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Tom Zawistowski - WeThePeopleConvention.org · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven fifty five Krcity Talk station. Find them online. We
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  Speaker 1: either people Convention dot org. Who is he? Ease Town
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  Speaker 1: Zawastowski f and we the People Convention dot or. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a new podcast there every week which you can follow.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Tom, It's always nice having you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's great, you know, to be on with you.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm listening to this conversation you're having about the
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  Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati and Bryan. It just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it makes no sense. They've got what a
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  Speaker 2: two billion dollar budget and they're acting like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to cut twelve million dollars, we got to cut six
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  Speaker 2: million from the police force. I mean, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: what's what's twelve million dollars out of two billion, It's
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  Speaker 2: like less than one percent. How long will it take
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  Speaker 2: you and your wife to figure out how to cut
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  Speaker 2: one percent of your spending for the rest of this year?
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  Speaker 1: If you went home today and as I could figure
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  Speaker 1: that out and my thoughts in the back of my
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  Speaker 1: head right now already did it right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Right, So here's the problem there. This this is nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Look at their their their budgets for the last three okay,
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. I'm using my handy AI, so
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  Speaker 2: these may not be totally accurate. But in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four their budget was one point eight billion, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a change of sixteen percent increase from the year before,
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  Speaker 2: when inflation was three point four. In twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: that went up to one point nine to five billion,
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  Speaker 2: which is another eight point three percent increase. Inflation was
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  Speaker 2: three percent. This year they're at two point sixty seven billion,
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  Speaker 2: which is a six percent increase. Inflation's two point five.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about how there's no controls on
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  Speaker 2: their spending. It's real simple. I raise the income taxes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: get out of here, shut up. Cut suspending. You're just
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  Speaker 2: spending like drunken sailors.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know you ran about the city budget. We'll
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  Speaker 1: dovetailed quite nicely in the d d ramasow he's proposal
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  Speaker 1: regarding property tax rollbacks, because I think in the final analysis,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get into details on this in the next segment,
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  Speaker 1: final analysis it, we're gonna cut it, We're gonna roll
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  Speaker 1: them back, and then local governments will continue. This is
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  Speaker 1: from his website. Local governments will continue to operate, but
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  Speaker 1: with greater discipline. That's kind of what you're driving at,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, Tom. The City of Cincinnati needs to exercise
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  Speaker 1: a greater measure of discipline, like, for example, not chasing
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  Speaker 1: carbon dioxide and quit spending so much damn money on
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  Speaker 1: green energy proposals which do nothing to help the planet
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  Speaker 1: or the residents of the City of Cincinnati's core needs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the discussion that I've been having with
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  Speaker 2: a thank for the last six months that the property
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  Speaker 2: tax is obviously the most important issue in the state.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, all the polls show that people
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  Speaker 2: are really incensive about that and it has to be addressed.
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  Speaker 2: But it's more than just giving people the money back
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  Speaker 2: that was stolen from them when they raised property taxes
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  Speaker 2: so crazily in the last few years. It's about reforming
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  Speaker 2: our local governments because we have a problem. Every government
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  Speaker 2: entity in Ohio operates like the City of Cincinnati. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: the answer is always baction, more money. There's never never
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  Speaker 2: gonny cutbacks. Well, when I said to the thank you can't.
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  Speaker 2: They won't cut back voluntarily. The only way to force
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  Speaker 2: them to rethink what they're doing is to take some
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  Speaker 2: money from them that makes them do that and that's
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  Speaker 2: what this property tax is about. As well as giving people,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some some fair property tax rates. It's about
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  Speaker 2: reforming state government and local government.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. Starve the cancer. That's the way to get
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  Speaker 1: around it. Let's bought. We'll pause. We'll bring Tom z
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  Speaker 1: Awastowski from We the People Convention up the talk station,
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five k CD talk station. Brian Thomas talking
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  Speaker 1: with tom's Awastowski. We the People Convention dot org is
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  Speaker 1: the website. Check it out. That's good reporting there and
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  Speaker 1: of course his weekly podcast right there at the website.
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  Speaker 1: Tom z Awastowski pivoted over to the Evan Gramaswami's plan
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  Speaker 1: and some of the information that he puts ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the proposal, which is really important to point out. Our
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  Speaker 1: property taxes generally in Ohio have gone up forty five
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  Speaker 1: percent since twenty twenty. Well, how taxpayers are now paying
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  Speaker 1: roughly forty percent more pupil per pupil than before COVID pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, as we all know and are sadly and
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  Speaker 1: painfully aware of, well public schools, math, reading, and writing
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  Speaker 1: standards have all deteriorated in spite of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we're paying forty percent more per pupil, so money does
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  Speaker 1: not translate into superior academics. I think this is the
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  Speaker 1: lead in saying, hey, time to tighten the belt. Viva
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswami's plan is too, well, immediately roll back to property
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  Speaker 1: tax levels. It's pretty substantially and that results in what
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  Speaker 1: tomasz Awastowski, what are we all to do if, like,
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  Speaker 1: for example, he rolls back to property taxes, the money's
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  Speaker 1: not going to roll in. So how are the schools
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  Speaker 1: going to get funded?
