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"Paying the Tab" (FTTxJT Mon 092826 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: What the hell is this?
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  Speaker 2: This is the bill that will convert the State Hospital
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  Speaker 2: for the Insane into the William J.
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  Speaker 1: LePetermaine Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk Media Network.
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  Speaker 4: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 5: A steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 6: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 6: kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 7: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the.
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  Speaker 1: Treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 4: this morning. And that's not lip service. We get up
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  Speaker 4: early so that we can help you maybe know more
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  Speaker 4: than your friends and neighbors. I mean, that's always the
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  Speaker 4: key to doing what we do is to give you
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  Speaker 4: that stuff that At the water cooler, metaphorically speaking, you
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  Speaker 4: can say, oh, well, I heard on the radio this morning.
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  Speaker 4: That was always the win for us. As far back
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  Speaker 4: as I can remember in my career, if I could
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  Speaker 4: get somebody to tell their friends, you know what I
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  Speaker 4: heard on the radio this morning. I know, I know.
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  Speaker 4: Consultants would tell me, oh, do you know what I
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  Speaker 4: heard Joe Thomas tell me this morning? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: nice if you do that, but I know that you're
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  Speaker 4: just talking with your friends. And we appreciate every minute
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  Speaker 4: you give us. We tell you what went on over
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  Speaker 4: the weekend here on a Monday morning. And I will
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  Speaker 4: give you my analysis, of course. But I want to
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  Speaker 4: hear how it's impacting you, where you are at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see who this is before we get into
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  Speaker 4: our first things this morning. Good morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: It's Joel. Hey, Joel. We're going to have to do
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  Speaker 4: our first things to let everyone know what's going on,
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  Speaker 4: but we have a minute or so here. What's on
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  Speaker 4: your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, I don't want to stay on long. I
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  Speaker 8: just wanted to ask this question. What is the total cost,
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  Speaker 8: not just overall as far as the safety and everything
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  Speaker 8: for Americans, but what's the total cost for all the
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  Speaker 8: illegal aliens that we have to take care of? I
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  Speaker 8: don't mean we take care of them as a nation,
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  Speaker 8: but just coming in and all these programs and stuff
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  Speaker 8: that have been set up that, you know, just medical, housing,
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  Speaker 8: all that. I'm curious what the financial burden is against
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  Speaker 8: American citizens.
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  Speaker 4: That's somewhere. There is data on that. I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do a couple things here, and then
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  Speaker 4: when we come back, I will hopefully have that, because
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  Speaker 4: I have seen that data somewhere.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I will go poke around for that for you, Joel, okay?
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  Speaker 4: All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 3: Always, always.
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  Speaker 4: is our number. President Trump over the weekend approved new
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  Speaker 4: federal fuel economy standards knocking down the old Biden administration
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  Speaker 4: era EV mandate. as well as lowering CAFE standards on
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  Speaker 4: American automobiles. British police say they've arrested five men in
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  Speaker 4: the early hours Sunday near an airbase used by the
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  Speaker 4: United States during the Iranian conflicts. London's Metropolitan Police said
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  Speaker 4: police received a call at around 12.45 in the morning
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  Speaker 4: related to suspicious vehicles driving towards Royal Air Force Base Fairford.
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  Speaker 10: U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Has been using that base since the Cold War. Treasury
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  Speaker 4: Secretary Scott Besant was on the TV talkers Sunday morning
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  Speaker 4: saying that Iran's battered economy would have nothing left within
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  Speaker 4: two weeks. Given, he said, that there's only 15 million
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  Speaker 4: more barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran
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  Speaker 4: will have nothing left to trade for anything. According to
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  Speaker 4: David Perdue, the Trump administration's ambassador to China, during their
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  Speaker 4: visit together last week, at some point, President Trump, in conversation,
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  Speaker 4: said to Chairman Xi, Hey, we sell arms to other
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  Speaker 4: people around the world. Would you like to buy some
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  Speaker 4: at one point? Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: killing at least eight people in Ukraine and one in Russia.
