michigan today . teachers are calling out sick to protest the law to make union membership in that state optional. eric: so if the bill becomes optionalt will the unions be looking for pay cleck. joining us is judge napolitano. pay back. we need to point out governor snyder signs it and it becomings law. i don t know against whom there would be pay back. this is result of a referundum and the michigan voters said we don t want collective bargaining here and it is up to the legislature. collective bargaining is not part of the constitution in the state of michigan nor is compelled union membership. right now in michigan in certain industries, you are forced to join the union f. you don t join the union, then the government forces your employer to deduct the equivalent of the union dues and give it to the union. that is money that you are
things. gretchen: people were e-mailing, where is the christmas tree. steve: there is one here and one behind me. gretchen: and one in the shot. steve: jolly old ted. gretchen: is it there now? yeah. we have a lot. gretchen: oh, my goodness. to think i didn t notice that this morning. eric: take the menorah shot. there we go. steve: properly lit. gretchen: you and forgot the presents, ted. steve: thank you for joining us on this tuesday. we got a busy day. we re going to tell you what s going on in michigan. it s big regarding right to work in a minute. gretchen: first, let s do some headlines. we have a developingover night. a medical chopper went down last night, leaving three people dead in northern illinois. the chopper, reject sistered to rockford memorial hospital, was headed from rockford to a hospital 60 miles awhat i it went down in a field. the pilot and two flight nurses
steve: maria out in the weather. thank you very much. gretchen: next on the run down. pamella anderson land happened on the government s naughty list. steve: shocking. gretchen: i can think of a couple of reins why? eric: bay watch. gretchen: not the first time she has been on the naughty listt. eric: can a shot of whiskey cure the common cold? they say chutely. stick aroundd. steve: absolutely. c c
everywhere. it s skyrocket since the 1980s and the problem we re seeing today is the layoffs and not being able to stand up the number of police officers you need o insure public safe, so crime continues to increase, demands on dwindling resources are increased. so what s the alternative? eric: we got to go. thank you guys. steve: good luck. eric: it s the brokest state in the country, but that s not stopping california from hanging out free phone handing out free phones to the homeless. is that a good idea? steve: then all decked out for christmas. up next, how you can be their secret santa. adorable. [ penélope ] i found the best cafe in the world.
all the conversation, all the discussion, all the news that s made in this whole discussion since the end of the election has been about what? it s been about tax rates on the rich. right. that has been the whole story. steve: it should be about spending. there are polls that show 60% of americans say go ahead, jack up taxes. eric: i get it. right about the polls showing they ll probably blame republican, but guess what? down the road, if you think of it right now, everyone is thinking about right now. fine, blame the republicans right now because ten, 15 years down the road it will be the only thing that saves america from going off the real cliff. not just the temporary fiscal cliff, the completedon cliff financially. steve: the republicans have some leverage because the president doesn t want his legacy if we go into a recession, his second term will be tanked right at the beginning. we may recover, but it s not the legacy he wants. so there is some peril for both sides.