explained his plan today. we have to prioritize. both parties agree that we need to reduce the deficit by the same amount, $4 trillion. so what choices are we going to make to reach that goal? either we ask the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share in taxes railroor ask seno pay more for medicare. we can t afford to do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that the most profitable corporations have to give up tax loophole that s other companies don t get. we can t afford to do both. this is not class warfare. it s math. so let s take it this a step further. let me explain his reference to class warfare. a lot of top republicans say that s what the president is, they say that asking the wealthiest americans to pay more taxes is just simply unfair. and they reject any tax increase saying it it s bad for our fragile economy. the president sent his treasury secretary out to sell his plan. the first question he faced?
a runaway toyota prius. he called 911 while driving on a san diego freeway. his car sped up to 94 miles an hour. who knew they went that fast. as he tried to pass another vehicle, a chp officer, california highway patrol, pulled alongside the prius and strustd the driver to engage the emergency brake. once the car slowed down to 50 miles per hour, the driver turned the engine off. thankfully no one was injured. but the driver says a toyota teerlship had told him the car was never recalled. this came on the same day toyota tried to disprove a critic who believes toita s electronics caused the cars to speed up and not a mechanical problem. now there are reports that the prius will be the next to be recalled, once they figure out how to fix it. finally, one of the health care renorm s most vocal opponents says he will be leaving the united states for costa rica, at the very least for health care and maybe altogether if in fact reform is
promising to put his weight behind the replacement. unsurprising since he campaigned on a full repeal. it probably won t pass unless we take replacement off of it. one of the most vocal opponents senator rand paul. i feel sure that rand paul will come along with the new and great health care program and republican leadership is rallying around the bill. house speaker paul ryan confident they ll get the votes. we have a few weeks. that s due to a number of vacancies created when members of congress took other positions and while speaker ryan seemed confident there many others don t agree. this bill faces a very steep climb in the house ooechbd a steeper climb when it potentially reaches the senate.