Chris Van Hollen actually said...

Instead of a trickle-down economics, which you had for 8 years--...we got a trickle up. I prefer trickle up.

You have created a nemesis. You have created a situation where folks, you want folks to think that you want to protect their tax dollar...

we asked higher income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term.

The American people didn't buy that in the last election. They just simply did not buy it.