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Property tax elimination and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglinson the Power Hour on six ten dovel of
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  Speaker 1: the u TV and talking about the property tax abolition
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  Speaker 1: men effort here in the state of Ohio, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is ill advised until we have all the details.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to. We've got to know,
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  Speaker 1: We've got to know, must know, have to know where
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  Speaker 1: the money will come from. And I think although it's
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  Speaker 1: not required until after the petitions are signed, accepted and
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  Speaker 1: it's headed for the ballot, that the ballot language actually
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  Speaker 1: be revealed to us. I think we need to see
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  Speaker 1: the ballot language up front. The voters need to know
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  Speaker 1: exactly what they are voting for. We are we voting
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  Speaker 1: for abolishing property taxes and paying seven hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year for our license plates? Is that what
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  Speaker 1: it's Because the money has to come from somewhere. A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: And back to the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone
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  Speaker 1: lines and Daryl, you're on six to ten, dou WUTVN Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm seventy years and I remember when the state
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  Speaker 2: of Ohio had the big push to get the lottery
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  Speaker 2: started and one of the big ads was, past the lottery,
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  Speaker 2: you will not have to worry about funding for your schools. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you all left over.
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  Speaker 3: Where's Darryl?
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  Speaker 1: Darryl, are you moving around because you're you're digitizing on me?
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  Speaker 2: That's not any better.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Yes, don't move. Put your toe in
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  Speaker 1: the toaster if you have to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. No, I said, I'm seventy. I
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  Speaker 2: remember when they started the lottery here in Ohio, and
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  Speaker 2: one of the big pushes was the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: you folks, passed the lottery, you will no longer have
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  Speaker 2: any problems with funding the schools in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: But for some reason, it seems all they keep doing
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  Speaker 2: is increasing the winnings from the lottery. I want to
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  Speaker 2: take a bunch of in the lottery, drop it down
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  Speaker 2: and give it to the schools.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, Darryl, and it's Here's this
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  Speaker 1: is the manipulation of the language as politics knows it
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  Speaker 1: to be. What they told us was the proceeds from
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Lottery will go to benefit our public school system,
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  Speaker 1: and they are correct, it absolutely does. The trouble is
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  Speaker 1: if the lottery brings in ten million dollars to go
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  Speaker 1: to the school system. They then remove the ten million
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  Speaker 1: dollars from the school budget, put it back into the
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  Speaker 1: general fund, and reallocate it somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what they do. That way, the money is
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  Speaker 2: not there for the.
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  Speaker 1: School exactly exactly. And they're killing the lottery right now
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  Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. Do you play the lottery?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, never the Mega Million's ticket which was an Ohio
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  Speaker 1: game and then it became a regional game kind of
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  Speaker 1: like Powerball. But I don't think as many states the
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  Speaker 1: tickets for that now have gone from they started at
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  Speaker 1: two bucks. They jumped at the beginning of the month
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  Speaker 1: from two dollars to five dollars a ticket. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you, but I ain't spending five dollars on
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  Speaker 1: a lottery ticket.
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  Speaker 2: I would be interesting to see if any of that
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  Speaker 2: money is going back into some politicians bucketing.
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  Speaker 1: I have to wonder if that. Yeah, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: need to rethink that because I cannot see people spending
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  Speaker 1: money on that. And and again that you know, the
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  Speaker 1: manipulation of the language. They should have kept kept their
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  Speaker 1: word instead of deceiving people by saying it was going
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  Speaker 1: to schools and knowing all wrong, they had a they
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  Speaker 1: had an ulterior plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, thanks, thanks a lot, thank you, Daryl.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. A two one nine and eighty
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  Speaker 1: six eight two one WUTV and man, just as I
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  Speaker 1: go to hit people, they drop off. Lynn. You were
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  Speaker 1: coming up next and you're gone. Sam, you were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be right after the news and you dropped off
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  Speaker 1: of me. So I'm going to go to Michael. Michael
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  Speaker 1: had the good sense to stay around. You're on six
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  Speaker 1: to ten double the ETV and Michael.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I was just going to say, you say where's
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  Speaker 4: the money going to come from? I'd say, where's the
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  Speaker 4: money going? Right now?
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  Speaker 1: Well, aim in to that too, right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know I live out here and cannot Winchester.
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  Speaker 4: I have a house that was one one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: thirty seven acre farm. Ooh nice and so well right,
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  Speaker 4: well do you say nice?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, there has been four hundred and fifty houses building
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  Speaker 4: around me, and my press property text went up three times.
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  Speaker 1: Are you taking the cch I don't understand. Why are
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  Speaker 1: you taking the agricultural discount on that property? Or is
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  Speaker 1: it all residential?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's residential nine acres, I get nine acres agriculture.
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  Speaker 1: Discount, well out of one hundred and thirty seven.
