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Sized businesses. corporate rate is permanent. and lower. ending most tax cuts, though, reduces how much the bill adds to the deficit. it can't add more and still pass. that's why senate bill repeals the obamacare care mandate. 13 -- fewer would be insured. not paying for those people saves the government $338 billion. but also hikes premiums 10%. that concerns another senate republican. senator susan collins warn higher premiums may wipe out tax relief. putting those together, one would wipe out the other. >> these two top stories have everything to do with one another because, as you said, t...

Something that a lot of these republican senators are going to rally behind. if you litigate the individual parts of obamacare, there are a lot of parts of it that are very popular. the most unpopular part of it is the mandate. it was also ruled as a tax by the supreme court. and like you said, like you mentioned earlier don, the fact that they're able to find $338 billion over ten years to help pay for the overall package so that this is a budget deficit -- this is a budget neutral tax reform bill, that does help them, i think, rally some support. i think they will also have some efforts to t...

Boosting up child tax credit, lowering the individual rates for middle class, those are now options on the table because of that 338 billion. make no mistake about it, democrats seized on this issue, they're trying to rally the grass roots like they did throughout the health care debate. the republican play is this, they know this is politically toxic. they know that this is divisive. their hope based on what they've seen in the last couple weeks in the tax reform process is that the political imperative of doing something, of doing anything at this point will win out when it comes to the deba...

You will get all the subsidies out. and you will get $338 billion. however, the people who will be affected by withdrawing the mandate, young people, healthy people, high earners, they're all good. but the same people that the party and the president has promised to protect will be in that 10% premium rise. will be in that 13 million people who lose care. so on balance do you win the votes of the republicans to get it passed, but do you lose voters who get affected by it adversely? >> this goes to health care policy. the hating obamacare aspect that can rally some of the base in a culture war ...

Apart. right away, you would see about 4 million people uninsured. that's likely because young and healthy people are going to say, forget it, i'm not going to buy obamacare, i'm out. and by the year 2027, you would see 13 million. the point here is this adds $338 billion to the tax plan. that's what they need. they need the money for tax cuts. what do those tax cuts look like? they're packaging this as middle class tax relief. here are some proposed middle income tax brackets. 22, 34, 32%. but those expire by the year 2025. i want to be really clear about this. that middle class tax relief is...