the tax cuts i am proposing we get rid of are tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. tax breaks for oil companies and hedge fund managers and corporate jet owners. there it is, the corporate jet owner. we were surprised to hear ben palestine agrees with mr. obama. we ve got on to raise taxes. there is no way around it. the deficit situation is so serious that while i wish we did not have to raise taxes, we just can t cut spending enough. we can t. we ve got raise taxes. mr. obama is going out to do it. i don t know if the republicans in the house will go along with it. if they don t, they will be genuine crisis. i am concerned about it. so is he in singe with the
and ds it s about washington d.c. and the rest of us outside the beltway. if you look at the current deficit situation, you re in a hole, stop digging. we are going to dig our way to china we have this on going discussion about digging a bigger hole in in our tebt. jenna: certainly the tea party with us a big force for certain candidates that get elected in 2010. i m curious how you grade the folks you help get into office. are you satisfied by candidates like rand paul who were really helped by the tea party, whatever group supported them? if you look at this historically t party class of both the house and senate i think all of the good ideas, all of the balancing the budget, eliminating the programs that don t make sense are coming from the tea party class, not just
a mandate to cut spending. they did not vote for tax increases. i hope that has been made clear for washington. neil: ben stein? well, as i ve been saying now ever since we met, we ve got to raise taxes there is just no way around it. the deficit situation is so serious that while i wish we did not have to raise taxes we just can t cut spending enough. i wish we could. we have can t. we have to raise taxes. mr. obama has to do it. i don t know if the republicans in the house will go along with it. if they don t there will be a genuine crisis. i m frankly frightened about it. extremely concerned about it. neil: that s a sticking point for republics. they don t want it on the table. most americans don t want it. if you combine state and federal taxes, americans pay a lot of money to the federal government. i disagree with ben. we have never seen a real initiative to cut stuff. we talk about it and paul ripe
states around the country, budgets are a difficult thing in a down economy, and there is a deficit through but there is a question how much responsibility he bears in that deficit situation in minnesota but it is something that is going to be dressed by the campaign ahead. shepard: a regime trying to hold on to power by crushing and killing its people. happening in libya. so, we are dropping bums. but it is not a war. it is happening in syria. and we are in the doing much of anything. we will look at the difference. and we have seen incredible video of a volcano erupting. we will show you the view from space. stay tuned. your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today.
tell you there is a potential for transit dollars in savings. if the president and his side would come together and actually say, ok, the american people expect us to produce here. let s do it. in the meantime, you are multitasking in addition to trying to figure out that to come up with your own economic agenda for the country and the republicans have. for instance, some of the points are empower small business owners and reduce regulatory burdens, fix the tax code to help job creators and things like that. one of the things regarding the tax code is you re proposing a 25% cap on individual and corporate taxes, right? absolutely. we all know that jobs are not plentiful right now. too many people are out of work and we have to grow this economy. that s also a fix for the deficit situation. and we ve got to focus again on putting the growth strategy in place so we can see small businesses grow. that s where the jobs come from. and in fact, it s the startup businesses so our job crea