mr. moffitt, mr. chafee has proposed examining a 1% sales tax on some items currently exempt to help close the budget gap. what do you think of that idea and how would you address the current budget problems? >> i am against any type of tax increases. expanding the tax base, i would be against in my proposal, i want to reduce the sales taxes by 5%. i believe if you reduce them, you will bring more revenue into the state of rhode island by increasing retail jobs, improving our retail and apartment, and also giving retail a competitive advantage over massachusetts and connecticut which they have not had since 1992. one major thing we would have to do is to cut expenditures. when i served six years of house finance, we saw many places where you could cut. the people in the general assembly to not have the will paper to make the necessary cuts. as the governor, you have the bully pulpit and you have to make the cuts that are necessary. >> and mr. chafee, mr. moffett things scaling back the taxes to 5% wou