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race less than a week until the florida primary and it's a virtual dead heat between mitt and newt. absentee voters may make the difference. a navy s.e.a.l. rescuing american from pirates. it's real life. it's real life. we go there tonight. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. tonight, the super rich surtax. okay, i keep stumbling on that one. but president obama today went on the road to press a theme from his state of the union address telling millionaires they need to pay up. >> if you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a tax rate of at least ...

and navy s.e.a.l.s rescuing americans from somali pirates. it's real life. we go there tonight. let's go "outfront." good evening. tonight, the super rich surtax. okay, i keep stumbling on that one. but president obama today went on the road to press a theme from his state of the union address telling millionaires they need to pay up. >> if you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. >> all right, the president's proposal would affect about 240,000 tax filers across the country. an expert tells us it would effectively raise the top margin ...

Bush tax cuts proposal of his. his commitment to let previous tax cuts expire are going to lead to even fewer job opportunities for americans. because it is the job createors who will be taxed. the fewer dollars that they have to reinvest in their own businesses and hire more people, the worse it is for all americans. so, no, you know, here again the obama administration and the democrats in congress they are all wet on this idea. it is idiotic to think about increasing taxes at a time like this. >> chris: but, you know, they would argue look the economy did just fine during the clinton years,...

Of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. let's take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says today that for all of the talk about you guys as deficit hogs if you buck him when it comes to some of the ideas he has to reduce the...

Of our work force. that is going to be their plan in september to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. >> chris: let me talk with you, congressman boehner. you say and senator mcconnell says the answer is to extend the bush tax cuts. let's take a look at the cost here. extending just the tax cuts for the wealthy would cost $678 billion over ten years. extending all the tax cuts would cost $2.9 trillion. that will explode the deficit and president obama says today that for all of the talk about you guys as deficit hogs if you buck him when it comes to some of the ideas he has to reduce the...