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  Speaker 4: Germany has called for Russia to de-escalate. Russia's top diplomat
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  Speaker 4: brushed off what's reported to have been the first face-to-face
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  Speaker 4: meeting with the Germans' top diplomat since Moscow's invasion of
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine in 2022. This happened at the UN General Assembly
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  Speaker 4: meetings that concluded over the weekend. Voters in Washington state
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  Speaker 4: successfully elevated Initiative 26645 onto the November 3rd ballot. It
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  Speaker 4: would give voters a chance to repeal a pending 9.9%
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  Speaker 4: income tax on people and businesses, small businesses, who earn
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  Speaker 4: above $ 1 million in And those are some of our
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  Speaker 4: first things, the tax, signed into law by Bob Ferguson
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  Speaker 4: in March, scheduled to take effect January 1st.
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  Speaker 19: By their clothes, their age, the way they speak?
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  Speaker 21: Got his first job?
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  Speaker 5: Not for extra spending money, but to help feed his
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  Speaker 5: little sisters.
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  Speaker 17: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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  Speaker 17: to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner. Or
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  Speaker 17: a 14-year-old girl who signs up to every.
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  Speaker 14: After-school activity not to make friends, but just to get
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  Speaker 20: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
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  Speaker 3: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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  Speaker 22: Council think about this there are five freedoms guaranteed in
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  Speaker 22: the first amendment freedom of religion freedom of speech freedom
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  Speaker 22: of the press freedom to peaceably assemble freedom to petition
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  Speaker 22: the government Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the
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  Speaker 7: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything?
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  Speaker 7: You guys, I love this song.
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  Speaker 23: I love these nachos.
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  Speaker 5: I love our kickball league.
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  Speaker 4: I love this guy.
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  Speaker 3: What's your name?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I love?
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  Speaker 7: A ride when it's time to head out. If you
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  Speaker 7: see a buzzed warning sign, call for a ride when
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  Speaker 7: it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 3: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 3: didn't cost anything in the first place, so let's say.
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  Speaker 14: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 1: And call it even.
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 4: Fun taking that song out of rotation on all the
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  Speaker 4: big corporate-owned radio stations a bunch of years ago. That
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  Speaker 4: cut into their rotations. So Joel left us with a question,
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  Speaker 4: and I knew that there was an answer, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: abashed a little bit, but it's been a few years
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  Speaker 4: since my friends at the Federation for American Immigration Reform
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  Speaker 4: held one of their feet-to-the-fire rallies. Gosh, it's... Biden was
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  Speaker 4: in the White House the last time we were there
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  Speaker 4: in Washington, D.C. It was a great... Of all these things,
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  Speaker 4: I always felt like they put the effort into making
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  Speaker 4: sure there was information for you to have and access
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  Speaker 4: to people like Tom Holman. First place I ever met
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  Speaker 4: Tom was there. And they still... They don't have the
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  Speaker 4: live broadcast that they... did for years, right about this
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  Speaker 4: time of the year, too. I know this because my
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Facebook account will send me memories. Hey, remember this? And
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  Speaker 4: pictures of me on the roof of Fox News building,
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  Speaker 4: you know, at these broadcast location events. But they do
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  Speaker 4: still do stuff at fairimmigration.org, and they have a report. So, Joel,
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  Speaker 4: the answer to your question is about So the top
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  Speaker 4: line is $ 182 billion, with a net being $ 150 billion.
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  Speaker 4: But here's the part that bugs me, is that that
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  Speaker 4: is after you factor into the $ 32 billion in taxes
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  Speaker 4: paid by these non-citizens. And we appreciate them contributing, but
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  Speaker 4: that means there's $ 32 billion worth of work that could
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  Speaker 4: have been done by actual citizens and $ 32 billion worth
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  Speaker 4: of taxable work done by employers who then broke the
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  Speaker 4: law because they hired non-citizens. Just saying. The number from
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  Speaker 4: my friends at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Joel,
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  Speaker 4: $ 182 billion minus $ 30 billion somehow in taxes paid by
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  Speaker 4: these non-citizens of the United States. And who knows how,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and those are the ones who actually honestly
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  Speaker 4: paid taxes. Trust me, I know. I get a love
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  Speaker 4: letter from the IRS every December with what's now a
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  Speaker 4: five-digit code to put on my tax returns because somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: somebody worked for a while as me. And apparently, many,
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  Speaker 4: many more people get their Social Security numbers stolen to
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  Speaker 4: the point where there are now five digits instead of
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  Speaker 4: four in the PIN numbers that they send out. Our
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  Speaker 4: friend James is getting ready for a busy Monday out
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  Speaker 4: at jcsgold.com and the headquarters there as.
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  Speaker 4: Family business, he heads down to the mailroom to start
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  Speaker 4: fulfilling orders from folks over the weekend. How are you
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  Speaker 4: doing this Monday morning, James?
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  Speaker 25: I'm doing well, Joe, and it looks like it is
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  Speaker 25: going to be a busy Monday. A lot of our
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  Speaker 25: clients have been taking advantage of the discounts on gold
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  Speaker 25: and silver here, which have continued pretty steep this Monday
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  Speaker 25: so far. Gold is down 3%, down $ 129 to $ 4, 100.
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  Speaker 4: And $ 55.
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  Speaker 25: We haven't seen discounts like this on gold and silver
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  Speaker 25: in quite a while now, since that breakout that we
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  Speaker 25: had about a month ago. We've given up about those
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  Speaker 25: gains all back now. Silver is down about 4.5% to $ 61.
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  Speaker 3: 31.
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  Speaker 25: You can get some of the cheapest silver in the
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  Speaker 25: past couple of weeks here at jcsgold.com. And that's the
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  Speaker 25: great thing about our website is it updates every couple
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  Speaker 25: minutes with live pricing. So even when gold and silver
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  Speaker 25: go down, our prices reflect that. So you can get
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  Speaker 25: those discounts at jcsgold.com while they last.
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  Speaker 4: And, of course, you've got deals on certain items at
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  Speaker 4: spot and things like that. So, I mean, you really
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  Speaker 4: do well. Do you think gold is headed towards the
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  Speaker 4: floor of $ 4, 000?
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  Speaker 25: It appears that we're going to test that number here.
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  Speaker 25: We'll see how the rest of today goes in this week,
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  Speaker 25: of course. But it does look like both gold and
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  Speaker 25: silver are looking for some support that they found a
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  Speaker 25: little bit over a month ago before that breakout. And
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  Speaker 25: this all has to do with the Fed and raising
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  Speaker 25: rates and kind of how that's going to play out
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  Speaker 25: over the fall here.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you keep an eye on it for us. Don't
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  Speaker 4: get any paper cuts while you're fulfilling those weekend orders.
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  Speaker 4: But if you go online, you with the radio on, 434-979-COIN,
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  Speaker 4: you can call them and talk to them and say, really,
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  Speaker 4: is this a good idea? Because everybody's world is different.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what your float is, I think is
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  Speaker 4: the phrase they use. What is that mad money that
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  Speaker 4: maybe you were going to take to Vegas and now
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  Speaker 4: you realize maybe I shouldn't and go into something that's
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  Speaker 4: less of a gamble?
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  Speaker 24: There.
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  Speaker 4: Get with them at jcsgold.com. You have a good morning, James.
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  Speaker 16: Thanks, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: You too. So to 434-882-4217. That's the phone number emails
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  Speaker 4: come into JT in the morning radio at gmail dot
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  Speaker 4: com pictures a lot of folks who listen to the
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  Speaker 4: Saturday morning program on Long Island news radio been sending
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  Speaker 4: me pictures my wife's got a bunch of pictures family
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  Speaker 4: friends from the flooding in the coastal areas of Long Island. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, here's the danger, and this is where the
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  Speaker 4: climate zealots are trying to get their swerve back on.
