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Problem here. >> and the tax burden on the richest is at a four-decade low, mort. you know that. the income of concentration of income wealth in this country is at an all-time high. >> i have supported the higher taxes on the wealthy? >> have you? >> for years now. >> would you increase tax on hedge funds? >> i wont get any every detail with you. i personally have written it, spoken about it. i support that because everybody has to be shown to pay the price. >> the republicans dont. >> that is n...

Way i think too many people now fear the future, thats a danger zone. >> the situation with the economy and the country is very bad. so, whether or not it is good politics, the only responsible thing to do right now is work on jobs. >> its the haves and have nots. its the haves, the have mores and the have notes. >> right now we actually have a jobs emergency. >> we dont have an opinion problem. we have a math problem. >> you could put any president in there. president obama is the political tar...

>> reporter: it is the texas governors effort to revive a flagging campaign and combat the improbable rise of rival herman cain. >> the perry plan is about as big a roll of the dice as any republican candidate has put forward on any policy. >> reporter: it does one thing past flat taxes failed to do -- keeps the popular home mortgage that presents a math problem. lower taxes and less money for uncle sam. to balance the budget he would have to cut federal programs dramatically. herman cain wants ...

Facing right now. the city of newark, for example, has really been hurting. their tax base has almost disappeared, and they need help from the federal government to -- >> oh, please. martha: the mayor there walked away from those negotiations because the union would not give them anywhere near a deal on this. chris plante -- >> well, and a democrat mayor, and democrats are bankrupting city after city and state after state because of the corrupt and dirty back room deals with the unions who are l...

She is starting to qualify for medicare and will be qualifying for social security fairly soon. together they lifted entire generations of seniors out of poverty. most important social safety net. they have to be preserved. now, both of them have some long-term challenges that we have to deal with. they are different challenges. social security is the easier one. its just a pure simple math problem. that is that right now the population is getting older and more people are going on social securi...

the nations debt ceiling is fueling hopes the government wont run out of money on august 2nd. obama saying the deadline drawing close and congressional leaders need to talk turkey in todays meetings. most of the central heat under a heat alert. some areas feel as hot as 126 degrees. . the taliban blaming u.s. hackers for a text that announced the death of mullah omar. the taliban says, no, he is alive and well. one day after rupert murdoch tried to repel the british assault on hi...

Been taken care of just the way any one of arnolds other four children have bin taken care of. >> im assuming if the child wanted to live in a brentwood mansion as opposed to where the child currently lives, that may well occur. >> thats true. we dont know where this child lives. for all we know maybe this is a child thats living right next door in santa monica, beverly hills, or brentwood because we still dont know who this mother and part of the household who this woman is yet. once that unfol...

Everyone would hold them accountable over the summer as they would right now. >> karen, is it fair to look at this as like your teacher extending the deadline for when you file your homework? you dont have to solve that math problem this week or next week. >> you know, i think its more like, when you sit down at the table and youre trying to pay your bills, and youre thinking i can put this one off until next month. and the fact that our government is doing that is actually quite frightening. an...

Taxes but you cant not tax people more if were going to support some of the priorities that the government has going forward and that americans have going forward. it is going to be a math problem to do everything on spending side. i didnt hear president obama say he wants to raise rates in the gis of tax reform. both ryan and obama said well extend the tax cuts for some or all and do tax reform. it makes the bush tax cuts a moot point. lets hope they do that because im bored about talking about...

Wait until the last week again to try and deal with it. jeanne, bipartisan budget experts, and you know them all, say that the worst way to handle the debt is to do nothing at all. and you talked about how serious this is. >> uh-huh. >> is either side really leveling with the american people and letting them know that the services they get from government are going to shrink and the amount they pay in taxes is likely going to increase? >> well, if you put it that way, then no. theres a lot of rh...