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eyes and when she looks im behind her, always be there for her. she makes me feel like home. so far away. she feels like carolina. new york city, today. its hard to understand the way im living. and i know she thinks im never coming home. ♪ but im -- >> lawrence: if youre just waking up, you are not dreaming, that is parmalee performing. "just away," "the girl is mine," "take my name," and this is for ain ainsley. >> ainsley: i love this song, it is very popular in the carolinas. any...

Waters pending an environmental review. >> were going to start to properly manage lands and waterways. >> in april of last year, the interior department finished the review and announced reformed leasing procedures. royalty rates for the portion from oil and gas sales that companies pay to the government rose from 12.5% to 18.75. a 50% increase. the land nominated for drilling by the oil and gas industry was reduced by 80%. >> we all pay 50% more for 80% less. i think this is them trying to thre...

Tom, this has been weeks of storms right now. whats your biggest concern with this latest round? >> reporter: bianna, its staggering to know at christmas when we knew this atmospheric river would begin, that it would last a few weeks. think about how far weve con in just weather forecasting. weve had six events, today is number seven. were going to have eight, nine and ten. ill let you know when those are going to come look at southern california numbers. ventura, over 18.75 inches. san marcos p...

Reversing course with oil and gas leases on federal land, but some say it would make the crisis worse in the years ahead. madison has the story from fox business in new york. >> this is the first time since bride took office the federal government is offering new fossil fuel leases on public land. the issue, the amount of land offered up is much lower and the royalties are higher. the government is increasing royalties on the new leases to 18.75%. that is up from 12.5%. so the government is taki...

Nothing. >> but is entirely possible but we also know a lot of those critics have been saving measures like this one by the biden administration are not long-term fixes to bring down the cost of oil. so what is more gas at the pump. it is something that might not be a lot to satisfy the critics. >> neil: also, peter it is not but higher taxes due the government which is added benefits here. how do you explain that? >> so commit was, there was a 12.5% premium to drill on federal land. now, it wil...

Walmart because they wont pay these workers a decent wage. look, thats why the minimum wage needs to go up, karen. if the minimum wage had kept place with inflation, it would be $10.75. if it had kept pace with the productivity increases, it would be $18.75. if these workers got the same increases as the top 1% in the country, they would be earning $28 an hour right now. its outrageous. this company uses a model of low wage, no benefit employees to make billions of dollars and lets the rest of u...

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Royalty up to $18 but gold which has doubled in price, mining companies pay zero. zero. nothing. nothing, thanks in large part to harry reid. you can lock at this illustration, oil companies pay 18.75 percent on every barrel of offshore oil and 12.5 percent when it comes on shore the same rate as coal companies but mining companies, gold, silver, they pay nothing on $20 billion of minerals they take off public lands each year. >> the gold and silver that the companies extracted are all of ours, ...

To the taxpayer. look at this as a barrel of oil. cost 100 bucks. when it comes off of public land the company pays the federal government a royalty of up to $18. but when this gold is taken off of public land and most of it is, the company pays nothing, no royalty. while youre paying for gold, almost $1500 an ounce. >> the gold, the silver, uranium these companies are extracting are all of ours. these are taxpayer resources and we should be getting some return for the depletion of this nonrenew...

If youre on park avenue in new york city, the census bureau will pay you $18.75 to ask people if they live in the united states. >> so connecticut seems to have the highest that theyll pay you. you might want to move to connecticut. minimum wage federally is $7.25 an hour to put it in perspective. >> they could have made a lot year if they used some of the money they used to put the super bowl commercial on the air. probably could have done a lot better. >> ill tell you what, you have to pass a ...