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  Speaker 4: Well that's the one hundred and thirty seventh soul. And
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  Speaker 4: and they built houses all around me. So I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm saying is there's enough money with all these
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  Speaker 4: other houses and you don't have to raise my tax.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying, Amen, that's something else as we see
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  Speaker 1: the development and so forth in all these But again,
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  Speaker 1: here's what happens when it's Columbus or Franklin County. They
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  Speaker 1: love to give away those tax abatements and those what
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  Speaker 1: they call the TIFFs, the tax increment financing, whatever the
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  Speaker 1: crap it is. But I mean Joe Moto more Motil
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  Speaker 1: when he ran for mayor, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: he and I agreed on. Democrat or not. Well, you've
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  Speaker 1: got somebody living in say the Bottoms, in a house
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  Speaker 1: that's valued in one hundred twenty thousand dollars and they're
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  Speaker 1: paying twenty eight hundred dollars a year in property taxes.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got somebody living in a one point three
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  Speaker 1: million dollar condo next to the arena downtown and they're
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  Speaker 1: paying one hundred and ten dollars a year in property taxes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem. Yeah, I agree, but that's how that's
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  Speaker 1: how they work it, gentlemen. Okay, go ahead, Uh okay,
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  Speaker 1: I lost that. Michael. Well, I'll tell you what, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: You're still with me? Michael, Okay, Michael's gone. So what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get another Michael on Michael
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  Speaker 1: other Michael. You're on six WTV at I.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Mike. I got a comment about the
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  Speaker 3: property taxes for me. You know, I've had the scrounge
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  Speaker 3: and worked for everything I got, and I ended up
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  Speaker 3: with three houses and a small farm. The way I
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  Speaker 3: say it, I'm paying four shares oat the boat for
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  Speaker 3: you know, schools and everything else. I'm on a fixed
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  Speaker 3: income still. You know, I just retired from a city
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  Speaker 3: job and I'm not bringing that much in. And everything
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  Speaker 3: about property taxes is completely unfair.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I know, we got to fund our services. I support that.
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  Speaker 3: We got to have our fire departments and our schools,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't have the government should never have anything
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  Speaker 3: to do with our our homes, our land. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whoever agreed and never thought that was
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  Speaker 3: a good idea, but.
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  Speaker 2: They were lunatics.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: You've got three homes, Michael, are you? You are two
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  Speaker 1: of them rental properties. What are you doing with them?
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  Speaker 3: Well, a couple of them rental Well, actually one of
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  Speaker 3: them is setting vacant for the time being, and it's
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  Speaker 3: been vacant for almost a year. I still got to
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  Speaker 3: pay the government their money or they'll sell my home.
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  Speaker 3: One's my home and one is a rental property. But
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  Speaker 3: everyone's like, well, let's you know, you should get it
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  Speaker 3: out of your renters. I'm like, well, why do I
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  Speaker 3: got to be their daddy? I mean, if they got
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  Speaker 3: to pay their own share taxes, I shouldn't be up
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  Speaker 3: to me. And I actually have people on fixed incomes.
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  Speaker 3: Now here's the hiccup. I know what they make. It's
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  Speaker 3: like thirteen hundred dollars a month a piece. In my
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  Speaker 3: hometown of West Jefferson, you can't get a house for
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  Speaker 3: less than eight nine hundred dollars a month. Yeah, I know, fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: I love West Jefferson so much, but the last five years,
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  Speaker 1: costs have gone all just out of the world out there.
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  Speaker 3: But I challenged it, and I'm like Hey, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't about me. I said, this is about my renters.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, these people are going to be living under
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  Speaker 3: bridge or I'm going to be taken and I just
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  Speaker 3: couldn't do it. I'm like, I'm still not charging them
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  Speaker 3: hardly anything. The government has got to get off our properties,
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  Speaker 3: out of our house, out of our yard.
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  Speaker 5: And these lawmakers and representatives that should be that in
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  Speaker 5: health insurance, Affordable health insurance should be what they're working
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  Speaker 5: on every day, because everything else is a bunch of
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  Speaker 5: bull crap.
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  Speaker 3: And from where I'm standing.
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  Speaker 1: This idea that you never actually own what you own
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  Speaker 1: is insulting. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: I got a brother in law. He's on fixed income
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  Speaker 3: and because he lives in a little nicer area, his
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  Speaker 3: property taxes in West kest have went over six thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars a year. Wow, you throw in, you throw in
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  Speaker 3: your insurance. The man's paying over seven thousand dollars a
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  Speaker 3: year to live in his own home. Something is wrong
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, since Raven came.
