels yet. were still waiting to see the senate bill has a partial repeal of the estate tax, a full repeal of the state and roll tax reductions. the house plan p...

Emerging between the senate bill and house bill regarding state and local taxes which of course is very important to legislators from larger states, the question of the corporate tax rate, would it be a one year phase-in, would it affect immediately, how many brackets. this has to work its way through. but the big problem they will have is that they want to be able to tell everyone middle class voter that your taxes are going to go down. and what were hearing and talking to republicans is the pr...