if he went to democrats and that i will give you big time middle-class, lower-class tax-cut if you give me my corporate tax cut, he was to get corporate tax rate down, would they vote for any tax relief if they got there middle-class tax relief? i democrats and republicans can come together on that and repatriating funds, we can talk about guaranteeing cost share reduction payments, strengthening e-verify. there are areas democrats and republicans can work together. politics, a lot of the media plays into not being able to work together. we are closer than we think. rob: it will be a long three years if they can t start working together, it is miserable at this point, nothing is getting done with this
this country. there s nothing the president has presented thus far democrats should agree with. awe drawn, we listed a bunch of really outstanding issues, healthcare, taxes, the spending bill. as a republican what do you want the president and your gop lawmakers to focus on most? what should be the priority? well, i wish they hadn t of jumped on obamacare. look, the democrats are going to have to own it. if it continues to go back, more of them are going to want to try to work with the republicans to fix it. i think first off they should have worked on tax reform. you get the corporate tax rate down, you start creating more dollars within our country, creating new opportunities, you repatriate the dollars not on our shores, give them a great flat rate to get them to bring the money back into our country if they invest it, those things will continue to help new people come into the workforce, and that will continue to grow his base. taking on healthcare is a much longer, i think dif
no quid pro quo, despite accusations of crony capitalism. about a week before thanksgiving, he simply said, look, greg, i need you to relook at the decision to close the indianapolis factory of carrier. he said, we re going to do a lot of things in this country that s going to make it a lot more conducive to manufacturing. we re going to take the tax rate down, we re going to reduce all this burdensome regulation. when all that happens you re going to be printing money. i need you to relook at your decision to close the factory in indiana. nor was there any deal, there was no quit proceed i don t for him to say, i m not going to tax you if you don t do this. he simply said, take a hard look at it, work with governor pence. we keep the plant open, we keep 1,100 people employed in indianapolis. we still get to do the preponderance of the restructuring we were going to do anyways. so it s i would say no deal, but at the end of the day, a good deal for utc. ultimately united technologi
mitt and ann romney have three years to amend their return. if he s not elected president, i m sure he ll file an amended return and take the full amount. it will knock his tax rate down, you have to do some technical work, it will knock it down as low as 9.6% and as high as 12.2%, well below anybody working paying as a share of their income. senate majority leader harry reid sent out a tweet on romney s taxes earlier today. he said when will the american people see the returns he filed before he was running for president? what do you think about that comment? are you curious about his tax returns before he said he was going to run for president? the way the market went in 2008 and 2009, there might be a chance that romney didn t pay any tax. they assert in there, that s why that word owed is important as opposed to paid.
succeeding getting us out of it but he didn t create the hell of the fact older people can t sell their houses younger people can t buy a house. everything s below sea level, everything s down, nothing s move pg help didn t do that, just been unable to get out of it. why don t they target well, is it smart to say it was the smart alecks on wall street got us into this? politically it is very smart and by wait you ll see more and more of it. i also think the other issue, though, around the tax hikes is, are they actual tax hikes or just getting rid of the loopholes? politically, that s actually the very smart argument. let s get rid the loopholes. the problem wib the let s get rid of the loopholes art ultimately is that the republicans will say we can t do that unless we bring the ultimate corporate tax rate down, which is to say, make the corporate tax rate competitive and also get rid of the loopholes. that s where we re actually going to see the biggest friction. that brings in