I really do not wish to draw this out. I would like to go home as much as anybody else. But in light of the statement made by the previous gentleman in the well in which he asserted in his advice to the Chair that this was a simple question because tax rates were not being raised, we were simply expanding the percentage of income being taxed at that rate, does that mean----
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