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He said people are angry but partly they're angry because the policies of republican'ses is that substantive questions about their policy proposals end up sounding like hostile attacks. i think there's something to that particularly when you're talking about tax math, right? >> ben carson's tax plan is apparently written in clouds of cotton candy supported by bailing wire. marco rubio right at the end lets slip that he wants to have no taxes at all on investment income. you know, out in malibu mitt romney felt a warm breeze from the mountains and didn't know why. carly fiorina said there's no ...

Plan. a version of president obama's tax plan, the buffett rule, goes before the senate tomorrow and calls for an effective minimum tax rate up to 30% on people making more than $1 million a year. if it passes, maybe buffet will pay a higher rate than his secretary this year. despite the threat and swearing that carries me through the mid-april tax madness is a democratic spirit. the belief we're all in it together. paying into the collective pot is part of our duty as citizens and means we have roads for our cars, schools for our kid, retirements for our parents, research for our universities...

Bottom rate would go from 10% to 24%. for top earners it would mean a tax increase of $970,000. and as the deficit declines to a mere $800 billion in the out-years, it would still mean top tax rates well above 55 to 60% as far as the eye can see. >> neil: that is assuming by the way that taxes go down once they go up and we know the history is dicey on that. having said that, you ruled out them getting a handle on spending in the near term so the only way the to do it is big tax increase. that's how you came to the staggering tax math right? >> that's right. this is a thought experiment, if yo...