$450,000, they got back $11.4 billion. that is a return of investment of 25% of taxpayer dollars, there is nowhere you can get that return. wow, you think about that kind of money and think about the stories done to our veterans. and it really questions priorities. thank you. thank you, megyn. and a judge has ruled that people who are just friends can have legal standing to adopt together. we ll investigate that after the break. file this blonde anchor and lawyer under fox news where she hosts a
china is the most favorable place to invest. brazil came in third. consulting firm a.t. carney says china is becoming less attractive because labor costs are rising in china. the survey also said half of the participants said the foreign investment budgets are back to pre-tax crisis levels. tax breaks are meant for company, they re meant to bring in new jobs. the winner is new york. $11.4 billion in business tax breaks over the past 35 years. michigan, oregon and new mexico and washington round out the top five. most the tax breakers givens to manufacturers to get them to set up shop in a specific state. you see commercials, come do business in oregon exactly. coming up, the president on his way to africa. next, we will have team coverage on this big trip for the president. where he will go and what is he is hoping to accomplish. imagine this cute little orange blob is metamucil. and this park is the inside of your body.
saved. yes. it is. we move to fortune cover. amazon not so secret war on taxes. tell us about it, andy. we have been learning about apple and its tax strategy this week with tim cook testifying in front of congress. amazon is another issue but also a multibillion dollar tax situation. there are estimates that 11.4 billion dollars states have not collected the past couple of decades and a large portion of that is from amazon. you probably know that if you buy things online, you don t have to pay sales tax right. item. in your state, in many states if that company doesn t have a physical presence in your state. amazon has gone to great lengths to try to avoid collecting sales tax. there are 45 states that have sales tax and only collects in about 17 of those states. in many cases, it does have a physical presence in terms of
been given birth control shots. we know that the wirth rate rate of women from ethiopia declined by 50%. and we know that the money received by allied financial and other agencies ally and gm and aig have put pay packages from the t.a.r.p. money of more than $5 million even though they violated the guidelines of the bailout legislation. gm has yet to pay back $21.5 billion in taxpayer funds and a ally still owns $11.4 billion and we know that after seven seasons and four emmys we have to say good night to the rural juror. 30 rock the show about a show was ridiculous and absurd and
save money, yes, but only because state governments, employers, and individual seniors would pay more. how much more? estimates from the center for budget priorities and policy shows the federal government would save about $5.7 billion, while the rest of the health care system would spend $11.4 billion more to give the same benefits. actually, this is what the republicans would like because it would help them kill the program. i m joined tonight by pulitzer prize winning journalist david cay johnston, author of the book the fine print. david, great to have you with us tonight. good to be here. the numbers are so telling here. why would the democrats even consider this in conversation? ed, stunning that they would do this, because it s going backwards. five years ago senator barack obama said by 2013, we should have universal health care. this is going in the wrong direction. and it s paul ryan economics. we ll save you $1 of taxes, but you got to spend $2 somewhere else. and th