and barack obama, class warrior, is playing 18% in taxes. can you imagine the conversation he had with his accountant? because he has one, unlike you two guys. and just saying, listen. 18.4, can you get it up a little bit, right? why does he pay so little? shouldn t he have sent more to the treasury to make himself get out of this hole? but i don t know why. david, does limousine liberal ply in this case? i see these billionaires get on tv, why don t we we just raise taxes? i don t need these bush tax cuts. yet, it s a small business owner making 400, 450, that has 10, 15 employees and lives in new york city and plays ungodly rent of 17,000 a month and barely breaking the the business breaking ahead and you got guys paying 18% in taxes saying let s jack their taxes up 5% this year. if president obama is watching this show, he is whispering to michelle, sweetie, can we write a little check this
california, you re paying over 50% in taxes after you take the local, the state and the national and barack obama, class warrior, is paying 18% in taxes. can you imagine the conversation he had with his accountant? because he has one, unlike you two guys. and just saying, listen, 18.4, can you get it up a little bit? right? why does he pay so little? shouldn t he have sent a little more to the treasury just to make himself get out of this hole? david, does limousine liberal apply in this case? i really do. i see these billionaires get on tv. you know, why don t we just raise taxes. i don t need these bush tax cuts. and yet it s a small business owner making 400, 450 that has 10, 15 employees, lives in new york city, pays an ungodly rent of 15, 16, 17,000 a month, barely breaking the business breaking ahead. you ve got guys paying 18% in taxes saying let s jack their taxes up 5% this year.
the campaign trail. let s keep this graphic up. he attacks mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than school teachers, repeatedly. democrats repeatedly attack mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than teachers, than warren buffett poor warren buffett s secretary, god help her, god bless her, and yet this president after demagoguing this issue after a year and a half pays an 18% tax rate which, by the way, is half of the tax rate that i pay. i would guess it s half of the tax rate you pay. yeah. and we don t know. he s got the cayman island account. but i can guarantee you it s half of the tax rate that willie geist pays. why? why, why, why? politically why? why would he do that? i can t believe that number just screamed at me. could we put 18.4%.
i don t know if we can say that. unless you re paying 18%! 18.4%! that s a good day. i ll even say 19%. that s a good day. mike, talk about the piece you have up there about a growing rift inside the republican party over gun legislation. yeah, the table has been talking at the top about how this is common sense and arguably even minimal legislation. but mitchell mcconnell will do everything he can so sink it. we have intel here about despite the spring excitement in washington about partisanship and having deals and dinner and this toxic architecture remains. senator mcconnell reportedly doesn t want to be in the room
18.4% is good enough for any of us around the table. i filed mine earlier this year, 33% this year. almost twice the level of our president. so you ve got a lot of how to. how to read lips, how to think big, how to manipulate creative people. we interviewed what s your favorite how to. that s one of them. how to manipulate creative people. compliments are free. compliments are like having a wad of dollar $100 bills that never runs out. that s horrible and cynical. flatter your writers and give them free swag that comes in the office. free cupcakes, free movie tickets. apparently that works. it s that simple? i think so, yeah. governor ed, we ve been doing it wrong all these years. we ve been passing around walking around money. joe, i have these pens. some from the desk of governor rendell that are hugely popular, hugely popular. how do you prepare for office