we go there tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. tonight, the super rich surtax. okay, i keep stumbling on that one. but president obama today went on the road to press a theme from his state of the union address telling millionaires they need to pay up. if you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. all right, the president s proposal would affect about 240,000 tax filers across the country. an expert tells us it would effectively raise the top margin rate about 44% for millionaires. now, that s the highest it s been since the middle of this guy s administration when he was cutting taxes. now, putting aside the debate over whether it s fair, here s the math. taxing this dplup would bring in $41 billion in revenue a year. that adds up to about 380 billion over ten years. thanks to david logan for running the numbers for us. that sounds like a lot of money, right? but here is an interesting thing. compare it to our debt a
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and navy s.e.a.l.s rescuing americans from somali pirates. it s real life. we go there tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. tonight, the super rich surtax. okay, i keep stumbling on that one. but president obama today went on the road to press a theme from his state of the union address telling millionaires they need to pay up. if you make more than a million dollars a year you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. all right, the president s proposal would affect about 240,000 tax filers across the country. an expert tells us it would effectively raise the top margin rate about 44% for millionaires. now, that s the highest it s been since the middle of this guy s administration when he was cutting taxes. now, putting aside the debate over whether it s fair, here s the math. taxing this dplup would bring in $41 billion in revenue a year. that adds up to about 380 billion over ten years. thanks to david logan for running the numbers for us. that sounds like a lot
t.a.r.p.-3 was $30 billion for small banks. and, there were homeowner bailouts you voted for as well. i don t see those as bailouts. you know, what a bailout is, is, you know, saying you are too big to fail. reporter: now according to roll call, she is one of the ten most vulnerable democrats in the house, arthel and is down now by as many as 7 points in the polls. arthel: like everybody is saying, it is hard to predict what will happen in three weeks. reporter: you bet. arthel: william lajeunesse. bill: 20 minutes before the hour, we re standing by in a moment to ask the question is america ready for more government spending? the president expected to call for billions more to shore up the nation s infrastructure, helping to strengthen the economy, and that will be the argument. will it help? is more spending the answer? arthel: all right, bill, a mass overdose at a weekend college party, 12 students, taken to the hospital and what they may have