million people in the united states who get assistance is $26,000 a year. now, there s only really, you know, 20 or 30 million people in america who pay any significant taxes. so, in fact, we re very much like greece. because in greece, they literally 5% of the people pay all the taxes. the rest of greece is black market money for that. in fact, we re not kidding here. we are very much like greece when it comes to the people who get the benefits, versus the people who pay the welfare and benefit. brenda: almost every state is cutting benefits. they still have another $170 billion on the hole they have to cover. unfortunately, they re grabbing for the tax fix. as they find state-by-state, they re not getting revenues. why? because they re pushing out the wealthy who are moving somewhere else. we re dumbing down the tax base. the problem generally is we re running at 20% g.d.p. federally, 10% at the state level. now we pushed it up to 40%. the obama administration,