turns out very different groups of people would pay. if you are in the bottom 20% of the income distribution, in obama s plan you pay federal tax rate of 1.8%. under romney s plan, double that, 3.4%. that is the poorest group. in the middle, a lot closer, 15.2% under obama s plan, 15.6% under romney s plan. if you re in the top 1% as both romney and obama are, the difference becomes huge. under obama s plan, 36.3%. under romney s plan, 25.9. to get that out of percents and in dollars, your taxes will be $160,000 lower than under obama. $160,000. tax cuts of that size cost a lot of money. trillions of dollars. romney is promised he won t pay for that by cutting defense. he s promised he won t pay for it by raising taxes elsewhere. and he s promised to balance the
romney s plans. turns out very different groups of people would pay. if you are eye in the bottom 20% of the income distribution, in obama s plan you pay federal tax rate of 1.8%. under romney s plan, double that, 3.4%. that is the poorest group. in the middle, a lot closer, 15.2% under obama s plan, 15.6% under romney s plan. if you re in the top 1% as both romney and obama are, the difference becomes huge. under obama s plan, 36.3%. under romney s plan, 25.9. to get that out of percents and in dollars, your taxes will be $160,000 lower than under obama. $160,000. tax cuts of that size cost a lot of money. trillions of dollars. romney is promised he won t pay for that by cutting defense. he promise the he won t raise taxes elsewhere.
in super bowl 46 rome roexlvi. president obama called it. he said it would be a nail biter. that time the giants also beat the patriots. you know obama was calling something else, too. to nbc s matt low ri, he was calling for four more years. he didn t chant it, but he did say he deserves it. you ll find out why. of course, you will find out the fallout from saying those things. a deadly factory collapse in pakistan. it s a three-story building that exploded. at least two people are dead. dozens more are believed to be trapped inside. some have been rescued as well. we ll have a live report for you. and also a terrible story out of washington. like at those flames. while that s a terrible story for anyone, it is loaded onto a horrible story from the beginning. a father and two sons dying in that house explosion. police saying he set it to kill his two children. he is the father who was suspected in the disappearance of susan powell back in 2009. remember the woman he sa
3% of all unemployed. and that is a huge number. reporter: if officials counted the discouraged workers the latest unemployment rate of 8.5% would be much higher. 15.2% in december and, this number actually doubled the official unemployment rate. reporter: though economists agree there is a mild improvement in the labor market the holds risk for the president and he may have to face rising unemployment rights in the midst of an election year. if the economy heats up and you start to have jobs those people reappear, begin to look again and suddenly the unemployment rate goes back up instead of down. reporter: that s economy improves sometimes the unemployment rate can actually go back up, as some of those discouraged workers come out and say, hey, there are jobs, i m going to start looking for work. reporter: so, just as some of the republican candidates peaked too early, president obama has to worry whether the unemployment rate, the most widely watched measure of jobs, dro
by 43% from 10.6 trillion to 15.2. kind of astounding. here to analyze fox business anchor lou dobbs. i don t want to beat up on president obama because that s just partisan stuff and we don t want to do that. but what i don t understand is, it doesn t seem to resonate with the american people that we are this is a catastrophe. it is a catastrophe to owe this kind of money and it doesn t seem to be any urgency in washington to fix it amend the voters aren t running around demanding it be fixed. they are going to up it to 1.2. it s going to happen. nobody is going to stand in his way. part of the deal from last summer, bill as you know. this is the third trawnch, amazing. $400 billion. then 900 billion this fall and now 1.2 trillion. we re headed toward $16.5 trillion. no one. bill: in debt. in debt. bill: people say that s not real money. they don t believe it s real money. we are paying we the united states of america $10 billion a day in interest.