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"Whiskey Rebellion of Gas Taxes" (FTTxJT Wed 100726 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I'm more Meg and now Make America Great Again than
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  Speaker 1: I've ever been. Making mornings great again. First thing today
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  Speaker 1: on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Bless you on this Ted's D morning, the day we
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  Speaker 3: celebrate specifically, though we should do it every day, God's
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  Speaker 3: reward you justly for them. And then you don't need
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  Speaker 3: all the other folks who are going to try to
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  Speaker 3: disrupt your day as you sit in the world's biggest
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  Speaker 3: If you spend any time, and I don't suggest this,
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  Speaker 3: that's what they would say. And I realized that that's
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  Speaker 3: what life is. Life is just high school with better clothes, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Our first things this morning, President Trump in Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland,
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  Speaker 3: of all things, he's campaigning there. I thought the press
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  Speaker 3: was telling me he was only going to ruby red states.
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  Speaker 3: In Baltimore yesterday, where it was 3.42, time for the
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  Speaker 3: 11 o'clock news, he announced $ 3. 7 billion investment into more
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  Speaker 3: military technology at the shipyard that builds nuclear-powered submarines, or
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  Speaker 3: at least parts of them. The workers of Baltimore, the
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  Speaker 3: president said, and the shipyard here at Sparrows Point have
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  Speaker 3: been a vital part of American industrial strength for literally
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  Speaker 3: over 100 years. On the way out, he was asked
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  Speaker 3: by reporters if his administration would eliminate or at least
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  Speaker 3: suspend the federal gasoline tax to give drivers a break
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  Speaker 3: at the pump. He said, we are thinking about that. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: in states like Virginia and Connecticut, there were rallies amongst
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  Speaker 3: Republicans calling on the governor to suspend those states' gas
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  Speaker 3: Your government is going to... And it all was.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to even say preordained. It was all factored
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  Speaker 3: into the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to make this some sort of fanboy,
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  Speaker 3: And you look about all the things that were done
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: The government's not supposed to do everything. That is the point.
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  Speaker 3: Government's not supposed to be involved in every issue. Starting
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  Speaker 3: with the Whiskey Rebellion and going on out, the problem
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  Speaker 3: we saw even, and great example, you know what? Thank
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  Speaker 3: you to whatever file clerk in my head threw the
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  Speaker 3: Whiskey Rebellion out there. Oh, I'm looking into my filing office.
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  Speaker 3: You were reading the probability approach. That's why you threw... Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I got you. Whiskey rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Government needs taxes so that it can pay for a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the things that they used during our battle
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  Speaker 3: to oust the occupying British army from the North American continent.
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  Speaker 3: We call it the American Revolution. It really was a
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  Speaker 3: battle against an occupying army. But there were bills to
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  Speaker 3: be paid, and especially to our soldiers, many of whom
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  Speaker 3: who fought for the entirety of the battle to oust
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  Speaker 3: Britain from the colonies had not gotten paid at all.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they were fed what they could be fed,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the on the site and they were given
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  Speaker 3: uniforms and things like that. It wasn't like they had
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  Speaker 3: to go buy their own black powder. We had the
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  Speaker 3: DuPont family for that. But there were bills to be paid.
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  Speaker 3: So the U.S. started levying taxes. And again, I will
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  Speaker 3: put this burning bag of human excrement in the lap
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  Speaker 3: of Alexander Hamilton, whose idea it was, was to start
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  Speaker 3: to levy consumption taxes on people. go from the whiskey
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  Speaker 3: rebellion to our gas taxes today. Instead of just being
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  Speaker 3: honest with people and saying, here's what you owe us.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know why. This is as bad as
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  Speaker 3: anything still infecting us like some sexually transmitted disease like
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  Speaker 3: a governmental version of syphilis, it's always there. We can't
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  Speaker 3: get rid of it. Keep trying to take antibiotics. Every
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  Speaker 3: now and then a Tea Party comes along or a
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  Speaker 3: MAGA movement that tries to cure it, and there it is.
