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europe and i think that's what the democrats and especially the president wants. europe has very high taxes and one of the ways that europe finances its massive welfare state is through a value added tax on top of the other taxes that they have. i don't knowi i don't think that's the america that american voters want, but that's the decision americans have to make. do we want to raise taxes or everybody is entitled to everyone else's money or we're going to contract this thing? >> mary? >> and just to add to steve's point, remember how we got here. we got here through the democratic golden ages and through fdr's new deal. through lb j's great society, which gave medicare, medicaid, public housing, food stamps and now, we have the pelosi congress and president obama adding 4 trillion to our debt. >> i would add the bush administration bears some credit, if i put it that way, for this. they had a prescription drug benefit that they added that they didn't finance, they