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Mass exodus from high-tax states as Florida attracts billions in wealth · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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Well, not surprising.
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I saw an article on Florida that's bringing in a massive amount of wealth.
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We've certainly talked about this before, but we're going to keep talking about it because folks, capitalism works.
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It just does.
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And I don't know why people try to fight this.
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I don't know why the socialist agenda keeps uh prevailing in certain areas across the country.
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But capitalism works.
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Socialism does not.
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Florida is a case in point.
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And the opposite of that, California is also a case in point.
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We have stories on that, folks, and much more.
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What a great nation, what a great nation built on freedoms and the avail the ability and opportunity for people to succeed and to prosper.
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Speaking of prospering, this hot off the press.
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Florida Chamber CEO says high tax states are in a death spiral as four million dollars an hour wealth migration accelerates.
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Florida is taking in four million dollars an hour.
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That's just what's migrating to the state.
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These are astounding numbers, and and and I'm gonna say people who talk about how bad the economy is and how how screwed we are, and how America's just so terrible, and Trump is destroying the economy.
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Do not listen.
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Trust me, folks, don't fall for it.
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Do not fall for the trap that they set where they want you to feel um pain and despair.
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You know why?
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Because they're gonna paint that picture as the government is the only way to fix that problem.
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That the politicians are gonna stand up for your rights.
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They're gonna they're gonna give you help in your time of need, and they're gonna free up money, and they're gonna, you know, they're gonna make sure that these tight-fisted Republican uh politicians start giving people their fair share, and we're gonna exact that money from the wealthy.
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After all, they're greedy.
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They're terrible people.
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You know, it was interesting.
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I was down in Tennessee over the weekend.
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I I go on an annual trip with my brothers, and two of my brothers live in Tennessee, and uh, we were down around Dollywood and uh, you know, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg area, and we were just kind of we didn't get into all the all the touristy stuff.
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Uh we're kind of like find a trail out in the middle of nowhere, hike to some waterfalls.
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Uh, and so that's exactly what we did.
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We just relaxed.
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It was a great weekend getaway.
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Uh, it was wonderful just to let her hair down and kind of relax and enjoy our each other's company.
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And my two brothers who live in Tennessee talked about how incredible Dolly Parton is and how much she's done for their kids and just kids in general, and not just kids, it it for people in general.
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Dolly Parton, she has used her wealth for good.
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I mean, legitimately.
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She has done so many programs and given away so much money in in the state of Tennessee that it's absolutely inspiring.
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And again, it it kind of eliminates this idea that these wealthy people are just a bunch of rich hobknobs that you know, they rub elbow with the other rich and they talk about what the next scheme is to rip off people who don't make as much money as them, and you know, on and on it goes.
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So that's a narrative that the left wants you to fall into.
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They want you to think that we're all ripped off.
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We're all we're all just pawns, and it's the wealthy, it's the oligarchs who are ripping us off.
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But then you look at Tennessee, for example.
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And also what was interesting is they talked about the taxes there.
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There's no income tax, there's no state income tax.
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And they said, yeah, they they they get their money other places, they have a 9% sales tax in the state of Tennessee, but they've eliminated so many other taxes that if you're actually disciplined and you don't just go out and buy everything that's under the sun, you can actually do quite well in the state of Tennessee.
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You can manage pretty good.
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I can tell you this, their gas is a dollar cheaper, even in Dollywood, their gas is one dollar exactly a dollar cheaper than it is here in Pennsylvania.
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You know, we have uh TikTok Josh, who he talks about all these benefits that he's given, given people in the state of Pennsylvania, which is a joke.
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Meanwhile, we just we tax the living bejesus out of people, and the taxes are absolutely out of control.
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And states like Pennsylvania do not prosper.
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In fact, we have many companies who who've refused to come to Pennsylvania because they said it's just so much cheaper to do business in neighboring states.
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Why would why would we want to pay a massive amount of taxes just so that we can say, well, we're doing business in Pennsylvania.
