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$25,000 a year. married couple, below $50,000 a year. do you like it. >> i like some parts. i don't want to sound like ebenezer scrooge, under his plan, 75 million households will not pay any federal income taxes. they shouldn't necessarily pay top rate or 25 or what it is close to 40%. everyone should pay something, could be as little as one, two, 3%. everyone should have skin in the game. when someone treats you to dinner, bill, if you're not paying for it, if you're me you order three appetizers. anyone know they have skin in the game they will focus on game. bill: rush limbaugh, on the poi...

Election than bankrupting the country, i don't belong here. >> you're nodding your head. you agree with this? >> yes. >> tell me why. >> i would appreciate if everybody felt that way. we heard about the frustration, we heard about the polarization and we heard from the congress that they're saying it's the media. is it really the media? >> no, i don't think it's the media. i think it's us. it's easy to blame someone else. we were elected to make these decisions for the country. if we're -- if we're not willing to say something that makes our own party a little bit disquieted or risk a vote, th...

Couple weeks ago with the continued resolution toss keep the government going. if you think about it, greta, all this was done in the open light of an open government day. imagine what would have happened if we had burned that to either a shutdown government or a debt ceiling brink issue. none of that occurred. that might be part of the equation the s&p is looking at. but they are saying forget about what happens if your government ever closes. look at the havoc it's created while they are open for business. we spend too much and don't address the entitlement issues and we've been kicking the ...

Your pocketbook. cnn's don lemon is here. don i leave it to you. break it down for us. >> what we're really going to talk about, entitlement issues. they can make a mark. we want them. a lot of us are baby boomers and rely on that money. up until 2022, the federal budget is about $40 trillion. and the bulk of that, 40% of that, comes from entitlements, like social security here. you see, it makes up about 20.4% of budget. 12.8% is medicare. medicaid, 7.2%. again, social security, 20.4, medicare, 12.8 and medicaid, 7.2. a place where changes can be made but politicians are afraid to do that bec...

Complicated tax code. when you do that, everybody does have that skin in the game and everybody gets their ox gored a little bit. >> chris: let me bring in senator warner. for you as a democrat, having a skin in the game means you take the inpalatable choice of cutting entitlements. are you willing to scale back on social security, medicare and medicaid. >> we have to do all this. otherwise if we focus the discussion as we have so far, the back and forth, in the congress, all you're cutting is 12% of the federal budget. and you're seeing actually good programs, perhaps being eliminated because...