weekends on fox & friends. and letterman is leaving, justin. the new york city mayor has been the punching bag of comedians recently. it turns out the reason he s not worried about raising taxes is because he s not paying very much of them at all. the mayor s office just released mr. de blasio s taxes and they show he paid 8.3%. that s all. here with his take is the host of varney and company stuart varney.k3 hypocrisy, not sure i can spell it but that is the headlines they raked mitt romney over the coals and he paid a lot more in taxes. here is the mayor of new york city elected on the slogan tax the rich, give it over there, they can afford it. take it off them. turns out he is absolutely not practicing what he preaches. his total income, $217,000. total taxes, $25,600 for a tax rate of about 8%.
opens up and lately it s been going up, coming down and all kinds of things going on. the biotech bubble is bursting. what is going to happen next? you ve got to watch today. you re on every day. you become varney. but who becomes charles payne? you have to wait for 11:00 to find out. good job. again you outdressed me but didn t outdress steve. it s hard to do. coming up, do the math on this. a texas oil town has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation andç the town is the world s largest solar plant has the highest, what can we learn from that? stop laughing, charles. governor rick perry here live with the answer. a school work book says gun control is part of the second amendment. huh? a constitution check from judge napolitano.
salary, $58,000 in pension. she is aç part-time worker. it is absolutely astonishing. these are public servants. great benefits, not a great pay, but you go into these public these municipality jobs and state jobs in order to get those benefits and security. that was always the way it was sold and pitched. in the 1980 s we saw a divergence where public sector workers started to outdistance private sector counterparts. that gap has grown wider. it is crazy when you think how many people living paycheck to paycheck are actually paying taxes into a system where there s this much abuse. the income inequalityç argument, what is someone making on a local level? charles, what are you doing later? i m hosting this show on the fox business network known as varney and company. we come on at 11:00, our new time. what happens is the market
was the so board slope style. the u.s. snowboarding legend shaun white dropped out of that event yesterday because he said he was not happy with the safety of the course. a lot of spectators have traveled from the united states to see these games. they are very excited they are finally underway. i just came to support everyone in the united states and enjoy the games. it s unfortunate he s not going to play. but there are other participants from the u.s. and i m rooting for them. so go u.s.a.! bill: love the olympics. brand-new numbers on the employment picture in america. weekly jobless benefits applications falling slightly. stuart varney, host of varney and company on the fox business
more is stuart varney, celebrating his fourth year as host of varney and company. this is after the fourth year, so we should move on. okay. get to it. let s talk about the staff inequality, how much each of your staff members are getting paid. until then, let s focus on what s going on with inequality when it comes to the threat on our economy. does she have a point? no, she does not have a point. income inequality, the income gap, put it like that, has been rising for about four decades. the gap has been widening. there are all kinds of factors g of the income gap. ms. delauro there is staking out the democrats turf for this election year. she s saying income inequality is going to be the issue which we run on in 2014. there s a problem with that. not only is she an all-time millionairess herself, but the obama administration has presided over the most vigorous widening of the income gap of any recent presidency.