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  Speaker 3: It waits for another Democrat to get elected and flares
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  Speaker 3: back up with a big sore on your upper lip,
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  Speaker 3: politically speaking, of course. We can't just say to somebody,
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  Speaker 3: here's what you owe us for next year's government. Can't
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  Speaker 3: do it. Why can't we do it? Is it because
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  Speaker 3: we don't want to admit it? And go back to
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  Speaker 3: yesterday morning, 5.07 a.m., Tuesday, October 6th, Joe Thomas in
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  Speaker 3: the morning, first thing today on the Talk Media Network,
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  Speaker 3: said we expend societally, but certainly governmentally in this country,
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  Speaker 3: we expend way too much effort to avoid looking bad
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  Speaker 3: when for a fraction of the effort we could do good.
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  Speaker 3: And it starts with the whiskey rebellion and it goes
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  Speaker 3: on through there because instead of just saying to everyone, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we need to pay our soldiers who just won us
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  Speaker 3: this independence. Here's what you owe us. We had to
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  Speaker 3: be cute. We had to bury our taxes into consumption.
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  Speaker 3: We had to bury our taxes into manufacturing. We had
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  Speaker 3: to create value-added taxes. We had to get passive aggressive
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  Speaker 3: with our taxing. We had to make it seem like
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  Speaker 3: you weren't actually being taxed. Put this under the banner
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  Speaker 3: of make Americans great again. We get it. We understand.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think any of us, certainly you and me,
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  Speaker 3: nobody I know would begrudge collecting taxes to pay for
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  Speaker 3: the sailors and soldiers out in our service. But they
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  Speaker 3: act like, you know, it would be the greatest offense
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  Speaker 3: we ever heard if somebody said, hey, here's what it
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  Speaker 3: costs to live in your community. We're watching it here
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  Speaker 3: in our flagship state. Every city, it seems like in
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  Speaker 3: Virginia right now, has got a referendum to impose a
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  Speaker 3: new cutesy, buried, passive-aggressive 1% sales tax. regressively on the
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  Speaker 3: poorest people in the community to pay for stuff that
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  Speaker 3: we expected our regular taxes should have already paid, aka
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  Speaker 3: repairing schools. And people do it all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet you, I know that there's New York City
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  Speaker 3: sales tax for our friends coming down out of Greenwich.
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  Speaker 3: I know there are some local sales taxes in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone says, oh, Delaware's got no real estate tax. Florida
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  Speaker 3: has no income tax. Oh, it's coming from somewhere. It's
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  Speaker 3: coming from somewhere. And they just play slap and tickle
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  Speaker 3: with it so that you don't notice. And so this becomes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the bigger problem we have with our government
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, where's the text I got about high school there?
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  Speaker 3: Yvonne writes, when I took lunch in high school, I
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  Speaker 3: took lunch to... the stage. Literally, the theater department was
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  Speaker 3: mirthful form of tomfoolery, a.k.a. a la duck soup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And I used to eat lunch in the
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  Speaker 3: TV studio at Bayside High School. Once I got there,
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  Speaker 3: and if there wasn't, my daughter used to go to
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  Speaker 3: her photography teacher's classroom and have lunch. Even though she
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  Speaker 3: was more than just the photography teacher, she'd be grading
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  Speaker 3: papers or whatever. They'd just be there and eat lunch
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  Speaker 3: in there as best they could and be in peace.
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  Speaker 3: But that's kind of sad when you have to avoid
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  Speaker 3: your community. But the point I was trying to make
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  Speaker 3: about high school and our disingenuous tax policies and our
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  Speaker 3: inability to be honest about it is because high school
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  Speaker 3: kids can never be honest about what they need. High
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  Speaker 3: Tell the honest truth right now and we'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to go with it. That's how we've wound up with
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  Speaker 3: this gas taxes and all these usage taxes and usage
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  Speaker 3: fees and sales tax on top of the sales tax.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody pointed out that the local sales tax that they're
• 31:18
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  Speaker 3: including the state sales tax already. I'm not sure that's
• 31:26
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  Speaker 3: your taxes because you will. If you get a tax refund,
• 31:33
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  Speaker 14: Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Clark is on the line with us at 434-882-4217. Good morning, Clark.
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  Speaker 16: I'm all good, Seth. So I'm curious. In Virginia, do
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  Speaker 16: you have to pay business property tax?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's amazing. You actually have to take an inventory
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  Speaker 3: of all the things in your business, including chairs and
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  Speaker 16: The chair you're sitting in right now is taxed. Annually. Now,
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  Speaker 16: you paid tax on the money you bought it with,
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  Speaker 16: income tax, both the state and.
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  Speaker 7: The federal government.