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  Speaker 4: We reported to you last week, Mark Marano, Climate Depot,
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  Speaker 4: and CFACT was out at Climate Week conference held every
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  Speaker 4: year in New York. And the mood was somber because
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  Speaker 4: all the money has abandoned climate change and has moved
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  Speaker 4: to AI and how to punish me some more for
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  Speaker 4: my AI. And we'll get into that in grander expanse
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  Speaker 4: in a moment. But they're seizing on this flooding in
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  Speaker 4: a coastal area of an Atlantic island during a nor'easter season.
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  Speaker 4: to say, see man-made climate change. And they prey on
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  Speaker 4: people who live in Missouri or somewhere outside of the
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  Speaker 4: realm of waterways, navigable waterways especially, where they don't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: see that kind of level or they're far enough away
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  Speaker 4: from a reasonable-sized river so they don't understand what that
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  Speaker 4: big flat expanse is along the side of the river.
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  Speaker 4: And why doesn't somebody build there? Because that's what we
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  Speaker 4: call a floodplain. And it's there because every now and
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  Speaker 4: then the river floods. And if you build affordable housing
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: down there, see 9th Ward of New Orleans, just for
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  Speaker 4: a reference point.
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  Speaker 18: Hey, I'm Brant, and her name is Sherry.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 18: She's a friend of mine whom we were just praying
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  Speaker 18: for because of a surgery she just went through.
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  Speaker 4: MediShare.
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  Speaker 29: Boy, your fellow man would not hurt anybody. It sure
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there.
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  Speaker 4: of course... Here they come, text message, and I appreciate,
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  Speaker 4: and don't misinterpretify. I understand when you're hollering back at us, Mike,
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  Speaker 4: the wages that they are worth. And I know it
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: sounds like the same thing, but it's an important addendum
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  Speaker 4: to that point. Because I don't believe there are jobs
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  Speaker 4: Americans won't do. I believe there are jobs Americans won't
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  Speaker 4: do for what they're worth. in regards to income, because
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  Speaker 4: if you're considering work, what does the work generate? This
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  Speaker 4: comes up. What does your job generate in terms of
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  Speaker 4: revenue for the company you work for or for your,
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  Speaker 4: for yourself? We were just having this discussion about somebody
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  Speaker 4: who's entrepreneurial. They're selling something on Etsy, and my wife
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  Speaker 4: you know, but it comes down to what is your
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  Speaker 4: back in a reasonable period of time, maybe a day
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  Speaker 4: or two. Or you can do it yourself when you
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: have spare time in and around your job and have
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: it take months in some cases. I had the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: my Jeep. Each fuel injector took minutes, literally minutes to do,
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  Speaker 4: You know, once I was in there and had the
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• 31:59
  Speaker 4: that really didn't take long at all. But it was
• 32:01
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• 32:04
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• 32:09
  Speaker 4: figure out what you should be paid as a wage
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: for it. Nobody wants to have that conversation. Maybe Clark does.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: He's down in Alabama with us this morning. I, though, Clark,
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: before you get started, I have a question for you
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: from another listener.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Andy in Sarasota says, ask Dr. Clark about the chestnut
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: tree types that he's planting.
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: So my initial planning, I did 850 Chinese. And right now,
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  Speaker 13: And I think it's like 15-16.
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  Speaker 4: American.
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  Speaker 13: You have to have a very small percentage of the
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  Speaker 13: oriental tree because it's resistant to the fungus in there.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't happen. Yeah, there was some blight that hit.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: What was it, the white chestnut? Or what was the chestnut?
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: Well, the American chestnut. And what I understand, Joe, is
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  Speaker 13: a squirrel could get in a chestnut tree in northern
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  Speaker 13: out of a chestnut tree.
