as the progenitor of the change in policy, you're up first.

All right, well, thank you, Henry, for convening this discussion, Grover for joining.

I've been looking forward to this one.

I guess I will start maybe just at the level of principle and talk about what we mean by conservatives, because of course, I can think of people who wouldn't want to consider raising taxes, people who want to see the US collapse into communism, maybe anarchists and so forth.

But for conservatives, I guess I would start with a few suggestions.

One is that conservatives rightly view ourselves as the trustees of a great nation that we've inherited.

We recognize the intergenerational nature of the compact and our obligation to hand on something to the next generation even better than we received it.

What taxes do you think ought to be raised? Because that's always the question is, do you think that taxes should go up on the ordinary American? Do you think taxes should go up on corporations? And if so, what effect do you think that'll have on economic growth? What taxes do you think should be raised and roughly what share if the deficit is at six percent of GDP, which is plus or minus a couple of tenths? What share of that closing that do you think should be borne through taxes and how over how many years do you think that those taxes should be high? You know, how would you roll

as the progenitor of the change in policy, you're up first.

All right, well, thank you, Henry, for convening this discussion, Grover for joining.

I've been looking forward to this one.

I guess I will start maybe just at the level of principle and talk about what we mean by conservatives, because of course, I can think of people who wouldn't want to consider raising taxes, people who want to see the US collapse into communism, maybe anarchists and so forth.

But for conservatives, I guess I would start with a few suggestions.

One is that conservatives rightly view ourselves as the trustees of a great nation that we've inherited.

We recognize the intergenerational nature of the compact and our obligation to hand on something to the next generation even better than we received it.

What taxes do you think ought to be raised? Because that's always the question is, do you think that taxes should go up on the ordinary American? Do you think taxes should go up on corporations? And if so, what effect do you think that'll have on economic growth? What taxes do you think should be raised and roughly what share if the deficit is at six percent of GDP, which is plus or minus a couple of tenths? What share of that closing that do you think should be borne through taxes and how over how many years do you think that those taxes should be high? You know, how would you roll