to do that is not raising marginal tax rates, and, you know, if you look at somebody like martin feldste feldstein, pretty credible conservative. he says don't raise marginal tax rates. broaden the base, reduce and in some cases eliminate tax expenditur expenditures. i don't want to put words in his mouth. he said you ought to focus on tax expenditures, because it's just spending by a different name. some of these tax expenditures run 1.1 du$1.1 trillion. we spend more money through

to do that is not raising marginal tax rates, and, you know, if you look at somebody like martin feldste feldstein, pretty credible conservative. he says don't raise marginal tax rates. broaden the base, reduce and in some cases eliminate tax expenditur expenditures. i don't want to put words in his mouth. he said you ought to focus on tax expenditures, because it's just spending by a different name. some of these tax expenditures run 1.1 du$1.1 trillion. we spend more money through the tax code than through all of the appropriated accounts. it gets almost no attention. i'm on the finance committee, and i can tell you it is -- we do not pay -- we pay much less attention to expenditures through the tax code than we do through the appropriated accounts. now, i don't for a minute suggest that means we don't have to cut the appropriated accounts. we certainly have to have as part of any serious package a focus on entitlements, because, you know -- spending was the smallest share. the biggest share was the appropriated accounts. now it's flipped. we're over 60% the mandatory accounts, social security a