• 33:34
  Speaker 28: What?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Before that blight.
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  Speaker 13: It was 60% of the hardwoods through the Appalachians. And, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 29: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Everything was built from chestnut lumber, barns, houses, furniture, et cetera,
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  Speaker 13: et cetera. Um, and then somebody brought a few trees
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  Speaker 13: over here from the Orient and they had a fungus
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  Speaker 4: So COVID wasn't the first virus that came from the No,
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  Speaker 4: and I.
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  Speaker 13: Don't think Anthony paid for that one, so therein lies
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  Speaker 4: Pfizer doesn't have a shot for it. Well, I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: it there, but interesting how you have to replace the
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  Speaker 23: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There's a metaphor in there, I think. You're talking about
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  Speaker 4: the cost of the illegals, Joe.
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  Speaker 13: And, you know, there used to be an ad campaign
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  Speaker 13: much that costs, but then this was priceless.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 13: So let's work from that.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see.
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  Speaker 13: Cost of illegals in the United States, 182 billion. Being
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  Speaker 13: able to pad the census numbers and voter rolls to
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  Speaker 13: expand congressional representation and still elections, priceless.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. Giving us permanent control over. over a permanent underclass.
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• 35:55
  Speaker 4: wind has picked up sufficiently, and now we're facing another
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  Speaker 4: battle over a permanent underclass of of non-citizens that are
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  Speaker 4: going to be forced to do all this stuff for us,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: but not given any say, you know, basically taken care of.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's deja vu all over again.
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  Speaker 4: So jobs Americans won't do.
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  Speaker 13: Let's think about that just a minute, Joe. If you
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  Speaker 13: won't do a job, can you get the government to
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  Speaker 13: pay you to sit at the house?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: Okay. So, these are jobs that people won't do because
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: they can get paid just about as much to sit
• 36:53
  Speaker 13: at the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I mean, now, you know, well, no, you'd make more
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  Speaker 13: if you were at that job. Yeah, you would, but
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  Speaker 4: Right, right. So, yeah, your expenses would go up, obviously,
• 37:08
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• 37:12
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  Speaker 13: Let's go back to where we were a minute ago.
• 37:19
  Speaker 13: The cost of having illegals in the United States, $ 182 billion.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no. Wait a minute.
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: It's more expensive than that, Joe. You have to pay
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• 37:34
  Speaker 13: it's necessary to bring illegals here.
• 37:38
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• 37:39
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• 37:41
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• 37:46
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• 37:50
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• 37:55
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  Speaker 4: what we're worth. And you don't realize right now, we
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  Speaker 4: of the most federally supported industries out there, can't afford it,
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  Speaker 4: what makes you think your fast food restaurant can afford it?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe. Who's this?
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  Speaker 13: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 21: It's Eddie.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Eddie. What's on your mind, sir?
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  Speaker 21: Well, getting back on a local level, speaking to the
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  Speaker 21: Virginia voters, if you will. The other day, Joe, I
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  Speaker 21: think we were discussing this 1% sales tax for constructionists
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  Speaker 21: and renovations of schools.
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  Speaker 4: And for those who don't know, it's a referendum that
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  Speaker 4: was passed by our General Assembly here. And instead of
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  Speaker 4: the General Assembly... being courageous and raising taxes themselves. They said,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to let our local counties decide by referendum.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's 47. I wrote a column about
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  Speaker 4: it at DailySignal.com beginning of September about this sales tax.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, Eddie, so that backstory filled in a little
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  Speaker 4: bit there. What's your thought on it?
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  Speaker 21: Well, you were afraid that this type of, correct me
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  Speaker 21: if I'm wrong, but that this type of sales tax,
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  Speaker 21: a line item type of tax, if you will, just
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  Speaker 21: for schools, specifically for school construction and renovations, if the
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  Speaker 21: counties needed something else next year, They could go back
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  Speaker 21: to the Richmond and say, hey, you know, we need
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  Speaker 21: funding for police vehicles. They've gotten too, you know, expensive.
