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July 22, 2012
Companies that they own and the economic reality is different. different tax codes in countries around the world. similar top rates in europe that you dont have any more. france may go back to that but you see the same pattern in taxation policy throughout the first world. we would be very different from everybody else. >> thats not necessarily true. denmark has a top rate of 78%. >> not on income general, of course. >> two things. on wages and then theres on capital gain. i want to raise them a...
July 22, 2012
the scorched earth partisan politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesnt act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our home-grown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane thats blowing our way from europe. ive been berating congress on this show to pass legislation now to head off...
July 20, 2012
Chuck said that is the divide. you can say collectivism or whatever you want to say versus individualism and by the way, this battle has been fought since thomas jefferson and alex der hamilton were ripping each others eyes out. is it about individualism, about more of a governmental collectivism. >> why dont we embed that conversation in the issues? >> all right. eugene and melody, stay with us. were going to be going back to this conversation, but were also, obviously, following a big story ou...
July 20, 2012
Does it have any impact? im a cynic and i assume it really doesnt. >> you hope it does but you think it doesnt. >> you have been looking out of touch already and boy, is today a reminder. >> there could not be a more normal event than going to the midnight opening of the "batman" movie. it was expected to be the -- >> gotten rave reviews. everybody is looking forward to this. >> in the suburbs of denver. >> in america. >> near an air force base. >> thats what makes it so terrifying. we have all ...
July 19, 2012
Met in more than six months. >> there is no specific reason except the presidents, obviously, got a lot on his plate. but he continues to solicit and received a receive advice from numerous folks outside the administration about the economy, about the ideas that he can act on with congress or administratively to help the economy grow and help it create jobs. megyn: joining me now, simon rosenberg, former clinton campaign adviser, and marc thiessen whos a fellow with the american enterprise insti...
July 19, 2012
She fears the girls are either no longer alive, or they keep getting further and further away from the family. its got to be an awful feel. megyn: oh, god. trace, thank you. well, with syria in chaos, new fear about its huge stockpile of chemical weapons. yesterday board bolton and lieutenant colonel ralph peters warned if assad is going to use them, hes going to use them now. weve got a report on the dramatic move used to take out this threat. and a 71-year-old gunman opens fire on a couple...
July 15, 2012
Japan in the rest of our economy which has moved into the local service economy. doctors, nurses, teachers, truck drivers whose wages have been more insulated, if you will, from foreign compensation. >> but the politics of this is that you should not be closing down jobs and shipping them overseas and whats bizarre about this debate is that people are both sides and, i mean, democratic politicians and democratic policy has overseen a lot of outsourcing and nafta, obviously, did a lot of that. te...
July 12, 2012
Jobs than women -- women were the broad winners throughout the recession. so if the women are losing jobs and more and more in poverty, we are really in trouble. >> sean: the war on women backfires, the dog story backfires, the latest one is the issue of outsourcing and $29 billion went to finland, denmark, china, brazil, the dominical problem and canada. >> right now, they are using telemarketing services from canada and the philippines. its desperate. they are trying whatever they can to shift...
July 12, 2012
Jobs than women -- women were the broad winners throughout the recession. so if the women are losing jobs and more and more in poverty, we are really in trouble. >> sean: the war on women backfires, the dog story backfires, the latest one is the issue of outsourcing and $29 billion went to finland, denmark, china, brazil, the dominical problem and canada. >> right now, they are using telemarketing services from canada and the philippines. its desperate. they are trying whatever they can to shift...
July 11, 2012
Absolutely inept and -- just think about what you just said. june 25, his constituents found out he hadnt been voting since june 10 for them. the fact is that he -- relinquishes the luxury of privacy even if one obviously has -- you know, absolutely humane, you know, row action to this, sympathizes. relinquishes the right to privacy. nobody here yet knows what he is doing. his constituents are arent being represented in congress and dont know if he will still be running for re-election. he has w...