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About those two guarantees in the world: death and taxes · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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  This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
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  Have you heard that there are only two guarantees in the world?
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  Death and taxes.
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  We often talk about taxes, but how often do we consider what our governments are doing with our money?
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  Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Angle here with a constitution study, where we read instead of the Constitution, teacherizing generation be free.
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  Glad you could join me today.
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  You know, death and taxes.
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  Two cheery subjects, but yeah, as we approach the Ides of April, the infamous tax day in the in the United States, I thought it was worth taking a look at um what our governments, plural are doing with our tax money, the money they take from us.
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  Because there's two things we have to remember.
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  A lot of people claim that that taxes are theft, but that's not true.
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  In the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, we authorize Congress to uh to collect taxes.
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  Specifically, the Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general will for the United States, but all duties, imposts, and excesses shall be uniform throughout the United States.
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  So if you tell somebody it's okay to collect something from you, that's not theft.
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  All right.
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  I mean, uh around me, we've got a lot of people uh have set up these little these little egg stations, right?
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  They got chickens, they're raising eggs, they want to get, you know, and many of them say, you know, hey, come in and and you know buy eggs from us.
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  Um there are some places maybe they're just giving away stuff.
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  You put a if you put a couch on your front lawn that says free, you can't charge somebody with theft when they come and take it.
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  The same way when we told the federal government, and by the way, we do the same thing for all of our state governments, that you can collect taxes and other forms of taxes.
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  It's not theft when they do so.
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  Of course, the problem we have, at least at the federal level, is Congress is more than happy to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.
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  It's the second part, it's what they can use that money for to pay the debts, provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States states, capital U, capital S, a proper noun.
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  That entity that was recreated by the Constitution of the United States, well that that whose government is the federal government.
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  That is the general welfare, and I'm sure we're going to talk about that as we go through.
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  Because the first thing I want to look at is uh let's take a look at the books, right?
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  You know, um, I I've told you before, I'm on the board of a um not-for-profit uh here in in near my near my hometown, and um every year we go through an audit.
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  Well, um, the Department of Treasury, as required by the by the Constitution, um, release their financial statements for the fiscal year 2025.
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  Now, the United States has a fiscal year that starts October 1st and ends September 30th.
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  The idea of a fiscal year is accounting in idea, and I'm not enough of accountant to know why you would choose one over the other.
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  I just know that September 30th, 2025 was the last day of fiscal year 2025.
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  Now, again, I'm not an accountant, I'm not a financial guru, although I've done I've been in business for many, many years.
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  I do understand the basics of these financial reports.
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  So when you look at the the balance sheet that the federal government has, the federal government has assets totaling roughly six trillion dollars.
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  Meaning, if you take everything the federal government owns, the land, the buildings, all the equipment, uh everything in the military, you take all that and you add it all up, it's about six trillion dollars.
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  However, the liabilities, the money that the government owes is almost 48 trillion dollars.
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  Now, let's see, how much math does it take to realize when you take 48 and you divide it by six, what do you get?
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  You get eight.
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  That means the federal government owes eight times what it owns.
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  It owes eight times what it owes.
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  Of course, that is um it's the you know, we talk about the federal government, it's really you and me, because you know, remember, we the people do ordain and establish this constitution for United States of America, the federal government holding assets for the people, it's a public entity.
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  So uh, yeah, it's really us that owe this amount of money.
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  But the news gets worse, because you know, we everyone talked about the the the spending, you know, Biden and all that money.
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  Um the deficit that that the liabilities grew over two trillion dollars in just one year.
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  Who was president during that year?
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  Yes, Donald Trump.
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  Why?
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  Because this is not a presidential problem.
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  This is a congressional problem.
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  Remember, Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, and Congress is the only entity authorized to spend money.
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  Remember, Article 1, Section 9, I think it's clause seven says no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriation made by law.
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  So not only under this do you do do we have the the treasury has to make these these financial reports available, they can only spend money that is authorized by Congress.
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  So what we have here is a congressional problem, meaning the people we elect.
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  Remember, we don't elect the president.
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  We tell our states who they who they should vote for for president.
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  We the people elect the members of the House and the members of the Senate.
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  So it's our representatives that are at the heart of this problem.
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  Now, interesting, the government accountability office issued what they call a disclaimer of opinion on these particular statements.
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  And for the 29th year in a row, they cite material weakness in internal controls, particularly the Department of Defense, and issues with interagency accounting.
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  They say it's an accounting problem.
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  This is not an accounting problem.
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  This is a spending problem.
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  This is not a taxing problem.
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  This is a spending problem.
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  This is the fact that the American people are greedy.
