in reverse label. there is another problem. and the one thing that is different from last year, aside from the spending and cuts that we were just talking about, is that now the top tax rate is higher than it used to be for the richest americans. it used to be 35%. now it is 40. this is a bigger. at a cut. i think the thing people should realize is that representative ryan does not specify one loophole closure. one offset. he has never done so. you could worry that it would raise the budget deficit by taking in less revenue and not telling us how you pay for it. and i misworded it. it said while holding social security a political sacred cow. i don t know what i was thinking when i said otherwise. but let me bring you back in this. they stay democrats cannot wait to hang copies of ryan s budget around the necks of republican candidates on the campaign trail. what are the ramifications?