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Adverse effect on disadvantaged populations." they're making the same point as the white house, that this is on the backs of the poor and middle class. this is not a shared sacrifice document. >> actually, if you read the earlier part of their statement, they said it's an honest, serious and credible proposal. a couple of things. we basically take the thrust of -- i was on the fiscal commission. >> you voted against it. >> i did vote against it because it didn't do anything about the health care costs, which is the big driver of our debt. but our tax reform plan goes in the same direction, whi...

Adverse effect on disadvantaged populations." they're making the same point as the white house, that this is on the backs of the poor and middle class. this is not a shared sacrifice document. >> actually, if you read the earlier part of their statement, they said it's an honest, serious and credible proposal. a couple of things. we basically take the thrust of -- i was on the fiscal commission. >> you voted against it. >> i did vote against it because it didn't do anything about the health care costs, which is the big driver of our debt. but our tax reform plan goes in the same direction, whi...

Simpson, co-chairs of the bipartisan debt commission -- >> they're friends of mine. >> this is what they said in part -- let me put it on the screen. your plan "largely exempts defense spending from exemptions and would not apply any of the savings from eliminating or reducing tax expenditures as part of tax reform to deficit reduction. as a result, it relies on much larger reductions in domestic discretionary spending than does the commission proposal, while also calling for savings in some safety net programs, cuts which would place a disproportionately adverse effect on disadvantaged popula...