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  We want stuff, but we want someone else to pay for it.
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  Greedy.
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  And after decades and decades and decades of the American people demanding, so you want to get elected, you give me goodies.
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  And I don't want to pay you you want to get elected, don't raise my taxes.
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  That becomes the only two ways they can do this.
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  They can either fund it via taxes or via debt, which is a tax and other name because we have to pay interest on the debt.
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  And we said we're fine with interest.
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  We'll borrow money on our children and our children's children, and we'll borrow from them because we're greedy.
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  So when you look at these numbers and people talk about these numbers, this is not a problem in government.
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  This is a problem of the American people and who we hire to represent us in government.
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  You tell the American government, you tell you sell someone running for office, the only way to get elected is to offer me goodies, pay for stuff, programs, money, whatever, and don't raise my taxes.
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  Guess what?
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  That's exactly what they're gonna do.
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  But it gets even worse than that because these are the the what's called the the balance sheet obligations.
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  There are a boatload of off-book, off-balance sheet obligations.
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  This the Social Security Insurance has a 88 trillion dollar unfunded obligation.
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  88 trillion dollars.
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  More than double our quote-unquote national debt, meaning we are on the hook to pay 88 trillion dollars that we don't have the money for.
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  We don't have a dime for.
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  By the way, that's up 10 trillion dollars from the previous fiscal year.
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  So our can our actual total obligations exceed 136 trillion dollars.
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  Yet everywhere year, the gross domestic product, the the value of goods and services produced in the United States each and every year is roughly $31 trillion.
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  That means all four and a half times.
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  Our obligations are four and a half times what we make every year.
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  Now, again, make it personal.
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  Let's say uh well, I'll make the numbers easy, right?
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  Let's say combined household income is 100,000 a year.
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  I know that's a really good job, but let's start with 100,000 a year.
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  Well, if you owed, say, half a million dollars, you'd be in a little bit, you'd be concerned.
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  How do you pay off half a million dollars?
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  Now, you wouldn't be depending on where that debt was.
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  I mean, if you're talking about a mortgage, well, most people most people say, well, that may not be great, but it's not too bad.
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  However, if you owed half a million dollars in credit card debt, which is a much better description of our federal debt, well, then you'd be in deep doo-doo.
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  You'd be looking at bankruptcies.
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  And in fact, the only reason the federal government isn't bankrupt is because people still believe that the federal government's going to somehow pay the interest.
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  But I saw was about a year or so ago.
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  The interest we pay on our national debt is more than what we pay for defense.
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  The budget of the defense department is a little under 900 million dollars, 900 million dollars.
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  We pay a trillion dollars just on interest on our debt.
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  Fiscally, the federal government is a basket case.
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  And again, the only reason the federal government isn't legally bankrupt is because people still believe we're going to pay interest on our bonds.
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  That's it.
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  As soon as people think we're not going to pay the interest, the money dries up and we are beyond bankrupt.
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  We are we are destitute.
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  So how do we fix this problem?
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  Well, there's no one way to fix this problem, but there are basically two ways that we you look at it.
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  You can increase taxes to cover what we're actually spending, or you can decrease spending to what we actually collect in taxes, what most people consider a balanced budget from two different directions.
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  But for some reason, we never do that, because as soon as someone talks about raising your taxes, they get worried about keeping their job.
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  But let's look at what's going on.
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  Let's take a look at New York City, because New York City has a similar issue.
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  They not to the same uh uh uh issues.
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  They they but they do have, I mean, they got all these new programs, they got all this money.
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  How are they gonna fund it?
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  Well, Zaran Mandami, the socialist mayor of New York City, he's proposed changing the exemption for the death tax.
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  Legally, it's an estate tax.
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  So the idea is when a family, when somebody dies and their estate transfers to somebody else, magically that's considered income.
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  And both the federal and most state governments tax that income.
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  But they usually put minimum loans.
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  The idea is we're we're looking for the big estates.
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  We're looking for the people that are really worth a lot of money.
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  And you know, we're going for the big guys.
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  So in New York City, the exemption for the death tax was it was 7.1 million dollars.
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  Meaning the first 7.1 million dollars of a uh of an inheritance is not covered by the death tax.
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  Now, I would think, you know, that would be cover a lot of people.
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  But Mondami wants to change that.
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  He doesn't want to be 7.1 million dollars.
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  He doesn't want to be $6 million or $5 million.
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  He wants to make it $750,000.
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  Meaning, instead of the death tax hitting roughly 16% of people, it would hit half.
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  Now, for those of you who've never been to New York City or never lived there, New York City has a lot of these little businesses, bodegas and little shops where uh just in order to get the shop going.
