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Class. >> ezra, it is really about two differing opinions about how taxes ought to be brought into government or received. one saying trickle down, the other saying from the middle expand. >> sharply differing. and one thing that frustrates me about this conversation is we only have been talking about taxes. whatever you do on the tax side has an equal and opposite reaction on the spending side. take what mitt romney wants to do. he wants to pass trillions of tax cuts on top of that. tax cuts th...

Tax -- this tax change would affect 2% of small businesses not most small businesses. jon: doug im sure there is a lot you want to respond to there. let me ask you this. in that lead in to this report i was astounded at the numbers. in our budget -- if our budget in 2000, if the federal government was spending $1.8 trillion and 12 years later it has doubled to $3.6 trillion, i mean accounting is the only class i dropped in college but it seems to me like the problem is more on the spending side....

The right behind republicans, behind mitt romney and against barack obama, perhaps to an unprecedented degree we have never seen. its something that should worry democrats.ç >> ken, i want to just one very quick thing because i think this is fascinating. we did the math. the spending on ads in the health care debate, $250 million on anti-health care, $76 million pro-health care. its probably no wonder given that disparity that the bill is clearly, remains more thought of less favorably than mo...

If you keep suggesting -- his plans have been tried. >> i think he does have a prescription thats going to look in a different direction. the one thing that -- the one thing i did not hear from this president today was what he was going to do about spending. he went off on a litany of things we should be investing. were spending money we do not have. were mortgaging the future and i think romney has a legitimate prescription for addressing the spending side of this equation. >> lets examine that...

Being made over and over and i understand why your candidates doing that, romney is suggesting hes a fresh start. i would argue hes not a fresh start. hes a rerun. if you keep suggesting romney hasnt tried yet, well say yes. but his plans have been tried. and you deny thats relevant. >> i think he is relevant. i think he will move it in a different direction starting with spending. the -- >> how is he a fresh start? >> the one thing i didnt hear from the president today was how hell reduce spend...

>> well, what if you were outspent like that? what if youre outspent four to one or five to one? whats the game plan? do you have new ground troops? do you have enough organization? >> i do think we have enough organization, i think we have enough ground troops. we know for a fact -- you know, they made a big deal today about the fact that scott walker is going to turn over his offices in wisconsin to mitt romney. why didnt mitt romney have offices in wisconsin? he doesnt have offices in north c...

Barrett was outspent in wisconsin. we cant have -- >> well, what if you were outspent like that? what if youre outspent four to one or five to one? whats the game plan? do you have new ground troops? do you have enough organization? >> i do think we have enough organization, i think we have enough ground troops. we know for a fact -- you know, they made a big deal today about the fact that scott walker is going to turn over his offices in wisconsin to mitt romney. why didnt mitt romney have offi...

One or five to one? whats the game plan? do you have new ground troops? do you have enough organization? >> i do think we have enough organization, i think we have enough ground troops. we know for a fact -- you know, they made a big deal today about the fact that scott walker is going to turn over his offices in wisconsin to mitt romney. why didnt mitt romney have offices in wisconsin? he doesnt have offices in north carolina, three or four. they have no ground game. and you know, were going to...

That the healthcare bills, the spending that wasunder are taken for the wars et cetera. that this was run away. run away spending. so you now have this mind-set that says, look, lets cut back on these things. im sure we can talk about how we get there. but lets deal with the spending side. >> because w was so ridiculous as to take us into war with iraq, it drove up the cost of government, we have to cut back on poor people programs. thats what you just said. >> no, thats not what i just said. >>...

new york stock exchange here. they said theyll also be listening for any possible stimulus that the fed could hint to. its something that the market points to a lot. when you see the markets tumble as they are doing, you know, the fed has done this before where its bought up government bonds in great numbers, basically pouring a lot of money into the market and giving that kind of shot in the arm to the market. there are definitely two sides of the fence as to whether its really helped...