49.6% to 37%, we saw that state and local tax deduction capped at $10,000. that repeal of the obamacare act. what s your counsel to individuals still trying to process what s in those many hundreds of pages. if you re filing an e zerz f, the companies will take care of those forms. if you do have a figure out exactly how this affects you, at what level the various tax rates kick in, what your total tax rate will be in 2018. if you re a married couple that has an llc or a pass through entity, s-corp, what have you, you get a tax deduction.
according to mcnuick mulvaney t politico it could be a bargaining chip to repeal the obamacare act or to fund the border wall with mexico. tom reid is a republican from new york who voted for the house bill to replace obamacare. how does stopping the payments make anyone s lives better when we know it will make people s lives worse. well first of all, these are legal payments. it has been ruled by the courts they are legal. they are not in the law, they are unauthorized on the executive branch and what the president has done is put the pressure on congress to deal with this problem and i m part of 46 members on both sides of the aisle that put together a proposal that will address this issue of the destabilizing of the market place. so just to go back for a second. forward judge had ruled that the the payments were not appropriated by congress. but he stayed that pending appeal. so just to acknowledge, this is a affirmative decision by the president he is under no obligation to d
period, and slashing funding to help people sign up and take other steps to destabilize the exchange. but ending csr payments is the most overt, destructive bit of sabotage to date. and that will drive up premiums by double-digit and cause more ensurers to leave and leave people without insurance in the next year. as the ceo of one insurance company put it on a conference call. if you want to have a great health plan, you wouldn t be doing this. and chuck schumer and nancy pelosi call the move a spiteful act of vast pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corning of america. the question now is what exactly the president is demanding for ransom. according to mick mulvaney told politico it could be a bargaining chip to repeal the obamacare act or to fund the border wall with mexico.
if i have a preexisting condition. i can t imagine any governor would actually ever sign anything that says if you have a preexisting condition you are not getting it that would be a nail in their coffin they are not getting reelected. i cannot imagine a governor would not actually implement that. steve: sure. ufltly at the end of the day, lawmakers have to decide is this better than the obamacare act that we have where premiums are skyrocketing. ainsley: newt gingrich says yes. he says it is not perfect but it s better. steve: deadline runs out next saturday. brian: speaking of perfect jillian is here. always perfect. jillian: that s funny. very much so always. yeah, right. good friday morning to you guys and to you at home as well. recovery efforts in puerto rico ramping up today as we get a look at dramatic video a mother and two children children lifted to safety after their boat capsizes in hurricane maria off the coast of the island. the family senile waving their hands in the ai
defended obamacare. the house voted 47 times to repeal it. democrats voted to keep it. most democrats will say things need to be corrected, though. don t they? let s see them come to the white house and say, let s sit down. they haven t been invited. look, democrats do have a lot of tension from the bernie sanders wing about now moving to single payer. there are things that need to be fixed, charles. to your point if we re really talking about people, let s talk about how obamacare is being implemented, let s talk about what works, let s talk about what doesn t work. unfortunately, i actually think that president trump would have been much more pragmatic about it if there wasn t such disagreement among conservatives. the problem now is part of what is hurting implementation of the obamacare act, trump and other republicans have said, look, this is going to crater, we re going to let it collapse.