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Just over half of those eligible for Medicare get coverage through a private insurance plan rather than traditional, government-run Medicare.

Economy is devastating to the capital because capital formation is the big driver of job creation and economic growth. someone who has investment income already paid income tax on money when they earned it. what he have after tax they choose to invest, say, in a bit, and that business, then, pays taxes on its income as high as 35 percent, and, with what is left over after that, a dividend or capital gains payment goes to the investor and you pay yet another tax and that, maybe, is at 15 percent ...

Real pies but in this chart we showed that 46 percent of households pay no income taxes maybe social security or medicare but no income taxes. there might be a few if that category who really cant and shouldnt. but allowans and depreciation and write offs and such, that many can end up paying no income tax, the president is not going to refer to fairness on that but on the rich issue. how will that resonate back home? >>guest: we have a challenge in america because about half of country is getti...

People because they have figured it out. you have to take care of your employees and treat people with respect and be goal-oriented. governor romney has been successful. you should promote business people that have had success because we want them in america. i want them all in florida but we want them in america, so, i am excited about business people this have success and i want them to say if you are thinking of doing business i am flocking to florida. >>neil: thank you very were, governor. g...

Way to avoid paying extra medicare tax, no one knows for sure, but needless to say the dust up was something totally unexpected and now byron is pecking away at this. >>reporter: he could hear from the i.r.s. the compensation that he received from his production company, gingrich productions it was an "s" corporation you can be paid as regular wages and you pay medicare tax on those or you can get a non-wage distribution and you dont pay medicare tax on that and the accusation is he structured i...

Medicare can make it harder for seniors to find a doctor too, jon. jon: an interesting take on all of this. jim angle, thanks. jenna: fox business alert well take a look at what your money is doing today. the dow kind of a quiet day, its up about 20 points. i want to mention to you that oil is trending higher right around $106 a barrel. we just were showing you video of some housing. the new home sales, plunging last month to a record low, to nearly 17%. sales of brand-new homes a smaller segmen...

Voters with freebies and a barrage of ads starring andy griffith the law is still an unknown quantity, the goodies were simply not good enough. >> reporter: thats right, jon if you remember a year ago democratic strategists were touting the fact that the major components of this law wont be going into effect until 2013, or 2014. they were sort of laughing saying, great we are going to put the good things up front. 26 years old get to stay on their parents insurance. extra medicare money for seni...

Parliamentarian went the way of the democrats. some say the republicans ought to just pack it in, accept the status quo and take this law as a done deal. thats not what you intend? >> well, the law is a done deal, but the bill that were working on is not. weve got a responsibility to the american people to make sure, a, democrats dont abuse the senate rules and, b, if theres anything we can do to avoid the extra taxes, extra medicare cuts, overcharging of student loans thats in this bill, we oug...

Home when you hear about the mitt romney tax rate, 14 percent or 15 percent, he has paid the top income tax rate when this was income. he takes this money, puts it back in the pool, and that money, then, earns interest, or is invested and has a great return and he pays, then, another tax on top of that money that has had the return. but that gets lost in the argument. so, the real return, the real tax is were higher. lets say we were to raise the so-called capital gains rate, which now long term...

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