. >> so, the idea that those of the treetop, who now are richer than anybody else who has ever been.have people richer than people have been the history of the world, and why they can't a higher percentage of their income in taxes is crazy. [applause] those in the senate where democrats we talked to people who were rich. we go to fund-raisers and there are some of them who say i won't know of any of the miami who don't say i'm willing to pay higher taxes. i really don't. i know the republicans go to the same kind of fund raisers and hear different things from their people and i respect that. but there is no evidence that works. my goodness. in '93 when we had something called the deficit reduction package, i know sambar's remembers this and publicly everyone on the panel remembers this very well president clinton said let's raise the top two levels, let 180 go to 36, 250 go to 39.6. every republican voted against it. every single one passed by one vote in the house and one in the senate and a weak republican, every republican who said anything said this would cause recession. new gin