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  Speaker 21: And then, of course, you know, Richmond passes the law.
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  Speaker 21: And then the counties and cities have, you know, the
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  Speaker 21: option to adopt it or not, or at least adopt
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  Speaker 21: it as a referendum.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're already seeing it. Well, yeah. But we're already
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  Speaker 4: seeing another manifestation of it because once every three to
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  Speaker 4: four years, The Department of Transportation comes out and says
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  Speaker 4: we're not collecting enough gas taxes. As tone deaf as
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  Speaker 4: that sounds, they're claiming that because you and me probably
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  Speaker 4: are more conservative in the way we drive currently with
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  Speaker 4: gas prices being $ 4 plus a gallon, they've seen a
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  Speaker 4: downturn in their gas tax collections and they're suspending taxes.
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  Speaker 4: construction projects. Again, I ask the question, where are the
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  Speaker 4: billions of dollars we've given our state government gone?
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  Speaker 21: Well, according to the Dillon rule, quite simply, cities and
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  Speaker 21: towns and counties can only do what the Commonwealth lets
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  Speaker 21: them do.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, well, I know it's on the Alamo ballot.
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  Speaker 21: To vote on this 1% increase.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, Stanton, Waynesboro, Augusta County, Rockingham County, Harrisonburg, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: all of them.
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  Speaker 21: Okay, I wasn't aware of them, but that was something
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  Speaker 21: to look out for. You know, it wasn't on the
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  Speaker 21: ballot because it's coming. Ninety five counties and, you know,
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  Speaker 21: the cities can put this on the ballot.
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  Speaker 4: Right. But I think right now, 47 have filed for it.
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  Speaker 4: But this this goes back into the abdication of. And
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  Speaker 4: I said this earlier, you know, we had them and
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  Speaker 4: they had to vilify the Tea Party because we had them.
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  Speaker 4: We had them dead to rights. They had no answer
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  Speaker 4: for the Tea Party outside of trying to make us
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  Speaker 4: And look at them. They're all white faced and they
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  Speaker 4: all want to own slaves because the American revolutionary leaders
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  Speaker 4: all own slaves. And all of a sudden people stopped
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  Speaker 4: being part of the Tea Party movement because they were
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  Speaker 4: getting kicked out of their country clubs and whatnot. And
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  Speaker 4: the Congress people that we were counting on to bring
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  Speaker 4: fiscal sanity to the world gave up on us because
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  Speaker 4: they didn't want to be seen in front of the
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  Speaker 4: Tea Party because of the caricature that had successfully been
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  Speaker 4: painted of a group of people that were just simply saying,
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  Speaker 4: you're getting trillions of dollars every month. Live within that.
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  Speaker 4: And we keep fumbling this ball because of populism. We allow,
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  Speaker 4: and it's one of those manifestations, Eddie, of the left-wing
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  Speaker 4: control of the media. So if eight out of every
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  Speaker 4: the reason your gas prices are too high, it's an
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  Speaker 4: uphill battle for shows like this one to tell you
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  Speaker 4: the truth.
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  Speaker 21: Well, I know you try. But, you know, I believe
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  Speaker 21: I got my numbers right. I think Albemarle County may
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  Speaker 21: have estimated, I think, a $ 20 million income, revenue income
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  Speaker 21: from this particular tax.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you one thing. They're always overestimating.
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  Speaker 4: So it'll be like $ 15 million.
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  Speaker 21: But who's to say that, you know, the county could
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  Speaker 21: not get that money And they'll say, well, that's $ 20
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  Speaker 21: million that's coming in. Let's take $ 20 million that we've
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  Speaker 21: earmarked for these projects and go waste it on something else.
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  Speaker 4: That's how we got here in the first place. They've
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: wasted their money on other projects. We thought we were
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  Speaker 4: already giving them tax money to fix schools and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. Anyway, Eddie, you have a good morning, sir.
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