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Always popular higher tax rates on the wealthy. we heard suggestions about possible changes to mortgage interest deductions or getting rid of those or limiting those. minimum payments and retirement ages for social security could see changes as well. should we do means testing for social security? and it could also mean new limit or changes for charitable contributions. maybe you won't be able to take those anymore depend opening what happens coming up in 2013. joining me now a former adviser to the new jersey governor. and the ceo and founder of john thomas financial. what they are talking ab...

Network this morning, and i was very pleased with the fact that he says he will respond to his constituents rather than to grover norquist. that's the kind of attitude that we need going into this. and i think that you will find from democrats that we want to take a look at things that we can do to medicare and medicaid and means testing, although we do means test medicare now, i think we ought to expand means testing and i really believe that we can take a hard look at the way we compute the consumer price index in order to get to where we need to be. i heard senator corker on your program ea...

Saying that he would cap the deductions? this week? in a local interview? >> no, no, no. he has said what we will do is deal with the deductions that are there that when taken have reduced the capacity of the government to get revenue. and we will compensate for our reduction in the rate of 20% particularly for the middle class by addressing those deductions. in some case removing them, and in some cases means testing them. means -- one form of means testing is to put a cap on it. >> governor, he has not been specific about which deductions. is it the mortgage tax deduction? >> absolutely not....

Look, this is, again, i said it in the summer, and i'll repeat it. this is the "seinfeld" campaign. it's about nothing right now. and you'd hope that this debate's coming up in two weeks or a week -- >> a week from wednesday. >> a week from wednesday will change that. and look, you know, these interviews, they sit down, you know, while the interviewer is not scripted necessarily in terms of where they want to go with their questions. the candidates are. and they're not going to open up any new doors. this is the warm-up to the debate. they're going to put out some feelers, some touch points, t...

There is no love lost there. >> kimberly: what did he take away? >> bob: i never heard, when the ceos run the lousy companys get the golden parachutes. >> kimberly: shay should be fired, too. >> greg: but that is private sector. this is killing the city, cities go bankrupt because of the selfishness. i love the fact that rahm emanuel might be growing up, now ther is spent eating its tail. >> bob: what is selfish about it? >> greg: what is the raise? 60% raise when people are out of work. they turned down a 60 president raise. nuts. >> kimberly: spoiled. >> greg: asking for more job security. w...