is there anything you think they are not going to like and then fork jason as jonathan mentioned, it's my understanding that loophole could be closed without a congressional reinterpretation of the treasury or the irs level. is that the case and if so, why not just close it? stupid as it relates to the 2016? the contest my suspicion is that everybody that looks at this well think that there is at least one element in the pages that they are presented with where they will think to themselves i might have done it a little bit differently great i suspect that is true both those who are in office and who are contemplating running for a different one. but at the same time i also think what is codified in the volumes that were presented today at there is a pretty cogent vision for how to move the country forward and grow the economy by focusing on middle-class economics, we can build a kind of country that is in the best interest of middle-class families and also in the best interest of the long-term stability but there is an opportunity for us to use this new foundation that we have laid af

as both what bowles simpson proposed in the tenth year of their proposal. so it phases into the same place they are. >> jonathan? >> you mentioned jason, you were talking about that the president's trade agenda, and you talk about its impact on gdp and productivity. but if you talk to a lot of democrats who are opposing the president's agenda they say that the disconnect here is between gdp and middle class income growth. it's not finish that's not happening -- it's not, that's not happening. how do you make the pitch to them and how do you make the pitch to us that a higher gdp actually will translate into stronger middle income growth when that has not happened, basically, for to 20 years. >> well, i think one of the important lessons that we have in chapter one of this report we look at middle class income growth from 1948 through 2013. and a lot of -- frankly, both democrats and republicans are increasingly aware that over the last several decades we haven't seen as fast income growth as we had in the decades before that. the important analysis here is that's due to a combination of slower productivity growth since 1973 in part be