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Evidence. >> why would the republicans allow the entire debate to be over taxes when obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is i triviality it will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion. 8 cents on the dollar. its nothing. its lunch money. its a rounding error. yet that all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. hes not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. hes trying to destroy the republicans by insisting that there is a split among the republica...

Why are republicans allowing the entire debate to be about taxes? and about the war among republicans over holding the line on the norquist pledge or not. when what obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is a triviality. it will reduce the deficit from $11.01 trillion to $1. $1.02 trillion. eight cents on the dollar. nothing. lunch money. its rounding error. yet that is all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he is trying to, he is not trying to fix our fiscal issues an...

It doesnt mean you can ask for three times what you get and they should just give it to you. >> well, yeah. >> that would be a rounding error too. furthermore, maybe everyone else knew this but i didnt. i didnt realize most of these refs had good jobs in the real world, theyre like corporate lawyers, a lot of them, some of them are traders. im thinking, why dont they get pensions to these people who have full time jobs elsewhere. most of them seem to be pretty well paid. i guess those are my two...

>> thats a rounding error on my net worth. >> and write that off. thats a tax loss, right? im calling right now for zuckerbergs tax returns. >> oh. >> hes going to pay 0 in tax -- >> his poor wife the basis for any alimony, shes now down like $20 billion. >> exactly. >> not going to get a dime. >> how do you -- small fortune, start out with a big fortune. >> we predicted it, richard. seriously, the -- just -- they need a ceo. >> just remember, your great hero, steve jobs, disastrous ceo of apple...

California. >> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think hes more like barry goldwater, but thats another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out theyre totally wrong. one of reagans own budget architects wrote a scathing critique of ryans plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding errors worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy...

>> ronald reagan. >> i think hes more like barry goldwater, but thats another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out theyre totally wrong. one of reagans own budget architects wrote a skatcathing critique of ryans plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding errors worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagans budget dire...

>> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think hes more like barry goldwater, but thats another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out theyre totally wrong. one of reagans own budget architects wrote a scathing critique of ryans plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding errors worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america....

8.525-4389%, whatever it was, saying your pain is my rounding error. i dont think its playing well. its getting worse. >> bret: so is president obama hitting a chord, paul, with the fairness. stastatements in the wake of numbers that dont line up -- >> he is raising doubts about mitt romney with them. i dont think there is any question about them. particularly the bain attacks. not so much his wealth but bain and the outsourcing. if you talk to the romney campaign they say some of it has hurt. i...

Taxes most poor people, the main taxes they pay are payroll taxes. the taxes go to fund social security and medicare. beyond that, topeka, kansas pays state and local taxes. poor people and middle class pay large amounts of taxes, the income tax is the one primarily progressive tax we have in this nation. when you only focus in on that, you have taken out the taxes that poor people pay. >> all of these republican legislatures, not everybody, but just about everybody, its a rounding error to cons...

When brownback was wanting to pay for the bill, he wanted to raise the state tax and take away the income tax for the poor people in his state. the folks do pay large amounts of taxes. the income tax is the one primarily progressive tax we have in this nation, so when you only focus in on it, you have taken out the taxes that poor people pay. >> all of these republican legislatures, not everybody, but just about everybody, its a rounding error to consider who hasnt sworn a blood oath to grover n...