stop you know fussing at the president really passed meaningful legislation we haven't seen one piece of legislation from the republican congress that created one job they profess to be the party of jobs where are the jobs while in fact this has been the least productive congress in the history of the united states and it's because of democrat controlled senate the house has been very productive they passed a budget they passed a ryan budget and what in the senate to that private to turn medicare into a voucher beyond a disagreement that you're saying they're not being productive they're passing bills every week they go through a silent death in the senate and any other that that could be true if you wanted to with the most productive congress is in american history was the nancy pelosi congress and you guys go to the republicans the tea party voted them out and they were more productive then the john boehner congress has done absolutely nothing while they were productive doing bad things it was for emulous value and i'm sure a job that is not a real institutional obamacare bill that forces americans to buy a product in the stream of commerce the president that i will put to put two

million young people back on their parents' health care insurance that they now have health care and also get rid of preexisting conditions it's unconstitutional to do this that has not that has no more debate the jury's still out on that one little has it made health care better do you think i'm going to consume. on health care is a better thing and people being able to get health access to health care without brings the conditions that's a better thing right and so you create this brand they've been battling for i know what is bad is that we have a third payer system that's ruining health care whether it be insurance in the tax treatment of health care and health insurance or a government go to a single payer system and now we need no government involvement in health care and that's a problem or up to about seventy three percent government money flooding the whole lot of you want to be entirely at the mercy of people like steven j. holmes lay who makes a couple hundred million dollars a year you know from from his being the c.e.o. of you know health care or his former the former boss who you know bill big wired to one point seven billion dollars in the tax treatment to help. here is that every

single one of them want to point seven billion dollars was money that was taken away from some child in need to do surgery right so let's get rid of the preferential treatment of health insurance so that we don't have so people get their money and they can pay for it on their own these identify one developed country in the world that allows for profit health insurance companies to operate human capital one works just one and we have the capitalism has been functioning for centuries one developed country in the world that allows for profit health insurance companies to offer primary health care health care insurance who will deny that there is a reasonably free market health care system and we're going to be as outlawed what we don't want to be like canada and england and canadians where are they going to get their health care if we socialize our health care they keep going to and i've had to come to the state you and i both know that that's a canard and it's phony but richard tonight the president is laying out a new vision for america much i think much like kennedy high tech manufacturing our own clean energy security not tied to unstable parts of the world these are his

words. your take on how that's going to play in congress and with the american i think how that's going to play with the american people as the american people are going to understand this president is about making forward progress moving the country forward and i think what we've seen from the president we've seen him not take a very hard sense that we're moving this economy forward actions that you know the economy is growing but it's not growing fast enough but the truth of the matter is is in the past twelve months i've seen private sector job growth only under president obama we see more job growth in the past twelve months we saw in two thousand and five under george w. bush on top of that we've seen less regulation on small businesses and the middle class under president obama that we've seen under george w. bush these are the facts and the facts are that the economy was so abysmal of george of you know of the deregulation of the banking industry five percent unemployment no we were we want to. thank you. these banks were incentivized to hand down their george w. bush mortgages to people they couldn't afford it and then we bailed out. logic

president obama's leadership when he was a senator we bailed out wants to do because george bush and hank paulson wanted it to happen right and presidents on the board all of the bailouts or not the bailed out give you the facts support the bailouts well let's look at what the bailout money did for the auto industry in michigan put it put people back to work it put young people back to work on top of that now the auto industry is making profits. on wall street because you know it is now making oh it was one of the top manufacture of cars or your old because the american on back this company you support bailouts are not available as are not them out of supporting bill as a matter of supporting the middle class and working class and that's crony what i would like to know when you bill o'reilly stand alone you build a wall to bail out the rich and the wealthy and you give them more money so they can do more damage on your street gonna ruin you bail out the auto industry bailout workers middle class people unions bail out was what they all did unions what's wrong with an equal day's pay for equal day's work unions inflate raija is that when you bail out of the union he says oh my god i can only lie as senator i didn't know we can't have it why did we have the money had i had i have to the bottom like

we've had ever since ronald reagan but that is a great thing i'm going to they did not help the auto industry the inflated wages were one of the reasons why the auto industry needed a bailout that nonsense that was it was a great depression caused by george w. bush it sounds like something that mitt romney would say when he's working to bain capital he fired the workers who were in the union so he could hire them at lower wages we all know the fact the facts are true the fact that it's true he created more jobs and the president how many jobs and you know how many jobs to get rid of is the real question we should ask ourselves but the fact forces but going back so true dominoes well let's talk about the facts though the facts are pretty simple the fact is this where there are labor unions there are higher wages there's a better standard of living there's better community development there's less faith talley's on the job the workers are safer they have better lives for their children why would we not want that in this country why are americans not joining unions in the private sector the unions are dominating and i've got to visit all of the unions and hopefully the seven hundred year industry busting unions well i i mean.

