i don t speaker boehner and i speak frequently. the issue doesn t have to sit in a room. the issue that is relevant is the acknowledgment if we are going to raise revenues, that is sufficient to balance with the cuff cuts that we have made and further reform and entitlement i am prepared to make, that we are going to have to see the rates on the top 2%. go up. and we are not going to be able to get a deal without it. getting in to that room and hammering out the deal doesn t seem like it s happening anytime soon. there may be talking behind the scenes. as far as the big players it doesn t mean to be a lot of movement on the fiscal cliff. here is what the senate minority leader had to say. i hope at some point here the president will understand that there will be no solution to this. i remind people that there is only one person out of 307 million americans who can
and strangely, 23 again. dave: that is quick pick? no one would pick 23, twice? clayton: computer generated and the computer spits it out. the gross price, $426 million after the 25 percent federal tax and after the 8.5 percent maryland stated tax. alisyn: you walk away with $307 million. that is a lot lot of taxes. we know that one ticket was sold because the place that sold it said we are the winner, we sole the winning lottery ticket. officials say there could be more. check your numbers. clayton: but a story of people that have won past lotteries this morning, and it is funny a lot people stick with their, waitresses who continued
25 percent federal tax. clayton: $346.5 million after the tax in maryland so you walk away with $307 million. dave: i was thinking the best way to play the lottery and we have an expert coming up, and you could have actually bought every single combination and you actually would have made north of $300 million but who has the time and that would take all the parent that the buyer lottery commission. clayton: you would buy all the paper. dave: but if you were boon pickens and you could buy them all up. alisyn: it would cost $176 million to buy every single come
ticket, i wish it were but it s not. just to give you a sense of how incredible it is, you have to get all five numbers right as well as that sixth number, the mega ball number. the chances of winning are so incredibly slim and so incredible. you talked about the fact that there are three winners, one in baltimore county, maryland, one in illinois and one in kansas. if you split that three ways, each person winds up taking home about $307 million lump sum or $16 million if you want to get paid annually. i wish i had problems like these. i wish i could be facing a decision like that today. wouldn t that be nice? but on a serious note, lottery officials say that it is important that the winner seeks legal and financial advice. we have seen this play out so many times where people win the lottery and they don t invest it wisely. it s important whoever that winner is out there and we hope we get to meet the person, that that person does get some advice about how to move forward.
they also found that the united states is the most charitable country in the world as of last year. that does not happen every year. the united states is not always first. this past year even with the economy stuck in neutral, americans found new and creative ways to give. and to give in many cases not to people seeking help, but to people who were getting help anyway from americans taking on an angel role in anonymity. americans are giving right now. even as we are struggling. not everybody is struggling, of course. here s another economic snapshot of america right now. there are about 307 million americans total. so doing a little tv math, 10% of 307 million is roughly 31 million people. so if you want to come up with 30% of america, just take three times ten. we get to about 93 million people. 93 million people are about 30% of our country s population. 93 million people have the same amount of money collectively as six members of the walton