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  Speaker 16: bought it.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 13: And now you have to pay every year for the
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  Speaker 13: privilege of owning the chair. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the argument is this is supposed to, and you've
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  Speaker 3: put the fire out in said chair. Ah, firefighters, eh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the same ones that they say are underfunded.
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  Speaker 16: But now it's the firefighters.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 13: Speaking of children, when your kids were younger, if one.
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  Speaker 16: Of them came to you and said, Dad, I need $ 100.
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  Speaker 16: What would your first question be?
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  Speaker 3: Tell me where I can find $ 100 and I might
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  Speaker 3: have $ 100 floating around. But beyond that, anyway.
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  Speaker 16: I would have gone with, why do you need $ 100? Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we have had that conversation. I mean, they've
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  Speaker 16: You go to the bank. and go see a loan
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  Speaker 16: officer and say, hey, I need $ 100, 000. What's he going
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Name me any situation where somebody asks for, or in
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  Speaker 13: any accountability.
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  Speaker 16: They don't really have to tell us.
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  Speaker 7: What it's for.
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  Speaker 3: No, they try to. They say, oh, we're going to
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  Speaker 7: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: if you give us all this money at the end
• 35:10
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  Speaker 16: You know, we never should have let them redefine welfare,
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• 35:37
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  Speaker 3: And I'm going to get pedantic on you. In 1789,
• 35:46
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• 35:59
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  Speaker 16: It's kind of like when Anthony Fauci redefined the vaccine.
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  Speaker 17: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 8: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 5: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 18: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 18: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 5: Think first.
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  Speaker 6: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 3: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 17: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 17: first date?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 15: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 6: Probably?
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  Speaker 20: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 21: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, don't tell.
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  Speaker 1: Me what to do.
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  Speaker 6: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 7: Cramp!
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  Speaker 4: I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 6: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 18: Probably.
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  Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 16: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 3: and driving.
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  Speaker 6: If you're drinking, call a cab, a car, or a friend.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Buzzed driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 20: A message brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 17: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
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  Speaker 17: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 17: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 17: the Federal Trade Commission.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Talk radio just the way your mother used to make it.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: It is unfortunately getting to that time where the tumultuous,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: angst-driven parts of my life begin and the pleasurable oasis
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: that is this time must end.
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  Speaker 7: I'm coming home, just leave the lights on.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, you won't, because there's podcasts available at JoeThomasInTheMorning.com.
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  Speaker 3: I suggest you go and you get them from Spotify
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: or Apple iTunes, because they will do the heavy lifting
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: of telling other people where it is. This email, Larry
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: emailed JTInTheMorningRadio at Gmail.com. Where can I get that research
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: that John did about Gen Z supporting Hamas more than
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Muslims do. I will do that for you. I will
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: get that to you, forward it to you. Andy writes in,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: money follows the child in Florida, meaning school choice. Yes, absolutely.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: Ecclesiastes 3.1, a time for everything, driven by our discussion
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: earlier about war. There is a time for everything and
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: a season for every activity under heaven. And this was
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: the point that they were trying to make, and I
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: think I was trying to make, is that being ideological
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: in the way that some people think it has to
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: be is remarkably difficult to live by. Because at some point,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: they're going to hang you by your petard. If you're
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: a do-gooder and you get caught, and we're starting to
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: because we're getting more conservative media and less bought and
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: paid for disingenuous PR firms. If you're a do-gooder and
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: they catch you embezzling money from your charity, I'd like
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: to think you get punished for it, but I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure you're going to, but at least we'll know about it.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: You'll probably get promoted, like Lisa Jackson, the head of
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: the EPA, got promoted after it found out that she
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: was violating several federal laws that should have put her,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: at very least, with a nod to our friends, the
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Marx Brothers, not Carl, but the other ones, should have
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: at least gotten her 10 to 20 in Leavenworth or
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: at very least 5 to 10 in Woolworth. Because there
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: are reasons to fight and there are reasons to flight.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: There are seasons to plant and seasons to sow. Because
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: if life was automatable, Well, if this happens, this is
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: my response to it. Then what's the point? What's the
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: point on learning anything? We just program you with the
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: necessary data and send you on your way. You would
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: be no better than these artificial intelligences out there trying
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: to solve problems for us. Because at the end of
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: the day, it's only going to have a 1 or
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: a 0 in its toolkit. It's either going to capitulate
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: and give in, or it's going to send missiles, and
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: never the twain shall meet. The fun is in figuring
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: out what's going on and what is the right response
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  Speaker 3: to it. Ellen writes in to 434-882-4217. I'm so glad
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: I was unaware of that perpetual high school for life
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: because getting out to the big world and leaving all
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: that behind was what got me through high school in
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: the first place. I remember how crestfallen I was when
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I was hanging out. It was a political event, too.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: It was a political event. And somebody came in and said,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: I just, I can't volunteer to help your campaign anymore
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: because so-and-so's in it. I'm like, wow, really? And you
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: realize that these folks have long since expanded beyond their package.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: This goes back to the point I was making earlier
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  Speaker 3: about the Constitution already having all of this figured out.
