bill. but on the republican side, the republican presidential candidates and republicans in the house are sort of trading the lead in terms of who's going to get the lead economic message. we keep hearing about how much people like the amazing herman cain 9-9-9 plan. now that mr. cain is polling so well, i understand we have new analysis of how that plan won't work? >> this is incredible. this is part and parcel of what we've been discussing and what you were talking about with ezra. the idea the folks are speaking to themselves in an insular way that they are definitely leaving the country behind. this new analysis out today from the tax policy center which is a very highly regarded nonpartisan scorekeeper of this stuff shows that the herman cain 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on the lowest income people. their income is around 10,000 bucks on average. would raise their taxes by $1,600, race federal taxes on the middle class by over $3,000, would lower taxes, take them