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today, tuesday, august 10, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. what a wild story. we ve heard of out-of-control passengers on a plane, but this was a case of an angry flight attendant who apparently had had enough on that jetblue flight at jfk airport right here in new york. yeah, his name is steven slater. he apparently got into an argument with a passenger who was trying to get luggage from the overhead bin while the plane was taxiing. words were exchanged. that s when slater grabbed the intercom, let loose a few profanities, grabbed a couple of beers, deployed the plane s emergency slide and use it had to slide away. coming up, a man onboard that flight. by the way, one of my pet peeves when you re taxiing after landing and the flight attend apts say stay seated and people stand up and do things like that. we ll talk much more about that. also ahead, is there
so whether you buy a couple of coffee or a brand new car, you re going to pay a little extra to the u.s. government, and even taking your own money out of your own bank account at an atm could cost you, that s right, 1 percent more under this new law. martha: this may sound strikingly similar to the vat tax used in england and other countries and it cost them a lot of money. is that what s coming here? stuart varney joins us, he s the anchor of varney & company on the fox business network. stuart, welcome, good to have you here. this idea was launched by a democratic congressman from pennsylvania and written about by lanny davis in an editorial. lanny davis worked wither skin bowles in the clinton administration. it raises the question are we starting to get the form from this debt commission, are they starting to float out there some of these ideas that they may actually try to put into action? that s precisely what s happening and we ve been talking about it for months. w