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Vehicle prices, especially used vehicle prices, energy, food costs, those were the big things that everyone was looking at but there are still a lot of incidentals, things like auto insurance, up 14.5% year over year we saw big jump in airfares over the last months, just 6.5%, up in february, 26.5% up year over year so still a whole lot of things, stuff getting worked through the economy and still posing a big quandary for policymakers, for the economy, still hearing a lot of recession talk and ...

His own what he was going to do as it was in my case. rachel: okay. so now tell me what happened in your case. how did you survive an abortion? >> absolutely. my birth mother was an immigrant from honduras and came to america as a teenager and got pregnant with me she had seven children at home. she was referred to a chief physician known as [inaudible] and he was infamous in new orleans for being a doctor for minorities and delivered me in an induction abortion at 26.5 weeks and advised my moth...

Including shoplifting and organized retail gangs costing companies like target, walmart, cvs and others billions in profits. retail theft in 2021 was up 26.5% from 2020. were still waiting on 2022 numbers but commonsense is expecting another significant jump. and it wont include unreported theft. remember, retailers often dont report crimes because police wont show up. police wont show up because d.a.s wont prosecute and because d.a.s wont prosecute, criminals get to keep on stealing. i say "cri...

>> retailers are beefing up security this holiday shopping season as crime soars. the national retail federation says theres been 26.5% jump in re retail. >> and a couple weeks ago, target reported their earnings and they lost $400 million, on pace to lose $600 million from theft and what was amazing to me about it, target is known for having the best shoplifting laboratory in all of retail. they could stop it. no other retailer could do better than them.

Theres concern about balancing the books by soaking the rich. >> lawmakers shouldnt be targeting small groups. they should learn from other countries that have benefit programs like what theyre wanting to set up and fund them with broader taxes that dont negatively impact. >> utah senator mitt romney says taxing the wealthy could discourage investment. >> im happy to pay my fair share. lets not create a system that jeopardizes our commission engine. >> steny hoyer says theres just not the votes ...

Control of something has unintended consequences that will be devastating to entrepreneurship and hurt job creation. >> democrats have struggled to get an agreement on taxes for the social spending bill. steny hoyer said today he regrets congress lacks the vote to hike the corporate tax rate from 21 to 26.5%. nancy pelosi says shes urging members to support the emerging deal. >> neil: thanks, chad. now to james clyburn, the house majority whip and his view of targeting the uber wealthy. take a l...

The tax cut jobs act under trump, the corporate side was almost revenue neutral. we brought into the base we extended the stuff internationally and cut the rate what biden is proposing is taking a corporate rate back up about halfway but he is keeping the base broadening. relative to the obama tax code, it is a massive tax hike. when obama went after it -- biden is taking us where no man has ever gone before. shatner going into outer space. paul: that will have a dampening effect on investment i...

The vote. we need to start thinking about what is common ground. where that common ground is. and so yes, we need to -- for the rich to pay their fair share. everybody knows they have not been paying their fair share over recent years, and we need to do something about that. i do believe that the corporate numbers, corporate tax rate should go up from 21. even the round table. the business round table never wanted to go below 25. nobody knows how it got to 21. we need to move it up to 26.5 or 27...

U.s. senate -- infrastructure. >> representative stacey plaskett said to me, her concern -- i dont know if there was a lot of it, but much of it was there are pay-fors for a lot of this. to her, it didnt seem like she -- she thought this would -- it was progress. something would be done, but much of this was already paid for. is she correct in that? >> well, you got to be careful about being too quick to say this doesnt cost anything. these are trillion dollar bills. theyre massive by any measur...

The few things we can apparently find common ground on in the u.s. senate, infrastructure. >> representative stacy ey plaskett said to me that her concern, much of it, however you want to characterize it, was already paid for. there are paid fors for a lot of this, and to her it didnt seem like she thought this would -- it was progress. something would be done. but much of this was already paid for. is she correct in that? >> well, youve got to be careful about being too quick to say this doesnt...