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>> you're asking decided voters to close the deal four here. don't those voters have a right to know exactly what they're getting? >> they have a right to know our bottom lines. there are three bottom lines. we're not going to raise the deficit. we're not going to raise taxes on middle class taxpayers. we're not going to reduce the share of the taxes borne by high income tax individuals. >> they have a right to know our bottom lines, but don't we have a right to know which deductions we're going to lose if they these win the white house? don't we have a right to know how reducing revenues by $...

Rates across the board and close loopholes primarily to the higher income people. we have three bottom lines. don't raise the deficit. don't raise taxes on the middle class. and don't lower the share of income that is born by the high income earners. keep saying this $5 trillion plan, i suppose, it's been discredited by six other studies and even their own deputy campaign manager acknowledged that it wasn't correct. >> let's talk about this 20%. you have refused, and, again, to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20% across the board tax cut. do you actually have the specifics or are you s...

Out, middle class. the tax bill is coming to you. that's why we're saying we need fundamental tax reform. take a look at it this way. eight out of ten businesses file their taxes as individuals, not corporations. where i come from, from overseas, which is lake superior, the canadians drop their tax rates to 15%. the average tax rate on businesses in the industrialized world is 25% and the president wants the top effective tax rate on successful small businesses to go above 40%. two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses. this one tax would actually tax about 53% of small business income...

yp you juyou just heard to tax returns. mitt romney released histax returns 30 minutes ago. it's no surprise. mitt's a rich guy. here's a look at just how rich. he made more than $21 million in 2010. almost all of it came from incompetent vestments, not wages. he payed $3 million in taxes that year or 13.9%. christine romans is digging deeper into the 1040s. let's start with his offshore funds, christine. we had talked a little bit about that this week, and now we're actually seeing it in this, what is it, 200 something pages i've got on the table. >> let me show you. i have it too...

the global economy is so troubled. we'll explain. next up, iraq. the nation is on the brink of disaster according to its former prime minister. i will talk to him about iraq's struggles, and we will ask two participants whether the iraq war was worth it. an important debate. here's my take, first. finally, it looks like former massachusetts governor mitt romney will win his party's nomination, so republicans are following a familiar pattern. they're nominating the mainstream candidate who has waited his turn, the guy who ran once before. this is the party after all, that had a bush...