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To get the reform that you're talking about so we may have to settle for a tax rate cut and not a really big reform that takes out a lot of the junk in the tax code that. hurt it is growth impact, does it not? >> it does because we've got a lot of provision that is have nothing to do with growth and are really just in there as special favors to different industries. you really have to clean that stuff out and get capital flow into its most productive view in every way. paul: individual tax rate would go down to 33%? is that adequate? a lot of your scholarship has an on growth effect of lower t...

Talking about so we may have to settle for a tax rate cut and not a really big reform that takes out a lot of the junk in the tax code that. hurt it is growth impact, does it not? >> it does because we've got a lot of provision that is have nothing to do with growth and are really just in there as special favors to different industries. you really have to clean that stuff out and get capital flow into its most productive view in every way. paul: individual tax rate would go down to 33%? is that adequate? a lot of your scholarship has an on growth effect of lower tax rate. 33% is still pretty h...

What is going on. >> neil: i hope you are right, i disagree with you. sandra, one could seize on this and whatever we are doing is working because things are beginning to chug along and deficits are coming down. we're only looking at $800 billion deficit? >> that is not the case. the media is touting that $3 billion surplus, we're on our way. it has nothing to do with the fact that there were spending less in the month of january. in fact it wasn't because they were growing jobs and economy was actually improving. they were taxing those that were earning more, bottom line, neil it doesn't addr...

Speak with you. i want to switch gears to business. you say you're going to lower the marginal rates. my question s how do you do that and still manage to balance the budget? >> that's the rub always. the answer is, by lowering marginal rates across the board, we'll have two things we also do. one is to limit the deductions and exemptions that exist for particularly for people at the high end of the income spectrum so that one may maintain progressive in the code and keeping the revenue coming in by getting rid of some of exemptions, or limiting them. and secondly, we'll get a growth effect by...

Speak with you. i want to switch gears to business. you say you're going to lower the marginal rates. my question s how do you do that and still manage to balance the budget? >> that's the rub always. the answer is, by lowering marginal rates across the board, we'll have two things we also do. one is to limit the deductions and exemptions that exist for particularly for people at the high end of the income spectrum so that one may maintain progressive in the code and keeping the revenue coming in by getting rid of some of exemptions, or limiting them. and secondly, we'll get a growth effect by...