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Be any more delays, she said, absolutely not. and, of course, there s been eight major delays since then. what she said yesterday is, look, we re not going to treat families fairly like we ve treated businesses, but they just created a special loophole the size of the grand canyon. it s driven by the november elections and, basically, it says, look, if i ve been kicked off my plan and obamacare is too expensive, i have a loophole, i have an exemption. and they don t talk about it much, but the end result is a lot of people are not going to pay that tax. they re going to avoid the pain before the november election. i think that s their goal. martha: i mean, why not answer we to that question then in the hearing yesterday yes to that question in the hearing yesterday? i think at this point they re watching these elections, they re watching senate democrats struggling to try to stay in office. i think they re looking for anything they can do to give themselves a break without actually ....
guest: there are. what is infuriating as a taxpayer we are supposes to clean this out. you played the clip of president saying we are getting rid of the special loophole but mr. president you signed into law a bill that adds literally tens of billions of special provisions that most people do not have, small businesses do not have unless they have a lawyer, an accountant and lobbyists in washington. let me say this: the bill is so bad, so bad, it almost makes the case if tax reform. we have to blow up this tax code and start over. if you want exhibit a, read this document. neil: they could have widened the margins and cut the puppy down to ten pages but i digress. back to howard berg who is made famous by reading the entire health care bill and telling us what a disaster it would be. ....
Companies started their ad campaign against the tax. and boy, howdy, did they start it. you know, we talk about big numbers or at least big-sounding numbers in policy and in politics all the time. but let me put it this way. you think the right spent a lot of money on the scott walker recall yesterday? i mean, they broke every state record, right? that was off the charts, post-citizens united, special loophole, unlimited spending, tens of millions of dollars spent in that wisconsin race as the whole country looked on in amazement at the amount of money that was flowing to scott walker. well, the tobacco companies in california had a war chest that was bigger than the whole scott walker deal. do you want to know where the most money was spent in politics yesterday? bigger than wisconsin was just one side of this one ballot initiative in this one state. tobacco companies ponied up close to $50 million to fight the cigarette tax ballot initiative in california. and hey, wouldn t you know ....
And boy, howdy, did they start it. you know, we talk about big numbers or at least big-sounding numbers in policy and in politics all the time. but let me put it this way. you think the right spent a lot of money on the scott walker recall yesterday? i mean, they broke every state record, right? that was off the charts, post-citizens united, special loophole, unlimited spending, tens of millions of dollars spent in that wisconsin race as the whole country looked on in amazement at the amount of money that was flowing to scott walker. well, the tobacco companies in california had a war chest that was bigger than the whole scott walker deal. do you want to know where the most money was spent in politics yesterday? bigger than wisconsin was just one side of this one ballot initiative in this one state. tobacco companies ponied up close to $50 million to fight the cigarette tax ballot initiative in california. and hey, wouldn t you know it, it worked. before the ad campaign, remember, in m ....
But let me put it this way. you think the right spent a lot of money on the scott walker recall yesterday? i mean, they broke every state record, right? that was off the charts, post-citizens united, special loophole, unlimited spending, tens of millions of dollars spent in that wisconsin race as the whole country looked on in amazement at the amount of money that was flowing to scott walker. well, the tobacco companies in california had a war chest that was bigger than the whole scott walker deal. do you want to know where the most money was spent in politics yesterday? bigger than wisconsin was just one side of this one ballot initiative in this one state. tobacco companies ponied up close to $50 million to fight the cigarette tax ballot initiative in california. and hey, wouldn t you know it, it worked. before the ad campaign, remember, in march, 67% of californians were going to vote for the cigarette tax. what happened last night? 50/50 split. in terms of the preliminary numbers t ....