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. >> very cutesie, tom. the obama budget also includes a plan to reduce the nation's debt.t now stands at $15.4 trillion. he's doing it by taxing the wealthy. item, income tax hike. income taxes for households that make $250,000 a year or more will jump from 35% to 39.6%. item, buffet tax hikes. those who make more than $1 million a year will be taxed at a rate of 30% or more, warren b that is. mort, do you want to comment on the budget? pull yourself together. >> this will be more than $900 billion in terms of deficits. it's going to be way above that because there are assumptions in there as to the amount of taxes we'll be -- will be raising according to the budget that will never happen. so this is a budget in which we'll add immensely to the budget deficit and to our overall deficit. and this is not necessarily going to do anything about the economy. it may save it from going down more, but it's not the way to solve the problems we have. we're not dealing with any of the major issues at this economy. >> let's reduce some numbers here. the public debt now is $15.4 trilli