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And to say to me more than 1 million bucks to have to pay at least 30 percent of taxes which is the buffet rule. that is reasonable that those with more should pay more. >> we should progress you make 10 times as much i think it is right you would pay 10 times as much as i do. that seems obviously fair but when you look at warren buffett but he paid about 6100 of 1 percent of his income in taxes. that is not fair and does not include his not paying capital gains because aeons berkshire hathaway and the company buys the stocks not him personally and also an insurance company that has a huge tax...

I'm in favor of a buffet rule and we do need to be trimming expenses but have to do this in the context of realistic assumptions. >> congressman daines there is one of the criticisms i from the left on the ryan budget, it doesn't really -- it pretends the 2012 election didn't happen s it too unrealistic, should you be proposing a budge pet, for instance that calls for the repeal of the president's health care plan when the guy just got reelected, affirmed by the supreme court, it is not going any where should you put out a more realistic budget? >> montan thanks want to see a balanced budget. ...

Entitlement. the president is not there but i think where democrats need to go when we layer in additional revenues for things like the buffet rule and then leak at spending for both discretionary and defense, i think we can start coming one the right trajectory for our budget and have a date that it balances in the future. the american people do want the budget to balance but they also want their representatives to be honest with them, the assumptions embedded in the budget. right now the congressman -- congressman ryan's budget doesn't have honest assumptions. >> congressman danes, a grand b...

Way to make it palatable to republicans. and when you talk about cuts and entitlements, they're saying there is a way to do that they can find their way around this if they want to. but nobody is going to get there, for precisely what ron just said. >> and listen to speaker boehner reacting to this charm offense. >> this week, we've gone 180, now after being in office for over four years, he is actually going to sit down and talk to members. i think it is a sign, a hopeful sign, and i'm hopeful that something will come out of it. but, if the president continues to insist on tax hikes i don't t...

>> there is some question whether it could pass the senate. the republicans wonder if this is a gamut without the vote to pass. >> bret: it has no chance in the house. >> it willle in the senate. this is why they didn't bring it up for a vet. there are democrats that are acceptty call of the buffet rule -- skeptical. they already interested lack of interest in buffett rule. >> bret: republicans, what are they saying? they have sequestration bill with $300 billion in targeted cuts. it would help us avoid the $85 billion sequestration but would allow to us avoid cuts in the future. most of them ...