Just kidding, you would be taxed, the rate of tax would go up from 36 point something to 39 percent. You know the president said he wouldnt go up over 250 and he did. Now up to 450. These tax republicans are very pleased. The bush tax cuts for everybody else would be permanent. People who are on unemployment, thats 2 million long term would continue to get unemployment checks. They had something to do with the estate tax, 40 after the first 5 million being exact, and they fiddled around with the alternative minimum tax so more people wouldnt have to pay that. This will get spun a million ways. Taxes are going up for a significant portion of the country. That was the payroll tax holiday which was supposed to be an economic stimulus program. If you make 50,000 a year, your taxes will go up about 800. If you make 100,000, it might go up to 2,000 more. That was a temporary thing, and that was allowed to expire. Nobody wants to talk about that. But thats a reality. And so where does this le
Exiting bit of slow traffic exiting on to route 50 coming into cheverly northbound on 295. But other than that, youre okay. In fact, lets take a live look outside and show what you it looks like here on route 50 heading for the beltway coming in from annapolis. You can see that traffic volumes are still pretty light. Lets go back over to the maps this time heading over to the other side of town. 270 southbound, youre going to go id say about 31 miles an hour as you leave route 109 toward 121. A last live look a little further south near Montrose Road in rockville. Still a little heavy as well to the point where the lanes divide. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 6 11. Back to you guys. Thank you, monika. It is official. The house passes the fiscal cliff bill and president obama is thanking congress for passing it. But when he spoke late last night, he said he hopes for less drama in the future. Theres looft work still to be done lot of work still to be done. Now the bill heads
Tomorrow and the next day. Even partly cloudy on friday is not too bad as we keep the forecast dry. But by saturday were tracking the opportunity for a little bit of moisture to move on through. Monika . So far so good out on the roadways but you know a lot of people are coming back to work today and that means that traffic could get sticky pretty soon, at least when it hits 5 00 in the morning, thats what happens. If youre traveling on the northbound side of i95, youre okay in virginia. Southbound 270 out of frederick no issues to report from i70 down to the point where the lanes divide. Lets take a live look outside and show what you it looks like here on the beltway at georgia avenue. Looking good between 270 and i 95 on the north side of town. All of your major thoroughfares look great coming down to the beltway. Lets take a look at our maps again. This time over to the bridges inside the beltway. No problems at the roosevelt bridge, memorial bridge, 14th and the 11th Street Bridge