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So it's really interesting, but uh the Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson says that the state is on its way to becoming the 14th largest economy, not in the nation, in the world.
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It's really fascinating.
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Uh very, very, very fascinating.
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Uh, this article here, it's a Fox Business News article.
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It says that there's kind of a secret sauce in Florida that combines aggressive private sector growth with a stark fiscal contrast to the policies of the high-tax democratic-led states.
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And that's a great point.
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I'll get into stories about people still leaving California.
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I mean, California is it's gonna be a ghost town before too long if people keep leaving at the rate that they're leaving, not just people, billionaires.
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They're fleeing California in droves, and he can't blame them.
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In fact, I would point to them and say, why didn't you do it sooner?
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Why in the world would you stay subjected to the taxes in California?
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Except for the fact that California is a beautiful state, and that's a shame of it.
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You know, the if you look at the landscape of California, I absolutely love California.
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California is one of my all-time favorite states to visit.
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I would never live there.
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You couldn't pay me to live there because you probably couldn't afford it.
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You couldn't afford to pay me enough for me to afford to live there.
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But California is beautiful.
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It boasts some of the best national parks in the entire nation.
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I love Yosemite.
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I love Joshua Tree.
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I love Death Valley.
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I have an
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Even been to a huge portion of the state.
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And I can't wait to go back.
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I was just in California last March.
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I took my family there on vacation.
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We love California.
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It's beautiful.
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So don't mistake what I'm saying as if I'm talking down to different states and saying that the states are terrible or that the people are terrible.
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They're not.
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California is beautiful.
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The people who live there.
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They're beautiful.
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I've never had a bad experience in California.
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And I've been there a lot.
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But it's the politicians.
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It's the people who tax tax.
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It's the policies.
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Not just the politicians, it's their policies that say that we have to tax the wealthy to make the state run.
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And keep in mind, they're throwing money out.
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They're throwing money out left and right.
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Did you see the budget for New York?
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The budget for New York exceeds the entire state budget for Florida.
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Just for a little bit of comparison.
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In fact, let me look that up.
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Yeah, so here we go.
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The projected budget for New York City is 115 billion with a B 115 billion for the 2026 fiscal year.
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New York City spending is larger than that of nearly every individual U.S.
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state.
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New York City's budget is comparable to or even exceeds the total spending plans of large states like Florida, which has a similar budget size, but double the population.
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I mean, that's absolutely crazy.
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You look at the budgets of these cities, New York City, it's just insane.
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Just for a city of 8 million people, their budget exceeds that of the entire state of Florida, which has double the population.
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They have 16 million people, roughly that live in the state.
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It's crazy.
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This stuff is crazy.
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And yet, ma'am Donnie is pushing right now.
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He's pushing for a tax increase, which he can't do.
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That has to come through the governor.
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But their governor, I'm sure she's gonna do it because she's a nutcase herself.
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But they just they truly believe that that's that's the only way.
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You gotta get these rich people, you know.
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Gotta get the rich people to pay their fair share.
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So, yeah, uh, Florida is doing absolutely incredible.
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And I tend to look at the states that are doing well, as opposed to states like California, uh, to realize what's actually happening within the sane part of America.
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For the people who are sane, they're like, yeah, let's just let's cut, let's cut spending and uh try to encourage businesses to move here.
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When we do that, we're gonna flourish.
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And boy, oh boy, is Florida flourishing.
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It's doing quite well.
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Uh New York and California descended into what Florida Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Mark Wilson calls a death spiral.
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The Sunshine State is officially open for business as a global superpower with more than four million in wealth flown across its borders every single hour.
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Florida has leapfrogged Spain to become the 15th largest economy in the world, and Wilson says the state is just getting started.
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He went on to tell Fox News Digital.
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Part of the secret sauce in Florida is that we're all on the same page.
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The business community, our elected leaders, we understand that economic growth, growing the private sector, and shrinking the public sector, that's good for everyone in Florida.
