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Over a billion dollars that the current 2.9 million federal employees, it's fundamentally and morally wrong. when barack obama was senator obama he responsponsored a billt said if you're a federal contractor and haven't paid taxes you shouldn't get the contract. he's right on that and i sponsored that bill and, but that's the rule and principle for contractors, it should be the same thing for federal employees. >> greta: co-sponsor? >> yeah, a couple. >> greta: any democrats? >> a few and far between. >> greta: i mean, is there anyone either side of the aisle i know you're a rbt. >> on the con...

Like a pass when it comes to taxes? >> look, if you don't pay your federal taxes, you should be fired. that's what the bill does. if you're trying to make whole on this and going through restitution, great, you're fine, but we have 107,000 current federal employees on the federal, you know, being paid by the taxpayers that have serious delinquent tax debt and we have to fire those people if they refuse to pay their taxes. >> greta: when you're talking about what kinds of numbers. 3.5 billion is the total. and your bill omits members of the military. >> military, we have a different situation, ...

$#.5 billion in back taxes. according to the federal employee delinquency report. 9-point it's well below the delinquency rate for the general public but for the government employees whose salaries are funded by taxpayers to not pay their own is touchy. in the executive office of the president, 40 staffers of mr. obama who wants to raise taxes on the rich are delink went $343,483. >> the president believes everybody ought to pay their taxes. >> white house staff owe less than the counterparts. 688 hill staffers not paid $10.8 million in back taxes. in the administrative offices of the u.s. cou...

Suggests the owner is ready to be monty hall and do wheeling and dealing, right? >> absolutely. it means they're getting anxious and chasing the market, as we call it. but the third and probably biggest indicator of knowing you can get a bargain here is look for homes that have actually been in escrow or under contract and fallen out because that home seller has tasted the sale and it got away from him. so he'll be more anxious to bargain with you. those are really good ways to sort of get in there and find that bargain. >> brian: let's talk about the deal of the week. where do you have us? >>...

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