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Mark interviews columnist John Fund. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Give w o R.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to the Mark Simo Show on w o R, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we'd like to bring you the smartest people around. John Fund,
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  Speaker 2: the great columnist National Review and also the Committee Unleash Prosperity,
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  Speaker 2: does great work there, and he wrote the best book
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  Speaker 2: on the subject of our elections. You've got to get
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  Speaker 2: his book. It's called Our Broken Elections by John Fund.
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  Speaker 2: You can get it on Amazon. John Fund, how you
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  Speaker 2: doing a pleasure?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, voter ID the fight sign.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily I'm in Florida, so I don't have to sit
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  Speaker 1: through your snow. But you know, I hope, I hope
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  Speaker 1: your listeners are warm and at home.
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  Speaker 2: You're missing all the fun here, and don't try to
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  Speaker 2: get back. The airport's going to be closed for three days, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not due until Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be fine, You'll be Hey, this voter ID thing,
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  Speaker 2: it gets more and more and more ridiculous. Obviously you
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  Speaker 2: need an ID to buy anything anywhere, to get into
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  Speaker 2: any office building. It's obviously the Democrats up to no
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  Speaker 2: good with this voter ID stuff. Am I right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's look at the New York City. We learned
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago when Deblasio was mayor how much
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  Speaker 1: fraud there was in New York City elections. The Democratic
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  Speaker 1: appointee to the Board of Elections from Manhattan was accosted
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  Speaker 1: by James O'Keefe at a party and he admitted how
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  Speaker 1: much fraud there was in New York. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in buses they rent them in Chinatown, they take up
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  Speaker 1: pick up the homeless, they give them packs of cigarettes,
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  Speaker 1: they drive them from polling place to polling place, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just one way that they do fraud. And Deblasio's
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  Speaker 1: response was not to question him about the fraud, but
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  Speaker 1: to fire him. He fired his own Democratic appointee to
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  Speaker 1: the Board of Elections. So we know there's fraud. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what does Mayor Mandami do. Well. The mayor says voter
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  Speaker 1: ID is racist. He agrees with Chuck Schumer that it's
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  Speaker 1: Jim Crow two point zero. But when he announces that
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  Speaker 1: the city needs emergency snow shovelers yesterday, what does he say?
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  Speaker 1: It's nineteen dollars an hour, you know, good wages, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not union wages. But good wages, and you only have
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  Speaker 1: to bring five forms of ID to sign up. You
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  Speaker 1: need two photos, you need two IDs and your Social
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  Speaker 1: Security card and then you can snow. Then you're allowed
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  Speaker 1: to shovel snow, which is of course a high security,
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  Speaker 1: high impact job. So the hypocrisy here is beyond rich.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it also the most racist thing on earth? For
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to say, well, a black voter can't figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to get an idea they wouldn't be capable of getting.
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  Speaker 2: How racist is well?
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  Speaker 1: The Brennan the Brennan Center, which is the liberal think
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  Speaker 1: tank that does these issues, say twenty five percent of
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  Speaker 1: African Americans lack of the Loder idea, an idea that
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  Speaker 1: would be accepted at the polls. That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't sign up for Medicare, you can't
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  Speaker 1: sign up for catching a check, you can't travel, you
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  Speaker 1: can't do anything with that ide Today, it's preposterous to
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  Speaker 1: say that twenty five percent of African Americans lack of ID,
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  Speaker 1: and of course African Americans think it's preposterous. If you
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  Speaker 1: look at the polls, the most recent ones of the
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  Speaker 1: Washington Post survey and and the Pew Research survey seventy
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  Speaker 1: one percent of African Americans support photo idea at the polls,
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven percent of Hispanics and eighty percent of Asian Americans.
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  Speaker 1: So if it's so racist, if it's so discriminatory, why
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  Speaker 1: is it that they all of these minority groups have
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  Speaker 1: false consciousness and believe something which isn't true.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't Obama require photo idea to get Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course you need the idea to get Obamacare.
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  Speaker 1: You need ideed for everything. In fact, if you march
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  Speaker 1: down to the to the city hall to get married,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, marriage is a constitutional right, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's gay or straight marriage, you've got to have an id.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so what do you think will happen whill
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  Speaker 2: we get the Can the federal government do something to
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  Speaker 2: make it uniform voter idea require?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, we don't. We don't want to follow
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  Speaker 1: what Joe Biden did, which is he tried to nationalize
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  Speaker 1: the elections. He tried to take away the power of
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  Speaker 1: the states to run the elections and federalize it in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want that. So what the law that's before
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  Speaker 1: the Senate now it passes past the House. The law
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  Speaker 1: says the federal government, if it's going to give money
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  Speaker 1: the people to the states for voting machines and improving
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  Speaker 1: their technology, in response, you have to have you have
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  Speaker 1: to require that the states ask for ID to vote
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  Speaker 1: the polls. And when people first register, they have to
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  Speaker 1: prove their citizenship. And there are many ways to prove
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  Speaker 1: your citizenship. You can do it with a birth certificate, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you can get online. Now you can
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  Speaker 1: go through almost all the records and if you're less
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  Speaker 1: than eighty years old, you're going to find your certificate
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  Speaker 1: online and can get a copy sent to you. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll look, I'll say it should be free, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think that everybody should have access to a free
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  Speaker 1: ID and then they can use it to vote. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why it's so easy, that's why so overwhelming majorities
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  Speaker 1: of every American demographic group supported. In fact, the last
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  Speaker 1: time I checked it was the Washington Post survey. There
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  Speaker 1: were forty different categories of voters, and the only category
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  Speaker 1: which voter ID did not have a majority of it
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  Speaker 1: had a plurality support, more supportive it than not. There
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  Speaker 1: were few not sure was the extremely liberal group I
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  Speaker 1: call those MSNBC and ms NOW voters. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: everyone supports voter ID.