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So we have 23.5 million here.
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I said 16 million.
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They're a lot more than double New York City.
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They're at 23.5 million people, and we want to create economic opportunity and good jobs for everyone who wants to be in Florida.
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I always say if Florida was stock, I'd be investing everything I had in it.
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It's because of our economic diversification strategy and our focus on growing business and growing jobs, he continued.
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Well, how can you argue with him?
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As they say, the proof is in the puddin.
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How can you argue with that?
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How can you argue with it's it's kind of like watching somebody run a race.
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You have a bunch of different teams and they're running races, and there's the big, you know, the big board, and people can either move up or down the board, and you know, it's like the old school ones where they would have to manually remove somebody's name, and then they would move it up or down, and then they would put somebody else's name in the place.
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And it's kind of like watching Florida keep working its way up towards the top, and it really is.
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And quickly.
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Meanwhile, California and New York, they keep working their way down.
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You know, you can only stay in first place, second place, third place.
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You can only stay in those positions for so long, especially if you're self-sabotaging, which is exactly what they're doing.
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I mean, if you don't believe me, here's another story.
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I'll share some of this after the break.
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Steven Spielberg is the latest billionaire to move out of California.
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Now, ironically, he moved to New York City.
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I I don't get it.
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But to each his own, you know it's bad, folks, when New York City is a step up from California.
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When Steven Spielberg is like, hey, I've had enough of California, it's starting to get oppressive.
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I'm gonna move to New York City.
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When that's better, when that's a better option than California, you know things are bad in California.
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I'm just saying.
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Florida is doing quite quite well.
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They are generating about four million dollars every single hour in new income that's coming into the state.
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Now, just for reference.
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He said that the most current statistics around Florida, the population wealth, migration, all that kind of stuff.
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Uh, that began in the early post.
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Pandemic period.
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So we're only talking five years ago.
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Yeah, five, six years ago.
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The number of new residents moving to the state every single day has decreased from a peak of 1,000 per day to between 500 and 600 people.
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All right.
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So not as many people move into Florida every single day.
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That's still pretty significant.
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You have 500, 600 people moving there every single day.
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What's interesting though is that the amount of income has remained the same.
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The amount of income coming into the state or being generated in new wealth remains at just about 4 million per day.
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Or sorry, per hour.
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24 hours a day, nights, weekends, holidays included.
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$4 million per hour.
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That's stunning, folks.
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Absolutely stunning.
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That's incredible.
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The chamber's 2030 blueprint aims to raise Florida's economy to a top 10 spot by that landmark year.
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And Wilson remained confident the state's ability to accomplish that goal, noting that the state is reportedly close to surpassing Australia for 14th place.
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So Florida literally is in 15th place in the worldwide global economy.
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And Australia is ranked 14th, and Florida's about to knock Australia down to 15, and they're going to move up to 14th.
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That's incredible.
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And this just goes to show.
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When you have a plan in place, when you set gold, goals.
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That's so much better than the Democrats' plan of, well, we'll just tax the rich and oppose everything.
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And oppose everyone, right?
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It's all about opposition, resistance, resist the oligarchy, resist.
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There is no plan with that.
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Look at Mam Donnie.
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Look at Gavin Newsom.
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There is no plan.
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Gavin Newsom is about to lose virtually every billionaire in the state.
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And what's his plan?
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There is none.
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He doesn't have goals.
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He doesn't have a plan.
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How do we maintain the wealth?
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How do we keep the wealth?
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How do we how do we grow the wealth?
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There is no plan.
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And it's such a stark contrast.
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Let me look at this one.
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Look at this article here.
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Steven Spielberg leaves California for New York as wealth tax push spurs political battle.
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His move to New York coincides with a proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires.
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Though representative cites family reasons.
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So who knows?
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Maybe it is family reasons.
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He he originally is from Ohio.
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Who knows?
