care failed. do you think it s dead? that s what the secretary seemed to suggest last week and there were some things that concern us. we re looking at it, but not as is. so when they put out their plan which is coming very soon, we are promised, i m going to bet we re not going to see a border adjustment tax like the white house proposeded. you have walmart and retailers are against this and half the business community is not for this tax. which, of course, is important to the republicans, no doubt. the president s initial or, i guess, second tax cut plan during the campaign because he had two would have added trillions to the debt maybe up to $7 trillion. right. does a new plan need to address this? debt and deficit? yeah. this is one of the things that the president has been putting forward plans that are reaganesque in the sense that tax cuts would grow the deficit. a lot of republicans are saying no. we need a revenue-neutral plan and the problem is because they didn t
in massachusetts. this is one of the challenges of health care reform. health care is complicated and it s very personal. and it s easy to scare folks. and it s no surprise that some of the same folks trying to scare people now, are the same folks who have been trying to sink the affordable care act from the beginning. you know, and frankly i don t understand it. providing people with health care, that should be a no-brainer. giving people a chance to get health care should be a no-brainer. and i ve said before, folks have actually good ideas, better ideas, than what s happening in massachusetts, or what we ve proposeded, for providing people with health insurance, i would
when demand for those social services goes up, the price tag for providing them does as well. what do you want is borrow money to prevent the economy from further contraction. balancing the budget at a time like this as low as the recovery. the gop is adamant any new spending must be offset by cuts elsewhere. so what are they willing to cut? how about repealing $35 million of tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, as senator bernie sanders proposeded. surely the fiscally conscious republicans would consider that the way to go. no, the measure got exactly zero gop votes. what about offsetting the bush tax cuts the republican so eager to preserve? no deal. what about the democrats pay as you go proposal, that would offset all new spending? surely they d be down with that, right? nope. voted down. so are the republicans willing to offset any of those costs the democrats now find themselves c cutting, of all things, food stamps. joining us now to explain why that is a terrible, terrible