small percentage of people pay taxes. bill: we checked, those who made a million dollars or more, $230,000, and paid more than $177 billion in taxes to the government, also, those earners who with more than $1 million make up .2% of federal income tax returns, and paid more than 20 percent of all federal income taxes. martha: that s a lot of money. how about this, two weeks after the world marked ten years since september 11th, we re learning more about some major security changes in the big apple that were inspired by those attacks, nypd chief ray kelly tells cbs 60 machines not only did they step up their antiterrorist game, but that officers are far more prepared. meeting an extreme situation, we would have some means to take down a plane. do you mean to say the
bill: we found a fired up mike bloomberg, the new york mayor slamming the proposed tax rule named after fellow billionaire warren buffet. the new york city mayor says that everyone, everyone, not just the rich, should pay more to uncle sam. it does trouble me. you can t define what s middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. every time you have a jump, people play games to get on one side or another and i think it s not fair to say that wealthy people don t pay their fair shea. they pay a much higher percentage of their income, they have a higher rate tn people who make less. the buffet thing is just theatrics. if warren buffit made his income from ordinary income rather than capital gains his tax rate would be higher than his secretary s and a
yes. bill: with regard to rick perry, is he this close to imploding as brit hume suggested sunday morning or not? look, we re sort of at the start of the process so he does have time to recover. i thought brit was particularly tough on perry, it was a performance worth being tough on but look, we have two or debates in october, those could be perry could perform well in a on and erase doubts in the past and we also have a deadline coming up here. september 30th is the next real test, that s the end of the fundraising quarter, and by october 15th, the candidates have to report how much money they ve raised. perry is from a big state, he s got he s raised a lot of money for the republican governors association and races and the question is how big a number is he going to show. that may start to erase the doubts. they said they were going to raise $10 million within the first weeks of the race, so the number has to be seriously ahead of $10 million. they ve also got an independ
of sitting around, blaming each other over such small potatoes. bill: small potatoes to some but a bigger deal on a bigger scale to others. member of the constitutional conservative caucus and tea party caucus, gd morning, sir, from your home town in dallas, texas. you voted against this. why? well, we were voting on a bill that we thought the senate would pass. i mean, it s absurd for them to be dragging their feet. i mean, over $1.6 billion? all they have to do is de fund three solyndras and we re there. we passed the bill we thought the senate would pass, that s what we did last spring, it s what we did in july and all we have to do is pass what we know to be right, but the senate passed something. they have trouble ever doing that and it goes to a committee, we work out a compromise and america sees come next electrical, you want what the house stk-rbg the senate does, you give
are calling it the obama economy. bill: let me ask you a little bit more about that. we expect to her a lot of republicans in the next 12 months say are you better off now than you were four years ago. it will be a repeated mantra from 1980. how much county democrats hang on president bush and say, it s your fault and here is why? reporter: it could work. this is a very personally popular president. the approval numbers you looked at were on his job performance. the american people like barack obama. that is going to make him very difficult to beat. if they see even a sliver of hope that the economy is getting better this time next year then he s going to be i still believe he ll be tough to beat. if we head into a double-dip recession i think all bets are off. they are going to trot out what the gipper says, are you better off today four years ago and very few americans are going to be able to say yes to that question. bill: many would argue that we are already in a double-dip