Individual mandate in obamacare. Some people like in the senate, some dont. Susan collins has expressed concern, lisa murkowski. Is that an ineffective bargaining chip . Would you support taking the individual mandate out . Let me say this is all about getting this passed in the senate. This isnt a bargaining chip. The president thinks we should get rid of it. I think we should. It is an unfair tax on poor people. To think put a penalty and people who cant afford medical policies, it is fundamentally unfair. It does have a political impact. It wasnt in your original proposal for tax reform. It has been added in. Could you live with it if it is taken out . Our objective is to keep it in. It provides a big tax cut for the middle class. They get rid of the penalty that it gets rid of the penalty. We have the house that passed the bill, a very big deal. We got it out of the finance committee. It is going to be in the floor hanksgiving. If we can have a tax bill that is a tax public and pass, that is great. If you becomes in a pediment, we are ok with taking it out. An impediment, we are ok with taking it up. They think it would raise taxes for lower income taxes. If the senate bill becomes law, americans are willing 30,000 or lower would pay higher taxes. I understand some people might argue that eliminating obamacare subsidies is not the same thing as increasing taxes, but whatever you want to collect, lower income people will have less money. How can republicans of the white house propose a bill that was habitat obviously cut taxes for propose a bill that would cut taxes doing the white house will not sign a bill that races tax. One of the fundamental assumptions of what you just read is that getting rid of the mandate means fewer people are covered. Think about that. It makes absolutely no sense. Changing the mandate doesnt take people off of policies. Most of the folks covered by obamacare are covered by medicaid expansion. The individual mandate would not have an impact on that. It is difficult to get at what is really going to happen in the context economy. If we really believe in the complex economy. If we really believe, the president is not going to sign appeared mixable veiny says he is open to taking it out of the senate bill. Is that the White House Position . The white house is comfortable with the house bill, because it focuses on simplifying the tax code, bring jobs back, and focusing on middle income families. It does not have the mandate in it. We believe the individual mandate is attacks and is harming families. Raisedabout the issue i with the senator . The Corporate Tax cuts are permanent and the individual are temporary. Is that fair . Its a good question. Many of the Arcane Senate rules are resolutions that make it difficult to make both permanent. Many criticisms were made of the bush tax plan and said individual rates would not be parliament would not be permanent. Those cuts were permanent. We are hopeful both will be permanent. That means you will blow through the deficit caps and you will have concerns on the other side. It is 1. 5 chilling dollars in deficit allowance. All of those preaching concerned, we have created a country president obama doubled the debt we have. People preaching concerned about the debt, if we dont grow our economy, we will never pay for the things we need to do, such as rebuild our mayor our military. We will never be able to afford the things we need to do to make borders secure. Cspans washington journal with everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up monday morning, the Progressive Change Campaign committee will discuss the Progressive Agenda and campaign 2018. Daniel will talk about employmentbased immigration policy. The Government Accountability office will join us to discuss saving for retirement. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern monday morning. Join the discussion. Tomorrow, a foreign mr. Talks about the a foreign minister talks about the future of the middle east and Foreign Policy challenges. Live coverage begins at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan two