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pledges being made from both parties. particularly on jobs. president obama promised unemployment would stay below 8% if stimulus passed. in their pledge, republicans promised, quoting, national economic prosperity, but offer few particulars on how to make that happen. joining me from new york is christine romans. do you see anything, and we re looking as you re looking, in this pledge where republicans can actually stimulate job growth? they give a few particulars about how they would try to do that and among them, if some of the traditional republican platform like cut the size of government. cut bureaucratic red tape. they say that kills small business when ever you have too much red tape, that s job killing. they talk about a small business tax deduction equal to 20% of their business income. they think that would make the way for investment and capital
constituency and as we look at that, one of the big things i got excited about. you mentioned this. that small business tax deduction going from 39.6% down to 25%. because they do the majority of the employing around this country, and so as we look at that, it s critically important that we stay focused on making sure that this is not just a break for the rich, and i think that s what you re hearing in the messaging. obviously you can look at a number that, the deserve is in the detail, but this is about a give and take, but it s taking away those special interest loopholes, giving it to the people back home. let me ask you again the question i asked. what do you consider middle class income? what are we looking at here? the range of middle class income? in terms of range, yet to be determined. most of the time when you look at that it s those people that are making $250,000 or less. okay. certainly for middle class to me, it s much lower than that. you know, when you re lookin