joe thorn dike is director of the history project. len berman is the professor of public affairs of bob maxwell schools and bob carole. all three of these men have books. here is bob's book. len has a book coming out. i think i have the flier here. yeah i have it here. taxes in america what every one needs to know and joe has a book coming out and the title will be -- >> "their fair share". >> it is only a rue martmor tha g getting a commission on that. >> will you start us off? >> i promised that book at so many events and it is still up coming. it really is some time soon i hope. i don't know that i'm going to clear anything up. i'm going to embrace the confusion. but i'm going to make a few points. the first is obvious. when it comes to taxes, the tax politics, the fairness matters. you can see that cred-span is h. tax fairness is always the hot issue. what is less obvious but just as true is tax fairness is important to tax policy. every major change in the federal system i mean enduring change, regime change the kind of change th