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The time. the top tax rates for individuals and corporations, 25% would be the top tax rate. repeal the president's healthcare law. a lot of people raising their eyebrows about that one. means testing and social security and medicare. wind down fannie and freddie. 560, a little bit more than $560 billion for defense spending fy-14. democrats put out their proposal on the senate side tomorrow and they howled about the ryan plan today. bring in the panel. steve hayes for stand stand. kirsten powers, columnist for daily beast. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, roll out today. thoug...

Into real balance. but jay carney suggests that they are just looking for something that is fiscally sustainable in the long run. we'll see how that goes down with the folk. thank you very much, mike. bill: that's paul ryan on your screen. we'll get to him in a moment too he claims to erase the budget deficit in ten years, the plan does. it's important to note the plan does not cut rating it lowers the rate of spending, $5 trillion less over ten years. it would substantially lower tax rates for individuals by establishing just two tax brackets, 10% and 25%. it also assumes the repeal of the pr...

Enough to cover the cost. federal budget covers any shortage. the shortage will be huge. >> both parts of medicare are going to exceed taxes and incoming premium contributions by $20 trillion over the next 75 years. >> the first year after it was created under johnson in 1965, the program spent $3 billion. even after medicare was well underway in 1970, it only spent $7 billion a year. now it's more than $560 billion a year. and the number of seniors is exploding. in 1966, just after creation, some $19 million people were immediate beneficiaries, by 1990, it climbed to $34 million. the year 200...

Listen, including everyone in the white house, including the president, that i am not going to be part of having social security as part of these talks. >> okay. the president is feeling the pressure to stick to his guns but how much room does he have to reach a compromise before the end of the year? and will the left support one if he does? most importantly, what is the risk to the country of not reaching a deal in the near future? jared bernstein, senior fellow at the senior of budget and policy priorities and an msnbc contributor, vice president of biden's chief economic adviser and joan wa...

His guns but how much room does he have to reach a compromise before the end of the year? and will the left support one if he does? most importantly, what is the risk to the country of not reaching a deal in the near future? jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center on budget and policy priorities and an msnbc contributor, vice president of biden's chief economic adviser and joan walsh, editor-at-large of salon. and author of "what's the matter with white people?" thank you. i was trying to get the facts and understand it. the congressional budget office, nonpartisan, says if we go off the ...