director came out later in the day and clarified something. but look, the fact is that republicans are willing to have revenues on the table. the big issue, really, is not the revenue piece, in my opinion. it s really how deep are republicans willing to go to fundamentally change medicare so that it s solvent for the future? it s kind of like there s a dial on each. if we can really cause medicare to be solvent for the future, i think republicans will dial the dial up on revenue, so the two are almost that they rely upon each other as it relates to getting to a compromise. on the revenue issue. the reason republicans would like to see higher income folks like me pay more by closing loophopes, is that s a pro-growth way of generating revenues. all of us understand that the upper income are going to pay more in revenues. we d like to do so by closing loopholes, because when you look at how businesses are formed today, they re through llcs, and sub-ss, and those are
and plus it really has been managing and getting our costs down in a very specific fashion that got us to a half a billion dollar surplus that got us into position to where you could cut taxes so we could grow. we were our state taxes were too high. we got to get them down. particularly targeted on small business. we took all income taxes off llcs, sub ss and sole proprietorships to stimulate that key part of the economy which grows small business. good luck. i hope it works for you. we had a fight in the race between president obama and governor romney over the question of the federal role in spending money in states to hire in retention of firefighter, teachers, cops. president obama has made a point of how important that is and how important it is for states like yours. governor romney came out and said president obama is wrong about this, he thinks that s the