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  Speaker 3: It was a brilliant document, not just because we're conservatives
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: and we're in America. If we hadn't started listening to
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Alexander Hamilton almost from the get-go, and this was part
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  Speaker 3: of the point I was trying to make before I
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: monologued myself off into perpetual high school. Hamilton says, oh,
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: hide the taxes into consumption tax. Oh, and then they
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: won't know they're paying taxes and it will still feel free.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Why was moonshine, who was, better question, who was, since
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: we talked about NASCAR a little bit this morning, who
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: was it that was chasing those early NASCAR drivers through
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: the woods of Tennessee and Virginia. The revenuers. They didn't
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: care if you were drinking. They just cared if they
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: got their tax money. Who was it that arrested Al Capone?
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: So the untouchables were allowed to actually conduct the arrest
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: of Al Capone, Elliot Ness and company. But who were
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: they arresting him for? The Internal Revenue Service. Because we
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: have allowed this unconstitutional stuff to start going on almost
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: from the drop of the green flag. Implied powers. Then
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: after the Civil War, it was, well, the Constitution won't
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: allow us to rebuild your city. But maybe if we
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: interpret the Commerce Clause this way, we can do this.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: And then it's the government's unconstitutional influence over industry, regulatory capture.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: And here we are. It's not hard to follow the chain.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: And because we left all the paperwork on the table...
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: When we started to pile up our new ideas on
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: top of it, we can go find it. Have a
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: bonfire of our vanities out in the backyard of our
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: American estate. Bring some marshmallows and some chocolate. Make s'mores
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: around this bonfire of our vanities, our political vanities. That's
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: how you wind up where we can't have an honest
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: discussion about things like NATO saber-rattling, saying, oh, maybe we
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: should bomb Russia and we should be ready. We've got
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: a plan to devastate Russia.
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  Speaker 10: In case you haven't heard before, I think they think
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: we've gone to war.
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  Speaker 3: I think they think we've.
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  Speaker 7: Gone to war.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: But going to war against radical Islamists is not a
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: problem from where I sit. We're going to war.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Say, did you happen to catch the New Jersey Senate
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  Speaker 1: debate last week? No, sir.
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  Speaker 17: Someone asked about the situation in Fredonia, and Barbara said
• 52:27
  Speaker 17: that he was studying it.
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  Speaker 3: Hail Fredonia. There's always more to know. And for us,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: until tomorrow morning at 5, so long and thanks for.
• 52:46
  Speaker 16: All the fish.
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  Speaker 12: Much of neck and spinal pain is caused by the
• 52:53
  Speaker 12: compression of spinal nerves, according to Dr. Jeff Fisher, an Irvine,
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: California-based chiropractor with more than 30 years of experience. This
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: compression can stem from a chronic condition, acute injury, or
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: simply aging. Traction is the most effective way to relax, stretch,
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  Speaker 12: and decompress the spine and surrounding muscles and ligaments of
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: the neck and back, Dr. Fisher explains. His inventions, the
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  Speaker 12: Fisher Traction Neck Device and Fisher Traction Low Back Device,
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: safely separates bones to eliminate pain and restore function so
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: the body can heal naturally. The Fisher Traction Devices are
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: designed to restore the natural curves of the neck and
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  Speaker 12: back and gently induce hydration and motion into the spine
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  Speaker 12: with the use of a release strap. The devices are
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  Speaker 12: convenient and easy to use in the comfort of your home.
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  Speaker 21: And Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Fisher's series of YouTube videos provides helpful videos and detailed instructions.
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  Speaker 12: For more information, visit FisherTraction.com.
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  Speaker 6: Radio.
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  Speaker 21: It's on.