there than it is here because, you know, brenda, heritage foundation called 2013 tax-mageddon. here s why. the average household here in the u.s. will see tax increases of $3800. you know, that comes from the expiration of the bush one and two tax cuts. expiration of the payroll tax cuts, obamacare increases and i heard obama is talking about this buffet tax, maybe we ll get that also and you know, brenda, here s the worst part. the primary focus on these taxes are going to be the middle and low income households because that s where the bulk of the bush tax cuts went to. in 2013, it s not going to be a very good year for anyone and the economy, brenda. ok, you are a small business owner. you are hiring tomorrow, what s this doing for your confidence and for your plans for the future? i haven t been confident in the longest i don t know if i know how to exude confidence
all up. they call it a space vacuum cleaner. first time we figured out how it will work. it doesn t do housekeeping apparently. bill: no. julie: gas prices spiking to record levels. we ve been telling you about that, right? what does the white house plan on doing about it?
santorum s questioned obama s christianity saying the president of the united states is exercising his values and trumping the values of the church? kirsten, what say you? when somebody brings up theology and refers to the bible it is a little hard to believe they re not questioning his christianity. i saw some explanation of it that he was talking about radical environmentalists. i don t really see that. so i think that it was out of bounds, even if it was about radical environmentalists, the president is not a radical environmentalists by any stretch of the imagination. julie: yeah. so, yeah, it is definitely out of bounds for a presidential candidate to say something like this. julie: let s hear from mr. santorum himself. he says he was not. let s take a listen. accept the fact that the president is a christian. i just said that when you have a world view that elevates the earth above man and says that, we can t take those resources pause we re going to harm the earth, by
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agree rick santorum was not attacking the president s character. we don t agree with that. julie: that s why we have you both on the show. you did a great show. fair and balanced. always entertaining, kirsten and rick, thank you very much. bill: in the green room, 20 minutes before the hour. lawmakers argue, many of them anyway, it is not a good time it raise taxes on anyone but what about after election day? some are calling this tax armageddon. i is a tax hike in the trillions of dollars. it is a rare moment. julie: rare illusion. this waterfall in yosemite turns into lava? [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition?