government spending by half. but the point i want to get to in the tax part of it is you -- >> no, no, no, lawrence. let me -- >> you just -- go ahead. >> no, lawrence. i can't let you make a statement that is incorrect. anybody that said that the 9-9-9 plan will only raise half of the revenue, they are dead wrong. they have changed the assumptions. we did a very careful analysis to come up with this. so i cannot let you say it's only going to raise half of the revenue because that simply is not true. next question. >> okay. let's go to the bottom tax bracket and how they would be affected. the lowest federal taxpayers currently pay in single digits, like 2%, 4%. they end up paying a net of about 2% or 4% of their income in federal taxes. under your plan the lowest, the lowest federal income taxpayers would suddenly end up paying 18% of their income in federal taxation. 9% of their income they would pay and then they'd pay 9% on