bucket. some reports put it as high as $47 billion but either way you re nibbling around the edges at the federal deaf sight, right? it is tiny. compare this with the alternative minimum tax which they re considered scrapping which brings in hundreds of billions of dollars. remember that, hundreds of billions. jon: isn t the real problem here, the, the decision about whether you tax stock income or not? yeah. that s the real issue. and it s the dividend income. and what we need to be very careful here not to stymie the one thing that the low tax on dividends was designed to do. that was designed to get people to commit capital for long periods of time so that new factories and new machinery could be built and purchased so that we can be more productive as a society and create jobs and just have a better, you know, a better life here in america. that is what it was designed to do. the, there is, a way that