this week we have jonathan, tracy, todd, jim is here, and joining us this week we have sally cohen. welcome to all of you. jim, i'll start with you. why do you like this two-year plan for high school kids? what do you like about it? >> everybody pays taxes, whether they own a home or not, whether they have children or not, everybody pays for education, and every year they get worse education and it costs more. we've dumbed down our school program to rush kids through the system. why not do it the other way? why not had let the achieving kids rush through the system and get away from this burgeoning ed accuracy? beyond that, we're spending money on things that aren't being productive for our economy. let these achieving students, send them the message that if you achieve you will be rewarded. the idea we're going to get any of this taxpayer money back is kind of a mirage. taxpayers never get any money back. it will move on to the next boondoggle. i think it's a good idea. >> half of property taxes go to schools to be fair. tracy, the kids issue, you can get them out of your house two

this week we have jonathan, tracy, todd, jim is here, and joining us this week we have sally cohen. welcome to all of you. jim, i'll start with you. why do you

we have wayne rogers, jonathan, tracy burns, john, and joining us this week, sally cohen is with us. welcome. tracy, you say this talk of nations coming together to rescue europe is bad for taxpayers in this country. >> cheryl, this whole kumbaya stuff is expensive. we send money to the imf, they send it to europe. is anybody in europe paying attention to the austerity measures? no. everyone keeps saying he did it. no one takes any blame for anything anymore, including here at home. we keep bailing our own selves out. it has to stop or no one is going to fix anything. why should you when you just expect the check is coming in the mail. >> should we be bailing out europe, in fact, because what happens over there keeps killing our markets here. it's been nothing but problems for two years. >> the problem with europe started by greece, they lied about their debt, they never had that 3% level you're supposed to have to get in the e.u. so they don't have anything to go back to. and right now angela merkel is trying to bail out her own banks through this huge imf bailout. the same thing th

>> sally cohen, at the same time taxpayers are saying why not on the other end of the spectrum, because it's not just property taxes going to schools, but also look at all the fights we've had about teac teacher pensions and teacher salaries. get more kids out of school faster, save money. >> as taxpayers we pay for a lot of things because we think they're in the general interest, not just self-interest. and public education is obviously number one on the list. we could let the kids graduate two years earlier, they could have guns and we could fire police officers. that doesn't mean it's a good idea. we could help public services that help middle-class families, we could talk about millionaires and billionaires paying the same tax rate as the middle class. >> we're talking about billions of dollars. >> yeah, billions of dollars and accelerating smart kids probably wasting their time in public schools. i got to tell you, i agree with jim. the less time a guy spends in the public schools on average probably the better, especially the gifted ones. hold them back. grade skipping used to be