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  Speaker 1: Six thousand a year in West Jefferson in property taxes
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  Speaker 1: is crazy? That is Oh my god, Michael, I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the call, but he thanks very much. Next time I'm
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  Speaker 1: out in West jeff I'll blow the horn real loud.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll see you. Thank you all right, take care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. A two one nine eight eighty six A
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV. And I'm not joking. I love West Jefferson.
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  Speaker 1: I love West Jefferson. Okay, Tom, you're on six ten
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  Speaker 1: WTV in Height. How are you doing, find sir?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you on where's the money going to
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  Speaker 6: come from for all the services that the property tax
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  Speaker 6: pays for? And not that I'm against eliminating property tax.
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  Speaker 6: I got a suggestion, maybe we get it from tariffs,
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  Speaker 6: because President Trump said he was going to eliminate the
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  Speaker 6: federal income tax with tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I you know I it's a no win thing,
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  Speaker 1: those tariffs. I'm glad that China and the United States
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  Speaker 1: have come to an agreement. I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be ninety days because frankly, the Chinese want us
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  Speaker 1: to buy all their crap, so they want our money.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to keep their tariffs low, which means we'll
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  Speaker 1: keep our tariffs low. In the exchange will go back
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  Speaker 1: and everybody will be able to go to Walmart and
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  Speaker 1: by cheap stuff and everybody will be happy. But that
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  Speaker 1: means that that revenue stream is not there to replace
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  Speaker 1: federal income taxes. And I saw something today where President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, was talking to Speaker Johnson and wants him
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  Speaker 1: to begin looking at raising taxes on basically rich people,
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  Speaker 1: higher income Americans, which I just I saw that headline said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got a bookmark this and read it. That just
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  Speaker 1: sounds so diametrically opposed to everything so far. Maybe there's
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  Speaker 1: some sense in there that I don't know about yet,
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  Speaker 1: but that makes me a little nervous because the money, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: whether I like it or not, the money does have
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  Speaker 1: to come from somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 6: And I suppose the next thing we're going to do
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  Speaker 6: is eliminate daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we'll see. They keep talking about it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what they do, they keep talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of daylight saving time. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's like me taking the scales and setting them back
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  Speaker 1: twenty pound and saying I lost weight. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not real, buddy, it's not real. I appreciate you, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: thanks very much for the call. Yeah, the idea that
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  Speaker 1: we were actually considering stopping this foolishness of moving the
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  Speaker 1: clocks back and forth every year. I'm good with that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we should be doing that. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's silly. But by the same token, if we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, let's make standard time real time. That's the
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  Speaker 1: measurement of the sun. And as the Sun rotates around
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  Speaker 1: or the Earth rotates around the Sun, and that's time.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, Roger, you're gonna wrap us up on six
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  Speaker 1: Ton WTVN.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I just.
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  Speaker 3: Found this out.
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  Speaker 7: I live in the south Questioning School district that I
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  Speaker 7: couldn't figure this out as a new school building my
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  Speaker 7: neighborhood here, Chuck, your public pre mayor with elementary, middle school,
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  Speaker 7: high school, that's really been doing it well, it's Southwestern.
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  Speaker 7: You got a fourth category now elementary is first through
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  Speaker 7: fourth grade. Then there's a category called the intermediate school.
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  Speaker 7: It's a totally separate building, Chuck. It just built the thing.
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  Speaker 7: Oh what grade five and six, Then you got the
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  Speaker 7: middle school building grade seven and eight, and then you
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  Speaker 7: got to high school for nine and twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Why somebody from Southwestern.
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  Speaker 7: School calls in and tries to explain this to all
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  Speaker 7: of us. I don't know if the school districts are
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  Speaker 7: doing it or not. One through four, five and six,
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  Speaker 7: then seven and eight.
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  Speaker 2: What's up for that, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: I just made a note to myself about an hour
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  Speaker 1: and a half ago to get somebody from Southwestern City
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  Speaker 1: Schools because they've taken a position that all education in
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  Speaker 1: the district should be done in English, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to applaud them for that. And now you've hit me
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  Speaker 1: with this, and this is stupid, So Roger, I will
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  Speaker 1: bring that up with them as well. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: letting me know, because I'm not I've not heard of
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  Speaker 1: such a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Charlie goes to a middle school.
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  Speaker 6: It's just fifth and six middle makes sense, and then
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  Speaker 6: the next.
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  Speaker 3: Year he goes junior high seven eighth seed and then
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  Speaker 3: high school.
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  Speaker 1: When I was in school, it was kindergarten to sixth
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  Speaker 1: we're all in elementary school. Junior high school was seventh, eighth,
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  Speaker 1: and ninth, and then in tenth grade you went into
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  Speaker 1: high school tenth, eleventh, and twelfth. Now we got intermediate school,
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  Speaker 1: and we got middle school, and we got high school,
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  Speaker 1: and we got elementaries. Could come on, man, we should
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  Speaker 1: have a building in grade for every single grade,