. >> let me play for you something senator barry sanders said on "news nation" yesterday. >> the first question is who should bear the burden of us a ter the austerity? do you go after nutrition programs, throw kids off medicaid, force elderly people struggling to stay alive to pay more for medicare? >> why not ask millionaires and billionaires to pay more? you can call them small business owners, jobbey kra or the e cre they're still millionaires and billionaires. >> revenue is on the table. that should answer the question. anything who knows anything about the numbers knows it's not enough. if you don't reform the programs the senator was talking about, we're going to lose those programs. we won't have social security or medicare or medicaid. they're going broke. if the president got every tax increase he's asked for, those programs would still be going broke. at the end of the day, if you don't put fundamental reform on the table, revenue alone simply won't do the trick. let's point out, too, the president must like the bush tax comes. he's accepted 80% of them for about 95% of the