for. you can t say we would freeze that and see some windfall. people would have more money in their pocket. when they say freeze it, are they saying you don t pay any tax? they are usually a fixed number. it s not based on a percentage. alisyn: freezing the sales tax on gasoline when it jumped above $4 a gallon. it would put a few bucks back into consumers pockets. politically it shows you are doing something. if we wanted to do something we would take the 400 billion barrels of oil we said no we are not going after those. we could replace 3-4 million barrels a day in the united states. we wouldn t care about iran or the strait of hormuz. we could start that tomorrow. we sort of had this attitude, hey, you know, there are bigger
their money back? well, companies have to be very careful how they advertise their products. i mean there s disclaimers. the american federal trade commission has standards and guidelines, but ultimately what these people are looking for is potentially damages. i mean, if you mislead consumers you re not going to jail. you re not going to prison but what these people probably want back is maybe their money. who knows. alisyn: listen, technology never works for me. i am completely remedial when it comes to any technology but our senior producer christine burke, does have an iphone i-4 s. she has siri. i can ask it a question. i will try for the first time. let s do some, do some current events. which former president just endorsed mitt romney? i don t know what you mean by, okay, which former president just endorsed mitt romney.
alisyn: the rest of us have to wait until june. the justices of the supreme court will have scene idea of the outcome today. they are meeting on the main floor and no one less be present. but after today s meeting individual votes and the final ruling can change as the justices read each other s decisions. beginning sunday the united states will become the country with the highest corporate tax rates in the world. jim angle is live in washington with more on this. that s a dubious distinction, jim. reporter: it certainly is. we are number one, anti-taxed a row scats cry. but no one is happy about it. america is number one in a category where we don t want to be number one. we are the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
alisyn: michael, start with you, this is report in washington post. romney s advisors say they will go after the president on foreign policy though many pundits believe that has been actually one of president obama s strengths. what what do you think? no. i think the president has lots of areas of vulnerability. it sort of reminds me of the boxing ring in, strictly a metaphor call sense. when the boxer is wobbly and trainer says go for it, go for it, take him out. the president can be weakened on many, many issues on the domestic front, foreign policy. talk to many mainstream americans over the president of s handling of israel and the way the miserable way he treated benjamin netanyahu as an example. there are certainly achievements he can boast. i have never wanted to take away the accomplishment of the taking out of osama bin laden. credit is given where credit is due but i think this is a smart move on mitt romney s part. it reinforces governor romney s belief he will be the fr
that shouldn t be the case. alisyn: it made sense that people in these various states would want to take matters into their own hand. is there anything individually they can do? at the personal level, if you really are worried about the price of gas, get a car that gets 50% better gas mileage. that creates demand destruction. at the state level they can change the tax issues. but that s a band-aid. alisyn: there are all sort of other consequences when you try to change the tax on gas. what the opponents say is you can save that billion dollars, what about our public transportation system, our police force, our 911 system, all that would be cut into. in california there are a lot of services that money was going