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Taxes? chief national correspondent jim angle has details. >> the supreme court decision made it official. the healthcare mandate is a tax. a characterization that one says would have doomed the passage had it been known at the time. >> there would not have been ten votes for the legislation. >> nobody would want to have gone home and say i just increased your taxes by billions of dollars over the next ten years to fix healthcare. >> administration preferred the use revenue. but its clear taxpay...

Making less than $250,000 will have an opportunity to put their vote where their mouth is. jon: you may there may be embattled or retiring democrats in the senate who might vote against the law as it stands, might vote to repeal it? >> well see. theyll have to, again, make sure their vote comports with what theyve said. theyll have an opportunity to do that soon. jon: calling it a tax could change the name of the game. congressman, thank you. jenna: the politics of it all, very important part of...

Jilts in the law but enough states may be go along with the measure to know they are happy about doing it. bret? >> bret: shannon bream live at the supreme court. thank you. moments after the ruling, complex steps in gear, affecting the states, businesses, hospitals and individuals. chief national correspondent jim angle looks at the question of what now? >> reporter: so republicans hoped for a different outcome from the court. many of them expressed the same rule about the ruling they got. >> t...

In europe, leaders are considering a plan to use emergency bail-out funds to buy government bonds and bring down borrowing costs. spains finance minister said today the country will not need a full blown bail-out. spains banking sec somewhere agreed to package. the head of the party sworn in through prime minister with a three-party coalition there. in this country, speculation flourishs on whom romney will pick. the number two on the g.o.p. ticket. chief national correspondent jim angle looks a...

This out for us. hes live in washington with more. jim, do you remember where you were in 1992? >> reporter: oh, im afraid i do, but it was pre-fox years, so they dont really count. [laughter] the federal reserve study youre talking about looked at three years up to 2010 and found the net worth of american families has fallen dramatically as a result of the recession, down 39%, back to the levels, as you said, of the early 1990s. a full three-quarters of the drop was from housing which for many ...

But the values have collapsed. they wonder what theyre going to do. with a barber who couldnt retire even though hes in his 70s because because of the losse net worth he had. >> reporter: the president, he said, needs to find out whats happening. median income for a family right in the middle of the income scale has fallen about 8% while retirement accounts based on stock investments have fallen 7%. theres one interesting comparison here, jenna, that is that incomes are 5.9% lower than when the ...

And a stunning new rule on the one of the most controversial cases in the world, did a dingo take a baby girl in the australian outback more than 30 years ago? jon: first, though, american families feeling the pinch of the recession. a new report revealing the housing crunch all but wiped out nearly 20 years of family savings and investments. some bad news to begin today. im jon scott. jenna: partying like 1992, says the fed. jon: yeah. jenna: remember where you were in 1992? jon: yes, i do. jen...

Retirement, but the value collapseded. they wonder what they will do. >> governor romney said the president should go out and talk to people, not just do fundraisers. white house officials pointed their finger in a different direction, characterizing the bad news as inherted. >> obviously the numbers you are talking about are a tough and brutal snapshot of this financial crisis and housing bubble that the president inherited. >> president obama who did inherit the recession sought to rejuvenate ...

>> i am one to think that eliminating the mandated is deathblow to obamacare. so a word i use with affection. >> reporter: critics say it wont work either way. >> the real question is even if --. >> heather: that was jim angle reporting for us. >> coming up, shocking new information on how much cash it could cost and how you can avoid it. >> gregg: john bolton will be here with his take on what is next for syria. more evidence of mass murders, masses kersz, this is the violence they are really s...

Many thanks for being with us. >> heather: brand-new fox news poll on the presidents controversial health care mandate showing that 60% of americans wanted the supreme court to overturn at least part of it. high court is expected to announce its decision any day. meanwhile, the obama administration reportedly making plans in cases the mandated goes up in smoke. jim angle takes a look at the possibilities. >> reporter: president obama recently told potential donors he may take a second bite at he...