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Votes. republicans vote present, democrats pass the tack increase with only democrat votes and then the democrats are the parties of high taxes and the republicans are the party of lower taxes. thats the way if should be. >> well, house is not going to go for that. do you agree? the house isnt going to vote for the democrats deal. >> im not saying vote for the bill to raise taxes, im saying that we vote first on a bill that says we will not raise the taxes, and that is our true position. thats w...

Do it with their votes, not our votes. republicans vote present, democrats pass the tack increase with only democrat votes and then the democrats are the parties of high taxes and the republicans are the party of lower taxes. thats the way if should be. >> well, house is not going to go for that. do you agree? the house isnt going to vote for the democrats deal. >> im not saying vote for the bill to raise taxes, im saying that we vote first on a bill that says we will not raise the taxes, and th...

>> the choice may be down to, do they make the deal before the deadline or do they let it go over the cliff and then come back and vote the tax cuts for the medical class iddle class f to have a tack increase. somewhere in between those two? >> i think thats absolutely right. and there are some important details to be worked out here. dana mentioned that the republicans have signed on to 800 billion but lets remember that the president has asked for about twice that much in revenues. so i still ...

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Stunt. the question -- these are one time bonuses. sounds nice that was not promised what was promised a 4 thousand dollars a year pay increase into the base. we know trickle down economics does not work. millions will see a tack increase in the coming year. and that is to pay for this huge corporate tax cut. >> reporter: im confused there is work to be done across america not just among republican voters but republicans to get the word out. why sell it after the fact? >> i think there has been ...

Ahead and give the president the 2% increase that hes talking about, the rate increase on the top 2%. >> will i accept a tack increase as a part of a deal to actually solve our problems? >> no republican makes more sense than the original house defek for on tax rates, congressman tom cole. >> they go off automatically. i can tell you that the sun is going to come up in the east tomorrow and set in the west. that doesnt mean i had a darn thing to do with it coming up or coming down. those rates a...

Proposal think a couple of things about it. it freezes spending at 2011 levels which enshrines and locks in the huge spending increases of the last two years. >> greta: and you want to go back to 2008? >> the cap and balance goes back to 2006. we want to go back to before we were spending like drunken sailors here. it isnt clear which baseline you are using. we all agree it constitutes a tack increase. it is how big a tax increase. that is something we shouldnt be doing in the middle of an econo...

The answer? [ laughter ] >> greta: laughing is not a good start. >> they made a good faith effort. there are lot of colleagues who put a good amount of work into this but there are still a lot of details that we dont know. and many who looked at the proposal think a couple of things about it. it freezes spending at 2011 levels which enshrines and locks in the huge spending increases of the last two years. >> greta: and you want to go back to 2008? >> the cap and balance goes back to 2006. we wan...