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created. >> let's look at the polling here. a majority of people would support this proposal of extending tax cuts for all people. increasing taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year. democrats, 83% of them favor it. independents 63% favor it. republicans only 37% favor it. you can see this is where there's a real idealogical difference here. that's something both are playing into in an election year. >> i see this and it begins as a shift within the culture that that poll reflects. that says there are more and more people looking at others saying they shouldn't be making tha...

personal returns. >> joining us now live, congressman steve king, a republican from iowa and member of the tea party caucus. good morning. >> good morning. >> the president wants to keep lower taxes for 97% of americans, the treasuries department's office of tax analysis for the tax year 2007, under bush, 3% of all tax returns were for incomes over $250,000. explain the view that obama's proposal would hurt. walk me through it. >> i recall back when the bush tax brackets were first implemented, a decade ago. the argument was how do you give tax breaks to people not paying taxes that'...

facetious way is i think every republican on the hill ought to walk around with a red lapel pin with a blue 20 in it and every democrat should have a blue lapel pin with a red 20 in it. 20 is the percent of gdp we have to get to in federal expenditures and revenue. we are at 15% on revenue, which is an all time low, since we have been keeping reliable records. that gap is quite clearly unsustainable. so at some point there has to be a serious informed realistic discussion about what the options are that are going to move you back in the direction of the new number 20. i haven't seen ...

consciousness and consumer pressure for policing an example and it's all of us and it's not just the police only. seattle, like many cities have long done undercover stings. back in 2001 for the first and only time that they do a buy bust at a rave where everybody in attendance was white and 43 people for a delivery of ecstasy and other serious drugs and right before that there were a couple of weeks of press that the police had set up about how ecstasy is the new crack. it's very, very dangerous. anyway, so they made these 43 arrests and all kids, most of these individuals had pri...

to vote. that could not be further from the truth. >> on the evidence of the mail having been returned. it would also signify a student away at school, a soldier -- >> it could signify numerous things. >> there could be any number of reasons. >> that's right. >> tpolitical organizations do t targeting specific neighborhoods in order to challenge the vote out of that neighborhood and they choose neighborhoods that are associated with strong votes for the opposing party, correct? >> that's correct. that's correct. >> would this bear on the voter caging problem? >> this particular bill?...