exactly. bill: gas prices, you know. americans cutting back on gas, right? he they re cutting back? they are cutting back. but it s important, even though these prices are high, they are 10 cents a gallon cheaper than a month ago. he this are 20 cents cheaper than a year ago. bill: sound like callahan with reagan. no. i m talking fact. bill: we re driving less. okay? americans in general, correct? correct? correct? sure. bill: we re making more gas, right? making more gas. bill: the hamster that ran across four months ago and shut down four refineries that hamster is gone now. really we are cranking out all this gas. if he we are hamsters it s because of the first part we are talking about, taxes eating into all of our incomes. they are growing and the people are not even aware of it the 2% reinstitution of the payroll tax, that s also part of it but we have got to give these oil companies credit. bill: credit? 10 cents a gallon less than a month ago.
50 families of current and former lapd officials, officers, officials under guard and have surveillance because they think this is where he was going to go. this is where he was going to try to head to take these people on, that he said that these were all high value targets in his words. and, you know, there s another thing, in his manifesto, it s interesting on this day where the president is going to give his state of the union and presumably talk about gun control, he says in his man fistow, if you had a well-regulated assault weapons ban, this would not happen. in his manifesto, he gives his own push for gun control and actually praises senator dianne feinstein for leading, as he says, you are doing the right thing in leading the reinstitution of a national assault weapons ban. this is certainly
with republicans having not had to violate any norquist pledges. they don t vote for a partial bill first, and then they vote for the reinstitution after. the president passed on it before. do you see a scenario, joe, in which the president passes on taxes for the rich? no, i don t. i don t either. i don t think so. i just don t see it. how can he? when you have people like bill kristol coming the president s way. there is a divide in the republican party. and there has been a divide for some time. on sort of the wall street republicans and the main street republicans. the republicans that came in in 94, jon meacham, were like me, they were more populist/conservative than conservative you know, sort of wall street conservative. there are a lot of conservatives in middle america that aren t going to be crying if people making a couple million dollars are paying more taxes. that s just the reality. no, i think that s right. i think to go to the question about whether t
that we won t vote to raise rates. that s how they end up in the place where we end up with what the president and democrats want, with republicans not having to violate any norquist pledges. they vote for the reinstitution. the president passed on it before. do you see a scenario in which the president passes on tax cuts for the rich? no. i don t think so. how can he? when you have people like bill kristol coming the president s way. there is a divide in the republican party, and there has been a divide for some time. on sort of the wall street republicans and the main street republicans. the republicans that came in in 94, jon meacham, were like me, they were more populist/conservative than conservative you know, sort of wall street conservative. there are a lot of conservatives in middle america that aren t going to be crying if people making a couple million dollars are paying more taxes. that s just the reality. no, i think that s right. and i think to go to the
not bill: is there corporate taxes? corporate taxes, absolutely. this is the guy who is going to be the friend of business, right? bill: is imposing taxes on the corporations, oil, gas and insurance. they going to pass it on to the consumer i assume. that is what they always do? absolutely. one of the things about the high tax rate we pay in this country which is one of the highest in the world but the reality is those taxes flow through to the consumer and that adds to our tax burden which is already. bill: also guts the earning power of the middle class because they have to pay more for everything they do and almost a hidden tax on folks because folks pay nor fees. exactly. bill: now, you don t quickle with the fact that the president probably will be able to raise probably $500 billion more through fees around the reinstitution of the payroll tax. that will be there? i don t quibble with it. i would argue against it. bill: it is in your opinion