if you get $80 billion a year in tax hikes, which is what you get from raising the top two brackets back, that s in one year, that pays for government about eight days, maybe nine. so that doesn t solve any problems. the problems are on the spending side. publicly, at least, the president doesn t want to do anything about spending. his idea of a spending cut is to make the higher income people pay more for their medicare and call that a spending cut. just look at november october and november s cbc report, about revenue. revenue was up $30 million. i m sorry, $30 billion in the first two months of the fiscal year yet the deficit shot up $57 billion more than last year because spending in the same two months was $87 billion more than last year. we don t have a 1$1.2 trillion