more than they were. what do you make of it? guest: the president made a big deal since the fall about the buffett rulemaking the rich pay the fair their 30 percent of their income in federal taxes. we are already there. that is what the congressional budget office report tells us. but the president also predicated the argument on the fact that the rich are paying less than the middle class. the c.b.o. report shows that the middle class pay 11 percent in federal taxes, so the rich already are paying three times more than the middle class so it shows that the president s buffett rule and class warfare arguments do not stand on firm ground. neil: what bothers me in the coverage of this, and we will go in detail on this tonight on fox business network, this idea that the reason why we, as a nation, are paying a smaller tax rate than we remain some years back, we have lots a lot of jobs and people who do have jobs are
and better incomes. so governor pawlenty, what was the panic level today inside the romney campaign when that cbs poll came out showing that 91% of the public agreed with the president s proposals in the state of the union address last night? well, i don t think there was any panic at all, because i think as this debate unfolds, we take great solace in the wisdom of the american people in history, lawrence. and you know this, class warfare arguments never works in american politics. barack obama should be focusing on growing the pie, not inciting people to fight with each other over every-shrinking pieces of the pie. and if i just might offer one moment of tutorial on taxes. mitt romney s taxes, when he earned the money before he actually invested it, was taxed at income initially, at today s highest rate, 35% governor, we don t know that. i don t want to interrupt you, but we don t know that. he ll have to show us 20 years of tax returns to prove that.
so governor pawlenty, what was the panic level today inside the romney campaign when that cbs poll came out showing that 91% of the public agreed with the president s proposals in the state of the union address last night? well, i don t think there was any panic at all, because i think as this debate unfolds, we take great solace in the wisdom of the american people in history, lawrence. and you know this, class warfare arguments never works in american politics. barack obama should be focusing on growing the pie, not inciting people to fight with each other over every-shrinking pieces of the pie. and if i just might offer one moment of tutorial on taxes. mitt romney s taxes, when he earned the money before he actually invested it, was taxed at income initially, at today s highest rate, 35% governor, we don t know that. i don t want to interrupt you, but we don t know that. he ll have to show us 20 years of tax returns to prove that. but we presume that he was taxed at t
good morning. i m ashleigh banfield. and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. we ve got a lot of breaking news coming into our offices from around the world. you know this story already, remarkable pictures out of italy, and now we re hearing the rescue operation of that cruise ship listing on its side has been suspended once again because the ship is moving. not only that, one of the res e rescuers had to be rescued as well. we ll get you detailed. and wikipedia and other websites going partially dark. right after midnight that happened. they re protesting anti-piracy bills. that s google right there. if you thought that all s fair in love and war and even the fringes of war, the u.s. and pakistan are having trouble right now. pakistan has said to the united states, you know that special envoy you sent us? send them back. we don t want them. weem get to the details. mitt romney reports that he pays about a 15% tax rate. how do you fe
middle class. there are no classes in america. we are a country that don t allow for titles. we don t put people in classes. maybe middle income people. but the idea somehow or another we re going to buy into the class warfare arguments of barack obama something that should not be part of the republican lexicon, that s their job, divide, separate, pit one group against another. that s not the language that i ll use as president. i ll use the language of bringing people together. and i ll also be able to show you that unlike some of the folks up here, that we have a consistent record of being the person to contrast ourselves on health care, for example. we re looking for someone who can win this race, who can win this race on the economy and on the core issues of this election. and i was not ever for an individual mandate. i wasn t for a top-down government-run health care system. i wasn t for the big bank or wall street bailout as governor romney was, and i stood firm and worked active