fuzzy math. you give people new health benefits and cover 10 million more people with government insurance where is the money going to come from if the tax doesn t take effect until 28 teen? remember it is very unpopular with the voters. a lot of of the people pay this tax make less than $200,000 a year he promised he wouldn t tax people greta: i got that. the health czar thinks some congress eight years from now is gonna do this i don t know. even david gregory didn t buy that one. steve, thank you. time for another field trip. earlier we went to capitol hill and republican senator chuck grassley on the record. nice to see you, sir. always glad to be with you, thank you. greta: i know this was not your idea. i m curious the cadillac tax. it doesn t set in until 2018
gotten something bipartisan that would have been more reasonable and because we had plenty of time it doesn t take effect until 2014. i make a joke, but there s some truth we had to be in session because we hadn t been in session christmas eve since 1895. greta: does this tax does it apply to everybody who has a cadillac plan? are unions the only ones exempted until you can have people that live side by side some are union, some are not and they are going to be treated differently that s the way the bill passed the house of representatives. no, that s the way the bill pass the senate, i m sorry. greta: in one washington post article. it says that the tax exempt union plans and government workers until 2018 does it not exempt the rest of us? no. get the only ones who get the special deal are the
fuzzy math. you give people new health benefits and cover 10 million more people with government insurance where is the money going to come from if the tax doesn t take effect until 28 teen? remember it is very unpopular with the voters. a lot of of the people pay this tax make less than $200,000 a year he promised he wouldn t tax people greta: i got that. the health czar thinks some congress eight years from now is gonna do this i don t know. even david gregory didn t buy that one. steve, thank you. time for another field trip. earlier we went to capitol hill and republican senator chuck grassley on the record. nice to see you, sir. always glad to be with you, thank you. greta: i know this was not your idea. i m curious the cadillac tax. it doesn t set in until 2018
gotten something bipartisan that would have been more reasonable and because we had plenty of time it doesn t take effect until 2014. i make a joke, but there s some truth we had to be in session because we hadn t been in session christmas eve since 1895. greta: does this tax does it apply to everybody who has a cadillac plan? are unions the only ones exempted until you can have people that live side by side some are union, some are not and they are going to be treated differently that s the way the bill passed the house of representatives. no, that s the way the bill pass the senate, i m sorry. greta: in one washington post article. it says that the tax exempt union plans and government workers until 2018 does it not exempt the rest of us? no. get the only ones who get the special deal are the
under the president s proposal if it is a good idea why not do it now? delay so the unions so would get a big deal from the democrats and in the senate, something the unions put pressure on the democrats not even to have it but the democrats need the revenue so they wanted to tack it. greta: the fact that it doesn t happen for the president will be out, even if he has two terms he will be out. everybody is long gone. people who serve two years, even six years, long gone. are we being tricked? can i put it in a bigger context? greta: sure. we just had to be in session, christmas eve, 2009 to pass a bill that doesn t take effect until 24 teen or the provisions you are talking until 2014 or the provisions you are talking about 2018 why did we have to hurry up on christmas eve when we could have worked on it and