[larrymcg421]

I tried this with keeping these things in mind:

1) I can't go so far that I would be quickly thrown out on my ass and/or lose all congressional support because my party got thrown out on its ass.

2) I tried to go with what I thought would be benificial to the economy, instead of strictly looking at a budgetary outcome. Therefore, I did not simply raise every tax on the rich.

3) Most of my spending was on the middle class and lower class benefit programs (Making Work Pay, etc.). I picked a few of the rich tax increases, avoided the Payroll Tax increase, did not increase retirement age or the years used to calculate benefits.

I ended up with 74%