You know, the thing that they're all about is punishing the success. And Larry, you know what? You know how much that would raise in the first year if we raise Raising taxes on people making over $200,000...would raise about $34 billion. Compare that to the 1,300 billion dollars deficit we're running a year. Incredibly reckless. But yeah. So, yeah, I'm not seeing a whole lot of activity in the Senate to try and forestall that. (02:01–02:09)
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