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Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister near your Mark, Simone wr Well. The great economist
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  Speaker 1: Steve Moore also a best selling author. Make sure you
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  Speaker 1: get his book, The Trump Economic Miracle, You'll love it.
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  Speaker 1: And he runs the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. They put
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  Speaker 1: to Unleash Prosperity dot com and sign up. Unleash Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Steve Moore, how you doing, hey.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, I'm doing very well. Did you get your taxes
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  Speaker 2: done on time?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? And looks a lot better this year. Everybody's going
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  Speaker 1: to be very happy, right this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well they should be. I mean, well, nobody's happy about
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  Speaker 2: paying their tax office.
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  Speaker 1: But it is.
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  Speaker 2: There was relief for people, and the media has really
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  Speaker 2: downplayed that. But especially by the way, for working class people.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a tipped worker, you did really well.
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  Speaker 1: If you have.
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  Speaker 2: Overtime, you do really well. And so it's uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: surprising how many people have come up to me said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I got a nice refund this year. So this was
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  Speaker 2: something that would not have happened without without Trump. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was on believe it or not Cenn the other
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  Speaker 2: night and debating this congress woman from the Seattle area,
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  Speaker 2: and she kept referring to the Trump tax cut mark
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  Speaker 2: as the big ugly bill. That's their l you know,
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  Speaker 2: the big ugly bill. And I said, well, this is
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  Speaker 2: so ugly. You know, why is it the average family
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  Speaker 2: saving two hundred dollars on their taxes this year? And if
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  Speaker 2: we had your way, congress Woman, they would have paid it,
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  Speaker 2: paid a two two hundred dollars tax increase. And of
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  Speaker 2: course she didn't respond to that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, but for them, it is ugly. It cuts taxes. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like.
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  Speaker 2: To see that, exactly. They hate that. Uh. And then
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  Speaker 2: of course, you know, you know, Seattle has some of
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  Speaker 2: the highest taxes in the country. And and so we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing a reel, by the way, a real implosion of
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  Speaker 2: these blue states because they just keep raising taxes over
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  Speaker 2: and over again. And I just saw something on Fox
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  Speaker 2: News that Katy Oakles, well, maybe we will do you know,
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  Speaker 2: a tax on, an extra five percent tax on people
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  Speaker 2: make over fifty five million dollars, like they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be they're going to be paying you know, sixteen percent
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  Speaker 2: income tax in New York and they can move to
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  Speaker 2: Florida or Texas base zero. They can reduce their tax
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  Speaker 2: liability by millions and millions of dollars by just getting
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  Speaker 2: out of New York. And the same thing in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: And I know you maybe people in Connecticut. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the tax are so high there that why would people say,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of them are leaving.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you something else. This is crazy,
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hokles. She's now proposing a pieta tear tax if
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  Speaker 1: you happen to keep an apartment in New York. She
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  Speaker 1: wants like a super tax on that. Is that the
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  Speaker 1: most ridiculous thing you've ever heard?
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  Speaker 2: Wait say this again. She's going to do what.
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  Speaker 1: It's called a pieta tear tax. In other words, if
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  Speaker 1: you live somewhere else, but you have an apartment in York,
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  Speaker 1: an extra apartment that you keep in New York, she
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  Speaker 1: wants to tax the hell out of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's oh, well, that's just going to mean that instead
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  Speaker 2: of paying, you know, spending one hundred and eighty three
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  Speaker 2: days a year, and you know, stay Florida in one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty days and New York. Now these people
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  Speaker 2: will pay play, you know, spend zero days in New York.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're chasing people out of the state and
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  Speaker 2: in the city. I don't, I really don't understand the
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  Speaker 2: logic of this. You know, Mark, you and I know
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  Speaker 2: out Laugher very well. And the economic principle is so simple.
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  Speaker 2: It's just if you tax something, you get less of it,
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  Speaker 2: and if you tax something less, you get more of it.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want people to come back to New York,
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  Speaker 2: do you think the way to do that is apply
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  Speaker 2: more taxes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think they understand. She was yelling about
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  Speaker 1: it's Russian oligarchs, the well, what does she think they
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  Speaker 1: do when they get here? They go to a restaurants,
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  Speaker 1: they go to stores, they spend you ever watch them,
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  Speaker 1: They spend a fortune everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's the it's the it's the grease that makes
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  Speaker 2: the city work.
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  Speaker 1: Is that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you get tourists all over the place, you
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  Speaker 2: get people spend a few months there, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the nice time of the year, and look, I like
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  Speaker 2: New York City. I lived there for several years when
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  Speaker 2: I was working at the Wells Street Torontal. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest cities in the world. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: being ruined by these crazy things. But I'm very pleased
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  Speaker 2: to say that at least now you can go to
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  Speaker 2: a government owned grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you something. This guy, this Mamdanie's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a brilliant educated every grocery store that opens,
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  Speaker 1: the top chains come in. When they open a grocery store,
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  Speaker 1: they tell us it's one million to three million to open.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a high end grocery store. His thing
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a dump in the middle of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and he says it's going to cost thirty million. How
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  Speaker 1: could he be dumb enough? Now, I mean, every other
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  Speaker 1: grocery store is three million. How's his thirty?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? And you know you and I are friends with
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  Speaker 2: John Katzimatitis, who owns grocery stores. Why did you just
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  Speaker 2: contract out with John katz and Matiti. You can do
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  Speaker 2: it in the faction of the cost that the government
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  Speaker 2: bureaucrats can't. And I guarantee you I give these grocery
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  Speaker 2: stores maybe eighteen months and then that this didn't work
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  Speaker 2: so well. Maybe the government isn't too good at running
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  Speaker 2: retail stores. They don't do anything else very well. By
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  Speaker 2: the way are the checkout lines that those grocery stores
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  Speaker 2: can be long as they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Getting your.
