being treated on par with physical health care, they would be required by law to fix it. fix it, fix it, fix it. [ applause ] there s something else we re announcing today. when the mental health priority act was passed 15 years ago, there was a hoop hole. health plans offered to local state and government employees did not have to comply with the mental health parity act. more than 200 health plans nationwide were left out. now we re making it clear they have to follow the law as well. they must follow the law as well. okay. you ve been listening in to president biden talking about tackling the mental health crisis in america and cracking down on insurance companies when it comes to mental health coverage. we ll continue to monitor and bring you additional highlights. let s bring in nbc news white
providing rebates to homeowners so that they can have more energy efficiency in their homes that will drive down heating and cooling prices. so, in some specific areas they will go down faster, but even overall, this will put downward pressure on inflation. let s me talk to you in more detail about what kyrsten sinema wanted out of this. one of the changes deals with the carried interest provision. basically it s preferential treatment for hedge fund managers and private equity executives. that s how. why lose that? well, peter, i supported closing this loophole, the carried interest hoop hole. as you just said, it s a great tax boom to hedge fund owners where they pay lower tax rate than the people who work for them. so i ll continue to push for that, but in term of this package it was replaced alarmly by a 1% tax on stock on buybacks
roberts left off asking about the carried interest hoop hole. he said basically how it is keeping the carried interest loop hole or a portion of it good for the middle class? big priorities that we had were make it easy, make it fair, win again and bring it home. we feel like the tax legislation certainly does that. there were provisions put in place that directly help and benefit the middle class. they see more money come home and see child care, tax canductions double. there are a lot of things that will impact the middle class and we feel like those things address the need to help give them that boost and we think this absolutely will. the individual who makes roughly $83,000 would pay about 24% with their rate. somebody who benefits a millionaire still might pay 24% on that money. does the white house believe that somebody who makes 83,000,
how long? 40 years, yes. did something materially change about your business that this issue has come up now? no, not at all. i think lex mark lex mark just way to they found a hoop hole in the system, and i think it gave them the idea to come after me and a lot of my contemporaries in our industry, and fortunately i was the one that said i don t think this is right. we re not doing anything wrong here, and j.j. j when you re making a product and you believe in the product and you have employees that you kent to wi kindergarten with or high school with working paycheck to paycheck that have been with you for 20 or 30 years and you want to see them retire with your company, it s not something when a competitor comes in and tells you cease and detist what you re doing because we don t want to
when talking about this he s talking about the problems we have at border patrol. when you have a hoop hole and anything can come in he s worried about the protection of our country. is he referring to different groups of people that are lumped in with terrorists and rapists? anyone that wants to do ill will he s talking how anyone coming across the border that should not be coming across the border. that could be any cultural background. that s what he did express in the full scope of what he talked about. juan carlos when you look at the numbers, there is going to be a bad factor that comes over the border illegally. what do the numbers show about what kind of people come across how many work and how many fall into the category trump put them all in? when you look at the numbers, immigration from mexico to the u.s. has been basically zero in the last years because people are going back. there was the economy that