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
race less than a week until the florida primary and it s a virtual dead heat between mitt and newt. absentee voters may make the difference. a navy s.e.a.l. rescuing american from pirates. it s real life. it s real life. we go there tonight. captions by vitac www.vitac.com 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. tacking this group would bring
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
and good morning, everyone. it s friday, december 2nd. ali and carol are both off today. i m christine romans along with alina cho on this american morning. so glad you got the memo. i know. we re both feeling a lot like christmas this morning. up first, the countdown is on for herman cain. he s heading back home to atlanta this morning in the decision to whether continue his campaign could be in his wife s hands. cain says we will know by monday at the latest whether he s in or out of the race, and yesterday for the very first time, cain admitted that getting out is an option. he okay knowledged he did give money to the woman he said she had a 13 jeer-year affair with . his wife only found out about ginger white when the rest of us did. that is correct, and she was hurt that she didn t know about this friend that i was helping financially. she was aware of many of the other friends that i have helped. ginger white spoke to lawrence o donnell on msnbc last night a