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  The shop is worth a million dollars.
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  I mean, if if you own an apart, there are apartments in New York City that are worth more than a million dollars.
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  So imagine here you are, your family, your your parents, maybe your grandparents started this shop decades ago.
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  You learned as a kid to work in the shop.
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  Um it's maybe a pillar of the community, and the owner dies.
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  Maybe, maybe they got sick, or maybe they just got old.
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  And now the city of New York says we want money on that.
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  We want to tax you for transferring it from one person to another.
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  To me, that's kind of cruel in a couple ways.
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  Now, when my when I grandmother died, we had an estate in upstate New York.
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  This was the farm.
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  This is what the where my grandparents bought land back in, I think like the 30s or 40s.
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  And I remember growing up there as a kid, and I have all these wonderful memories.
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  And we had, you know, the family had built their business there and a nice house for my grandparents, and now she died, and she died relatively quickly.
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  And we had this, all this land.
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  We didn't have a cash to pay the taxes, death taxes on it.
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  Because it was all tied up in the land and in the business.
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  And we ended up having to sell that.
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  Interesting, uh, last year I was back up in New York, and I stopped by my sister and I stopped by to visit the place because we hadn't seen it in years.
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  And uh, we actually talked to the current owners and we told them about the place.
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  But it was gone because we had to pay taxes on it.
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  And in the long run, I mean, that that truly did hurt our my family.
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  Now, I don't mind reasonable taxes, but I'm sorry, the rate of taxes that that New York City is wanting doesn't surprise me one little bit.
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  Because there's one thing socialists are really good at taking other people's money.
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  But that's the taxing side.
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  We also have to look at the at the spending side of it.
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  And uh, because to me, if we look at the numbers, we don't have a taxing problem.
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  We have a spending problem.
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  And what Mondami's trying to do is trying to tax more and more people to cover the cost of what he is trying to do to New York City.
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  Something, by the way, the people of New York City voted for.
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  So I really don't have much sympathy for the residents in New York City.
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  I have a cousin that still lives there, and I, you know, oh, sorry, but I don't know if you did you voted, but as a as a city, you guys voted for this guy, so you really can't be surprised when a man who is an avowed socialist and a member of the Democratic Socialist uh uh uh party actually acts like a socialist.
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  This is this should not be a surprise.
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  This is exactly what you asked for.
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  Uh you know, and this is also by the way, why that the tax preparation industry is roughly 35 billion dollars a year.
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  People pay 35 billion dollars a year to help people prepare their taxes.
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  We're talking about how government uses our money.
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  And as I keep saying, we don't have a taxing problem.
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  We have a spending problem.
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  Sometimes it's how much we spend, sometimes it's how we spend it.
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  For example, a single school district in California, the Mercedes City School District spent over $90,000 on consultants for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
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  This is according to documents provided by the nonprofit group defending uh defending education.
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  Now, this school district, which has roughly 100 black students, um, they they create an African American affinity group.
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  By the way, the the school district has 11,000 students.
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  One apparently only 100 are black.
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  They send them to summer camp.
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  That's right, to learn to rap.
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  Now, remember, this is a school district that um uh currently has a student teacher ratio of about 25 to one.
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  Uh, only 20% of the students are proficient in math, a third are proficient in reading, which means overall, the district gets a C.
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  Sorry, if you're telling me that only a third of people uh students can read at grade level, that's not a C.
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  That's an F.
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  If I got a 33 on a test when I was in school, that was an F.
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  If I got a 20 on a test when I was in school, that was an F.
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  But they give them a C.
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  Talk about grade padding, and they're spending uh almost a million dollars on DEI.
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  Do you want to know why?
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  I have an opinion.
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  Why the school students are failing in math and reading, because the school is spending money on consultants to uh on DEI and sending kids to rap camp rather than teaching them, oh, I don't know, reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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  So, yeah, in California, this school, this one school district spent almost a million dollars to not teach the kids the basics, and then they wonder why they can't read and write.
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  Hmm.
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  Or how about in Kansas?
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  Uh Kansas recently passed a law that uh would prohibit people who are confused about their gender from changing their driver's license, right?
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  In other words, you're not going to be able to lie on a government document.
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  A photo ID.
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  We talk about photo IDs all the time.
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  One of them is your driver's license.
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  And Kansas just passed a law.
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  I think there are only about five states so far that do this, that prohibit you from lying on your or your your your license or changing your driver's license to because your driver's license talks about your sex.
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  Right?
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  Nope.
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  So people are now up in arms because basically about 1,700 Kansans just had their driver's license revoked.
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  So, first of all, yeah, the this the state government spending money on issuing driver's licenses to people to with where people lie on.
