teachers, snowplow drivers in wisconsin and in all of those states in saying, we re with you, we want to stand up with you and make sure that, when you work hard for a living, you get rewarded. we spent a lot of time focusing on wisconsin but i want to ask you about what s happening in providence, rhode island. we have every teacher in the district in providence, rhode island getting a pink slip. every single teacher. they have a $40 million deficit. why are teachers being targeted? i think this is the crisis in the states, that we averted with the american recovery act the past two years, and we are now having to confront thinking about what kind of country do we want to be in state after state after state, as these states cannot fill their budget holes. and i agree that it s wrong to prioritize teachers, of all of the services for these cuts, because i think what what we have to do is get back to the table with the private sector, working people in our government
and probably do some damage to his opponents but whether or not he can get enough of the 168 members of this committee to vote for him give the committee s financial picture right now, that seems unlikely. jon: chris stirewalt. thank you. thank you. jon: you can get powered up every day. chris has his power play. go to foxnews.com, click on politics and you can read some very interesting stuff chris puts out just about every day there. julia? juliet: jon, many cash strapped cities are coming up with ways to fill budget holes and creating new taxes that could be coming to cities near you, coming up. you might also want to try lifting one of these. a unique sea salt added to over 40 campbell s condensed soups. helps us reduce sodium, but not flavor. so do a few lifts. campbell s.® it s amazing what soup can do.™ but my doctor told me that most calcium supplements. aren t absorbed properly unless taken with food.
candidate, presidential candidate. unions are saying it is because they have been pulled back and budget cuts and here we are in the age of austerity, do we have to deal with this kind of thing? maybe we do. i argue we do. no one wants snow on the streets but they don t want huge budget holes and higher taxes. or maybe we can cut things and get the services we expect. and perino is on the program. we have a variety of topics but we will focus on what is going on and what will happen the next session. i am totally, totally psyched about the new congress. a lost people are concerned because they fell the g.o.p. gave up a lot in the lame duck session and i am super hot and i think they will listen to the voters and i think we will see major things happen. thank you, charles. tonight, 6:00 p.m., cavuto. the white house is blaming
respectively. california and rhode island have the next highest rates. the big earners in rhode island will soon be getting a break. in january, the top rate will drop to just below 6%. and the hope is that it will attract more businesses and create more jobs. which really illustrate it is catch-22 that the states are facing. they have to raise taxes to fill those budget holes. you raise them too much and ricks having people and jobs move out of the state. thanks. terminal cancer patient beats the dire diagnosis and could live many more years. when would that be bad news? when the patient is responsible for the deaths of 270 people. we are talking about a case of compassion that backfired and asking why a terrorist that was supposed to be dead months ago is still alive.
hard-pressed states like california and new york. they re cutting. we re seeing significant cuts in programs and jobs. over the past year state and local government payrolls declined by a couple hundred thousands. they re doing both, raising taxes, cutting spending but having a hard time closing the hole. the problem is taxes are racessed on the wealthy but that alone is not enough. there s back end taxes as well. do you think, mark, ultimately we re going to have to have higher taxes, state and federal, on the middle class? i think everyone has to share in the burden and higher tax rates on middle income households is probably likely. hopefully policymakers focus on the spending and try to reign in the growth. that makes more sense. at the end of the day the budget holes are so large the problem is it s hard to cut spending. pensions are contractually