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So what -- what people may not know in the house we use macro economic scoring, we call it dynamic scoring, we take into account economic effects of tax changes and we use a realistic baseline that reflects current policy, our counter policy proposals, what that means is we can have a big tax cut but also make sure that we are in compliance with our deficit targets, our deficit rules. maria: do you need to find revenue somewhere else? >> of course, of course. the answer is yes to that. the point...

Think republicans are going to have the courage of their conviction? congressional leaders and the white house to explain why the tax changes are not just what they want but better for the country? >> so, we reported yesterday in todays paper that conservative groups led by the kochs and their freedom partners and the american action network, a separate group, are going to be launching a push that could eventually involve tens of millions of dollars to rally people around tax reform. now, i thin...

I call it political chemotherapy. and one of my friends who i always thought was very smart said, mark, i voted for politicians my entire life. hes in his 50s. do you know what the definition of insanity is? doing the same thing over and over expecting the same results. so i voted for donald trump. is he poisonous in a lot of respects? yeah. hes our chemotherapy. we hope hes going to change the political system. >> thats a fascinating analogy. why do you give him a c minus? its only 100 days. wh...

Healthcare plans, whether its the tax on certain products, and healthcare, if its done right, provides revenue to balance out some of the tax changes. so the two of them are intertwined. i suggest that people start thinking in terms of a multi-step process. a big chunk of healthcare reform, then tax reform, then go back and fine-tune the healthcare reform and then fine-tune the tax reform. it is to complex youll need something like that in order to accomplish both by tend of the year. >> bill: w...

And mexico, the two countries the president has talked most about. its interesting to hear him say he was subdued today. what it obviously, if youre a trump voter, the president signed the end of the war on coal as he calls it, reverse obama climate change this week and now this stuff on trade . if youre a trump voter, youre happy. he hes keeping his promises. in this trade thing, sure, hes trying to boast american manufacturing. i think more would come from the tax changes and the regulatory ch...

Be helpful. >> i think this is a great example about how this is a bill that is going to please nobody. you have people from the freedom caucus saying the exact opposite of what charlie dent is saying. theyre saying in our proposal when president obama was in charge, we didnt support the medicaid expansion, why would we put forward bill that has this in it? you have middle of the road guys like charlie dent and say we should just leave the whole thing in tact and not scale it back. if youre ulry...

Agreement to limit climate change. dodd-frank, education reform, tax changes, raising taxes on the rich and cutting them on people in the middle and at the bottom. those are the big headline ones, and i think theres plenty more as well. >> why do you think a misreading and misrepresentation of obamas achievements helped lay the ground work for donald trumps win? >> you know, i think liberals have a bit of a hard time being in power. we tend to get very excited. im a liberal. we tend to get very ...

We hope people save so they can help buy insurance floor health savings accounts, and we help individuals who associate from groups of individuals to health association plans so they can spread their risk and get a cheaper product. if you put those three market reforms together as well as some tax changes, i think you can get something that virtually every republican agrees to, but would also help soften the blow as we go from obama care to a more market or yepted type of industry again. >> youv...

Most of them have his name in them, often in big gold letters on buildings. just because hes not involved in the day to day doesnt mean that hes not going to know what kinds of policy changes, tax changes, all kinds of other things can affect his interests and make him more money and thats a problem. >> hes not putting blinders on really the big issue because, for instance, corporate tax reform is a big goal for his administration, right? >> thats right. thats something that he and republicans i...

Lets get an early start on your money. u.s. stock futures are down this morning. >> that as oil keeps item himinhimin tumbling. there are two trading days left in the year. yesterdays rise in light trade volume was enough to put the s&p 500 up for the year, just barely getting into the top 1%, it just got a little easier. it took about $429,000 to make it into this elite race in 2013 according to new irs data. thats down from $429,000 earlier, thanks to a slew of tax changes. all right. you wa...