businesses. it s probably certain industries and certain regions of the country. watch, purely political. bob: talk about a payroll tax cut. andrea: credit for hiring. bob: why should they get any tax break? eric: talking about $5 billion hiring credit. bob: they shouldn t get it either. eric: $50 million infrastructure bank. $50 billion in here is why, because it has to pass through the super committee. you have to come up with $120 billion in spending cuts somewhere else to pay for this. you know thisch bob: do you not think we have infrastructure problem in this country? eric: yes, we do. we had 830, or $850 billion in stimulus supposed to take care of the problem. bob: $325 billion with the tax breaks for businesses. greg: the thing that drives me nuts how it s been a year since cash for clunkers, how some say it s a success. bob: it was. greg: a complete failure. it took cars that were going
everybody did. it s relative. andrea: the president said he is in favor of cutting the corporate tax. a lot of members of the party are backing off this raise taxes. steny hoyer came out today and said no taxes, we re not raising taxes and we shouldn t. bob: not talking about raising taxes. by the way, not a single corporation in this country that pays 35% in taxes. andrea: all you want to do is talk about raising taxes. bob: i don t, except for on wealthy people. eric: last year he signed extension of the bush tax cut going forward and they said this is not a time to raise taxes is this a time to raise taxes with 14 million people out of work? greg: this is what you do in tough times, this is what you do all the time. the mistake that obama made was announcing he had a plan. you don t tell a coworker you are going to ask your boss for a raise. then your coworker will do the same thing and around the same time, perhaps before. eric: we are getting leaks that the jobs plan
was the real deal? we held up the rick perry face. he is the real deal. dana: that wasn t the question, though. the question is whether or not romney thinks that rick perry is a more serious threat? eric: are you kidding me? he is 30%-something to 17%. take him seriously. bob: start taking shots at him. andrea: he has to. greg: if you look at romney it s the look when you leave the mall and you can t find your car. he can t find the campaign. where did his car go? bob: do you know how many cars i lost in parking lots. andrea: you lost one on saturday. bob: i did. what are you saying he has to do it now. realistically andrea: he needs to take shots immediately to stay alive. romney has to. i know he didn t from a tactical perspective, he wants to not stick his head out of there and hopes to get through the caucuses and be okay.
everybody did. it s relative. andrea: the president said he is in favor of cutting the corporate tax. a lot of members of the party are backing off this raise taxes. steny hoyer came out today and said no taxes, we re not raising taxes and we shouldn t. bob: not talking about raising taxes. by the way, not a single corporation in this country that pays 35% in taxes. andrea: all you want to do is talk about raising taxes. bob: i don t, except for on wealthy people. eric: last year he signed extension of the bush tax cut going forward and they said this is not a time to raise taxes is this a time to raise taxes with 14 million people out of work? greg: this is what you do in tough times, this is what you do all the time. the mistake that obama made was announcing he had a plan. you don t tell a coworker you are going to ask your boss for a raise. then your coworker will do the same thing and around the same time, perhaps before. eric: we are getting leaks that the jobs plan
business, businesses that hire people, a good idea. put a million people to work. we have ought cut taxes on payroll. for another year, guess who is opposed to that? the big tax cutting republicans. you know the more i look at this, every time obama comes up with a jobs plan, the republicans gut it and tea people are behind it. he can announce all he wants but the tea people and eric and rest of them will bum it out. dab dana: setting up the narrative that tea peek are unreasonable. bob: they are. dana: yesterday, there was an announcement that president obama will fill the position of council of economic advisors with someone who agrees with him. on most things though they will have a little problem in there is something eric: this is what is wrong with it, if i may. all he is doing is replacing a socialist economist with another socialist economist. dana: wait a minute. eric: here is a guy who crafted the auto bail-out, the cash for clunkers that was an epic fail.