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Roads. the federal government gave us the highways, there wouldn't be any highways in eisenhower highway program ap yeah, it's going to hit the middle class and not yacht owners orin the roads. who is it supposed to hit. sn somebody without a car that doesn't use highways? that's what happened now. and the same with general tax revenue, they're not making enough to pay for the roads. >> hold on, all right. so, eric, take him on. he's saying it's not going to hurt the economy that much. >> liberal on the west coast. stimulus program remember the 800 billion doll million dollarg to fix the roads...

If we reform the tax code to bring in more revenue, i'll do that if i get more spending cuts. really does seem now everything is on the table in this american budget battle. >> that's good in a sense that it would be very unfortunate in the positions became locked into a completely in-combatability polarized debate which threatened to happen. i think the key issue is to recognize that if americans want to keep entitlements at the kind of level that they seem to want to keep them at, something's got to give. my question is whether it should be income tax. one of the problems of federal finance ...

>> we need new tax source and one, i would put a transaction tax on wall street. we have massive churning of stocks and derivatives and bonds and everything else. a swipe fee like they put on credit cards every time that one of these trades occurs 1 every 10 milliseconds. that's second thing. second need a consumption tax. and third, let the bush tax cuts expire. if you put those three things together you can get the $200 to $300 billion of revenue that we need, match that with the spending cuts the entitlement reforms and the defense rollback, and you begin to put together a rational plan. >>...

Ridiculous? >> distinct is we have federal standards that regard and deal with drugs, in general, with the exception of marijuana. there is a federal law that prohibits marijuana's use and the other drugs there are policies, rules and guidelines. >>guest: but the guidelines have to change with the times to say marijuana is a drug that is legally recognized and morale recognized to say it helps people, and it is actually, it can be prescribed and you can take it and it helps. it will evolve to where it will be acceptable but we are not there. >>shepard: the same thing right after prohibition, t...