i haven t seen it. i know that they re going to unveil that today. but i can tell you from being across the country with some of my colleagues, we hear repeatedly that they are wanting to make certain that the democrats are not in control of the gavels, they would love to defeat senator reid and his re in his reelection, they would love to make sure that speaker pelosi is no longer speaker fel pelosi. speaker pelosi. there are democrats who confess to being fiscal conservatives and voted for the spending, the omnibus, the $3 trillion budget, the health care bill, and they are tired of this control coming from washington. martha: you know, when you look back at the roots of the beginning of this movement and the way those who are not in it perceived it, that is change ago lot, really, when you take a look at a number of measures and there was a poll done recently who asked who are you, tea party members, and we have some of the statistics that they found and it s kind of interesting
that s coming up later on the story today. martha: very complicated situation. we ll get into that. if you are among those who are not mailed in your tax return yet, today is april 15th, get that in today and all week, we re looking at proposed savings in the federal budget and your tax burden, how much it actually costs you. willan la jeunesse is here to break it down. he does breaking it down very well, so i m going to pay close attention. as you know those programs are paid for by our money and tax-freedom day was friday for most americans but others will be working until june, why, because the bush tax cuts and thousands in refundable tax credits from president obama, about 47 percent of the nation pays zero income tax. others pay a lot. this is how america s income tax burden looks today. the top 1 percent of taxpayers, those earning over $390,000, pay the same
share of the income tax burden as the bottom 95 percent, those making under 150. that s according to the tax foundation. last year, washington paid out more than $70 billion in refundable tax credits to individuals who had either no income tax liability or just a small one, so those people look at april 15th as payday rather than tax day. but whether you pay a little or a lot, no one wants their money wasted. let s take a look at the c-17, this transport plane, president obama tried to kill it last year and he has targeted it again this year for termination. now it is your turn to tell congress what you want. go to the taxpayers calculator, foxnews.com, where you can vote do you want to pay $2.5 billion for ten more c-17s that the pentagon says it doesn t want, but supporters say the plane employs workers in 42
other 9 8%, crush them and everybody suffers. bill: thank you, we have coated karl rove up a lot and he s up live on happening now with jon and jane at the top of the hour, thanks to both of you, now, 22 minutes before the hour. martha: an incredible story, an adoption that went terribly wrong over this little 7-year-old boy and now is sparking something even bigger. than his personal situation. a war of words between two cold war enemies, what russia says the united states must do now, if the u.s. and parents here at home ever want to adopt any more children from russia. bill: and this is a massive garbage dumping site in the atlantic ocean. you wonder why is it there and what is being done? we ll check it out. whose idea was this? it says that when you buy a grand caravan, dodge will give you 60 days to decide if you want to keep it. that s ridiculous.
better, for democrats. and i think in terms of what karl rove says, i agree with him on the deficit, i think people are very concerned about the deficit. i think people are very concerned about spending, when it comes to taxes, at this point, the there is a disproportionate number of taxes going on, people who make more than $200,000, more than $250,000, and, i think when it comes to middle class families, though, they are seeing a tax cut. and that is the reality, though, whether people at the tea party can put it together or not, i mean, as i understand, mostly middle class people, and really are mostly getting tax cuts. bill: are they getting tax cuts now? look, i don t know how you analyze this, here s what karl rove says, the public is not stupid. he says, they understand like not follows day, that mr. obama s blizzard of spending is generating much larger national debt and debt in term will create enormous pressure to raise taxes and would include a lot of folks, as kirsten is