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  Speaker 2: Department of Over Vehicles license renewed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, didn't we have this problem solved a million
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  Speaker 1: years ago? If you wanted people can't afford food, how
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  Speaker 1: do you get them free food? You give them food stamps.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we just go back to that then then
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  Speaker 1: go to any grocery store. Wouldn't that well accomplished the same.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you don't understand. It's these terrible immigrants who
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  Speaker 2: come in and they start these little grocery stores and
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  Speaker 2: they're just ripping people off. You know, that's that's why
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  Speaker 2: we need the government to do it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the California governor's race with swallwell out, Tom tom
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  Speaker 1: Steier rises up the billionaire climate tell us about Tom Steyer?
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  Speaker 1: Would he be a disaster?
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  Speaker 2: The mid news is that, you know, we had an
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  Speaker 2: item in our outline on this today because the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Swallow and by the way, I love these Fox
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  Speaker 2: News you know they're doing these explosis on on Swallow
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  Speaker 2: and how all these Democrats over the years. Ah, he's
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  Speaker 2: the most wonderful person. I mean, he's a great, great
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  Speaker 2: American and he's the face of our party. Now they're
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  Speaker 2: running for the for the high Grass. But it's amazing
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  Speaker 2: how he duped so many people in the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 2: saying how wonderful he was. But now it's thrown out.
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  Speaker 2: The California governor's race way wide open. And you can
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  Speaker 2: make the case that other than the presidential race, that
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  Speaker 2: you know, the second most important, you know, political race
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  Speaker 2: in the country is probably governor of California. And now
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are left without a candidate except Tom Steyer,
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  Speaker 2: who's a lunatic climate change billionaire, and so but I
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  Speaker 2: think what's gonna By the way, let me say something
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  Speaker 2: else that Steve Hilton, you know who people know from
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  Speaker 2: Fox News smart. I was out there in La a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago. He gave a speech in front of
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  Speaker 2: four hundred people, and I spoke there and some others
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  Speaker 2: said he as an outstanding agenda. I mean, if they
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  Speaker 2: were to elect somebody with like Steve Hilton, California could
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  Speaker 2: turn around over overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, you look at state's Texas, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: You just get rid of the income tax, you get
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  Speaker 1: rid of this, and all of a sudden, the place
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  Speaker 1: is booming. The only problem you have is everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to move in. How come Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Can't figure that out? Well, that would be a yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Florida. You know, we had a cartoon in
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  Speaker 2: our hotline a few weeks ago. He said, you know
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  Speaker 2: when you get on ninety five and you go through
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  Speaker 2: Georgia into Florida, where you see the big sign that
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  Speaker 2: says welcome to Florida, then it says working in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: and that says no vacancy. I like that. So, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, the income tax, just to remind people, I
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  Speaker 2: think most people know this, the income tax. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know what the income tax rate in Florida is?
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  Speaker 1: State tax?
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  Speaker 2: The state income tax zero, I think zero exactly. So
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  Speaker 2: you can save a lot of money. You can either
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  Speaker 2: pay sixteen percent in New York or zero in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got Bruce Blakeman running for governor. He would
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  Speaker 1: be a great governor, very very common the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've been watching him in Fox. I really I think
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  Speaker 2: he's an adult in the room, and I think he
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  Speaker 2: would be so fantastic. I go back to you know,
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  Speaker 2: when George Pataki was governor in New York. George is
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  Speaker 2: a good friend of mine. I'm a big fan of his,
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  Speaker 2: and boy did he help turn around the state, just
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  Speaker 2: like Rudy Giuliani turned around the city. It doesn't take much,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that hard, you know, just be common sensical
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  Speaker 2: and do the things that are smart. But these people
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  Speaker 2: like Mondamin and Jko, they just won't do it. They're
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  Speaker 2: so ideological. I don't get it. They're not common sense Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And Democrats were very upset yesterday the S and P
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  Speaker 1: five hundred hit the all time high record high. Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How did that happen so fast? That's pretty Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you know why that's a great story is because
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  Speaker 2: the S and P five hundred none like the Dow,
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  Speaker 2: which is just like the thirty biggest companies. The sm
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  Speaker 2: P five hundred is five hundred mostly small medium sized businesses,
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  Speaker 2: and their value keeps going up because Trump is pro growth,
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  Speaker 2: pro America's pro business, and you've got to be if
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  Speaker 2: you want to be pro worker, you got to be
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  Speaker 2: pro business.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing story. Of course, I noticed on the Network
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  Speaker 1: News it was like the twenty seventh story into the newscast.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't want to open with that. Essenbly Well, I was.
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  Speaker 2: Even shocked by it because you know, I just learned
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  Speaker 2: that this morning. I said, geeh, I didn't see that
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  Speaker 2: on the news story.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Steve Moore, great stuff, and everybody should get your book.
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  Speaker 1: I love the book, the Trump Economic Miracle. He gave
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  Speaker 1: you the title, right, that was his title.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Donald Trump had the title. And we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get back to that. I know these this has been
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  Speaker 2: a tough patch for the economy. But when we get
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  Speaker 2: the straight open and we get a victorious settlement there
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  Speaker 2: in Iran, I think we're going to be right back
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  Speaker 2: on the on the Trump Economic Miracle path.
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  Speaker 1: Well, everybody gets the book. And the most important thing,
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  Speaker 1: you got to sign up for the Daily Hotline. It's
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  Speaker 1: the best news and analysis and Steve Moore you do
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  Speaker 1: a great job putting that together every day and it's free.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to Unleash Prosperity dot com. Unleash Prosperity dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we'll we'll see all over television. And Steve Moore,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, may take care.
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  Speaker 1: All right, take care hey. Coming up noon today it's
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