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Decifit situation. >> right. people do not believe the official projections. 81 percent of voters believe that the plan will cost more than is projected, 60 percent, as you mentioned, think it's going to lead to higher deficits now that it's passed. most say it's likely to lead to higher middle class taxes but it stems from the fact that people believe that government programs cost more than they're projected to cost. this is something people have built up over a long period of time. i don't imagine the white house is going to have a very easy time convincing people otherwise on the decifit is...

Savings and put them into a medicare insurance fund that is real and actually makes the medicare system more solvent, and let's do a hard freeze, none of this freezeing in 2011, which is in the president's budget, let's start the freeze today and get serious about that. you take those four items alone, you'll make a fairly big adjustment in the long term decifit issue and get us at least righted, maybe not absolutely straight up, but we'll at least right the ship a little. bill: it seems like right now as you lay that out, we're o for four. is there any movement on any of the four items you th...

Simplifying the tax code, what has he indicated he might favor? >> you just ran a sound bite from the president on npr radio. he said we need a fundamentally different approach. the president has also said we got to have tax reform, direct quote. maybe the president is going to leapfrog over the current tax debate and look towards making looking at the decifit commission's reduction of tax rates and the elimination of some tax deductions, tax deductions for both corporation and for individuals. maybe he's going to embrace radical tax reform, possibly in the state of the union message next janu...