walker s bill the elimination of collective bargaining rights for public employee unions. walker s plan was to make it harder for public sector unions to bargain with state, county accident or local governments or school districts. he was saying we re going to take away your right to exist. collective bargaining is an expensive entitlement. state djz dispute that union bargaining rights affect the state s budget situation and that wisconsin is broke. they also disagree with some of the bill s other provisions, which include privatizing state power plants and overhauling medicare. lena taylor is a democratic state senator who opposes the bill. it did transformational things to laws in wisconsin. laws that had been in place for 50, 70 years. many interpret walker s proposals as a challenge to his
he was asked about it so many times in later years and he said the truth was the budget situation in new york was important and wasn t settled and he needed to concentrate on that. i think one lessons for politicians who have a moment like mario cuomo had in 1984 very similar to barack obama s moment at the democratic convention. rabbit? strike while the iron is hot. when you are a politician at that level and people are clamoring to run for president, you do it that cycle or don t do this at all. you have to think about mario cuomo and the disappointment of not running for president, you might think of someone else running for president. you might not have another window. is this when you see having politics coming full circle with
less take home play and put in the economy. we just described that, that is a hypothetical example. reporter: what is it? that is completely fair. again, it is a choice they are making. they had a 65 hour week job and no health care options and now you give them a new option they didn t have. a brand new thing. reporter: white house officials say that republicans are leaving out the part of the report that health care premiums are coming down while republicans predicted the opposite. reporter: quickly ed, jason was out there fast yesterday. did the white house know it was coming? reporter: folks in both parties get a head part that the cbo is coming out with reports about the budget situation and the health care law is an important part of that. they sprung in action and conference calls before the
redefine politics to broaden the scope and you use it to look, particularly at conservative groups, but a wide variety of these tax exempt groups but you don t subject unions to the same scrutiny, to the same rules, that s a built-in problem. that goes back to where you have got to do everybody, if you are going to make everyone. right. not only is steve right that the unions are in a different designation under the code, but obviously everyone is under the same one needs to be held to the same argument of scrutiny. the state we are in with our budget situation, we are not to be just exempting people willie nilly because they like to get together. make a level playing field. let s revoke everybody else who has already got it you know, we have got it do that too. i think the american people really have a very small understanding of how many groups are actually getting exempt from taxation. i think they wouldn t like it if they knew it. all right. panel, stay with us. we have
redefine politics to broaden the scope and you use it to look, particularly at conservative groups, but a wide variety of these tax exempt groups but you don t subject unions to the same scrutiny, to the same rules, that s a built-in problem. that goes back to where you have got to do everybody, if you are going to make everyone. right. not only is steve right that the unions are in a different designation under the code, but obviously everyone is under the same one needs to be held to the same argument of scrutiny. the state we are in with our budget situation, we are not to be just exempting people willie nilly because they like to get together. make a level playing field. let s revoke everybody else who has already got it you know, we have got it do that too. i think the american people really have a very small understanding of how many groups are actually getting exempt from taxation. i think they wouldn t like it if they knew it. all right. panel, stay with us. we have