Gasparino, so long with ben stein and adam adam lashinsky. Kennedy is off this week once she heard gasparino is here this week. Not true not true at all. She didnt want to come back. Neil so lauren what do you think of that hes saying the irs has to do these timetables and Everything Else but yes its doable february the net changes can already be in there. And the irs has said that early february. It could be possible. Its tax time. I know, its very unpopular right now when we talk about this tax cut that could happen. It could be our Christmas Gift but i think were also experiencing a sea change something that we havent seen before. Look at the latest numbers from just this week, retail sales on an annual basis up almost 6 so consumers are confident without seeing a tax cut. Small businesses looking at the second highest number. Neil that could keep the window yes, so we are seeing improvements without that tax reform so should we get it . We could see benefits by february. Im saying yes. Neil Charles Payne . I agree and think the cycle has already begun. I dont know if we will get it in february. Neil the president just said he said that. Hes not denying that. Charles but hes also going off reports too so well both use that report. Neil oh, okay. Charles but the bottom line is. Neil thats like saying the irs would target groups. Charles sure but i agree 100 with lauren. The rules of the economy are moving people are feeling better retail sales are up confidence is up and in part because people anticipate getting more in their paycheck or at least keeping more in their paycheck. Neil gasparino . I think what the president left out is some people get a massive tax increase and i think thats going to be a problem for the economy. Lets be clear. Neil you talk about those who live in high tax states like you lets be real clear here neil poor people and working class people dont pay a lot of federal income tax. Neil quick side note they do watch the show. I want to remind you if they think they are going to get rich if donald trump was handing them a billion dollars from trump towerneil well have to see that. Its going to be very marginal for them and then middle class people in high tax states are going to be homes. Neil adam what do you think of that youre in a pricey neck of the woods. Indeed. Charlie is exactly right and by the way, what happens with peoples paychecks wont necessarily be the final say. Whats more important for the people charlies talking about is when they file their tax returns next year. They may or may not be seeing a tax decrease. They probably wont. Neil actually filing their returns the year after next so the delayed effect will be there im wondering if its too late. Even if its good. Neil to help republicans just thinking politically in the midterms. Theres no doubt if your paycheck is your paycheck is higher, youre going to feel better about that you might spend a little more money. Things are definitely moving in the right direction. They have been for about eight years by the way. Neil oh, okay. So ben stein, what do you make of this and what people do . Its obvious what you see what you net in your check and obviously the benefits of the Corporate Tax cut that you have had for some time, then what . Ben well i think people will see the benefits of the Corporate Tax cut immediately and are already seeing it in the skyrocketing stock market and that benefits everyone even people who dont have stock directly through their iras, pension plans, Childrens University endowments all a big benefit but what i keep noticing is nobody pays any attention to the deficit. Nobody pays any attention at all simply just wished it out of existence. Its not going to go away and and eventually i little live to see it but my granddaughter whose a beautiful wonderful little girl will live to see this country go through bankruptcy and im scared. Hopefully ben if we get 3. 5 growth it will go away. Neil this is bens granddaughter i dont think she needs it. His granddaughter . Neil france has got the double doppler gdp of latin america. 3. 5 gdp growth helps pay down. Neil charlie thats a big jump. A hell of a big jump. But lately it moves around three. Charles this is the third consecutive quarter of 3 , in fact 3. 3 growth. Ben we all love the irs as a man whose being audited for the last year we all love the irs. I agree. Ben theyre the nicest people in the world. I agree ive been saying that for years. Neil sure. Lauren youve got to start seeing bang for the buck but were already seeing a lot so its going to be a hard act to top right . Its not only the good thing were talking about the National Deficit but also the personal deficit. Were not saving a lot of money right now. We are spending it and we could be getting ourselves good for the economy i know twothirds of Economic Activity is Consumer Spending butneil adam lashinsky, he is one of the cheapest people i know. He is saving every single penny. When the world does that adam will be there and say right here hes reinvesting his apple dividends. Im a good saver and also the only person probably on the program who enjoys paying my taxes. I did just neil oh, come on. You always say they have a line if you want to give extra you fill that out, right . No, i do not, but ben said no one is talking about the deficit the republicans talked about the