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Column nift for tax.com. good morning, david. >> good morning. >> you say there are nine things that the rich don't want you to know about taxes. walk us through them. >> the first one is this negotiation that poor americans don't pay taxes. i've heard a number of people on msnbc in the past few days assert that the top 1% pay 40% of the taxes. actually the top 1% pay 40% of the income taxes which are a minority of all federal taxes. and they are only one-fifth of all the taxes americans pay. as for the poor, the bottom half of americans, they're very heavily taxed. they pay payroll taxes on t...

Columnist for tax.com and a former tax columnist for the "new york times." leo girard, president of the united steel workers international. gentlemen, thanks for your time tonight. david cay, we'll start with you first. just how devastating would this be to the elderly, to the disabled, and the children? >> well, this is a plan that basically says unless you're well to do, if you get sick, then you're going to die sooner and let me illustrate something. this plan for vouchers, take care of insurance companies, would have funneledi infunding while costs go like this and this space in between if...

Welfare queens have taken advantage of medicaid for just too long and it's time to reform it. but if you take a look at recent distribution of medicaid dollars, you'll see a totally different story. of the 58 million medicaid recipients of 2007, nearly half of them were children. of the $300 billion in medicaid benefits the vast majority went to the elderly and the disabled. you would think it would be a bed rock of civil society to protect the elderly and disabled but ryan's budget considers them, well, welfare leeches. and it's not just medicaid. it's medicare as well. and it's a tax cut for...

Worried about the business climate. do you know the state cease ently increased the corporate tax rate by 2.2%? the kicker here is that he won't say that's the reason he wants to move. his spokesman said this about his employees. that the personal tax rate is going up 2% so they are talking with other states about moving the entire company. so we have a company that is making the case that it will be better for its employees if they sell their homes, leave their schools, vacate the neighborhoods, you know, uproot the families, hit the road, and it'll just be a more complete way of life for the...