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When i talk to them, they do not seem to want them to expire. they seem completely unwilling to let that happen. they have their own pledge to never raise taxes on anybody making less than $250,000 a year. if that's going to be the case, between extending most of the bush tax cuts as barack obama's current position is or extending all of them, as the republicans' position is, and the two end up in the middle, i worry we're not going to get fiscal sanity and will have lost one of the only real chances we had to get back a revenue base that could support the government going forward. >> bob, i a...

The world was under those clinton tax rates and just how they would effect across the board taxpayers, if they go into effect. if you have this tax increase, for example, on the bottom bracket, what's the practical effect of that, what is the real cost of that? people should start doing the analysis of that from the democratic side so that day can prepare for the possibility of it happening, shouldn't they? >> absolutely, lawrence. you know, if you look at the upcoming election, the president does have time to make the case to the public that not only should taxes go up on the very wealthy, th...