that we have this cliff behind us. i want you to listen to that again. they asked paul ryan, he asks paul ryan, can you balance the budget in ten years? and paul ryan says yeah, we re much better off now because we raised taxes. listen. all right, can you get to balance in ten years, and not raise revenues? yes, yeah, the baseline, the revenue baseline is obviously higher now that we have this cliff behind us. well, would you look at that? raising taxes does help you balance the budget. who knew? perhaps the republicans could take this insight further, but they re not. ryan says no more revenue increases at all. and so what is ryan going to do beyond the tax increases democrats forced on republicans, how will he get that budget balanced? he won t say. going back to the math question, you said that the reforms to medicare wouldn t
the filibuster is an important piece of the architecture and it should be preserved. i think a lot of folks wonder why, why wouldn t they want it to be a majority senate? so walk me through it. because you talk to these folks. what is the case for it among the more established members of the institution? well, if you think of what is going on in a number of state legislatures, and look at what happened in virginia. if you have a republican party that gains even by the narrowest of margins, the republican party, they have a willingness and ability to jam through some remarkable and revolutionary things. democrats in the senate, the senior ones who spent plenty of time in the minority, they have been in the minority when george w. bush had republican majorities in both houses. they saw the tax cuts go through, they have seen other instances where they re fearful enough that the worm will turn, and they want to be in a position where they can use their minority status for leverage.
piece of the architecture and it should be preserved. i think a lot of folks wonder why, why wouldn t they want it to be a majority senate? so walk me through it. because you talk to these folks. what is the case for it among the more established members of the institution? well, if you think of what is going on in a number of state legislatures, and look at what happened in virginia. if you have a republican party that gains even by the narrowest of margins, the republican party, they have a willingness and ability to jam through some remarkable and revolutionary things. democrats in the senate, the senior ones who spent plenty of time in the minority, they have been in the minority when george w. bush had republican majorities in both houses. they saw the tax cuts go through, they have seen other instances where they re fearful enough that the worm will turn, and they want to be in a position where they can use their minority status for leverage. and if you put that together with t
raising taxes does help you balance the budget. who knew? perhaps the republicans could take this insight further, but they re not. ryan says no more revenue increases at all. and so what is ryan going to do beyond the tax increases democrats forced on republicans, how will he get that budget balanced? he won t say. going back to the math question, you said that the reforms to medicare wouldn t apply to to people who are say, 55 or older. but as some members have suggested, wouldn t it be necessary in order to balance the budget in ten years to make those reforms applicable to people who are say six, seven, eight years into the program? you know, i am just not going to get into that. i haven t sat down with the committee members, i don t even have a baseline. it would be premature to comment on where i m going to go.
there s a recent poll coming out in new york state, young people are leaving and saying the taxes are too high. where do they go. texas, i don t know. neil: wait a minute, you re telling me a lot of the young diligent, they re going to texas. you have no idea where they re going. neil: i don t believe it. i don t believe it. in other words, not new yorkers, not the village. they are leaving by by the way, people are leaving for lower taxes. neil: i stand corrected. neil. neil: adam? as i have before on this program i will play the reagan optimist. i am optimistic that we re talking so much about this, we re talking more about it, we re getting closer to solving the problem, not further away. neil: no, we re not, no, we re not. you know how it s going to be solved. we ll hit the date and medicare will poy out 90% of benefits promised. it s messy, ugly. no way. neil: medicare wouldn t be the problem, if you just help mom and dad out a little bit. now wh