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Your individual taxes and in fact, in the last three years, it has been very good for states. last year states collected more than $309 billion on individual income taxes, and that is 10% more than the states received the year before, and in this cash, it is crucial, because the income taxes make up more than one-third of total state revenues. i am joined by the washington post reed wilson who analyzed all of the census data, and reed, why are we seeing the increase recently? >> well, two reasons. first of all, coming out of the economic recession, and the recovery has been good for income inc...

All eyes on washington this week as president obama's set to deliver his state of the union address tuesday night. so what can we expect him to say? >> joining us as the host of "fox news sunday," chris wallace received a copy of the full state of the union address. chris, can you read it for us now? >> i feel like i have received a brief copy because i read last year's address the other day and it sounds from what everyone is saying to be the same. a lot of talk about ladders of opportunity to the middle class. that's the key to growing the economic engine, not to say that's not an important ...

The divers in the water taking pictures when the whales came to the surface and chase something food. the diver said he thought he was going to get hit by the massive tail. >> i worked my way over to the boat. got up on the back of it as soon as i could. the other guys said they had never seen me swim that fast before and i can see now why as i watched the video. >> i can imagine that. he said the whales were so close, he could have touched them. college students may be going deeper into debt. mom and dad are cutting back at the same time. jackie is with us moving your money. details of a ne...

gomez say? >> he believed that ivens is distraught and that he's possibly suicidal. what is interesting about that though is that they would not comment on exactly why they believe that to be the case but obviously they have reason to believe that is indeed the case. they did search his home. they looked for his handgun. couldn't find it. at this point they are assuming he took his handgun with him. >> do they believe he's still in the los angeles area? >> not sure. we can tell you this is the third day of searching. he was last seen on thursday night by his wife as she was going to ...

More fragile than we thought? >> matt, if you look back to -- hark back to when standard & poor's cut the u.s. credit rating in august, and everybody was worried, and it was a nonevent. our interest rates that the government pays are actually lower than they were before the downgrade, which is counterintuitive. the stock market is probably higher or about the same. so i think the credit rating agencies can inflict short-term pain, but long-term other forces are more powerful. and again, yes, i do see these kind of continuing problems coming up. you know, italy may have a bad bond auction and t...