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Collect in taxes and give people a tax credit and they can go out and buy insurance. and walker, to his credit, put a number on that and basically said a family of four, two adult, two children, you get $6,000. well, let me just tell you -- >> good luck. >> -- the average employer health insurance now costs $16,000 and that means hes going to shove $10,000 of cost on the average family which would be 20% of the average familys income. he wants people to pay 20% of their pre-tax income for health...

Their pre-tax income for health insurance now. thats the bottom line on the walker proposal and thats why these proposals dont fly. the moment the public hears about how much they have to pay they go wild and reject it. we had the burr-coburn hatch that was the most successful senate plan and it went nowhere. after 24 hours it was dead because of the same math. >> zeke emanuel, thank you for giving us a check in on the whole obamacare thing. still ahead, the highly anticipated update to our dw...

Taxed. they say lets get rid of that. lets tax it. employers would drop insurance like a hot potato then. and they then say well use the money that we would collect in money and they would get a tax credit and they could go out and buy insurance. and walker, to his credit, put a number on that and basically said a family of four, two adults, two children, you get $6,000. well, let me just tell you draish >> good luck. >> the average employer health insurance now cost $16,000. and that means hes ...

Longer in a position to affect elections with all those hundreds of millions of dollars. the union power is reduced. thats very important point in this dispute. >> in wisconsin alone, i understand, that the average worker who then would not have to pay the $1,000 per year in union dues could pocket that. >> yes, they could. they would. >> or it could go to pay for their health care which is one of the parts of this whole -- >> well, look, part of the walker proposal is that union members, every ...