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But Steven Spielberg, hands down, one of the most successful people in Hollywood ever.
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And he's taken himself and his wealth out of the state of California.
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Absolutely crazy.
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Him and his wife, Kate Capshaw officially became New York residents on January 1st, according to a report by Los Angeles Times.
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The couple relocated to the San Remo co-op on Central Park West in Manhattan, which was previous uh has previously housed celebrities, including Bono, McJagger, Warren Beattie, and Tiger Woods.
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On the same day that Spielberg reportedly established residency, his production company, Amblem Entertainment, opened an office in New York City, marking a notable transition away from Hollywood.
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I mean, this is wild.
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He took his business with him.
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He has owned homes on both the east and west coast since at least the mid-1990s.
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Sounds like not anymore.
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Of course, people are speculating about the timing.
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Well, is that linked to the wealth tax on California?
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Nobody really knows for sure.
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I mean, Steven Spielberg knows, but he's not saying that.
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And that's what's interesting to me is, you know, why are these people so afraid to throw other people under the bus?
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I would just come out and say it.
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Kevin O'Leary does.
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And he catches a lot of heat for it.
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Maybe that's why.
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Maybe he doesn't want to lose business because guaranteed, if he starts talking about Gavin Newsom and some of the Democratic uh policies in California, he's gonna get blacklisted because that's what Democrats do.
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That's what angry liberals do.
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You know, let's let's boycott.
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Let's shut their business down.
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Let's let's ruin them, bring them to ruination.
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And it's such a bizarre thing.
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It really is.
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I I always try to wrap my head around that.
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I always try to understand that kind of mentality.
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Where you wish harm on people, where you hope and pray that their businesses fail.
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Where you talk about taxing them, taxing them into oblivion, tax them so it hurts.
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I've always tried to wrap my mind around that kind of a mindset, and I just can't.
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Billy Eilish.
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If you're a billionaire, why?
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Why are you a billionaire?
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Shouldn't you be giving your money away?
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Meanwhile, she's not the most philanthropic person in California, that's for sure.
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She's just not that giving.
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She's not very generous.
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But yet she's mouthing off like if you're a billionaire, then why?
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Why would you be a billionaire?
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Well, look at California.
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They encourage it.
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And they're cutting their budget at the same time.
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Florida, uh, you know, if ever there's going to be a state that wipes out poverty, I would think Florida would uh be pretty pretty high at the top of the list.
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That's pretty cool.
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They're doing a lot of really, really good things for people.
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Yeah, I've highlighted this before on the show.
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They're taking some of the revenue that they get from uh tons of different areas.
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They're starting school programs and you know, after school programs, scholarships, uh paying for kids' school supplies, they're doing so many cool things that other states dream of doing.
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And it's because they're able to cut money.
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Oh, that's the other thing.
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Uh, Florida's in the process of eliminating their property tax.
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Now no, people are like, well, they're they're gonna they're gonna find the money somewhere else.
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They're just gonna raise taxes in other areas.
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Maybe, maybe not.
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Sounds to me like Florida has a pretty good grasp on things.
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They're pretty darn good at cutting money out of the budget, cutting waste out of the budget.
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Their entire state budget is less than the city of New York.
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I mean, you tell me who's who's wasting money.
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Well, those Republicans, they they just they they waste money, they all they ever do is waste money.
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Well, looks to me like Republican-led state of Florida is doing pretty good.
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Doing pretty good for itself, it's doing pretty good for people.
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I don't know about you, but four million dollars per hour, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Four million dollars in new revenue every single hour.
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That's pretty exciting.
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That's pretty impressive.
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So, yeah, I I don't know.
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Yeah, if if uh if I didn't love where I live so much, if I didn't love the area and and have friends here, I'd I'd probably move to somewhere cool like that.
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Even though it's it's just way too hot.
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Florida's too hot.
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I take that back.
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I repent in dust and ashes.
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I don't think uh I'm happy for people who who liked Florida and that kind of weather.