if you look at where unions are gone now they're lobbying for higher taxes because they're dominating the government sector almost sort of advocating more than fifty people paying to share his work there's no reason that mitt romney makes forty five million dollars a year and he only pays fifteen percent in taxes where his secretary thirteen point nine percent in taxes on a secretary i don't have thirty five percent in taxes that's just unfair that's un-american we're going to tell you we're not justice and liberty and the equity that you guys lead us away but i will say i'm his little yes brian i would like people i know i agree with the buffett rule which the president is going to propose tonight that people like mitt romney should pay at least the same tax rates and barack obama there should have easily was there is an art to let's not forget he has and was first on himself they should pay at least the same taxes that their secretaries pay that they're janitors pay that working people pay and with that i got to thank you both richard bryant it's been a great conversation and richard probably thank you both very much.

just. it's the good the bad of the very very. slowly. the good chicago resident ryan garcia garcia a thirty year old sales rep from chicago has made a very unusual new year's resolution to a random act of kindness each day this year the inspiration for this unique and heartwarming resolution comes from garcia's newborn daughter we hope to influence him to be an excellent role model for already garcia has sent letters to soldiers in afghanistan raised awareness for cancer and bought distributed dozens of pairs of socks and gloves to homeless residents of chicago he's even set up a website where people can comment on his mission as well as suggest new random acts of kindness maybe republicans should take note and remove their website that pledges to cut one government program each week that provides that same sort of

kindness check out ryan's blog and send him ideas at three six six random acts or the bad kentucky governor steve bashir last week governor bashir proposed his twenty twelve twenty thirteen budget prefacing it by saying we should be making substantial investments in our physical and intellectual infrastructure to bring transformation to our state but it sounds great but the budget actually cuts fallen into an already under funded education system by six point four percent at the same time government governor bashir was quick to preserve the tax breaks given to a biblically themed amusement park in the state so while the governor was adamant about investing in the state's intellectual wellbeing instead decided to invest in what critics are now calling the ark park not only is this a blatant misuse of taxpayer money to support religious theme parks it's also setting his. and this nation backward when it comes to being able to compete in

global economy and the ugly the cat killer in russellville arkansas take a burris the keep the campaign manager for a congressional candidate in northwest arkansas told the police monday that he found his family's cat brutally slaughtered over the weekend with the word liberal painted on the corpse lives in a heavily conservative portion of arkansas and is the campaign manager for ken aden who is hoping to win a seat the the seat of freshman republican representative steve womack in a statement to the press hopefully one of these days congressman aden said it is one thing to engage in civil political discourse and for republicans and democrats to disagree with each other which is an expected part of the political process taking it to this level is beyond acceptable mr ayton is absolutely right taking political discourse to the level of savagely killing an animal just to make some sort of political statement has no place in our society and it's very clear that. coming up after the break mitt romney released his tax returns but don't think this

makes him more relatable to the average joe what did his returns really tell us about his well. it's technology innovations all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. you know sometimes you see

a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour mitt romney released his tax returns yesterday and said last night that he pays a lot of taxes and he's proud to do it what those tax returns really show us and the supreme court on monday took a stand for our right to privacy or did they actually cut into our rights to privacy what do they do and how might it affect you the next time you make a phone call or surf the web also the indiana state senate passed what they call

right to work legislation monday but really it's right to work for a last legislation i'll explain. when someone americans don't pay their fair share in taxes the rest of us get screwed after weeks of playing cat and mouse with them mitt romney finally released his tax returns yesterday last night in the republican presidential debate reference to his tax returns and tax rates he said this feels like income how much taxes are paid how much i paid to charity you'll see how complicated taxes can be but what i pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more i don't think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than ios so while they point out that that's the case and will to be discussion sure it will be an article you know but is it entirely. legal unfair absolutely i'm proud of the fact that i pay a lot of taxes and that really

a lot of taxes upon closer examination romney's tax returns there are several things that set him apart from the average american for example mitt romney makes more money in one day than the average american makes in one year and even scarier he makes enough money to become a one percenter every single week at the same time romney the multimillionaire a a lower tax rate the most middle class americans and he says he pays a lot of taxes joining us now to discuss mitt romney's tax debacle is amanda beadle reporter with think progress and think it was there ok amanda great to have you back with us when it comes to payroll taxes the average american contributes seven point six five percent almost eight percent for medicare or social security that on the payroll tax what's mitt romney plan i believe it's one tenth of one percent so why is that when it's because that is their security taxes and medicare taxes all come from earned income most of his income is coming from capital gains in money

