there is a audience, at least on the democrat side for this. she talks about all these marvelous plans that she s got, and i can boil all the plans down to two words, free stuff. your follow-up question is, who s going to pay for it? i can boil that down, somebody else. tucker: [laughs] who is that person? howie: right?th don t tax you, don t tax me, tax the fellow behind the tree. with elizabeth warren, everybody s going to be behind the tree. you talk about the democrats in washington getting nervous, she has proposed this wealth tax. if you have over $50 million in wealth, not income, wealth, you will have to pay 2% a year. it keeps rising. even people like larry summers who was a treasury secretary under clinton, the president of harvard university for a while. he is saying, this is ridiculous. larry summers is saying this. he is the quintessential intellectual who can t make park a bicycle straight as george wallace used to say. do you know who else says that s ridiculous?
union hates it. how does it hurt them? everyone of them is assessed $63 and every viewer is. they don t want to pay it. the insurance tax must collect $12 billion in 2013. holy cow. if the unions get out of the $63, guess who pays that? the rest of us. there is an old saying: don t tax me, text that fellow behind the tree. this isn t just the wealthy doing this. this is going to hit the middle class, too. this is everybody. $63 per person. the health and human services and official said this isn t directed at the union. what do you say a to that?
but i m going to go out, i m going to keep talking about rich americans. i m going to keep talking about corporations. i m going to play to my base instead of talking telling middle-class americans they re going to have to make some sacrifices. along with the rich. it s that mika, it s a permanent campaign. and i guess if this is how he wants to run things, he s president of the united states, good luck over the next 3 1/2 years. i don t understand why loopholes are even an argument, first of all, why he has to go this far. why he has to keep talking about it. hold on a second. i know. we all agree that these loopholes need to be closed. well, let s do it. why is it so hard? i ve been talking about supporting warren buffett s idea. why are we still talking about it? because the president only uses it to demagogue in a permanent campaign. he never talks about the other side of it. he always says oh, it s the rich. that would be loopholes. don t tax you, don t tax m
how do you look at that, chip? that s solid that 59%. how can the republicans on the hill deny it? well, we lost a major we lost a national election, obviously. we didn t gain control of the senate. we did get control of the house. president obama is the guy that beat us. and so they re riding high right now. and they have framed this issue about tax increases on the rich. and as i jokingly say when you polled 98% of the people they always agree tax the other guys. and when we i know. don t tax me. tax the guy behind the tree. let me ask you a question. you re a great guest. would mike huckabee had won this general election if he was the nominee? i m biased, but i think he would have had an opportunity to win and beat obama for one simple reason. he s a conservative but he s not angry about it. and he s able to discuss what he
obama has a mandate to eliminate tax cuts for the rich. how do you look at that, chip? that s solid that 59%. how can the republicans on the hill deny it? well, we lost a major we lost a national election, obviously. we didn t gain control of the senate. we did get control of the house. president obama is the guy that beat us. and so they re riding high right now. and they have framed this issue about tax increases on the rich. and as i jokingly say when you polled 98% of the people they always agree tax the other guys. and when we i know. don t tax me. tax the guy behind the tree. let me ask you a question. you re a great guest. would mike huckabee had won this general election if he was the nominee? i m biased, but i think he would have had an opportunity to win and beat obama for one simple reason. he s a conservative but he s not angry about it. and he s able to discuss what he