him to take home only $6.1 million from his fox news paycheck instead of $6.5 million from his fox news paycheck, he might just walk and hand the "factor" over to bernie goldberg or dick morris. he's telling his audience that $6 million in take home pay might not be enough for him to go to work. now, in fact, o'reilly doesn't actually pay 35% of his income in federal taxes. no one does. everyone in that bracket, the top tax bracket, has deductions that bring their effective rates to something lower than 35%. so the numbers i'm using here to estimate o'reilly's take home pay are very, very conservative. remember, i'm only talking about his fox news income which might be only half of his income. bill o'reilly is the highest paid player in cable news and no matter how much he complains about how unbearable his life