that he's money he's getting that he's not actually from a regular income is what most people pay for their taxes and it's also part of why is taxes in general of so low but if you're talking about something that everyone's pay going to it there's all this concern about medicare and running on money for social security and he's not paying into it he's paying one tenth of one percent why do we have a capitalist gains tax and an ordinary income tax why we have an income tax for people who work and then we have a capitalist gains tax i was called capital gains for. capital gains tax for people who like paris hilton you know earns a living city in her bikini on her butt around the pool waiting for the dividend check to arrive i don't get it it's the idea is that investment income from capital gains that these people are job creators they're going to go on and invest this money to create even more jobs for more people rocket's ronald reagan thought that was a bad idea he brought both those tax rates to twenty eight percent he made them identical and he came right out and said that the capital gains should be taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. what do these republicans all have amnesia clearly they're

not listening to what reagan said so believe that under gingrich's tax plan romney would even be better off because gingrich has proposed getting rid of the capital gains tax entirely whereas romney with the i believe would at least leave it at charging something for capital gains tax you know it was twenty percent before george w. bush remember correctly. romney famously had some of his wealth in offshore accounts. i lived in europe for a year and i looked into getting a swiss bank account just because i had to get a european bank account and i'd heard that they were kind of cool and what i discovered was that when you put your money the swiss bank you have to pay them interest and i said to this was the banker you know the why and he said because we keep secrets so why would why would this guy put his money in a bank in switzerland where he has to pay them to take his money i don't believe ever fully explained that but i know that they closed his swiss bank account in two thousand and ten because it was too afraid it's going to politically embarrassing to have a swiss bank account but he saw that the cayman islands account and i believe it

talked also about that he had accounts in other known taxation of luxembourg and ireland. so how does his how would his own proposed tax plan affect his taxes i believe the taxes about half because he wants to lower the taxes even more because they get the idea that these people who are earning are into capital capital gains that they're investors that they're going to turn around and invest this money and create more jobs so that's their theory and that is the theory romney's tax rate which is already only in a paper eighteen point nine percent in two thousand and ten it's estimated about fifteen percent in two thousand and eleven he cut it in half amazing and bush cut it by five percent a cut by twenty five percent actually from. twenty to fifteen percent and it didn't seem to create an explosion of jobs my recollection is that the bush administration left it on a negative note that that would be correct ok apparently he needed for lawyers and

a former i.r.s. commissioner to explain his own tax returns is that just like the nature of being a multimillionaire makes forty million bucks every two years i guess that all it says is the only the main jobs they're created from romney's capital gains were for his lawyers and his bankers and. amanda beadle thank you so much for the great reporting good to hear good to have you with us. well in last night's republican debate in florida both mitt romney and newt gingrich attacked each other over who's closeted skeletons or worse leaving republican voters left to decide who is the lesser of two evils the tax evader or the philandering lobbyist good luck on that one. in the best of the rest of the news police may need a warrant from now on if they want to plant g.p.s. systems in your car to track you so says the supreme court in what many are calling a huge victory for privacy rights in the case of the united states versus jones the high court found that the police violated the fourth amendment rights of a suspected drug kingpin antwan jones when they install a g.p.s. tracking device on his car and monitors it it is activities for twenty eight days

without a warrant still there are questions left unanswered as to what reasonably are or what really are unreasonable searches in an age where people are using three hundred thirty two million cell phones that can be tracked and surfing the internet visiting websites that can be tracked to court didn't really touch that question so even though the nation took one step back from orwell's one thousand nine hundred four with yesterday's supreme court ruling there are still a lot of questions around what constitutes privacy in today's digital world joining us to discuss the supreme court's ruling and how it really affects our privacy rights going forward is ginger mccall the director of the electronic privacy information center open government program change and welcome back thank you for having me great to have you here with us scalia has this trespass theory that he was in the majority decision the the five not that this was a unanimous decision but but for two completely different sets of reasons for two largely different sets of reasons and scalia said basically this is

a property rights thing you're if you're trespassed in somebody's property that's an invasion of their privacy that's an invasion or that's a violation the fourth amendment it's not an invasion of privacy. on the other hand you had four other justices who wrote a concurring but different opinion saying well it might be a trespass but it's also an invasion of privacy. is that concerning that the five justices who really decided the case didn't think this was an invasion of privacy merely that it was trespass well the important thing and the upbeat thing about this case is that scalia and the rest of the justices in the majority didn't foreclose the option that this would have under the other analysis also been an invasion of privacy in fact he explicitly pointed out that he wasn't foreclosing that this was an invasion of privacy under the cats which is after the u.s. cats case under that sort of analysis he just said that here the obvious answer is that it's an invasion of privacy under the property based analysis so they're just going to stick with that and go with the easy track but in the cat's case was the

