host: our guest is with us until 8:30 kim dixon.he first call is from bob on a republican line from florida caller: does the guest believe that the unemployment rate is actually 8.2%? there is much talk about it being much higher than that. the numbers are not factored against the people who have left the job force. i don't understand how we can justify a 47% of americans not paying any federal taxes. please justify that to us, thank you. guest: you're absolutely correct. 8.2% unemployment rate is just the official rate. the rate is much higher if you account for people who have stopped working. that is not my area of expertise. on the 47% that pay no federal income taxes yes, that number is correct host: who are those people? guest: everyone points out that those people may pay payroll taxes and that hits a lower income. it is capped at a certain levels of the wealthy have stopped paying after $100,000. they pay other kinds of taxes but those people -- the tax policy center can now that number a year ago and caused a lot of headlin

. >>> saturday on "washington journal," reuters tax policy correspondent kim dixon looks at the tax proposals included in the $3.8 trillion budget that president obama released earlier this week. lar lawrence yun talks about the current state of the housing market. after that, "usa today" correspondent dennis kauchon talks about an analysis in a drop for spending for services, employee compensation and infrastructure upkeep in certain states and localities. plus your e-mails, phone calls and tweets. "washington journal" live saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. oh >>> army secretary john mccue testified before the house armed services committee friday on the budget request. the overall army budget request of $184.6 billion is down from 2012. but includes a 1.7% pay increase for soldiers. and a housing assistance increase of 3.9%. the total defense department 2013 budget request is $525 billion. a 1% decrease from 2012. this runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes. >> we just got notice that the role was voice voted. they were going to have a vote about 10:00. so they said final votes will be at

kim dixon said the tax proposals that the $3.80 trillion budget the president obama released earlierhis week. and lawrence yun and discussing the current state of the housing market in light of the news that home builder confidence increased for the fifth consecutive month. then dennis cauchon on the recent analysis, examining a drop in spending, employee compensation, and infrastructure upkeep. plus your e-mail and phone calls every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the house and senate are done for the week ended done through next week for the presidents' day recess after today. in both bodies pass in the conference report that extends the payroll tax cuts and long- term unemployment benefits through the end of this year. in the senate, 60-36. we will show you the floor debate this evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> book tv live on saturday from the savannah book festival with tom clavin. followed at 10:45 by carl marlantes and scotty smiley on the first blind active-duty officer. greg mirey and jennifer griffin on the palestinian conflict. who's afraid of post-blackness at 4:00, and the ris

host: md. -- you are on with kim dixon of reuters. caller: i think a gasoline tax would have stimulated the economy more. on your investments, you are taxed at three times. what you're a corporation pays, your dividend, and if you sold the stock, you repay it back on those kinds of things. a lot of us are going to wait and see what the social security trustees report says. we could earn money on the investments. i will hang up and listen. thank you. guest: he makes the argument that many businesses are taxed at more than once -- the company level, the investor level -- that is the reason for the lower tax rates on investment. on the social security side, i do believe that the trust fund dollar for dollar is made up of tax cut. i am not an expert on social security financing. host: grand rapids, mich. -- william on the independent line. caller: is there anything in this proposal to recover the money sitting outside the country by wealthy individuals? guest: no. the irs has been going after wealthy americans who have money in accounts o

tomorrow, on "washington journal," kim dixon reduce the tax proposals for the budget. yun and the national association of realtors discusses the u.s. housing market and usa correspondent talks about his analysis of state spending for services employee converse a -- income glory compotation -- employee compensation. >> in 1966, he was prevented from taking his elected seat in the georgia state house after representatives voted 184 to 12 not to seek him -- seat him. >> i went to the court to hear the argument and i was sitting in the court, just behind the bar with all lawyers in front of me. i was sitting next to my lawyer's partner. the attorney general of georgia was making an argument that georgia had a right to throw me out because i had said things that were treasonous. i think it was judge white who is said to him, is this all you have? [laughter] you come all way up here and this is all you have? i said to him, we are winning are we not? >> discover more about african- american history on american history tv on c-span3. surjit and a share from over 25 years of pr

. >> tomorrow kim dixon talks about tax proposals in the budget.nce yun discusses the house market. dennis cauchon talks about spending for employee compensation and infrastructure maintenance. "washington journal"at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> next house debate on the payroll tax extension. president obama speaks at a bowling facility in washington state. newt gingrich at a campaign rally in georgia. >> i had a hunch one of them would be an addictive drug. i will ask each one a simple question. we will see what their response is. >> i believe nicotine is not addictive it. >> cigarettes and nicotine cannot meet the classic definitions of addiction. >> we will take that as a know pierre >> i do not think our products are addictive. >> not addictive. >> they had a program where they wanted to replace cigarettes with a drug that was equally addictive but did not cause the heart problems. they had no way to test them. that was my job. my job was to find a molecule that a rat's brain would say i like it and the car would not have any cardiovascular problems.