discussions? if he did i didn t hear it and it wouldn t make a lot of sense to me. bill: now why would that be? well, because it wouldn t, it wouldn t create a lot of jobs. you don t have to go to the cato institute or heritage foundation . bill: why do a deal if unemployment is where it is and jobs and economy was the big deal during the election? i would argue this all goes back to politics. the president started a 2012, a little over a year or less than a year ago today, now when the president introduced this buffett rule argument. and he focused on it his state of the union. carried through the first six months of 2012 and he campaigned on it through the election. he wanted to raise taxes on the wealthy and he wanted to do that i think largely to make a political argument against republicans. to pit republicans, the wealthy against the middle class, to make a class warfare argument to win the election. in effect what he has done here is bad economics but