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  I believe it's a crime to lie on your application for a driver's license.
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  But Kansas allowed it.
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  Then they passed a law that says, no, you can't do that anymore.
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  And now they've got 1700 people who do.
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  Now, is this a lot of money?
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  No, not in the great scheme of things, I don't think.
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  But tell me, you know, how much does it does it, how much is has Kansas spent on this on the old licenses, the new licenses, getting the law passed and all of that because people couldn't figure out a couldn't tell it between a boy and a girl.
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  I don't feel that way.
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  I don't care.
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  But but I have a right to for everyone to believe my delusion.
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  No, you don't.
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  This is just one example, a small example of how states are spending money to allow people to lie.
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  Similar, oh Idaho passed a ban on uh people using opposite sex bathrooms, right?
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  If you're a boy, you go to the boys' room.
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  If you're a girl, you go to the girls' rooms.
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  If you're confused, figure it out.
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  I mean, this is ridiculous.
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  You have reports of boys going to in the girls' bathroom.
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  Those are supposed to be private places, they're intimate spaces.
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  They're not supposed to be cross-sex spaces.
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  And it's gotten so bad.
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  The people of Idaho got so fed up with places where where girls were not safe in the girls' room, in the girls' bathroom, in the girls' locker room, that the state had to pass a law.
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  And I'm assuming they're gonna have to spend some money to enforce this law.
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  All because the people of Idaho, there's a small percentage of people in Idaho who are confused, and a much larger percentage of people in the state of Idaho that are afraid to actually say so.
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  See, this wouldn't be a problem if you didn't have schools and and businesses and others that said, sure, boys use a girl's room, girls use the boys' room, we don't care.
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  You want a boy in the in the in the girls' locker room while she's changing for swim class, no big deal.
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  Well, that's crazy.
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  That's stupid.
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  And now the states are having to spend money to stop the stupid because of this.
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  Now, here's where Idaho put some teeth behind this one.
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  Umingly and willfully enters a facility designated for the opposite sex, they face a misdemeanor charge on the first offense, punishable by up to a year in jail.
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  Whoa.
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  I mean, I've heard of fines.
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  This is the first time I'm hearing about jail time for dudes walking into the girls' room.
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  By the way, as a father of a daughter, yeah, uh, I got no problem with that.
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  By the second events, it is a felony punishable up to five years in prison.
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  So if you do it within within after the first event, within five years, you do it again, that's a felony and five years in jail.
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  And by the way, this Idaho had previously passed a law allowing a student to sue a school for $5,000 if they encounter someone in the bathroom who violates the policy.
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  Meaning if your daughter's in the in the bathroom or in the locker room and she sees a dude, she can sue the school for $5,000.
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  And in fact, every girl in there can sue the school for $5,000.
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  Now that means there's gonna have to be a court case, and that means the state of Idaho is gonna have to pay for that.
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  But that's because not only are do we have a small people percentage of people who are confused, we have a much larger group of people who are afraid to stand up for their rights and the rights of their children.
• 27:57
  By the way, the the earlier bill focused on on public schools.
• 28:00
  This bill bill includes every government agency.
• 28:04
  Now, the one issue I have is they say every place of public accommodation.
• 28:09
  Sorry, public accommodation, quote unquote public adoption, where you're open to the public, does not include, does not make uh private property public.
• 28:20
  That is a violation of the 14th Amendment, right?
• 28:23
  You're made a law that deprives someone of the liberty and their property without due process of law.
• 28:28
  That means if Walmart or Target or any one of these Starbucks wants to allow that, they have every right to.
• 28:36
  And in fact, I would support a private business that sued about the public accommodation of this of this law because simply because you open your business to the public doesn't deprive you of your private property rights.
• 28:50
  I know a lot of people have been told that that's a violation of the constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.
• 28:56
  So I don't care what the state law says, the Constitution of the United States supersedes that.
• 29:00
  It's the Supreme Law of the Land.
• 29:01
  Just read Article 6, clause two.
• 29:05
  Here's another one.
• 29:06
  This isn't Minnesota.
• 29:07
  So uh the Trump administration has filed a lawsuit over a Minnesota policy that lets boys who think they're girls participate in girls' sports.
• 29:19
  Now, again, totally stupid, right?
• 29:22
  This is a ridiculous, but the federal government said, well, you know, Title IX says uh that that girls that that the sports can be described to be separated based on sex.
• 29:33
  If you got a boys' team, you have to offer a girls' team, and it's got to be a girls' team for girls.
• 29:38
  Now, this ladies and gentlemen deals with money because, well, first of all, there's nothing in the constitution that gives the federal government the authority to regulate education or sports or any of that stuff, or to spend money on that, by the way.
