this, president obama has not done anything to reform the tax code. he took every loophole closure and deduction known to man. president obama did. why didn t he take up this because chairman of ways and means committee does that is republican. number one. bill: got to run. got to ask yourself why. because people don t trust him, that s why and i certainly don t trust him. bill: we ll measure that in our next poll. good. bill: meantime see you guys in 7 hours and 12 minutes. you sure will. bill: you can t wait. we can t. bill: so shake hands for now. we will. bill: shoot me an e-mail, hemmer@foxnews.com and twitter, bill hemmer. bya, because you asked. and everything about bob and andrea and everything else going on later today. they have spoken their minds. we appreciate it. thanks to both of you. patti ann: we have troubling new data on the health care law. a third of doctors say they will not accept new medicaid patients. we ll look what that could mean for millions of
churning and 4.5 or $4.6 billion, martha, was for the last quarter. not for the year. for the last quarter. there could be another $100 billion. now, these are big numbers. we watch president obama yesterday talk about oil company loopholes, $4 billion, which is by the way, their own money already. he s talking about a $4 billion loophole closure. how about the two # $50 billion that these companies owe the taxpayers? martha: what caught my eye, i read an article in the paper the other day about how the doj is opening new investigations into hedge fund managers, and you know, cooking the books and making things look like they re not insider trading and all of that. fine. but why is it that this entity was never investigated, the people who ran this into the ground, never investigated, so the doj is spending a lot of this time now investigating hedge funds but they never will look at the folks who let this happen at fannie mae and freddie mac? the blame has always gone to wall street,
increase through the house but, it is conceivable there might be a loophole closure and so on that would constitute a form of tax reform you could incorporate into a deal that would give the democrats the abilities to say they got something in exchanges for spending cuts, they plainly do not want to make. chris: kirsten, with the democrats saying we will not talk about tax rates and, we are talking about $3 in spending cuts for $1 in tax increase, isn t that going to make it hard for republicans to say no? well, i think because they are focusing on things that most americans are not going to have a lot of sympathy for, the republicans oppose and they say, let s cut these tax loopholes for corporate jets, and the oil and gas industry and people who are not particularly sympathetic and, so, if that is what they are putting out instead of raising taxes, what could happen is they will have to die deal where they get votes from
increase through the house but, it is conceivable there might be a loophole closure and so on that would constitute a form of tax reform you could incorporate into a deal that would give the democrats the abilities to say they got something in exchanges for spending cuts, they plainly do not want to make. chris: kirsten, with the democrats saying we will not talk about tax rates and, we are talking about $3 in spending cuts for $1 in tax increase, isn t that going to make it hard for republicans to say no? well, i think because they are focusing on things that most americans are not going to have a lot of sympathy for, the republicans oppose and they say, let s cut these tax loopholes for corporate jets, and the oil and gas industry and people who are not particularly sympathetic and, so, if that is what they are putting out instead of raising taxes, what could happen is they will have to die deal where they get votes from