they don t, though. i agree with donny. most effective ads. most negative campaign probably in presidential history is my guess. wait. most negative? both good. and in fact, the middle class pay is pays more than 14%. it s people like me that end up paying the 35%. the middle class does not pay more than 14%. sure they do. that s completely wrong. if you include the payroll taxes? no, no. how do you possibly get that? nonprofit organization, tax policy, around since 1937, the individual effective federal income tax rate for the middle i m not talking what are you talking about? plus medicare and according to to them, 14.3% for the middle income. can t possibly be true. talk to i m getting the data from the tax policy center. here s the contrast of the ads. in the last 40 years we have elected the most likable campaign and what the obama team is doing between bain and taxes
virtually any other specific economic policy proposal at a time when the economy is struggling and we had a bad jobs report. this is the president s plan. this is not a plan. not serious. there is nothing serious about it. reporters should do their job and put it in perspective. bret: the other thing there are all kind of numbers flying out there. take a look at the numbers about from americans for tax reform. these are the breakdowns of the percent of all tax revenues. top #%, which is 1% which is 30, $344,000 and up. all federal taxes is 28%. roughly $55,000 family, 44.6% in income tax. 9.2% all federal taxes. then you talk about the rate, top 1% income tax, 19%. all federal taxes 29%. and the middle income again, $65,000 a year. 3.3%. 14.3%. charles quickly, there will be
inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t
gingrich is getting $10 million from a super pac out in it can t hurt. let s talk about the president s record for a minute, helene. this is interesting. here is the numbers out of michigan, and we re talking so much about the unemployment rate. if you go back to september of 2009, mind boggling 14.3%, and it s 9.3%, which is, by the way, still high and above the national average. and we re talking about manufacturing coming back and the auto bail outs worked, and i see the bumper sticker, gm is back on top and bin laden is dead. that s the record this president wants to run on. absolutely, he has gotten a boost for the national numbers coming out for unemployment, and
the process, and gingrich is getting $10 million from a super pac out in it can t hurt. let s talk about the president s record for a minute, helene. this is interesting. here is the numbers out of michigan, and we re talking so much about the unemployment rate. if you go back to september of 2009, mind boggling 14.3%, and it s 9.3%, which is, by the way, still high and above the national average. and we re talking about manufacturing coming back and the auto bail outs worked, and i see the bumper sticker, gm is back on top and bin laden is dead. that s the record this president wants to run on. absolutely, he has gotten a boost for the national numbers coming out for unemployment, and