how much more do you want to squeeze out of the upper 2%? and he says probably, i want to go back to the rate clinton had 39.5 and i want to raise capital gains to 25%. do you, lou dobbs, give him that if there is something else that he has to give? i certainly would not give him that without conditions. bill: but you would think about it it? absolutely. that s what i m saying. the dobbs plan says that reasonable, reasonable, what does that mean? that a little bit of tax hike on the wealthy, and wouldn t be a little bit. what is it estimated to be about something like a billion a year. $82 billion. bill: a year? per year. bill: that s still not all right. so, but then to get those tax hikes, what does lou dobbs want as far as spending cuts? well, you know, first of all i wouldn t negotiate in the media it would be the first rule that i would suggest. bill: since we are in the media we have to do that. we are going to violate our rule. bill: violating. the firs
would say that the condition precedes all of this is i want to know first, have you been campaigning, mr. president, for literally five years about what s fair. i want to know what the percentage is that you think the top 20% in this country should be paying in taxes. and then we will make our adjustments. all right. but you are going to have to get barack obama to actually commit to cutting some programs, which he doesn t want to do. he doesn t want to cut anything. of course he doesn t. bill: he doesn t want to cut the snail. he doesn t want to cut the mushroom exploration. this is a great opportunity for john boehner to put forward the boehner plan. not the dobbs plan. the boehner plan. bill: specifically say this is what we have to cut? this is what we have to do. we have to raise the retirement age in this country. for social security. we have to raise the retirement age for medicare. we have to get serious as they did in 1993 under a democratic president, president bi
and we re losing the parameters here. bill: i m sorry. detail guy. i m sorry. that s terrific. but, until we and we have to make one more rule on this. bill: what s is that. you go to the table. same table. either obama s table or boehner s and you talk straight. bill: at the table they re both there and they don t get to go to the bathroom until they get something. it s going to be a little faster negotiation than i thought. can we call it with that one addendum the dobbs reilly plan will be. bill: will be o reilly. o reilly dobz plan. dobbs plan. bill: fox business network dobbs reilly and fnc dobbs o reilly. i will take it. bill: we can work it out. here it is. bill: all right. next on the rub down, the factor in the middle of the culture war over christmas. we ll have an update. later some harvard students have started a bondage club and they want the university to pay for it. why not? might be sadistic. coming right back. [ male announcer ] we all mak
details. and we re losing the parameters here. bill: i m sorry. detail guy. i m sorry. that s terrific. but, until we and we have to make one more rule on this. bill: what s is that. you go to the table. same table. either obama s table or boehner s and you talk straight. bill: at the table they re both there and they don t get to go to the bathroom until they get something. it s going to be a little faster negotiation than i thought. can we call it with that one addendum the dobbs reilly plan will be. bill: will be o reilly. o reilly dobz plan. dobbs plan. bill: fox business network dobbs reilly and fnc dobbs o reilly. i will take it. bill: we can work it out. here it is. bill: all right. next on the rub down, the factor in the middle of the culture war over christmas. we ll have an update. later some harvard students have started a bondage club and they want the university to pay for it. why not? might be sadistic. coming right back.
precedes all of this is i want to know first, have you been campaigning, mr. president, for literally five years about what s fair. i want to know what the percentage is that you think the top 20% in this country should be paying in taxes. and then we will make our adjustments. all right. but you are going to have to get barack obama to actually commit to cutting some programs, which he doesn t want to do. he doesn t want to cut anything. of course he doesn t. bill: he doesn t want to cut the snail. he doesn t want to cut the mushroom exploration. this is a great opportunity for john boehner to put forward the boehner plan. not the dobbs plan. the boehner plan. bill: specifically say this is what we have to cut? this is what we have to do. we have to raise the retirement age in this country. for social security. we have to raise the retirement age for medicare. we have to get serious as they did in 1993 under a democratic president, president bill clinton and say this is th