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Eight months of consumer testing to find out whether or not people wanted an extra charge on their debit card. i could have told them that in about 30 seconds. >> yeah, somebody made a lot of money. martha: exactly. >> it wasn't the eight months that really messed them up. it was the last month that the bank of america did it and they had a skwraoeupbtd backlash. the thing is in this particular climate with occupy this. and blame that person, and go after the rich, and go after wall street, without a doubt the timing is bad on this. no one likes this idea. it does seem like it's hurting, a lot...

That is a bad idea. martha: do you think there is an economic reason behind this? we've heard a lot of stories about farming in california, the fruits, the vegetables, the corn is not getting picked because they don't have enough time who want those jobs to come in and do it. is this a way to help out those farmers? >> this is the problem with our federal government and the inaction is we don't have a solution, that in the absence of dealing with this issue, without having a legitimate guessworker program, that we are seeing disp disparate enforcement. and this is where washington lacks leader...

Been that even the slightest increment will give the president a very good argument for reelection, juan? >> well, martha. it's not going to change a lot of harmed-boiled republican attitudes. i think right now it's close to 80 percent of republicans who want no part of president obama. martha: but he just has to win over the independents that. >> -- independents. >> i was coming to that. i think this could help to sway some of the independent voters that have been pulling away from president obama because they are the ones who feel sort of the kitchen table issues, not only about unemployment...

Hampshire, talking about those jobs plans that i talked about. this really seems to me to be an inside the beltway debate, when the debate really needs to be focused on how do the candidates create jobs, how do the economic plans stack up, how does your 20 percent flat tax stack up against perform romney keeping the existing tax rates in place or herman cain adding a new source of revenue. bill: you have points from your perspective in texas but the headline will be when the next debate comes around, where is rick perry. i wonder, when he started out, joining the race, at 32 percent, if you pu...

Basically transfers a lot of the burden of taxation to people who consume money because, if you're saving and investing you also get a lower rate. bill: now, i know a lot of flat tax supporters think it will improve the economy. do you think in this environment that any of these possibilities have a chance of getting through? >> oh, yes. i think there is real appetite for tax reform but the problem that some of the fair tax people are going to have is this. every country in the western world that has developed the kind of sales tax or value-added tax to put into the economy, the rates have gon...