scheduling system. he asked congress for help. and he s hiring more people. you would need 10,000 additional staff? i think you were talking about some 17.6 billion that you are requesting? yes, ma am, i know it sounds like s huge number. reporter: the price tag concerns those on the committee who poured hundreds of millions in the va and it was not well spent. others warn it is no quick fix. i commend you for what you have done, but over the course of the years is a horrendous blemish on the va s relationship. reporter: president obama nominated robert mcdonald,
how much the u.s. gives to the u.n. why would they try and keep that information from the public? i mean, your guess is as good as mine. i have no idea. this is the most baffling part of this is that they ve stopped trying to figure this out, or they ve done these studies and tried to figure it out and they just haven t published the information. i will say, there is one silver lining to all of this, if you can call it that, which is that the number, $7.6 billion that it was in 2010, is really a small percentage. i did some back calculation i m kind of a math whiz and it s a really small, like less than 0.5% of the federal budget. so, it s not that much money in the grand scheme of things that we re giving, even if you say it s $15 billion in the last four years it s jumped up to, it would still be less than 0.5%. so, it s not something that is going to break the bank here in the united states, but again, it is maddenin that we can t do anything about it is, i mean, it s just fru
ridiculous number. in the united states this past year, small businesses spent $7.6 billi$77.6 billion hours trying to comply with the u.s. tax code. this is not just under the current administration, but this is a problem for a couple decades now. small businesses have suffered because they have not been able to deal with the complicated tax code that we have. facing a difficult tax code and an environment where it s very difficult to get a loan to start a business, very difficult to start a business in general where you have a tremendous amount of regulatory burdens. small businesses have really suffered. and small businesses have really been the reason for most economic rebounds. we just haven t seen that in the u.s. you blame the government for helping big business and neglecting small businesses. and some of the problems that you point out here are that regulations that raise the cost of doing business and the tax code that actually penalizes
how many how many minimum wage workers are teenagers. mark, may i please respond? may i please speak? thank you. walmart. the biggest private employer in the country. we look at what they spend money on, right? they obviously don t spend enough in our opinion and in the opinion of many workers on labor costs. they spend $7.6 billion a year buying back their own stock in the market. we looked at what if that in terms of productivity, in terms of the customer experience, in terms of all of that pretty much useless practice. if that were redirected to the lowest wage workers it would give them a 5 almost a $6 an hour raise. and we know if we go back to the paul ryan budget that if you want to get people off of government programs and one way to do that is to not pay them subpar wages. we know that walmart benefits from food stamps multiple times because its employees then get food stamps which subsidizes their profits and then they spend those food stamps.
the addictive game candy crush saga is richer. king digital entertainment is poised to begin trading on the new york stock exchange in the next few hours, the island-based company, 93 million, without much to do play the game. adds up to more than a billion games every day. king announced the shares would be at $22.50. it raised 500 million, giving king 7.6 billion. not all analysts are that hungry for the candy crush creator. do you know candy crush, this app? the people who know it are obsessed with it. celebrities like adam levine. it say resent obsession. get that sprinkle ball out of