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Million, they'd say we need this, if we don't, they'll make films in new zealand or canada and we'll lose that business. wouldn't that be true of any business, too? you could say, yeah, if you don't give them a special tax favor they'll go elsewhere, too? >> yeah, well, i think, if you read through -- there was a summary of all the tax breaks, there was 19 single spaced pages long and i read through it new year's eve and after a while i felt like a sap. why am i not getting a piece of this action, a tax credit for walking to work and saving energy. but you know, everyone is in on it, paul. the...

>> paul: okay, mary. dan? >> i have a big miss for u.s. secretary ken salazar ordered a little company drake's oyster out of the national park, so there would be no humans there, would be turned into a wilderness. the problem is that drapes bay are the suppliers of oyster, and no alternative suppliers, and california is coming apart at the seams. >> paul: remember, if you have your own hit or miss, please send it to us at jer@foxnews.com and be sure to follow us on twitter at jer on fnc. that's it for this week's show, and thanks to my panel >> on fox news watch.

Begin to understand that you can't reduce the deficit with a tax increase? you just can't do it. this represents what, 600 billion dollars they say over ten years, that's about 6, 7% max of what the deficit is? >> great point, paul. let me step back a minute and say that you and i and dan and eric will lived through the budget deals for 25, 30 years, this is the first and almost none of them have worked out very he well. but this is the first budget deal i can recall dating back to the early reagan years, there wasn't a pretense of cutting spending. usually $3 of phony tax cuts for-- >> there ...

Those rooms and what he's done is basically made deals and then as the republicans got closer and closer, he pulled the football away and you know, they can't go on like this. i think it's very important that they, going forward, don't let themselves be set up as nearly obstructionist. you know, he's going to try to say this they are going to damage the faith and credit of the u.s. government by threatening default and that that's going to harm everybody. he's going to really try to make them to be the villains and i think they have to turn this around and demonstrate to the american people th...

One point, i think the tax code is so rotten right now, it's just so filled with special interest, you've got -- i think it makes the case for tax reform, dan. i think it's just, people are going to say blow the whole thing up and start over again. >> paul: dan? >>, but that's the reason they won't do it, because so many got a piece of the action and makes it so difficult. >> paul: can you argue this, mary, increases or decreases the likelihood. >> it decreases for sure because once you get that special interest, i mean, we know this from public choice theory, that special interest becomes so ...