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I just don't, I don't love Florida.
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Florida's a cool, and again, it's one of those cool states to visit.
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I've had so much fun in Florida.
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The Everglades are some of the coolest places that I've ever been to.
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Some of the parks in the Everglades, I have a lot of fond memories being in the Everglades.
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What a cool area.
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But it's a cool area to visit.
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I just I don't like the heat, folks.
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I'll stay.
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I'm looking out the window right now, and it is just snowing and blowing like crazy, and I love it.
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Give me more.
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I could take nine months of winter and I'd be pretty happy.
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But at any rate,
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I digress.
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Florida is such a great state to move to.
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In Texas.
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That's another state that I just because of the heat.
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I would not live there.
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But it's a cool place to visit.
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And a lot of people are migrating to Texas because they're friendly towards businesses.
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And capitalism.
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So it's just always blown my mind, folks, that people vote for this kind of stuff.
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That they fall for the age-old trap of well, if we just pull more money from rich people, our lives will get better.
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And that's not how life works, is it?
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I don't know about you, but I've I've been around plenty of wealthy people.
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I've had continue to have, not that I did have.
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I continue to have very wealthy friends.
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Very wealthy.
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Their wealth has not improved my life.
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One little bit.
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And it's that whole idea that, which I really am not drawn to, that you kind of ride on the coattails of people's wealth.
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That somehow they owe you a portion of what they've earned.
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Just because they're wealthy.
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And I just, I will never be able to wrap my mind around that concept.
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That whole socialism communism concept.
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That you take from people who have wealth, who've built wealth, who've done it all on their own.
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They did it fairly.
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They they did it because they're hard workers.
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And somehow we're supposed to believe that because they're rich, they're immoral.
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That wealth itself is immoral.
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And it's not.
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In fact, my wealthy friends are some of the most generous people that I've ever met.
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Compassionate.
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They are giving.
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They uh they want to see people succeed and do well.
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That's the exact opposite of what we're told.
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We're told that they're greedy, that they want the little man to be down.
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That's not been my experience ever.
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Now it's not to say that that doesn't exist out there.
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There are, of course, greedy people.
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But everybody who I've ever known who has wealth.
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They want to see people succeed.
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They want to see young entrepreneurs do well.
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They want to see other businesses do well.
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Even their competitors.
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They're not cutthroat.
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You know, it's not like they just want to rip people off and climb their way to the top.
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Consequences be darned.
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They actually care about other people.
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They care about other businesses.
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And that's a great thing about Florida.
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And you can clearly see in their plan.
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You can see in their blueprint that they're making lots of room for people to grow wealth.
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Um they said here, uh, I think this is Wilson.
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Yeah, this is still Wilson.
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He said the big economics lesson in America right now is Florida's tax revenue is up.
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Our tax rates have gone down.
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In other words, people are paying less, but we're generating far more tax revenue because we have more people to tax.
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There are more people in business, and so prosperity is good.
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It's good for the economy, it's good for the government, it's good for the people.
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And he said, but people are relocating to Florida.
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They're moving their businesses here, they're investing in our communities.
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That's actually driving additional tax revenue.
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So you see, lowering taxes is good for the economy.
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We've got to wipe out this idea that the only way to get more tax revenue is to tax the wealthy.
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It's just not true.
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Taxing the wealthy will cause economies to go into a death spiral.
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And I agree.
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I agree with that assessment.
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I think that uh New York and California are really on the verge of collapse.
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May not happen in the next five years, ten years, but if they continue on the path that they're on right now, those states will collapse.
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Their economies will collapse.
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Look at Venezuela.
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Look at how wealthy not that long ago.
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Look how wealthy Venezuela was.
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They were so stinking successful.
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People were doing well.
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Uh, the average citizen in Venezuela was doing quite well for themselves.
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And it turned very quickly to extreme poverty.
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Where water, literal water, is being rationed out by the government.
