administration while they were working to pass tax reform is that it would be much easier to file your taxes by that dreaded april 15th deadline. next week we will be unveiling the new 1040 and it will be a postcard as we have promised and hard-working taxpayers won t have to spend nearly as much time filling out taxes. rob: well, now the tax postcard anticipated to make debut sometime this week. what can we expect and what will change, here to discuss peter, peter, thanks so much for coming on. i was excited about the idea of a simplified tax code, what do you think we will see this week? well, for one thing taxes will be lower. the other thing is very simple form similar to what we had before taxes got to complex. you ll be able to put in your name, your spouse s name, your social security numbers, take
floyd dent said he was pulled from his car and repeatedly punched in the head. the video was released to the news media. officers say they thought dent was reaching for a weapon but dent was not armed. jesse jackson s family says they are finding great joy in the release of their son from prison. he is freed after 17 months on corruption charges. once released from federal custody, his wife will serve a one-year sentence for her role in the corruption. senate takes up work today on the federal budget one day after the house passed its version. it relies on $5 trillion in cuts to eliminate deficits the next decade. much of the savings would come from medicaid, food stamps and welfare. the two will have to be merged in to one before the april 15th deadline. while we are concentrating
i never thought of myself as a racist. i never considered it a possibility. but the bottom line is that the words said in that chant were mean, hateful and racist. the lawmaker who organized yesterday s meeting says she believe s pettit s apology is genuine and she forgives him. the senate takes up work today on the federal budget one day after the house passed its version. it relies on $5 trillion in cuts to eliminate deficits over the next decade. much of the savings from medicaid, food stamps and welfare. the two versions will have to be merged in to one before the april 15th deadline. speaking of budgeting, a couple from pennsylvania has a lot of it to do after a big lottery win or maybe they don t. joseph and jodi are $7 million richer thanks to a scratch off ticket. he was sent the ticket by his dad. it was tucked in to a get well card because he was recovering from surgery. my dad does that, too. he said he couldn t celebrate
breathing down our backs five hours away from the april 15th deadline. if you pay taxes president obama wants you to fork over more money. since new york city day president obama pushing for 442 different tax increases. but a republican-led congress getting in the way and blocking all of them or at least most of them. it s important to note on the record has been trying to get information from increase proposals from past presidents so we could have a better frame of reference. but getting those numbers seems almost impossible. congresswoman michele bachmann joins us. nice see it you. thanks for having me on today who people have their pencils sharpened and working furiously to get their tax returns in by the midnight deadline. a 2% of americans say what they have to pay is too much. that s up 46% from from 46% in 2012. 42% say it s about right. 3% say it s too low. a 2% of americans say their taxes are too high. i would agree with them.
the good news is that the chances of getting audited are really slim this year. yeah, that is right. so at least maybe that is going to the take a edge off of the looming april 15th deadline that comes around and surprises some of us. so because of to budget cuts and the responsibilities, they are putting a strain on the resources at the irs, and the chances of being audited this year are lower than a number of chances, but so, too, are the questions of getting them answered at the phone here at the end of the year. and the irs budget is down by $1 billion, and they will have fewer auditors since the 1980s, and less than 1% of all tax returns were audit ed, and they were low, but do your best to get them in. and few people have had audits and said it is the worst experience of their life. courtney reagan, good to see you. and we less than a few weeks left, bloomberg has a list of the top selling candy bars in the world, and they are all