idly by and let them make these claims. and on the democratic side i'm the only one who's committed to raising middle-class income, not middle-class taxes. >> secretary clinton, let me ask you this. you said you're sort of thinking of every idea you can to get at those higher earners. my sense from the reporting in the "new york times" that opened a lot of people's eyes to the low rates, effective rates those earners are paying-s a lot of it has to do with what the xapt gains rate is. your husband quite famously cut capital gains tax rates from 28% to i think 20%. should we be doing things more broadly like raising capital gains rates, raising the top marginal rates, adding another bracket? >> well, chris, i think that we've got to do a lot of different things. i've also proposed a different capital gains structure. you would pay ordinary income tax for holding an asset for less than two years, and then it would drop until on the sixth year it would be 20%. back when it dropped from 28 to