there is a point -- >> a proposal from sam --aldson. >> i like that. donaldson.re is a point that, at continuent, perhaps we should theinue to extend the tax cuts across the board. pu but put in a trigger. when the national deficit gets work.r, when unemployment gets better, use of other indexes, sn't folggers raise it for the ealthy. >> triggers never work. congress puts it in. e 's basically fig leafs. >> the congress doesn't follow modesh. > that's my point. i don't think there's a chance that republicans would agree with my modest proposal. >> it's a political question. who gets to frame it? thehe democrats get to say that to republicans claim they're against the deficit but they e deficiteep in the tax cuts for taxrich people including the wall street bankers that got the huge bonuses? wall stree or do the republicans say, look, or do the say, are the democrats going at taxes.ain, raising the taxes. just so they can raise that bending because they want the tvernment to take over every oft of american life. i think that is a lot of what the the debate and ele