savings accounts. i have to ask you, i can talk to our bosses about getting you a show at the moment this is ours. answer a couple of questions. sure. i don t even know what we re saying about the american medical association, why they would be a unique interest group but add to that list, there are more than a dozen, aarp, american cancer association, american heart association, american diabetes association, american nurses association, every single one of them has come out against this bill. and by the way, before mitch mcconnell met with the 13 members of hommittee that wrote this, he met with lobby t lobbyists from the health care industry, to say they are special interest groups working with obamacare, they are also working with the senate. what he s met with them as others have met with them. he s met with groups like the aarp and other groups and doctor s groups and patient groups and a lot of people. that s what senator mcconnell does. he actually hasn t, to be cle
he talked about this and having the corporate tax rate lowered this would be for the big dogs. the folks that have the lobby t lobbyists already. the smaller, medium sized companies there s such a huge imbalance. comprehensive tax reform includes a lot. things. lowering the corporate rate and lowering the individual rates but also eliminating or reducing some of the deductions you get from let s say mortgage interest and the philanthropic and the like. the proposals both that paul ryan and the president have at least as far as we know cut the tax rates for small businesses that run an s-corporation, c-corporation, llc down to the corporate level which means if you are a doctor for instance and you make $1 million a year and your adjusted gross income is millions of dollars you get an adjusted tax. tax reform is a much broader issue which could include a
not only so that the 15 million people who were looking for work last month can get a job, but so that they can have wages that will be livable. as you said, it s $22,000 roughly for a family of four to survive under poverty each years that s less than $500 per person per year. we need for a congress to work together to create and sustain jobs. in congress there s a bill pending to provide and continue for an emergency fund that has created nearly 250,000 jobs. unless congress actses s bby t of this month, those jobs will go away. it means we must come together, do what s right. jodie levin epstein, thank you very much. and that does it for me in
basically, don t you feel like that s what he was saying? just get with the program. absolutely. earlier his team had been indicating that, look, they re not going to go there and browbeat them. they re going to talk to these guys and they did have meetings before the speech, i want to point out, letting them know this is like a business deal. this is the deal. you re going to have to accept it. might not be the terms you were wanting and frankly lobbying against, the legions of lobby t lobbyis lobbyistss a sending on capitol hill. this is the deal on the table we want you to take. that s the kind of language that wall street and business understands, tony. the president is talking about proposing what he calls, let s see here, updated common sense rules. we re looking at the first major change in regulation in the financial sector since the 30s. christine, what sector of american business, what part of american life hasn t changed since the 30s?