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Everyone below a million dollars will get a tax cut but the millionaires and billionaires won t. and i say that they shouldn t get it for three reasons: first, they re the only group whose income has substantially gone up in the last decade, middle class incomes have declined, second, they re not likely to send it spend it, they got plenty of money anyway and it s not going to butch the economy, boost the economy and third, we have a big decifit problem, we have a great jobs prorks better to put the money into decifit reduction, creating jobs than to give it to the millionaires and billionaires. rick: steve moore is senior economic writer for the wall street journal . what do you snng. you know, it s interesting, obviously, chuck schum ser from your state of new york, new york and california have the highest tax rates in the country, they imposed these millionaire surtaxes, and you know what, those two states have the biggest deficits in the country so it hasn t worked very well a ....
Been very clear, that if we re going to keep those tax rates for anyone, we re going to keep them low for everyone. so i don t see this happening. one other point i d like to make, rick, in washington state this year, there was a millionaire tax on the ballot, in liberal washington state, and it failed by about 65 percent of the vote. americans know that rich people, whether they re talking about warren buffet or bill gates or lead gaga or tiger woods, those are the people that create the jobs in this economy. rick: republicans have been saying if you only keep the taxes lower for those making less than 250, you re going to sock a lot of small business owners. that s right. iraq rick these are small businesses that really do create the bulk of the jobs in this country. by raising it to a million, senator schumer says that would really include virtually all small businesses. is he right? well, except here s the problem. as you increase the income threshold, $500,000, a million, 50 m ....
Full body scanner? you know, i think so, rick. i think that you can expect that and i think unfortunately, you know, any of us in any citizens of our country today would probably feel a little bit hesitant about going through a pat-down like that, but our a adversaries are resilient and these they re requirements we ll have if we are going to combat their obvious, very obvious attempt to continue to target our aviation industry, especially. rick: people don t like the full body scanners, they say it s an invasion of their privacy and i ve heard security experts say it doesn t even work, the way we need it to. and, now, you hear about the techniques that is used in the full body pat-down and how graphic it can actually get. you know, i think there are a lot of people out there who are wondering, isn t there a happy medium and some way for us to keep unsafe passengers off of ....
Apparent from public records is that hoffman s parents live in a home in howe arrested, where the family, the three-person family and family friend all disappeared from. that s the only apparent connection through public records. rick: wow, a bizarre case. maybe we ll learn more as the search continues for those missing people. steve brown in chicago, thanks. martha: and a fox news alert for you this morning on surprising new retail numbers that are coming in today. u.s. retail sales, posting their biggest gain in seven months, so that is certainly a good sign, the commerce department reporting a 1.2% jump in october, nearly double what was expected, and that s the biggest increase we ve seen since march. car sales also helped to fuel that rise, but that s certainly a piece of good news for the economy. if people get out there and buying, maybe christmas shopping dicking in and car sales doing well, so confidence in the market, it seems. rick: nice to see, we ll see ....
gretchen: the book is heaven for real and todd and cloton shared their story with us. they ll join us in the after the show show to tell us more of their fascinating stories. colton s book. brian: that should be fascinating. that s one time i wish i could stick around. thanks for watching. steve: we ll see you tomorrow. same time, same channel. martha: all righty, on this monday congratulations on that election win, now welcome to washington, that s what the banner says as they come to washington, folks, this is the class of 2010, reporting for congressional duty and orientation today. good mornings everybody, i m martha maccallum, great to have you with us on this monday, in america s newsroom . rick: i m rick folbuam in for bill hemmer. the newest people are ....