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Liability, you're already in the state constitution and they have to face that and i think they're going to have to force state workers to start to accept benefits that are closer to what the private sector are. >> stuart, another thing the states have to do, raise the retirement agent. you've got situations in ohio where teachers making $100,000 a year can retire at 54 and they can retire and rehire and collect a paycheck at the same time they're collecting a $80,000 pension. this is bankrupting states. they have to cut pay and have reductions in force, because the only people who haven't had...

if you think you're paying a lot now, wait until next year, taxes are going up just not for the rich. with a primer on the increases, tax dean, columnist and editor dan ettinger and assistant editor, james freeman and senior economics writer steve moore. steve, aim going to start with you. which taxes are going up january 1st and who pays them? >> well, hey, stuart i have to confess i'm a procrastinator, i haven't done my taxes yet. if you think it's worse this year, you're right, it's worse next year, the bush tax cuts expire and perhaps the dividend tax, doubling or tripling of the...

Classroom. i recently talked to dan ettinger, jason riley and bill mcgurn about the politics of teacher tenure. >> why can't teachers be hired and fired for performance just like the rest of us? >> well, it's because of the tenure rule. these iron clad job protections that teachers get after a very short period of time in the classroom. >> why do they exist? are they part of union contracts, negotiated with-- >> typically they're passed by state legislators, actually and rules through the collective baerpg agreements augment them, but typically the state of california will legislature will pas...

After just two years in the classroom. i recently talked to dan ettinger, jason riley and bill mcgurn about the politics of teacher tenure. >> why can't teachers be hired and fired for performance just like the rest of us? >> well, it's because of the tenure rule. these iron clad job protections that teachers get after a very short period of time in the classroom. >> why do they exist? are they part of union contracts, negotiated with-- >> typically they're passed by state legislators, actually and rules through the collective baerpg agreements augment them, but typically the state of californ...

Use of executive power here is very interesting and vis-a-vis how the a.c.l.u. is responding because it's the use of executive power that goes beyond some of what they objected to from president bush. >> paul: it's fascinating to me, i think, dan, if president bush were still doing this, would we see even more opposition to this, do you think? because as a democratic president who's doing it maybe some of the opposition from the left is more muted than it might otherwise be? >> i don't think there's any doubt that that's the case. i remember the swift program the treasury used to track terrori...