• 29:54
  But they do.
• 29:55
  They they they embezzle billions and billions of dollars every year.
• 30:00
  To help control the states.
• 30:02
  And they're saying, well, listen, if you're going to do this, no more state, no more federal money for you.
• 30:09
  Now again, you've got the billions of dollars of your tax money being used to embezz embezzled from you to be used for an unlawful purpose.
• 30:18
  Remember, the uh federal government can collect tax to pay the debt, the common defense, and general welfare of the United States.
• 30:25
  They can't simply say, well, uh, education's a general welfare.
• 30:29
  Yeah, of the people, not of the United States.
• 30:33
  You can't simply make stuff up and pretend the Constitution doesn't mean anything because you want to bribe people with government money.
• 30:41
  So you have billions of dollars being embezzled from you for these education programs.
• 30:45
  Now the federal government says, well, listen, if you're not going to follow our rules, we're going to take the money away.
• 30:51
  So how much money is the federal government going to spend in this case?
• 30:55
  How much money are the people of Minnesota going to spend in this case over an unconstitutional law spending money that the federal government's not legally authorized to spend?
• 31:04
  I agree.
• 31:05
  Allowing boys to participate in girls' sports does violate Title IX.
• 31:10
  Title IX is unconstitutional because you're spending your illegal embezzles money from the American people.
• 31:16
  And I believe that allowing boys' participating in girls' sports in most sports or athletics is unfair.
• 31:24
  But if we don't know the constitution, we sit here and go, well, gee, you know, it's it's it's wrong that Minnesota does this.
• 31:31
  We'll let the federal government be the big bully because they've got all the money because they've embezzled so much of it from us.
• 31:38
  Notice I didn't say steal.
• 31:40
  I said embezzle.
• 31:42
  It's important.
• 31:43
  Stealing means taking money.
• 31:46
  Embezzlement means using money for a purpose you're not authorized to use.
• 31:51
  Uh stealing is if you go to a bank and you uh you know, demand they give you all the money in the drawers.
• 31:59
  Embezzling is when a bank employee pays for their own private uh uh stuff with bank money.
• 32:08
  That's what the federal government is doing.
• 32:10
  So I like being specific in these things because well, details matter.
• 32:14
  And another example of that.
• 32:16
  Uh here's another one.
• 32:18
  So a this uh state of California lost a lawsuit against their gender secrecy, where the the um the state law said schools could not inform the parents of gender confusion of their children of the mental disorder.
• 32:36
  And um they won.
• 32:39
  Uh actually the parents won, and the state of California has been ordered to pay four and a half million dollars in attorney's fees.
• 32:48
  I love this one.
• 32:50
  Just an attorney's fees to the people who challenge their so-called gender secrecy law.
• 32:56
  This violation of the 14th, it's this idea that the parents don't control the raising of child.
• 33:03
  The school does, the state does through the school.
• 33:06
  And uh they lost in their order to pay damn pay attorney's fees, four and a half million dollars.
• 33:13
  Now, if you live in California, four and a half million dollars is not a huge percentage of your state budget, but that's money you have to pay Californians that you've paid in your in your income taxes, your sales taxes, all those taxes that went to the state count.
• 33:28
  Some of that money's being given to the to pay the attorneys because of this policy, this law by the state of California to try and take control of the children who live in California.
• 33:43
  Now, I just wonder what could have been done with that four and a half million dollars.
• 33:49
  I don't know how many school districts, I don't know how many plaintiffs there were.
• 33:54
  Um, what could have been done in those schools if that four and a half million dollars was spent on, oh, I don't know, teaching, getting qualified teachers, get making sure they're paid properly, giving the the the books and other materials necessary so that you could actually teach children reading, writing, and arithmetic rather than helping them deceive their parents with this confusion idea about their gender.
• 34:25
  Ladies and gentlemen, that's your money that the state of California is gonna spend.
• 34:30
  That's money that you probably paid being told it was going to be used for schools and education.
• 34:34
  And now, well, let's go into a bunch of attorneys because of the crazy laws that um, well, that California has put in place.
• 34:45
  Is that really how you wanted California to spend your money?
• 34:49
  Remember, it's not just the federal government, it's the state government, it's our local governments.
• 34:53
  All of these entities are spending our money.
• 34:55
  And if they are spending our money improperly, it costs us.
• 35:02
  It costs us, and not only does it cost us in the actual cash dollars, but it costs us in the death in the deprivation of our rights and our liberties.
• 35:10
  And in the in our trust in these agencies to actually do the right thing.