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  Speaker 2: Tom? Well, see this is the push pull that you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing between the ax Ohio tax group is saying we
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  Speaker 2: want to total repeal all property taxes. And when you say, well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: how are you going to fund the schools? Their answer
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  Speaker 2: is that's for their job to figure out. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are concerned and say that's not a plan.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, if you repeal all property taxes, you
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  Speaker 2: kind of have chaos. So what I think the bank
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  Speaker 2: and the legislature now he's talking to the legislature about
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  Speaker 2: getting on board with this. What they're talking about is
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  Speaker 2: rolling back. You notice he's talking about reform and rolling
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  Speaker 2: back property taxes. He's talking about going back to either
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty or twenty twenty one levels, which is before
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  Speaker 2: these are gregious increases of thirty percent or forty percent
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  Speaker 2: happened in a lot of communities based on the property valuation. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's where this thing went off the rails. So he's
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  Speaker 2: not saying we're going to eliminate property taxes. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to roll them back. But what that's going to do
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  Speaker 2: is it's going to amount to a lot of savings
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  Speaker 2: for I mean a lot of people if we're going
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  Speaker 2: to say thousands of dollars a year going forward, if
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  Speaker 2: he does that on their productus, but the schools and
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  Speaker 2: the police and the fire it's looking to me from
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  Speaker 2: the figures that they're sharing with me, is this going
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  Speaker 2: to be like a nine or ten percent cut? Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know you could cut a dollar from any government
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  Speaker 2: at day and l screen bloody murders day I got
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  Speaker 2: to shut down, right, But nine or ten percent is
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  Speaker 2: in this realm where they now don't have enough way
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing business as usual. So maybe we've got
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  Speaker 2: to combine these departments, or maybe we've got to consolidate
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  Speaker 2: these school systems, or maybe we've got to like your
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  Speaker 2: one person was talking about updating this database that the
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  Speaker 2: police has, the records system that doesn't work well, And
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  Speaker 2: this is the kind of stuff that we've got to
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  Speaker 2: get elected officials thinking about, because they never do. They
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  Speaker 2: just think, well, we can't cut anybody, we can't get
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  Speaker 2: any expenses, and we have these pet projects we want
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  Speaker 2: to do, so let's just keep raising taxes. That's just
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  Speaker 2: not the answer. And so I think what Bank's trying
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  Speaker 2: to take a more reasonable approach, and I'm pushing him
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  Speaker 2: to now, like, let's put this really out there for
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  Speaker 2: the legislature to put on the ballot. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he's just very respectful of the ax Ohio tax people.
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  Speaker 2: He met with them. He knows Brian Massey and Leonard
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  Speaker 2: those guys are patriots. I love those guys. And he's
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  Speaker 2: so he's kind of not ready to just come out
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  Speaker 2: and say, don't do what they're asking me to do.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to give them their chance, but if they
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  Speaker 2: don't make it on the ballot, I think he's preparing
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  Speaker 2: something that it's going to really help. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: help you individually as a tax payer, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to help reform our government, which is the other really
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  Speaker 2: important thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll acknowledge I wouldn't mind having the property
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  Speaker 1: taxes roll back to pre COVID. I mean, we've got
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  Speaker 1: six years worth of relief or increases that my deal with.
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  Speaker 1: But that is going to That suggests to me that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have to come up with a new
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  Speaker 1: methodology for calculating property taxes generally, because it was that
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  Speaker 1: massive spike as a consequence of COVID, when people really
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have to work anymore or go to work
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  Speaker 1: anymore downtown, they moved all over the place, increasing the
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  Speaker 1: price of homes everywhere, and we all know how that worked.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still calculated based upon the market value of
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  Speaker 1: the home.
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  Speaker 2: So we need to that's a change, that's that's gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw the legislature actually made a move in
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  Speaker 2: that direction. And that has to do with you, not
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  Speaker 2: to get too technical, the inside millage and the outside millage,
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  Speaker 2: which most people don't even know what the hell a
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  Speaker 2: mill is, but the whole thing about using the property
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  Speaker 2: value to decide the inside millage, which is the taxes,
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  Speaker 2: the private taxes that schools and communities can put on
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  Speaker 2: you without a vote. Well they've changed that now and
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  Speaker 2: then and reveca is really for this where it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be tied to inflation, not to your property value,
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  Speaker 2: because that's a much more sane standard for calculating, and
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  Speaker 2: that will so it's not only let's roll this back,
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  Speaker 2: let's slow it down. Okay, there might even be a
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  Speaker 2: thing on here for the outside millage that yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: could still put a new property tax on the ballot,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe you got to get sixty percent of the
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  Speaker 2: vote to pass it or fifty five, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: little harder. So there's talk about those kind of restraints
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  Speaker 2: as well on regrowing it once you cut it back,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what they always do, right, You cut something
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  Speaker 2: and the next year they say, oh, we can't survive.
