Bill Clinton: “I think that that is not a good thing to do if you read the details of it. Obviously, the main purpose of some of them…”

“I think that that is not a good thing to do if you read the details of it. Obviously, the main purpose of some of them is to do away with the Btu tax, but the mechanics shift over $40 billion away from people with incomes above $135,000 down to elderly and working people just barely above the poverty line. I don't think that's good. There is also another provision which, if it's implemented in the way they propose, would continue to shift health care costs onto private citizens and private employers, which would hurt the economy and hurt jobs. So those are the two things which concern me. Otherwise, I'm glad to have people talking and coming up with new ideas. But those are bad things.”