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missing out on money they have either forgotten or don t know they have in the first place. according to government reports, state and federal agencies hold $58 billion in unclaimed cash and benefits. everything from old bank accounts to insurance payouts, even jewelry. the experts say it might even be your money but it s up to you to claim it. gerri willis from the fox business network with me tonight. good evening to you, gerri. good evening. $58 billion. you know what that is? serious cash is what that is? 186 bucks for every american, man, woman and child in the country. it s a lot of money and it s held mostly by the states. the federal government has a whole lot of this. take a look at this. some 16 billion is u.s. savings bonds that are unclaimed. just sitting there, doing nothing. 300 million in pension benefits. 153 million in irs refund checks that nobody has claimed. this money is just sitting there. so with it s ours? [ laughter ] how do we get it? all rig
nation. cigarette tax, $2.75 a pack. sales tax collections average about $1,700 per new yorker. that includes baby huey. 1700 buck force every man, woman, and child living in the state. sales tax, property tax, close to 2,000 per person. toll revenue, 86 bucks a person. new driver s license cost you 80 bucks. sale phone tax and fees, 23% of your bill every month. the list goes on and on and on. i m exhausted. i can t even list anymore. so you can see if you are a working person in new york or california or new jersey or massachusetts or most other states, your take home pay is being gutted by the rampant taxation. that s what s strangling the u.s. economy. consumers can t buy stuff without incurring each more debt. punishing taxation is bleeding us. and these taxes continue to go up because the states and cities are bankrupt.
nation. cigarette tax, $2.75 a pack. sales tax collections average about $1,700 per new yorker. that includes baby huey. 1700 buck force every man, woman, and child living in the state. sales tax, property tax, close to 2,000 per person. toll revenue, 86 bucks a person. new driver s license cost you 80 bucks. sale phone tax and fees, 23% of your bill every month. the list goes on and on and on. i m exhausted. i can t even list anymore. so you can see if you are a working person in new york or california or new jersey or massachusetts or most other states, your take home pay is being gutted by the rampant taxation. that s what s strangling the u.s. economy. consumers can t buy stuff without incurring each more debt. punishing taxation is bleeding us. and these taxes continue to go up because the states and cities are bankrupt.
$70 billion. the news that mumbarak was stepping down helped further drive down the price of oil today, which rose with the tensions in egypt over this period, but has fallen since the protests reached their peek. as you can see, prices were well above $92 a barrel last monday. today, they dropped by another dollar after the announcement of the resignation. settled below 86 bucks, a 10-week low. wall street cheered the end of uncertainty today as it almost always does. stocks opened lower as hosni mubarak held on to power. but took off midday right after he resigned from office. by the end of trading, 4:00 this afternoon, all the major indecember cease were up about half a percent, with the dow up 44. s&p nasdaq 19 and s&p 7. the land of the pharaohs on the brink of a revolution. today on studio b that author, john bradley, told me mumbarak stepped down just in time.