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Crazy. >> the buffet thing is just theatrics, if warren buffet made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's and a small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. >> one of the things that michael bloomberg, the mayor of new york city suggested was let's raise everybody's taxes, what, 2%, 3%. something like that. he said the average middle class family would then pay about $150 more per year, millionaires would pay a whole bunch more but in the end, it would be fair and across the board and one of...

>> new study that shows, they did a study and they showed certain people over a long term, they showed over time, cardiovascular death rate was highest among those with less salt. can you put that on before we start a war on salt? >> the science is not settled and yet, government has a bee in their bonnet. they want us to stop eating so much salt and sugar and stuff like that. the food police are rearing their head now that they have called for public comments on how to achieve salt reduction across the country. goodie. >> all right, now, no headline reduction, we have plenty of those. startin...

canada. it's little more than a post tropical cyclone but has bruised the eastern united states with property damage, flooding, and power outages. at least 20 deaths have been linked to the storm. more than four million customers still don't have electricity. businesses have a lot of clean willi ing up to do. the governor of virginia expects more reports of damage and death today. a state police official in flooded out vermont is afraid of what his crews might discover. the flooding's really bad in vermont this morning. now that the storm has moved out, business owners in new jerse...

Subway is announcing that starting today, sodium in its so-called fresh fit sandwiches at subway will be cut by 28% compared to what it was back in 2009. the fast food chain is cutting salt in the rest of its sand which line by about 15% compared to 2009. i'm not sure exactly percentages what that means. less salt is a good thing. >> this is something you know about because you're a little more sophisticated than i am about nutrition. salt has become something that people are talking about. it was fat and carbs and now people concentrating on salt. >> a lot of studies that have come out recent...