we forget about the health portion of this. guest: good morning. how was the latte and coziness? one of my favorite lines. neil: the gate was locked. but you know they don t know you well enough! from a distance i look like hannity. we are working on it. part of the cliff is 20, 25% of the federal government spend that is healthcare and president 40 to 45% approximately 40 to 45% depending who you read does not get us health security we think of as part of healthcare. so the cliff, you know, the good news is that there is room to spend a lot less. and still be safe. the bad news it doesn t look like we will do that by the end of the year or anytime soon. most of what we see kick in for the end of the year,
if we can shop we can spend more to get great healthcare. neil: always a pleasure. thank you. what we re trying to say here, right or left is where we stand. in the middle of the pile of green that we don t have. that we re going to have and if we don t do something by december 31, we will have nothing. oh.there you go. wooohooo..hahaahahaha! i m gonna stand up to her! no you re not. i know. you know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy are they jimmy? happier than a witch in a broom factory. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it s always good to have a backup plan,
at best with a wash. some may pay more. guest: we are looking for overall not raise tax burden on people. neil: i want to be clear. you are on board with the rich carrying a bigger chunk of the burden if their deductions are phased out or limited? guest: as long as rates don t go up and the overall tax burden doesn t go up, the tax reform is perfectly acceptable. that is a good idea. neil: okay. grover, thank you very much. he is a svengali. he is more popular than sesame street character. lizzy macdonald, interesting what he said that potential middle ground could be how you define a tax hike. allow extension but make sure you are setting it with the real spending cut. that might be a way out for republicans who feel boxed in. i don t know. you have been hearing from
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in grand junction, colorado, the new plan is no income tax increase next year. neil: we know taxes will go up, healthcare law, medical devices and host of others. selling a home, assets, et cetera. what else? that s what we don t know. he s promising that for one year he won t raise incomes taxes. we know the tax increase in january could have been avoided if the democrats for two years, they could have made the tax cut permanent for foreign people, middle income people, left-handed people. they made it permanent for nobody. that telegraphs the plan. after a year they will let them go up on everyone. neil: two weeks ago we got in the issue of what is a tax hike? we were talking about all the special breaks, allowances, write-offs at some businesses