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>> reporter: small businesses like the energy efficient l.e.d. lighting maker mr. obama visited today created two-third of new jobs in the last 15 years. the white house says the two recent small business stimulus proposals should appeal to republicans and are a test of whether they're interested in bipartisanship. republicans say the president's budget calls for spending hikes, long after the congressional budget office feels the xy could have recovered. >> revenues will get back above their historic norm, which is 18.2%. that's historic norm. they get up to 20%. fairly soon. as we get out of...

While ago who said he got a call from the president today, hearing out mike lee's concerns, saying that he hopes that they're going to be able to address them. unclear if that's possible. >> president working the phones. dana bash, thank you very much. tom foreman joins us now. what do we know, tom? >> anderson, the headline that has the democrats howling and republicans hesitating is this one from the cbo, the notion that simply by slashing the individual mandate, you're going to start a soaring in the number of unemployed people out there. next year alone, they say this alone will put 15 mil...

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Inhabitants, for a city that covers almost 139 square miles. a space that san francisco, boston and manhattan could fit in with room to spare. there are so many factors contributing to the city's financial distress but among them, an 18.2% unemployment rate and there is this. the detroit news reported this week that nearly half of the city's owners of residential properties failed to pay their tax bills last year, amounting to nearly $250 million uncollected. no taxes, no revenue. even if everyone had a job in the city and they all paid all their taxes it wouldn't be enough because there simpl...

Taxes are usually measured as a percentage of gross domestic product, a percentage of the size of the economy. if your economy produces ten bucks worth of stuff and tax five dollars, taxes are 50% of gdp. in 2011, tax revenues were 15.4% of gdp. to give you an idea how low it is before the financial crisis you had to go back to 1950 to find a year when taxes were that low. in 1950, there was no medicare, there was no medicaid, there wasn't a hawaii as one of the 50 states of the united states. for comparison sake, taxes under reagan were 18.2% of gdp. think about that next time obama is taxing...