He got about a trillion dollars in tax increases in the health care law. In addition, with the fiscal cliff deal, he got another $600 billion. So that's about $1.6 trillion with tax increases. Now we've In the Budget Control Act, we got about $2.1 trillion of spending restraint. And you can kind of argue we've already done one Simpson Bowles. But have you noticed it's not enough because we're not really addressing the long term drives or debt and deficit. (07:01–07:07)
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