within the republican party, really, that's a disagreement over tactics and essentially disclosing your negotiating rategy. taxeising s is never popular, especially in an election year, especially in a recession. i think the reason the president is having trouble getting tracks on this issue is there is a credibility trap when he he talks about reducing the debt. when it's $250,000 per family, that can be a two-parent home, both working in the middle class, making middle class salaries. so i think one of the political tension points on the year this year is a gap between the working wealthy and what might be called the super rich, the bernie madoff crowd. and a lot of tse folksmi in the upper middle class, especially in the higher cost of living areas are feeling the squeeze from this recessn deeply and they deeply resent as well as fear the prospect of higher taxes. >> let me finish one point i missed. you can't take -- if the whole premise is if you make money, you go out, you work hard,