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You have the government water trucks that come around and deliver drinking water.
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I mean, it's bad, folks.
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Cuba, look at what happened in Cuba.
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We could point to so many different countries.
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North Korea.
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The list goes on.
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Socialism does not work.
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Communism does not work.
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And Florida took.
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I love that this is happening on the on the 250-year anniversary of America.
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That their economy is just absolutely thriving.
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And honestly, I think a lot of what Florida's doing is recession proof.
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You know, is as the global economy might slow down a little bit, or the American economy might slow down a little bit.
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Florida, I think is is they've built themselves in a pretty good position.
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They really are.
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They're in a very good position.
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And we need to see more of this.
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We need to see more of this across America and uh North Dakota, that's another state that I think has done a fantastic job.
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You know, you're getting these pockets of states that are making really, really good policies that are good for the people, good for growth, good for the economy.
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And I just hope and pray it continues to spread.
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Florida is really on a good path.
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I mean, really on a good path.
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And just all the way around, they they are growing their economy.
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They're in position to take over Australia.
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Right now, currently, Australia is the 14th in global economy.
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Florida ranks 15th as far as global economy.
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They're about to push Australia down to
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15 and they're going to bump up to 14.
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They have a goal and a plan.
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That's an important thing.
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They have a plan to work their way up to the 10th largest global economy.
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And they're going to do that in very short order.
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And I love stories like this.
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It's not just a story.
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These are people's lives.
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That's the thing.
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I think all of us can agree that poverty, it just stinks.
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Seeing people struggle, it stinks.
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Having friends who can't pay their bills, it stinks.
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I just saw a friend of mine post yesterday about how everything is unbearable.
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Her bills are unbearable.
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Her electric is unbearable.
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Um, she can't keep up with her bills.
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She's behind on everything.
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And she was lamenting the fact that things have gotten so bad and it's just it's it's a it's a crappy economy.
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It's it's um times are tough.
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And she was basically pointing the finger at other people, saying that all these other people have made things so unbearable for the average person, and life's just not fair.
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And then she put a link to her personal Venmo.
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And she said, if you feel inclined to help me out, you know, uh help me out.
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And I'm not mocking her, I'm not making fun of her.
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My heart's breaking for her.
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Because she truly believes, she truly believes the lie that we've been told, that all of us little people, quote unquote, we're stuck, and there's nothing we can do about it.
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And no matter how hard you try, we've got to wait for the next policy to come along that's gonna save the day.
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We've got to wait for our representatives to raise taxes on the rich.
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We've got to wait for the next break.
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We've got to wait until Congress enacts some kind of law that's going to put the screws to the electric companies because how dare they raise the rates.
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People need electricity.
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It's not a luxury.
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We have to have electricity.
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And so how dare these electric companies, these these rich CEOs, right?
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That's always the narrative.
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Always.
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These rich CEOs at these electric companies and gas companies, oil companies.
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Look at how they were villainized.
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Oil companies, they're a bunch of rich CEOs.
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We have a church member who used to work, yeah.
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He was actually pretty high up for a major oil company.
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I won't mention the name because it's not relevant.
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But it was it was one of the top oil companies in the world.
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And he was talking to me before, and he's like, you know, these politicians, he just rolled his eyes.
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He's like, it's so insane.
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They villainize the CEOs and look at the profit margins for the oil companies, and they they made more profit than ever before.
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And he's like, they do realize, and he's like, and they know it.
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They're just so full of crap.
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They know that they take that money, the vast majority of that money that they make in profits, and they pump it back into exploration.
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He's like, it is very expensive to run oil companies.
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So he's like that that whole narrative that it's just a bunch of rich CEOs making off with people's money.
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And meanwhile, oil, the cost of oil goes up, and you know, it's just it's absolutely out of control.
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He's like, the reality is the biggest driver of high gas prices is taxes.
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Those same politicians, ironically, they're the ones who are inflicting harm on the American people.
