Former Governor of Mississippi Haley Barbour, in an interview on MSNBC Tuesday morning, laid out what he thinks the fiscal cliff deal should look like:
"The real answer is to have comprehensive, look at this, yeah, I as a Republican, I would take raising the rates on the two top brackets if, in return, we had tax reform laid out over a period of months, if we had entitlement reform, if we, look, we've got to control defense spending, we've got to control other non- -- other discretionary, non-defense spending. So, I think if you have the whole package, I would hold my nose despite the fact that raising those two tax brackets is bad economics, bad for jobs, going to hurt the economy, I would hold my nose to get the other done. What I wouldn't do is vote for that and do nothing else."