deficit and they decided that they didnt care. They decided charlie was right oh, were going to grow our way out of it. Neil just like the democrats before both parties failed on this, right . The democrats are worse. Ben very much so. Theyre never going to reign in spending. We could be on this show for a thousand years god bless us all, and theyre never going to reign in spending just not going to happen. Neil well they had a tough time curtailing the growth. Ben absolutely right. Hipocracy aside though there is a big difference between treading water, adam, which we did for eight years and the type of acceleration and the type of enthusiasm that were seeing in our economy, in our stock market and on main street you must admit that. The evidence is there and i think thats inspection as we know a virtue us cycle. It could be done with money printing but can be done the way its being done right now and it is infectious and doesnt go away overnight. The only thing id say is lets be real clear. The obama economy flirted. Neil wasnt she being clear before . No, youre not because here is why. The obama economy as much as i dislike his Economic Policy flirted with 3 growth a few times and it fell back and one thing i will tell you with stock buybacks, with cutting the Corporate Tax rate. Thats going to stimulate a lot of stock buybacks. It may be good for the market. Neil wouldnt that be. Charles but this year . Thats for a lot of reasons but let me tell you something. Charles including the thing called earnings. Topline growth is rocking. How are we going to put people to work and increase their wages . Do that by investing in plant and equipment. Charles theyre starting to do that. With regulations. Neil lauren . We do that also with de regulation. The president s goal for next year is for every new regulation they will pullbkac thr, so itsetter than they heard this year. Neil i heard that tooike well tak one, t,hen three. Let me see youo it. Okay, so i can tel you so far in 2017, we said we have had three new regulations. Neil come on. Three new regulations and 67 have been pulled back. So why are all these factories opening up . Charles on friday, look at the data though. Empire state report look at that it came out friday. Look at that Industrial Production numbers. Neil its fabulous. Charles theyre moving in the right direction. You dont go from one to a hundred overnight. I know that but here is the bottom line. So manufacturing thats where it was in the 70s. Charles of course not. Neil all right all right may i remind you gentlemen its the holidays. [laughter] all im saying is its moving in a way it hasnt moved in years and thats something we will applaud. Neil we have never had an argument like this about topline growth. Whatever that is. Charles [laughter] maybe im missing the numbers here another thing im missing wasnt it improving under obama lately . Neil yes, it was. Absolutely. Neil there you go. Charles no, no, no. Neil each can take a bow. 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Charles i looked at canada they changed their immigration system a few years ago to a meritbased system that includes education. Neil in other words what you can bring to the country. Charles what you can bring to the country and there is also a slice in there if you get 10 points for the ability to fit in if you have relatives here that helps, there rather that helps a lot and i think about how fewer incidents there have been visavis terrorism and things like that but also lets face it were a nation built on immigration but also a nation where we populated it and i think at this point if we want to stay number one in the world we need to bring in as much talent as possible and also people who are going to be pledging allegiance to our country as soon as they step foot on it. Neil ben stein what do you think of what the president is saying you come to the United States with the understanding youre going to bring something to the United States. Ben i love the idea. Personally, i dont understand why were having any immigration at all at this point, except for agricultural workers, but how are they going to do meritbased immigration or give everybody the immigration boards, give everyone the immigration acts . How are they going to judge merit . Its a very slippery thing. Charles and establish around the world including canada already that will be easy to mimick i think ben. Neil that might be. Ben okay if you think so but i look at canada i dont see canada being the United States of america. I just dont see how it can be done but if you could explain it to me. Neil whats the quick side note ben we also have canadian viewer s so lauren you hear that. What do you think of what the president wants to do because this system has produced some things. We have had two terror incidents in new york recently. The halloween terrorists who came here through the diversity visa program, a lottery basically, and then a few weeks later we had a terrorists the subway bomber come in because he was the nephew of a u. S. Citizen , that is chain or family migration. The president wants to do something called the race act where it would be meritbased if youre the parents of someone cannot come in so basically for spouses and children and that makes more sense to me because at a certain point youve got to draw the line and also you