americans by historical standards are undertaxed. and if you wanted, you know, everybody's talking, the world's coming to an end. we've got to reduce the deficit. it's a way you get all of that done by going back to 1999 tax levels. raising a 3% rise in top tax rate isn't going to cost the sky to fall. we've had a very healthy economy in 1999. arguably, there were other factors that boosted the economy, the goebel situation, but -- global situation, there's so much demagogue in this stuff if you mixed spending cuts with irreparable increase in taxes back to where they were you could get that. host: barry on our independent line, good morning. caller: good morning. i served the military during the vietnam era. when jimmy carter was in, you know, oscar, that he was one of the greatest president ever, he took a bum deal with the iran