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  Speaker 2: So hey, maybe maybe it's too early to ask you this, Well,
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  Speaker 2: how does it look for the midterms? What do you
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  Speaker 2: think happens in the midterms?
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  Speaker 1: If the election were today, would not be good. But
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  Speaker 1: the election is not held today, It's held in November,
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  Speaker 1: and the economy will go through a lot of generations
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  Speaker 1: before then. President Trump, you know, has been known to
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  Speaker 1: pull rabbits out of hats, but you know he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to be a pretty big rabbit. He has made
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  Speaker 1: some tactical mistakes, Mark, and unfortunately I think he is
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  Speaker 1: anger sometimes gets ahead of his cold calculated self interest.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem with the tariffs is this. The tariffs
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  Speaker 1: are very very popular with his base. Eighty seven percent
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  Speaker 1: of MAGA Republicans like the tariffs, but forty three percent
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  Speaker 1: of non MAGA Republicans support the tariffs. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: big gap there, and there's still a lot of non
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  Speaker 1: MAGA Republicans. So here's the problem. Overall, independents hate the
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  Speaker 1: tariffs by two to one, and they're the ones who
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  Speaker 1: decide the election in these thirty swing house races. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Supreme Court handed the president a gift. It
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  Speaker 1: gives him an excuse to blame someone else for scaling
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  Speaker 1: back the tariffs and not making them the big issue
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  Speaker 1: in the campaign. Here's the problem we have, Mark, He's
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  Speaker 1: imposed this new fifteen percent tariff, but it expires in
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  Speaker 1: five months. That puts us right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the fall campaign. Congress will then have to vote on
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  Speaker 1: the tariffs to extend them, otherwise they go away immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Trump will put pressure on the Republican congressman to vote
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  Speaker 1: for them, but enough will not vote for them that
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  Speaker 1: he'll go down to defeat. He'll look weak. The tariffs
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  Speaker 1: will be the issue in the fall election. It won't
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  Speaker 1: be ice, It'll be the tariffs. And people who worry
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  Speaker 1: about affordability and the high price of things are going
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  Speaker 1: to say Trump wanted tariffs, he just forced Congress to
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  Speaker 1: vote on them, and I don't want high prices, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to not vote Republican or stay home.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now, what can he do tomorrow? I'd stay to
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  Speaker 2: the Union's beach too, you fix that? Can he do
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  Speaker 2: something tomorrow night to really make.
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  Speaker 1: If he wants to pull a rabbit out of the hat,
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  Speaker 1: Here's the biggest rabbit he can pull. Right now, everything
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  Speaker 1: in our economy is indexed. You know, your Social Security
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  Speaker 1: payment is indexed, your tax brackets are indexed. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: indexed for inflation. The one thing that isn't indexed for
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  Speaker 1: inflation is capital gains. If you buy an asset, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a painting, a house, a stock, it's not indexed
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  Speaker 1: for inflation as it appreciates in value. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if you sell something, you're selling it at the price
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  Speaker 1: it is today, not the price you paid for it.
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  Speaker 1: So what the president can do, and he could do
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  Speaker 1: it with housing, but I think he should do it
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  Speaker 1: with the economy as a whole. He should say, if
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  Speaker 1: you sell something, you're going to pay the capital gains
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  Speaker 1: on the original price, not the price you settle down.
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  Speaker 1: This will unlock housing all over the country. There are
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  Speaker 1: people sitting in houses mark that aren't selling because they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to pay the capital gains because there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: your housing exemption goes away after a while. If if
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  Speaker 1: he did that, that would be turbo charging the economy.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Treasury, Secretary's Treasury Besson has done the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Would turbo charge the economy? Would have a rush of
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  Speaker 1: GDP growth and people would be freed up. They could
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  Speaker 1: get they could change assets, they could buy new assets.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a boon and it would be a
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  Speaker 1: political winner.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Good stuff. Well, John Fund brilliant as always. Get
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  Speaker 2: his book Are Broken Elections. That's an excellent book. You
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  Speaker 2: should read it and read his columns, of course. And
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  Speaker 2: you do a great job with the committee Unleashed Prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: Every day they put out the best daily news and analysis.
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  Speaker 2: People can just go to Unleash Prosperity dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Sign up.
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  Speaker 2: You'll get it for free every day. John Fund, thanks
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  Speaker 2: as always for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark Pleasure, take care.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay. Noon today, they'll be
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  Speaker 2: doing a great show for you after the news. At
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  Speaker 2: twelve noon, you got Sean Hannity, the most listened to
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  Speaker 2: you got Jesse Kelly, John Batchelor excellent. Not John Badgett.
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  Speaker 2: gonna love it. Every night nine to midnight. Here, I'm
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