managed to actually balance the budget or republicans under george w. bush managed to explode. that is one bucket of it. the other is every time you ask republicans about it, they say wait for us. they say we're bringing out the. then we'll show you how to balance everything, how to deal with entitlements so there has been a bit of a wait-and-see approach. on the state level where the budgets are already coming out we have waited and we are seeing and they do not look good. they look like an enormous amount of tax cuts that are being paid for on the backs of in many cases the poor. >> what is interesting, too, is that republicans also get credit for being super anti-tax but in many of these republican states that are giving away these huge budget busting tax cuts to corporations and to the wealthy, for example, with the state taxes, we are also seeing republican legislatures and republican governors proposing raising taxes on the poor. in georgia they are proposing raising taxes on blind people. in michigan they are raising taxes specifically on the elderly and the poorest people