one where. it was whether or not if you're not going to wiretap somebody at their home but you're going to do it at the phone station is is that still a wiretap is still an invasion of privacy and the supreme court ruled holland that . there what came out of that was an analysis that's based on a reasonable expectation of privacy based in part on your subjective expectation of privacy as well as society's object of a record expectation of privacy an expectation of privacy that society is willing to accept this is this is you know there are some here's a quote from katz that that was in the top of this it's the concurring opinion that disagreed the minority or green opinion they quoted from the katz case the existence of a property right is but one element in determining whether expectations of privacy are legitimate to the promise of the property interests control the right of the government to search and seize has been discredited which basically and this was

being quoted by the other four justices is they're throwing it in school is face well here scalia actually recognized that the cat's case as being valid and he said that yes property based analysis is one of the analyse is that you can run into it to figure out whether or not there is a privacy interest and the great thing about this it's rare that i get to come on here until. good news about privacy it's you know it's a day it's world but the great thing about this is that the other justices the justices in the concurrence and also sotomayor suggested a willingness to to really take a good hard look at these electronic surveillance issues and in fact she said that she was willing to reexamine precedent and yet case and i think that we're going to look back five ten years from now and say this was probably one of the most important cases that she wrote a decision on. do you agree yes and that precedent that she said that she was willing to reexamine is this idea of the third party doctor and which is if you give a piece of information you give an item to someone else and then trust that data to

that person then you lose your expectation of privacy and she said that she was willing to reexamine that and here's why that's so important because in today's world with cloud computing with a lot of of web based applications you're giving so much of your data away a third tour google to facebook to these other companies that's the third party and it's so important which reminds me that dr to this question and this is this blue this is a headline from the washington post one of the four thirty three this afternoon for a news story google to track users across products and the first paragraph are those the summary used by cecilia king web giant google says it won't allow users to opt out of changes which will follow activities across email search youtube and other services the shift is expected to invite greater suit scrutiny of its privacy practices. is this the kind of thing the sort of my or was basically sane in her in her individual she wrote a separate individual concurrent. not just sun agreement concurrence in this case

is this what she was talking about the you know maybe we're going to be looking to google want to this is precisely the sort of thing that she signaled and also the other concurrent justices and to some extent schoolie and the majority as well that they were going to be looking at these issues and all of the opinions they. put out a very explicit invitation to congress to legislate in this area to come up with a good comprehensive privacy legislation that will protect people. and. almost justice brandeis wrote in material where the physical connection toll from wars was made but i guess we're we're covering the same territory here. so the trespass theory will hopefully be extended and. do you think that somebody looking to sue google and provoke this i think that we will see a line of cases that come out of this it's it's good news and this is a case this is language that we're as privacy advocates going to be quoting back to

the court for years to come because there's a lot of great strong language in here about the value of privacy and the ways that this sort of surveillance can really undermine the important values in the united states of america our freedom of expression our freedom of speech and that language it's it's great this is the first time that we've had something to celebrate in a in a long time i wrote the decision i thought was fascinating ginger thank you so much and it was much appreciated thank you eventually the supreme court and congress will have to weigh in on these issues let's hope they make the right decisions. after the break the indiana state senate and governor mentioned daniels are the latest culprits in the ongoing war against the middle class but what did they what they did on monday and how is it going to affect the people of india.

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comment came to us from stacy our facebook page stacy wrote if there is a brokered convention big if you think that it would spell the end of the g.o.p. at least in the g.o.p. we know that we know in its current incarnation if they pick someone that did not go out and campaign that was simply infuriate the base measure if they put chris christie out there as the compromise after the furious debates and campaigning that has already taken place. a brokered convention happens when no single law money goes into the convention with enough delegates to have already locked up the nomination and although newt's not on the ballot in at least three and maybe five states he could still if he really hits a role when enough delegates to be the nominee are more likely those started this whole thing just as a book tour and therefore has no real ground game offices or structures in place for most of the country is that mitt romney will be the nominee because he's done his homework and he has enough money to outspend newt but even if it goes down to a race between the two of them that's so tight that neither has enough delegates

odds are the convention would pick either one or the other either by other candidates throwing them their delegates delegates decided to change their votes which they could do or by the elders of the party making a choice i'd be really surprised if somebody who hasn't been in the debates was picked moving on our next comment comes to us via twitter julie who tweets under the name ethel rosenberg. tom hartman i know you love this t.s.a. stuff but the agency says that rand paul was at no time detained. yeah and the agency says there chertoff or no x. ray scanners don't produce dangerous levels of x. rays even though all european countries have banned them because the t.s.a. so says something doesn't make it true they told bomb ron paul rand paul to stand in that box now i call that detained maybe they think detained means sent to get go but i agree with rand paul that he was detained in fact the entire security circus that our.