• 35:16
  There's a tremendous cost beyond the dollars to these types of programs.
• 35:23
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• 35:29
  Very often they're supported by other organizations or uh not profits, PACs, and others that are promoting these ideas.
• 35:36
  California didn't come up with this idea of of hiding uh students' gender confusion from their parents on their own.
• 35:43
  I'm pretty sure they got lobbied by a group of people.
• 35:46
  And I wonder where those those lobby groups got their money.
• 35:50
  Far too often, I think they got their money from you and I.
• 35:54
  Meaning we did businesses, did business with certain companies that supported these organizations.
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• 39:47
  And today we're talking about how government uses your money.
• 39:51
  And I want to take a look at something a little different.
• 39:54
  I want to take a look at when they're spending things, money on things they really shouldn't be doing, but they promised to.
• 40:00
  Of us good things.
• 40:01
  I'm talking about spying.
• 40:03
  Of course, you go all the way back to the Pfizer court, which we found was horribly abused against Donald Trump and anyone in his sphere of influence, uh, with uh, you know, these fake reports and fake warrants that were being issued, and and all sorts of course, you've also got the the license plate readers where uh and and you know, street cams, where the government basically following you everywhere you you go, and we find out more and more that oh, yeah, they're doing lots of searches of that data without a warrant.
• 40:33
  Well, here's in the latest one.
• 40:35
  Um we're finding that uh major tech companies, the the Apples, the Googles, the Metas, um, they've shared data for three and a half million user accounts with the federal government between late 2024 and early 2025.
• 40:52
  This is a report from uh Proton, the digital privacy firm.
• 40:57
  They also say that these these reports have surged over 700% since they started they started disclosing government requests.
• 41:08
  Now, that's interesting because it's when they started disclosing, makes you wonder how many of those were not disclosed.
• 41:13
  You remember, under the Biden administration, we saw administration officials bullying and threatening uh social media to censor people that the content the government didn't want.
• 41:27
  Now we're having this thing with searches.
• 41:28
  And this gets into something that's been bothering me for a while.
• 41:31
  And it goes back to a Supreme Court case.
• 41:35
  I'm drawing a blank on the name of the case, where the justices literally said, Well, listen, when you hand data over to a third party, you no longer have Fourth Amendment protections.
• 41:46
  Now, a lot of this stuff, I believe, really falls outside.
• 41:49
  Again, because you're talking, we had the whole thing with with cell phone location uh data.
• 41:54
  And the fact is you didn't create the data, you never possess the data.
• 41:58
  It's not your data, it's data about you.
• 42:01
  It's one of the things I'd like to see an amendment of the constitution that protects the that helps the Fourth Amendment to protect not only your person's houses, papers, and effects, but data about you to require uh reason for searches and seizures.
• 42:19
  It's one of the reasons my my accountant uh is not real thrilled, but I refuse to use an online bookkeeping system for my business.
• 42:27
  For the simple reason is as long as it's in their possession, the government can request it, and most likely they'll turn it over without a warrant, any sort of probable cause, any sort of of reasonableness, because there's no reason for the company to to fight the government from my data.
• 42:48
  Same thing with Apple, Google, and Meta, right?
• 42:51
  You've got all that data.
• 42:52
  I mean, I I have an iPhone.
• 42:54
  I've I avoid Google whenever possible.
• 42:56
  I've been kicked off of Facebook and Instagram, so I don't deal with Meta, but I understand that any data that Apple possesses, if the government asks, they're likely to turn it over without a warrant because there's no benefit to Apple to fight that fight.
• 43:13
  It's why I'm careful about what I put on my Apple devices.
• 43:17
  Anything that's shared.
• 43:19
  I there's certain things that I pretty much can't get away with, right?
• 43:22
  If I want to use the maps, they're going to know where I am.
• 43:24
  But I don't put confidential data on my Apple devices.
• 43:28
  If I'm editing a file that I don't want confidential, I don't save it in Apple in my in iCloud, I save it to a local hard drive because I know this is going to happen.
• 43:39
  So this doesn't surprise me.
• 43:41
  Either the surge or the fact that now that people are disclosing it, there's a lot more searching going on because again, government is spending money surveilling people.
• 43:52
  Now, the question I have of 3.5 million user accounts, and I guess it looks like about six months.
• 44:00
  How many of them did uh the federal government have a reasonable um articulable suspicion to generate that search?
• 44:10
  They they didn't, they may have had probable cause, but they didn't need probable cause because they didn't get a warrant.
• 44:16
  And this is why I want the constitutional amendment.
• 44:20
  I want the constitutional amendment to add uh data about you to the list of items protected by the Fourth Amendment.
