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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:18:49:00

you can't fit any more clothes in the closet, you go out and buy some more, you don't know what to do witness, you need a bigger closet. the same thing the body has no way to get rid of toxins in the body. by the time you are 35 or 40 -- skwraot body just gets bigger. >> more topicses more fat, more tax inches more fat, there's that and hormone imbalance. megyn: i was freaked out in reading this book, it feels like how could we possibly avoid it. just on the first page you're talking about our carpet, toothpaste, your shampoo, your soaps, aluminum, "hairspray," make up, your sheets in your bed, everywhere. >> the fire retardant that by law we have to have on our mattresses. it's overwhelming but the president's panel on cancer came out earlier this year i was really excited this is finally coming out 240 pages that i read, conclusively says we are

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110112:18:23:00

years. but, as i say, illinois has got some other problems. let's go to the new york stock exchange with my colleague to tell us about tax increases in illinois. some very substantial tax increases that that state is facing, allison. >> oh, yeah, whether they want it or not, ali, the tax hikes have been approved and are massive and they're on the way because you know, as you mentioned, the big problem there, you look at the unemployment rate, it's pretty high there. i mean, states make their money based on their tax revenue. obviously if people aren't working they're not paying payroll taxes or income taxes. >> right. >> so that's part of the problem. but the bigger problem, of course, is that illinois is facing $13 billion budget deficit. and it's put this plan in action to try to make up this budget shortfall. it's going to temporarily raise personal income taxes to 5%. they're now sitting at 3%. they're going to temporarily raise corporate income taxes to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:18:11:00

bills. $8 billion is owed to vendors who include doctors and dentists who have been providing services for the state. so they impose this massive, gigantic tax increase in the dead of night but they make no mention whatsoever of pensions, nothing. that is what is pushing illinois over the edge. no mention of pension reform whatsoever. megyn: this is a lot of money. the average citizen who now owes a thousand dollars in state income tax in illinois now will pay 1666 at the new rate. imagine if you owe more than a thousand how that adds up. is there going to be a backlash by the illinois taxpayers? are they going to stay. >> reporter: yes there is. megyn: don't keep hitting us including the middle class that can't afford it. >> reporter: you said how much the average taxpayer would have to pay extra on a thousand dollars okay. let's look at the other side of the coin. they have to payoff retired illinois government workers. there are 536 employees, former employees of the government in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:11:25:00

raise tax? >> let me give you another number that may surprise you. in illinois, there are 536 retired government workers who will collectively take home this year in pensions $68 million. >> 500? >> 500 people? >> 536 individuals retired from government service in illinois who take home more than $100,000 each. in many cases, more than $200,000. they get 68 million this year. that does not include health benefits. >> it's good to be there. >> here's what i'm surprised about because the climate, it appeared throughout the country was changing. we talked about the budget in california the other day and you have a liberal governor jerry brown who was talking about, i think you said, draconian cuts. >> that's what he's trying to impose, yes. >> illinois just doesn't get it? >> this is the exact opposite of california. california cuts dramatically or tries to, they haven't got it through yet, illinois raises taxes. this was done by the state legislature the day before a new batch of state representatives were voted in -- were sworn in,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:21:03:00

political hey? >>guest: i decided i would spend time in march in chicago and st. paul because there are stark contrasts between where we are headed with new majorities in the state assembly and senate, and this accelerates that process. we got calls from employers and we will seek out employers out there to do more than appear on tv and we will reach out because we are cutting tax on businesses and cutting our regulation and litigation costs, we are actually proposing incentive allowing businesses like those down in chicago or rockford or others to come up and have two year represident obama from corporate taxes as a way to bring jobs to the state. >>neil: any takers on that? >>guest: i proposed it on monday. i was sworn in on the 3ed and that is one of many proposals we put in place to attract more jobs in the state and with something like that more job created from outside the state. it is enticing.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:23:53:00

emergency. >> certainly, multiple states around the country; particularly, ones with democratic governors, big states, california and new york are going to have the same conversations with their constituents and with their legislature. look out in california, and he -- the new governor there is going to -- >> jerry brown. >> yeah, jerry brown is going to have to eck tepid some of these tax -- extend some of tax hikes and get report from republicans to do so. you have cuomo in new york drawing the line say nothing new tax hikes. we'll have to see. this is a conversation we'll have to have in washington about our fiscal state as well. >> bret: the other governors are saying this is just the absolute wrong philosophy to take. economic effort to take. when you are dealing with businesses. are they right? >> i think absolutely right. i think this is for illinois, economic suicide. let me be statesman like here and say this is the beauty of federalism, which is called, you know, the, where you get experiments.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110112:18:12:00

illinois, each of whom makes more than a hundred thousand dollars a year pension. added all together those 536 people will select $68 million this year, and again next year, adjusted for inflation. that does not include health benefits of any kind. 68 million for 536 people. and that money is being taken off the people who have now just had a huge tax hike imposed upon them. megyn: it appears they are not suffering from this recession. they've had unemployment, people are suffering there as well. the last thing they need is a big tax increase of 66%. >> reporter: in texas they have a $20 billion deficit they are going to impose spending cuts. in california 25 billion a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. new jersey $11 billion in the hole, no tax increase, spending cuts and reform of pensions. illinois about $15 billion in the hole, what do they do, all tax increases.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110111:05:36:00

midst. but it's interesting you bring this up because there are two groups who i can think of who in recent years that many americans have complained do not have enough moderates. one is muslims and one is the republicans. and i think now maybe the muslims have more moderates than the republicans. you know, when you float terms like tyranny as they do or treason, remember in the health care debate, republican congressmen were hoisting that banner that said "don't tread on me" which had only applied to enemies of america. not political opponents. you create an atmosphere. yes, you do. governor perry in -- in texas threatening secession over -- over the tax hike that obama wanted, over a 3% tax hike on the richest 1%? that's reason to throw down the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110111:02:37:00

wanted, over a 3% tax hike on the richest 1%? that's reason to throw down the "s" card? these people are hysterical. hysterical is really the only word i can think of for it. you know, these conservatives, they want to be known as tough guys. they're girls. school girls who get hysterical about things. health care made them hysterical. government takeover. it wasn't a government takeover. i know what a government takeover would have looked like. that's called a single payer system. we didn't get that. we didn't even try for that. we didn't even get a public option. when you create an atmosphere of hysteria, of course the nuts are going to hear it and they're going to dethio things like thiy did. >> we'll have more with bill mahr in just a moment.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110111:08:36:00

and i think now maybe the muslims have more moderates than the republicans. you know, when you float terms like tyranny as they do or treason, remember in the health care debate, republican congressmen were hoisting that banner that said "don't tread on me" which had only applied to enemies of america. not political opponents. you create an atmosphere. yes, you do. governor perry in -- in texas threatening secession over -- over the tax hike that obama wanted, over a 3% tax hike on the richest 1%? that's reason to throw down the "s" card? these people are hysterical. hysterical is really the only word i can think of for it. you know, these conservatives, they want to be known as tough guys. they're girls. school girls who get hysterical about things. health care made them hysterical.

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