john kennedy discovered that, ronald reagan discovered that, george bush jr. gets hit for it. we know the market was slowing down. 9-11 happened. things could have been worse. but leaving that particular bias of mine aside, i think that tax cuts spur growth and we concede in the gdp numbers that come later. what do you think of the president saying that this plan, as vague as it is, we have the parameters of it, could get us 3% growth at a minimum, which would be more than what we've experienced the last decade or so? >> we got 3% in the last quarter. >> neil: 3.1. >> different tax cuts help differently. kennedy found the tax code at 90% when he arrived, when his tax cut went through. it went to 70% at the top. reagan took to it 50% in 1981 and then 27, 28% in 1986. that's got a tremendous impact when people making large amounts of money, quite frankly, stop worrying about getting deductions and start worry about increasing income and all the rest. so i do think there's some taxes that are -- that should be charted at particular policies. for example, we talk about the border