timothy egan of "the new york times" describes cain's economic plan, which david is talking about, like this -- in essence, cain is proposing the largest shift in tax burden from the wealthy to the poor" -- sounds like the republican party to me. he apparently would scrap the two great government programs fragile middle class, social security and medicare,ecause he wants to eliminate the payroll taxes that now pay for those -- so here you have a guy whose impulse is to shift wealth to wealthy people, basically. whose impulse is to get rid of great society programs. i know i'm being a bit of a cartoon here, but these are the impulses of the party we're talking about. >> and he also wants to tax beer. i mean, the thing is, most republicans don't get out there and say, hey, if you're making more than -- making less than $50,000 a year, we're going to tax you more. they know, they try to cut the edges a different way. but this guy's plan is such a bald effort to redistribute wealth from the top -- from the