A
And that's got to be paid.
B
Exactly, and, and, uh, so this creates a pretty serious problem that's going to continue to be with us for a while to come. Um, I'm not really, uh, sure that I even understand why the administration is proposing, for instance, tax reductions, because it seems to me that if, if, if they're talking about reducing, uh, the tax that needs to be paid, or the tax that's currently being paid, then that can't, it seems to me it can't possibly, you know, help with the, the deficit picture.
A
It can only hurt the deficit picture.
B
Yeah, exactly.
A
Um, and the, the severity of the deficit picture already limits the options available or limits the degree of tax cutting you can do without, uh, bringing on, on serious problems for the longer term.
B
Yeah, exactly.