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And to corporations so they can line their super pacs and their campaign donations. so let s be honest. what is the republicans offer to this nation? more tax cuts for the wealthy? more taxes for corporations? higher deficits? and then they re going to come back and then say we have to cut the safety net programs? we are the party, the democrats are the party, the ones that help our fellow americans out. if they want to call medicare socialism, go ahead. they want to call medicaid socialism go ahead. it s also what they re trying to do, the sloganeering, because you had those that said i m for affordable but not for obamacare, because they were told obamacare is bad when the affordable care act was what we call the obamacare legislation. but let me ask you this. one way that some are saying to balance this is to have someone like a biden and someone that has the energy of the more progressive or far left crowd, a combined ticket. how do you respond to that, charlie? ....
Celebration was republican senator susan collins even though she voted for the bill. we re learning new details about the promises senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made her about upcoming obamacare legislation. promises that are falling through. fill mat phil mattingly joins us now with more. phil, take us through what s actually in the final bill. $1.5 trillion proposal and no shortage of major components. let s start on the corporate side, it s one side republicans acknowledge they re most proud of. this is what s going to lead to the economic growth that will lead to the wage growth, that will produce what they think will actually happen with the bill. let s start with the corporate rate, there s a dramatic cut there. a cut 35% to 21%. then you have pass through entities, small business entities like s corp. or partnerships. things of that nature. they will get a 20% deduction for their businesses. these are companies that paid their tax rates through individual side. that ....
An analogy to the hated obamacare legislation when it first passed. if you remember the way the democrats talked about that they said well we know this was a hairy ugly process but we got a health bill here so what s wrong with it and i think the president s thinking and right- minded republicans will be thinking let s get a tax bill to get some tax cuts is better than all of the tax cuts we had hoped and dreamed for. that probably is best for the country as well to get something rather than nothing which is what they got on healthcare by the way. neil: what does that say about where we ve settled now? well it says that the president trump had no help with respect to the gop leadership and adam is right. they probably are desperate to get a check on the board and sometimes it doesn t matter if you won by one point or 20 points, but having said that i wonder what happened to the idea that the republicans are going to cut spending. they were going to get rid of the department of educ ....