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Department of revenue, the city of san francisco bothering you for money, the author of the bill, his office has been reluctant to answer. >> paul: mike anthony of wyoming, a republican senator. >> the question we put to them was can the small business basically ignore letters from those 9600 governments if they come asking for more tax collections and we have had difficulty getting a straight answer. >> paul: kim, what about this argument about fairness that the bring and mortar folks use? and,...

>> this idaho people put solar panels on their home and office. they figured to break even in 14 years. now idaho power wants to cut back incentives to net metering customers. >> this is establishing a penalty for net metering so the net metering person is going to pay a higher bill. >> the utility applied to the monthly fee and stopped paying them at the end of the year. officials say its fairness issue. solar producers dont pay utilitys fixed costs. >> when solar is more expensive than other r...

Mind. >> sure. >> so i think having a lot of pressure on her and a few other of the maybe -- if there are any moderate or any suburban republicans in the state senate to really be firm in this and make them pay a high price. because as youve said, this is not illegal. they tried to do this in pennsylvania. theyre thinking about doing it in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and florida. and people just have to really keep an eye on this and put as much pressure as they can to say this aint fair. >> well...

Pressure on her and a few other of the maybe -- if there are any moderate or any suburban republicans in the state senate to really be firm in this and make them pay a high price. because as youve said, this is not illegal. they tried to do this in pennsylvania. theyre thinking about doing it in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and florida. and people just have to really keep an eye on this and put as much pressure as they can to say this aint fair. >> well, were not talking about a lot of republicans...

Republican party to change her mind. >> sure. >> so i think having a lot of pressure on her and a few other of the maybe -- if there are any moderate or any suburban republicans in the state senate to really be firm in this and make them pay a high price. because as youve said, this is not illegal. they tried to do this in pennsylvania. theyre thinking about doing it in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and florida. and people just have to really keep an eye on this and put as much pressure as they can...

They taxed transactions. if for two reasons. to achieve certain economic end like protectionism and secondly, to raise enough to raise a navy, et cetera. they never had a conception of a fair idea. tithing to the church is a fairness issue. thats where you give willingly, you give out of conviction and you give in a moral way. taxation is simply a question of how much are you spending, how are you going to get it? >> here is the other side. constitution obviously has it in there that the governm...

They taxed transactions. if for two reasons. to achieve certain economic end like protectionism and secondly, to raise enough to raise a navy, et cetera. they never had a conception of a fair idea. tithing to the church is a fairness issue. thats where you give willingly, you give out of conviction and you give in a moral way. taxation is simply a question of how much are you spending, how are you going to get it? >> here is the other side. constitution obviously has it in there that the governm...

They taxed transactions. if for two reasons. to achieve certain economic end like protectionism and secondly, to raise enough to raise a navy, et cetera. they never had a conception of a fair idea. tithing to the church is a fairness issue. thats where you give willingly, you give out of conviction and you give in a moral way. taxation is simply a question of how much are you spending, how are you going to get it? >> here is the other side. constitution obviously has it in there that the governm...

The war is they think it is about deficit reduction. they think it wont lead to serious deficit reduction. the president is talking about a fairness issue. since the republicans arent engaging on that, he is winning. >> so what about raising taxes? president obama is standing firm on his position to raise taxes on the nations top earners. how do people feel about that? joy they like that idea. -- >> they like that idea. 52% want a caned de who agrees. and the republicans are struggling with the ...

President on this issue. they want to see taxes raised on the upper income americans. that means you get to please his base. 58% of unaffiliated voters agree with them. republicans strongly in opposition, two out of three oppose it. this is a great place for the president to be. you get the republicans isolated on this issue. >> heather: scott, can you balance the budget just by raising taxes? what do people think about that? >> only 19% think that you can get there by raising taxes on the upper...