premiums have been rising under the weight of government regulation for decades. right now you have the bottom the most unhealthy 5% of the population consume half of all costs. the rest only consume 3% of the cost. regulations have pushed all these graourntion young and healthy people, old people and sick people in more constrained groups over the groups through regulation increasing costs. republicans and democrats have to deregulate some of that to allow the costs to go back to their more market-driven state. bill: more on that mandate repeal. next hour sarah sanders is our guest live coming up in 45 minutes. laura: president trump touting u.s. progress in the fight against isis. president trump: we ve unleashed u.s. military on isis
spending, maybe hurricane relief and leaving it at that? yeah. basically the c.r. is for two weeks. the shut down thing, i don t know where that comes out of. nobody has discussed that. i haven t heard schumer or pelosi mention anything. that s just the drama that comes. the tax bill is a done deal. the conference neil: is it? they re arguing now on the senate side and saying you don t like the amt thing and delaying the corporate tax cut would be a problem. your thoughts. it s a problem but those things you can compromise. that s you put your finger on the biggest issue is delaying the corporate rate cut for a year. reagan phased in the cuts and had a recession. the senate did great stuff, too. they got did the mandate repeal. got us $300 bill more.
going to be deal-breaker. i would have business go to 20 immediately in 2018. neil: they have it going in 2019. we did not have the original mandate repeal but senate did, i think that has to stay in there, that s very important. we left 39.6 rate for high earners, i would have put the mandate repeal to 35. you re take get away some of the deductions, if you lower the rates for everybody, you know, people in new york maybe it s a wuish but at least they re not having taxes go up. neil: what are you limited to do? now can t go beyond the differences ore if you wanted to go to top rate, you can t do that, how does it work? no, i think you can i think you can do that. neil: you re still kind of a prisoner there will be a prisoner of the scoring which we
because a long-awaited tax cut for americans is possibly on the brink of passage. john mccain announced today he will vote for the tax bill, increasing the chances of getting through in a senate vote tonight or tomorrow. fortuitous, jesse, in terms of the president, the timing, the numbers. getting senator mccain to get on board. jesse: the president has always been a closer. he s closing the time this year. once he gets these tax cuts passed. they are going to slip and obamacare mandate repeal once they go to conference. that s of two-for-one. republicans going to the midterms next you re going to feel a lot better once they post those wins. maybe throw in an infrastructure bill, get some democrats to vote for it. the economy is already juiced. jobless claims started all-time low. consumer confidence, 17-year high. manufacturing, housing markets
do you think this thing goes through? ron johnson was also briefly against the health care plan, right? and he came around on that. so there s a bit of a track record there. there are now, i think, six republican who is are raising issues with this for different reasons. susan collins might be one that s worried about the mandate repeal. couple are worried about the deficit. still i think there s so much pressure to get something done this year that that is kind of driving this. okay. but this is what befuddles me. i know the people working on this plan are desperate to get a win. and they feel like if they get this through, they re going to pat themselves on the back and look at this as a glorious win. first time we ve gotten real tax reform done in 30 years. but what about when it s implemented? what about when it s implemented and there isn t a huge boost to the economy and we don t see corporations going on a hiring spree and don t see wages go up, up, and up? then what? withou