• 44:29
  I think it should be persons, houses, papers, effects, and data about you that are secure from unreasonable searches and seizures.
• 44:38
  That's because we live in a digital world.
• 44:40
  In the in the 18th century, the idea that that you would um uh have data about you floating through the air would be inconceivable.
• 44:51
  The closest they would have gotten would have been, hey, you know, can I got a copy of my will.
• 44:58
  I'm gonna leave it with the attorney.
• 45:00
  Or maybe I'll give a copy to a trusted person so that if something happens to me, if I die, if the house burns down, there's another copy somewhere.
• 45:10
  And I doubt they expected the government would come in and say, hey, give me a copy of his will without a warrant because it's no longer in his hands, it's no longer considered private.
• 45:20
  This is no longer considered under the under the um the protections of the Fourth Amendment.
• 45:24
  But that's where we are.
• 45:26
  That's why I think we need that.
• 45:27
  It's also one of the reasons I think as an individual, we need to be concerned about what we keep on the cloud.
• 45:34
  Because again, those companies have absolutely no, there's no benefit for them.
• 45:39
  If let's say someone comes up and and um uh goes to one of these these uh tech companies and says, uh, we need all the account information for you.
• 45:48
  Uh whoever you are, did and uh they say, well, we need a warrant.
• 45:53
  Well, no, you don't need a warrant.
• 45:54
  Yes, we need a warrant.
• 45:55
  Well, that's our policy.
• 45:56
  We need a warrant um to protect our customers' privacy.
• 46:00
  Do you think they're gonna go to court, spend probably hundreds of thousands, not millions of dollars on court cases to make to demand that?
• 46:08
  And do you really think that a government actor is not going to lean towards the government to say, well, no, you don't need a warrant.
• 46:16
  But a subpoena, by the way, I still claim that a subpoena in many cases is not a con is not a uh, even though they demand something, they have no legal basis to demand that.
• 46:29
  But if you think about it, the apples, the Googles, the Metas, the Xs.
• 46:35
  It's not data about them.
• 46:37
  So they don't have a vested interest.
• 46:38
  Why would they spend millions of dollars defending data that doesn't harm that its release wouldn't wouldn't impact them positively or negatively?
• 46:46
  It has nothing to do with them.
• 46:49
  They could say this is our data, it's on our systems, you need a warrant, but they don't.
• 46:56
  Just so you know, I actually, like I said, I spent 30 years in IT.
• 47:00
  I've developed an algorithm, and I'd love to find someone to partner with to help me develop this that would help protect against such unreasonable searches using existing technology.
• 47:12
  So anybody out there that's interested, contact me through the website, Constitution Study.com, because I don't trust these entities.
• 47:18
  They've got, I understand from a business standpoint, it makes no sense.
• 47:21
  That's why we the people need to be careful for ourselves.
• 47:26
  And then one more, which this is not so much about what the government is doing with our money, but what we're doing with our money and our time.
• 47:36
  Now, it's interesting.
• 47:37
  Um, I heard an interesting story the other day that claims that the modern uh artificial intelligence really just kind of sprung up all by itself uh out of Google's attempts to improve their uh search completion statistics, right?
• 47:53
  The autocomplete.
• 47:54
  You've all seen it, right?
• 47:56
  You're you're typing along in like it's a Google search page, and as soon as you start typing, it starts popping up suggestions of what it thinks you're looking for.
• 48:06
  You see it on your phone, right?
• 48:08
  You start typing in the autocomplete comes up.
• 48:10
  You're typing in your typewriter, and it makes suggestions, or you're I should say your word processor, we don't typewriter anymore.
• 48:17
  And these are these are interesting.
• 48:19
  In fact, they've become so interesting.
• 48:21
  We've actually become of a term autocorrect errors, where you're typing something in, and the computer thinks you mean one thing, but you mean something else, but it puts what they think you want.
• 48:32
  We've all seen it, we've all probably been the victims of it, and it's all happened.
• 48:37
  But this is an interesting uh post, because there's a a study that's been published in the journal Science Advances that suggests those the the uh autocorrect, the auto-fill that are being generated by these artificial intelligences, may actually influence you.
• 48:59
  In other words, it's not necessary it's not simply helping you, it may actually influence you.
• 49:06
  Now, the the author of this study, who's uh apparently a PhD candidate at Cornell University, um, says that you know we're surrounded by AI writing assistants that generate autocomplete suggestions in multiple contexts, but separate studies show that large language model generated texts can represent politically biased viewpoints.
• 49:26
  Meanwhile, older psychology research showed that shifting how people behave through their writing can shift how they think about issues.
