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Coumiin and, we would save $310 billion over ten years and that is a better way to save money than, costs to. eric: $6,000 a year. alisyn: so if you follow your plan and you can save the $24 billion per year would you not have to raise anyone's taxes? >> no, i'll tell you this: i think to close the budget deficit, that a modest increase in taxes on people making a million dollars a year or more is quite reasonable. we can't close the deficit just by my plan but it is quite reasonable. you know, president clinton did this in 1993. and, there were 23 million new jobs created in the economy, afte...

Huge battleground. >> all of those guys are down there a lot raising money. anyway, mark murray, deputy political director, excited one at the library and one in the state of florida. it's been exactly one month since the disastrous earthquake and tsunami believed to have killed 25,000 people caused up to $310 billion in damage. and overnight, another major aftershock hit that devastated region temporarily knocking out power to the crippled fukushima power planning. nbc's john yang is in tokyo. how bad did this power outage set back what's happening junior well, it restored power about 50 mi...

Reducer. >> reporter: well, there's more. the problem is the bill added other things it did not pay for. for instance, the irs will have a massive new responsibility to administrator the subsidies for health care. congress added dozens of things, but did not approve a single dollar to pay for them, making the cost of the bill look lower than it actually is. if congress intends to live up to the bill it passed, the congressional budget office predicts that will cost another $105 billion or more, which would mean the bill would add some $340 billion to the decifit over ten years. the health care...

Administer the subsidies in the plan. they did not approve a single dollar to pay for them. in congress wants to live up to the law it passed, the congressional budget office says it will add $340 billion to the deficit the first 10 years and increases overhaul spending on healthcare because it eappeds coverage for 30 million people and baby boomers are getting older and using more healthcare. total national health spefntures will increase by $310 billion and the congressional budget office says that will increase federal spending over the next 10 years and most of the following decade. one de...

This bill, it did feel even though i'm sure the administration doesn't think this. it did feel to the american people that it was rushed. and that there wasn't enough time for a debate and they tried to get it done so that the democrats could claim a victory but now they're paying a price for that. the bill remains up popular. deficit spending is one of those reasons. >> what about when now president barack obama says if any bill arrives from congress that's not controlling costs, that's not a bill i can support. he said that just about a year ago. in reality? >> this is one of their problems....