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What has happened so far. i want to put up this chart. according to one study, s&p companies have givenemployees $5.2 billion in bonuses and higher wages. the kinds of things you and the president talked about but at the same time, they spent $157 billion on stock buybacks . so far, the tax cuts are going to shareholders. not to workers. >> first of all we are only a couple months into this. i think we have one half million americans that received special bonuses. that's an enormous situation. i was at boeing last week with the president. viewing the factory. there were a lot of happy workers ...

What has happened so far. i want to put up this chart. according to one study, s&p companies have givenemployees $5.2 billion in bonuses and higher wages. the kinds of things you and the president talked about but at the same time, they spent $157 billion on stock buybacks . so far, the tax cuts are going to shareholders. not to workers. >> first of all we are only a couple months into this. i think we have one half million americans that received special bonuses. that's an enormous situation. i was at boeing last week with the president. viewing the factory. there were a lot of happy workers ...

The fed is committed to make sure they don't cut off economic growth. >> chris: when the corporate tax bill is passed, you are the president promised that most of the benefits would go to workers, but that's not in fact what has happened so far. according to one study, s&p companies have given employees $5.2 billion in bonuses and higher wages. the kinds of things he talked about. at the same time they spent 157 billion on stock buybacks. so far the tax cuts are going to shareholders not workers. >> will were only a couple months into this. you have for a half million americans that have recei...

Tax attorney from pennsylvania. sharon? >> secretary price, millionaires will receive about $157 billion of tax cuts within ten years if the aca is repealed. are you willing to replace the aca with a health care plan that will benefit all americans, not just the wealthy? millions believe repealing obamacare will harm us financially and medically. >> yeah, sharon, thanks. [ applause ] >> thanks for the question. and clearly that's not our goal, and clearly our goal is to make certain every american has the financial feasibility to purchase the kind of plan they want. and we believe that's the p...

La last. nothing to change to make them real today, okay? >> you could have a long conversation when a numerator and denominator, how to arrive at a percent annupercentage. >> this is not a claim you made, so i'm not going to spend too much time on it. you spoke of the president's budget, we are taking his words and turning them into policies and dollars. i want to follow-up on that because a lot of words wrds said during the campaign. the president said one time he believed tenning -- >> do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy? >> i do. >> the plan to repeal and replace obamacare would...