• 49:34
  So we suspect that these biased AI suggestions could trigger attitude shift through this mechanism.
• 49:41
  Here's what I think they're trying to, she's trying to say.
• 49:43
  And I I I I I I I think I think I got this right.
• 49:47
  So the idea is if you're you're typing, you're writing, you're seeing all these AI suggestions, and those it's been shown that most of the AI models, the large language models are biased progressive.
• 50:00
  Left Marxist, you name it.
• 50:03
  Um there are plenty of studies showing that they they tend to go because they're trained that way.
• 50:08
  It's the it's the information they're trained on.
• 50:11
  So the idea being as you're going along and it keeps suggesting things that are biased, well, that has a subtle influence on how you think.
• 50:21
  I find this very interesting.
• 50:24
  See, I I don't I don't use Google for my search.
• 50:26
  I like I said, I try to avoid, I use good DuckDuckGo.
• 50:29
  And um several months ago, Duck DuckDoe popped up an AI assistant.
• 50:37
  So if I ask a question, um who is the best president of the 20th century, right?
• 50:50
  I go to DuckDuckGo and the it it looks it up and the AI claims that FDR is often regarded as the best president of the 20th century due to his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II.
• 51:03
  Now, I find this interesting for a couple of things.
• 51:05
  First of all, FDR is actually one of the worst presidents we have when it comes to oh, the Constitution, your rights, and freedom.
• 51:13
  FDR exploded the sides of the federal government.
• 51:18
  There are plenty of uh studies by economists that say FDR's uh uh policies extended the depression into the Great Depression.
• 51:28
  See, it's interesting that worldwide there was a depression in the 19 uh 20s or 1930s, I should say, but only in the United States is that considered a Great Depression.
• 51:38
  But again, this is a bias towards the left.
• 51:42
  It doesn't say anything about, say, um Ronald Reagan who ended the Cold War.
• 51:48
  No.
• 51:49
  And are these biases influencing how we think, our analysis of what's going on?
• 51:55
  And to me, this gets back to a more fundamental problem.
• 51:58
  And that is the um unquestioning faith in expertise.
• 52:04
  Right.
• 52:05
  Just because someone or something is considered an expert, we simply assume it's true.
• 52:12
  How many people curious about who the best president of 20 cents would do a similar search and would see only a biased portion of the information?
• 52:20
  Well, if that's true for searches, could that also be true for autocorrect?
• 52:25
  That's the assumption she's making is that these these autofill options, because of their biases, they could be influencing us.
• 52:34
  Now, here's my response to that.
• 52:36
  That's I I would not be surprised as a subtle, you know, kind of a um uh a subconscious type of influence.
• 52:45
  Um I don't trust AI answers.
• 52:49
  I don't use AI to generate content here because I have no idea where it's getting its data from.
• 52:55
  I have no idea if it is even real data.
• 52:58
  There have been plenty of studies that find of uh, you know, AI answers are full of things, you know, documents that never existed.
• 53:04
  Well, according to this report, and that report never existed.
• 53:08
  So it makes me wonder.
• 53:11
  By the way, it's not simply AI or II because AI is truly imitation intelligence, it's not truly artificial intelligence, but it's again words, influence.
• 53:22
  We're trying to coerce people, influence people to a certain point of view.
• 53:28
  And it's one of the reasons why I think we as people need to be aware of these influences, whether it's an AI chatbot or an AI autocorrect, or just the stuff that we're sent in the mail saying, oh, well, this happened.
• 53:43
  Well, can you give me some evidence?
• 53:45
  You say it's true.
• 53:46
  Where's the proof?
• 53:47
  Where's the evidence?
• 53:49
  Because whether you're expecting government to come in and uh you know use that data against you, or just influence how you live your life.
• 53:59
  Ultimately, it should be up to us.
• 54:01
  We have the final decision.
• 54:03
  It's whether or not we, it's it's who we listen to and what are the standards we hold for data that we're going to accept as evidence.
• 54:13
  By the way, this is one of the things I teach in the Patriots program.
• 54:16
  Uh I created this program for people who are serious about American patriotism, about this constitution, reading and studying it.
• 54:25
  And uh, the very first we it's actually covered in the boot camp, where we talk about what are the four pillars, right?
• 54:31
  Um it's only an opinion until there's proof.
• 54:35
  An expert opinion is only an opinion until there's proof.
• 54:37
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  Unless you'd like me to come deliver it to you and your group, I'd be happy to do that as well.
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  This is for people that are serious about being paid, not just patriotic as in waving the flag and and USA USA, but understanding the supreme law of the land, how to use it in their lives, and how to use it to help protect the rights of not just them and their families, but others.
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