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Evidence. >> why would the republicans allow the entire debate to be over taxes when obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is i triviality it will reduce the deficit from 1.10 trillion to 1.02 trillion. 8 cents on the dollar. it's nothing. it's lunch money. it's a rounding error. yet that all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he's not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. he's trying to destroy the republicans by insisting that there is a split among the republicans on this issue which has held them together same way it destroyed president bush senior when ...

Why are republicans allowing the entire debate to be about taxes? and about the war among republicans over holding the line on the norquist pledge or not. when what obama is proposing on raising the rates on the 2% is a triviality. it will reduce the deficit from $11.01 trillion to $1. $1.02 trillion. eight cents on the dollar. nothing. lunch money. it's rounding error. yet that is all the debate we are hearing. obama understands this. he is trying to, he is not trying to fix our fiscal issues and problems. he's trying to destroy the republicans. by insisting that there is a split among republ...

It doesn't mean you can ask for three times what you get and they should just give it to you. >> well, yeah. >> that would be a rounding error too. furthermore, maybe everyone else knew this but i didn't. i didn't realize most of these refs had good jobs in the real world, they're like corporate lawyers, a lot of them, some of them are traders. i'm thinking, why don't they get pensions to these people who have full time jobs elsewhere. most of them seem to be pretty well paid. i guess those are my two. it's interesting that the owners are socialists who share all of their money. >> here's -- w...

>> that's a rounding error on my net worth. >> and write that off. that's a tax loss, right? i'm calling right now for zuckerberg's tax returns. >> oh. >> he's going to pay 0 in tax -- >> his poor wife the basis for any alimony, she's now down like $20 billion. >> exactly. >> not going to get a dime. >> how do you -- small fortune, start out with a big fortune. >> we predicted it, richard. seriously, the -- just -- they need a ceo. >> just remember, your great hero, steve jobs, disastrous ceo of apple, they brought in outside management, john sculley, steve jobs gets kicked out of the company....

California. >> reaganesque attributes. >> ronald reagan. >> i think he's more like barry goldwater, but that's another story. welcome back to "the ed show." conservatives love to compare paul ryan to ronald reagan. turns out they're totally wrong. one of reagan's own budget architects wrote a scathing critique of ryan's plan in the times. they say his budget yields only a rounding error's worth of savings. and it boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income tax rate for the super wealthy in america. and reagan's budget director goes on to say he calls ryan's plan phony and calls ...