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They're the greedy ones.
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They're the ones trying to exact every last penny out of us, the consumer.
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And then they villainize the companies, and they're like, those rich CEOs, we need to tax them more.
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It's just so crazy to me.
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These people are nuts.
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But at any rate, you know, things are going up, and they just are.
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That's a normal part of inflation.
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But the question is, what's the plan?
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Right?
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What is the plan?
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And if people don't have a plan, you better press them.
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Either press them really hard to try to get a plan out of them, to get them to fess up to what their plan is, or you hold them accountable.
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So let me give you an example.
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Florida has a plan.
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Listen to what the chamber says.
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All right.
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A lot of people ask us what's the secret to Florida's success.
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And at the Florida Chamber, we believe that no one else is responsible for Florida's success except for Florida.
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First of all, let me say I love that.
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They're not victims.
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They're not like California, California's responsible.
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Right?
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New York is responsible for the position we're in.
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They're like, no, nobody's responsible for our success and failure, except for Florida.
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We own it.
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We own our economy.
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Think about what I say about our personal quote-unquote economy.
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Our own budget.
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Nobody's responsible for it except you.
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The way that we spend or don't spend the amount of money that we that we generate by our jobs.
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If you're stuck at a dead-end job and you're making five bucks an hour, you have a choice.
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You don't have to stay at that job.
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You can better yourself.
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Plenty, plenty, plenty, plenty opportunity out there to better yourself.
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And for not a whole lot of money, you can better yourself.
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So at any rate, Wilson went on, he's the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce for Florida.
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He said, we have to look at everything from kindergarten readiness to how do we cut childhood poverty in half?
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How do we make sure we have the best education system in the nation?
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The best legal climate, tax climate, regulatory climate, and the best quality of life of anywhere on the continent.
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And that's exactly what Florida's done.
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Do you hear what he's saying?
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We have a plan.
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We're not looking to the federal government.
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Look at all these states that they hold their hand out.
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Do you remember when Ron DeSantis returned federal money?
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Name another state that's ever done that.
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He returned federal money, and he was like, Yeah, we didn't, we didn't use this money, so we're gonna give it back.
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Yeah, how many states cheat the system?
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I know here in Pennsylvania, I know grant writers, and they're like, man, if we don't use it, we'll lose it.
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Talking about the money from the federal government.
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So they're like, we invent programs just so that we can use every last penny that they gave us.
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Is that dishonest?
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I guess technically it's not, I guess.
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Is it ethical or moral?
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No.
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No.
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But virtually every state's doing that, and they're ripping off the taxpayers.
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They're paying for bloated programs, they're inventing programs that don't even exist just so that they can use the money because they're like, well, if we don't use it, we'll lose it.
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We got to use it all.
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No, you don't.
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You could give it back.
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If there's a surplus, you could be like Ron DeSantis, and you could send it back to Washington.
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But I love what Florida's doing just all the way around.
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Um he went on to say here, this is again Wilson, the Florida chamber CEO.
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He said, people of all incomes of all different backgrounds are relocating to Florida to work, to retire, to learn, to take advantage of our education system.
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Florida is literally a land of opportunity where everyone can succeed.
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We're so grateful to have all these billionaires move into Florida because they bring their businesses with them.
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They invest in communities.
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You see, it's it's
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It's the Dolly Parton effect.
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And that's what my brothers and I were talking about this past weekend.
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We said the Dolly Parton effect is it's it's the same as all the old money.
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You remember the old money, you have um Rockefeller and you know, all this old money.
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Look at what they did with their wealth.
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They built museums, free museums, free entrance.
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They built learning centers.
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We have the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.
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The Carnegies did just massive amounts of Philipanther work.
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They gave away tons and tons and tons of their wealth to better the community.
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And this is another thing.
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Uh I didn't even know about this because it's not on the news.
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This is another one of those stories, like, unless unless you're local, unless you hear about this, you're not going to hear it on the news.