cant come in because youre a nephew. Youre coming in here because you have a job a skill an education. You can come in because youre a nephew. Yeah, thats excessive. You should be proud to come to the u. S. And entitled to come in because youre a never use. Neil this is no more about immigration than Timothy Mcveigh about being americans. These crazy people will do crazy things. We have to keep being a nation of immigrants and family ties. Charles but adam theyve saying what about smart immigration, not even about terrorists. Great idea. Neil but how do you know when he came here seven years ago the bangladesh guy, as far as i remember, charlie gasparino, he was fine. He became radicalized years later so how do you police that no matter what system you use. You cant. Youre right and here is why i would bet 100 on this. You can see its very easy to see how a phd from bangladesh might be a terrorists. It happens they get radicalized there in colleges just because theyre smart and could add something to our system doesnt mean they wont come here and blow themselves up. I agree with ben. We need an immigration system for people that we need to employ. If its not architecture, its got to be almost zero. We dont need manufacturing. We dont need people. Charles there are a lot of industries saying they cant fill their jobs. Neil but how do you weed out the dangers or those who could become there. Thats no way to do that. The only way to weed them out is to have more aggress off law enforcement. It doesnt allow the new york city police, let me make this point. Neil very quick. Mayor deblasio does not allow police to go inside mosques. Neil talking about the mayor of new york city. What do you think of that adam . We children, great grandchildren of immigrants should not sort of change the way america behaves. Why . Because its what makes america america. My parents came here because they needed people to work on roads and bridges and manufacturing plants. And because your grandparents needed some place to go as well. And theyve setup businesses. They would have went to argentina if we didnt have an Industrial Revolution in the u. S. Charles right now charlie would be yelling at you in spanish. Neil yeah. What are the odds theres someone like you . There is a lot of italians in argentina. Neil yelling and screaming. Sure all right in the meantime, one u. S. 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It is supposed to help them with their budgets but charles you worry its going to wreck those budgets . Charles well, im worried about some of these workers who mesa because it and walmart is looking out for someone who always needs their check two weeks before, and have some sort of counseling or red flags but its a good gesture particularly in times like ahead of the holidays. Its a nice thing but structurally its hard for companies to do this. Companies dont get all their money all at once and give it out. They have to borrow and issue shortterm debt. Maybe if walmart does but not every company. Neil lauren . I think the point of this is so that this type of consumer doesnt go into a very expensive pay day loan but unfortunately i think the message is for walmart. Pay your workers more money and maybe with a more friendly tax code they will. Minimum wage at walmart is 9 what is it 11 or 13 at target and costco . Neil they got more, ben stein what do you make of that . Ben i think the point that was just made about the pay day loans is brilliant. Pay day loans are very very valuable tool but incredibly expensive if walmart can do anything to steer people away from them theyre doing an enormous service. Neil adam what do you think of this idea . Its a good idea. It started with some of the apps like uber, where companies started up and said well pay your drivers before uber will. Its good for the workers to get cash in their pockets and walmart did raise wages aggress every. Neil less than ive ever heard compliment. I love walmart. Neil do you think this is going to spread though other companies will do this . I hope so its good but i just wonder if they technically can do it. Do they have the money on hand, i mean walmart is a huge company but some Smaller Company publics they all have to do this neil and lauren its hard for them to do right . And also the idea of instant gratification. I need my money now yes sometimes you do but you also need to learn how to budget and live off of that budget. Neil you know, theres just an evil tone. Charlie i want to thank you, lauren great having you again. Thank you. Neil may the force be with your wallet. Were not talking at all about the new star wars flick which by the way im getting tired of this whole light sabre nonsense stop it. We are talking about our stock jedi blockbuster fix right heather who would hook up with a company that puts things like that out. Blockbuster stocks the bigger than star wars. Vanguard total stock market, the Global Economy doing well, not just the us. Spiders as always. Heather the are you outside that . With berkshire hathaway. Heather we have stocks. In response to being told he is where he is to protect the country from that menace, donald trump, he said i can protect our country at many levels. In andys office. There is a break, no way trump gets elected. I want to believe that. 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