Counter.

"Could be achieved" = no chance in hell.

House Republicans on Monday made a new deficit proposal to the White House that calls for $800 billion in tax increases, half of what President Barack Obama proposed and an amount Republicans say could be achieved without increasing tax rates. 

The proposal, a bid to jump-start stalled negotiations on averting the fiscal cliff—a package of tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in January—is based on a deficit-cutting plan described by Erskine Bowles during a 2011 effort to come up with a deficit-reduction deal.