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Who looking at this issue in two completely different ways. they have different political motivations, different ideological motivations, its really hard to see whats going to happen, except that its going to be quite a next couple of weeks. >> ron fournier with the new issue of the "national journal," which comes out tomorrow, thank you very much. "tea for two." through you see it. david walker served as americas controller general and now heads a balanced budget advocacy group. he joins us n...

Economy come back in the fourth quarter but hasnt really built on those gains but historically a weaker recovery out of such a steep recession. >> let me put this to david walker. you are the president and ceo of the foundation, you are very concerned about levels of debt. in this country. though, if the economy continues to falter, you still think its acceptable for the government to need to shore up the economy until the consumer steps back in and takes up their role in buying things and getti...

>> glenn: where did they go? where did the people left when they go? >> the rest of the country. >> nevada, arizona, elsewhere. >> glenn: anybody tell me what happened in maryland? because i think there is some real, there is real lessons to be learned here. in the positive. negative lessons. what happened to maryland? >> the controller general reported last year in maryland that the number of households over a million reported fell by a third. that brought down the total amount of income tax co...

>> the rest of the country. >> nevada, arizona, elsewhere. >> glenn: anybody tell me what happened in maryland? because i think there is some real, there is real lessons to be learned here. in the positive. negative lessons. what happened to maryland? >> the controller general reported last year in maryland that the number of households over a million reported fell by a third. that brought down the total amount of income tax collected from milliontaries by $100 million. so when they passed milli...

>> nevada, arizona, elsewhere. >> glenn: anybody tell me what happened in maryland? because i think there is some real, there is real lessons to be learned here. in the positive. negative lessons. what happened to maryland? >> the controller general reported last year in maryland that the number of households over a million reported fell by a third. that brought down the total amount of income tax collected from milliontaries by $100 million. so when they passed millionaires tax, they saw the nu...