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But UPMC, the UPMC hospital, UPMC healthcare system in Pittsburgh.
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Gave something like I forget what the amount was.
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I gotta look this up here a second.
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Oh, here we go.
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I was gonna say 10,000, it's not 10,000, it's 10 million.
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Uh UPMC contributes 10 million dollars to Pittsburgh for ambulances, freeing up money for the city to also buy additional snow plows.
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Under the last mayor, Pittsburgh had something like 75% of its snow removal fleet was down.
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It was out of service, out of commission.
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The previous mayor had bankrupted the city.
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He didn't put any money back into upkeep to repairs on the snow removal system.
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Well, Pittsburgh got hit with a big snowstorm, and it almost shut the city down.
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They had to contract or subcontract with other companies with private companies for snow removal, and they did a really good job.
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Pittsburgh actually, it was like the opposite of what happened in New York City.
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Pittsburgh actually did a really good job with not a lot of equipment to uh to handle the snow removal.
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You know, they they they had very little to work with, and they just made it work.
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They were like, you know, we're gonna figure this out and we're just gonna do it.
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Well, UPMC saw how well the city had coordinated, and they were like, we want to be a part of that.
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So they donated 10 million dollars for emergency vehicles and including ambulances and upgrading their snow equipment, their snow removal equipment.
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And that's just one company.
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So, you know, where you have billionaires, you tend to have this kind of philanthropy.
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And even though you don't hear about it, because again, politicians don't want you to hear about it.
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They want to villainize them, and they're like, oh, those wealthy CEOs.
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All right, that's just so dumb.
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What's actually happening is that when transparency is encouraged, when lower taxes is encouraged, when cutting budgets is encouraged.
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Now, not cutting for the sake of cutting, but cutting for the sake of cutting fat.
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You cut the things that just don't work out of your uh entirely out of your budget.
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And then when there's a plan to eradicate homeless, to eradicate poverty, to provide jobs for people living in poverty, to say our state is a state for everybody.
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We don't discriminate.
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We we are a state for everybody.
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We care for everybody, everybody has opportunity.
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Uh we're all responsible for ourselves.
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We can't look at other states and be like, well, you know, that it's their problem, their fault.
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Florida is responsible for Florida.
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Floridians are responsible for Floridians.
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Everybody tends to work together.
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And Florida legitimately is becoming a model for the rest of America and hopefully for the rest of the world.
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So I want you to listen to this quote.
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Florida's actually delivering on the promise of freedom and free enterprise.
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If you've got a family that wants to thrive or a company that that wants to thrive, I think people are realizing Flirt is not just this idea and experiment.
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We're actually doing it, and it's working.
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And I think that's what's most gratifying to me.
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That's a quote again by Mark Wilson.
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He went on to say, he's got a lot of good quotes.
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I really like Wilson.
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He said, These billionaires believe that Florida can do this, and they want to be here to take advantage of the innovation, the creativity, the resiliency, the growth opportunity that we have here in Florida.
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And states like California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, they're literally killing innovation.
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They're literally putting a lid on those types of opportunities that really make America as good as it is.
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So when you have states like Florida that encourage billionaires and they actually have conversations with them, they give them a seat at the table, and they give them an equal seat at the table with everybody else.
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What they tend to do is the billionaires begin to see the people sitting across the table from them.
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They see the person who's struggling.
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They see the person who has a hard time making ends meet, who's putting their Venmo information out in the uh social media sphere because they're just desperate.
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They're desperate for money, they're desperate for opportunity.
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So these billionaires begin to see those people, and they say, how can we, how can we work together to fix that problem?
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How do we work together to provide jobs and opportunity?
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And that's why I'm excited about Florida.
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I really, really, really think that they're gonna prove to be such a good model.
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And we're gonna see poverty really maybe not be eliminated, but we're certainly gonna see much better communities and people having so much better opportunity to work and to get jobs that are actually sustainable for their families.
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