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How much more do you want to squeeze out of the upper 2%? and he says probably, i want to go back to the rate clinton had 39.5 and i want to raise capital gains to 25%. do you, lou dobbs, give him that if there is something else that he has to give? >> i certainly would not give him that without conditions. >> bill: but you would think about it it? >> absolutely. that's what i'm saying. the dobbs plan says that reasonable, reasonable, what does that mean? that a little bit of tax hike on the wealthy, and wouldn't be a little bit. what is it estimated to be about something like a billion a year...

How much more do you want to squeeze out of the upper 2%? and he says probably, i want to go back to the rate clinton had 39.5 and i want to raise capital gains to 25%. do you, lou dobbs, give him that if there is something else that he has to give? >> i certainly would not give him that without conditions. >> bill: but you would think about it it? >> absolutely. that's what i'm saying. the dobbs plan says that reasonable, reasonable, what does that mean? that a little bit of tax hike on the wealthy, and wouldn't be a little bit. what is it estimated to be about something like a billion a year...

He defighted her but went forward with her individual mandate proposals and he opposed in the primaries. he was listening. he may be picking up on mitt romney's idea of keeping the rates lower around 35% for the top rank, than taking it back to $39.5% and carving away some of the educkions. the big deductions of house ownership, mortgages and, of course, charitable contributions and state and local, you could take a whack out of a tax relief by getting rid of the state and local deduction tore people that make above a certain level which would probably be progressive given the nature of taxati...

Going to get away with it if, in fact, there's any indication or if there's any inicalclination white house would do that. i don't think they would. there's also wiggle room, some people say wiggle room in the tax rate for the wealthiest would go up to 39.5%. maybe they could lower that somewhat, raise that 250 threshold. again, i think the president's holding all the cards here. not only talking about the income and payroll taxes, dividend taxes, payroll taxes, the alternative minimum taxes and the sequester. >> taxes galore. the ap reporting the president has invited congressional leadership...

If you want to get off the phone lists and everything else, you want to get off this crazy thing, go ahead and vote. you can't escape the television ads but you can escape the personal contacts. >> yeah. one of our producers, nick, who i call out on the air who is at home in ohio. he tuned out after a day. he said it's saturated in ohio. as you can imagine. can i ask you quickly about florida? we have 39.5% of early voters registered democrats, 45% republican. can we infer that mitt romney has the early lead there? >> boy, that's a difficult state. there's a lot of spinning going on in florida...