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  Speaker 2: We got a good ticket, all back and go further.
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  Speaker 1: Well in the other layer in this and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: quite sure how it factors in whether we can, you know,
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  Speaker 1: figure out the reality of it, but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: very clear the embracing of school choice across this country.
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  Speaker 1: Many states are allowing the tax payer dollars to follow
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  Speaker 1: the children. I like the concept, but statistically, I think
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  Speaker 1: there are fewer people in the public schools, given that
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  Speaker 1: we've got all kinds of options, including you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: educated at home. Home schooling's great for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: There are other schools out there that people want to
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  Speaker 1: go to, like the Sincinni Classical for example. So more
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  Speaker 1: competition means maybe lesser needs from the public school system.
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  Speaker 1: They can afford to tighten their belts a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and this is really the insane part of that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look at those stats. You just stated that
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  Speaker 2: the VEG puts out there, we're paying forty percent more
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  Speaker 2: for pupils and our scores are going down. I mean, wow, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So here's the bottom line. You know, our public school system,
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  Speaker 2: which is really just a jobs program for leftisto teachers
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  Speaker 2: that isn't as dead men walking. AI is going to
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  Speaker 2: just dramatically change the whole education system like it or not.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a video at our website at WEAD Thepeopleconvention
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  Speaker 2: dot Org. You can go to the video section and
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  Speaker 2: there's a real interesting video about how AI will change
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  Speaker 2: education where these people are actually doing it. They're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. They've started schools and you may not
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  Speaker 2: agree with what they say before, you got to watch
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  Speaker 2: that video because it's it's the most interesting thing I've
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  Speaker 2: seen about how will AI really impact schools. The other
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  Speaker 2: line is Brian the trades man. Yes, the trades I
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  Speaker 2: was just having a conversation this weekend with one of
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  Speaker 2: my nephews because he's got two boys, who are, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just graduating from high school and one's just going to college,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm saying, stop, you got to look at their future.
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  Speaker 2: Their future is not getting a college education right now.
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  Speaker 2: You want to make bank, go to a trade school man.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be making you know, over one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: a year and six months, and you'll have a future
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  Speaker 2: because you'll have some money to invest in companies in
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  Speaker 2: the stock market, which is where the growth will be.
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  Speaker 2: This whole idea of like let's go to college and
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  Speaker 2: spend four years learning something that you can't get a
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  Speaker 2: job in has got to stop. And that's why you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing twenty five percent of colleges are in danger of
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  Speaker 2: closing down. It's going to be seventy five percent of
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  Speaker 2: colleges are going to close down. We need to reorient Brian,
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  Speaker 2: because we're not in Kansas anymore. Dorothy, No, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great observation, and you know, just need to
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  Speaker 1: think it's not even that much out of the box.
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  Speaker 2: AI.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, computers crunching numbers, crunching data, you know, bringing about
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  Speaker 1: some great benefits in some areas and frightening people in
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  Speaker 1: the other areas because they might lose their job because
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  Speaker 1: of it. What can't computers do answer trades? Plumbing, electric building,
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  Speaker 1: things put over us?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I listened to my daughter's fiancees in the trades.
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  Speaker 1: He went to college, but he was in the roofing
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  Speaker 1: game when he was in college. He just stuck it
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  Speaker 1: out and he is making a living and providing in
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  Speaker 1: part for my daughter based upon in the roofing business.
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  Speaker 1: And he loves it. And you know, that's it's the
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  Speaker 1: wave of the future.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad you again, Brian. It's not forever. See
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  Speaker 2: these people get so. You know, we were fortunate to
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  Speaker 2: live in and our grandparents of in a world where
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  Speaker 2: you went to work at you know, whatever the GM
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  Speaker 2: plan or something, and you worked there your entire life.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't quite get that, but we got some stability.
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  Speaker 2: But if you go to work in the trades, this
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  Speaker 2: might be a five or ten year deal because you
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  Speaker 2: can make some bank and really get invested and then
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  Speaker 2: is the AI world. It starts to evolve. You're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be doing the same thing you were doing. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be doing something else. And so you got to
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  Speaker 2: look at it from where's the opportunity right now, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to take that opportunity right now.
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  Speaker 1: All going back to a reduction in the needs of
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  Speaker 1: the traditional public education system. Tom z Awastowski, we the
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  Speaker 1: People Convention dot orgs where you follow and bookmark the
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  Speaker 1: page and check out what he has to say and
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  Speaker 1: all the things he posts up each and every week.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm staring at the video page here. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a look at that. How will AI change education?
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  Speaker 1: Well it Yeah, I'm definitely gonna watch that when I
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  Speaker 1: get off the program this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Look forward to having you back on real soon. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great week, my friend. Thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 2: Same to you guys. Thanks for having me on. Brian.
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  Speaker 2: I love being with you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you being with us seven fifty right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have cares