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Speaker 1: We tried to tell everybody. Yeah, I mean, we did

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Speaker 1: our part for humanity. And you know, look, I got

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Speaker 1: a giant ego, but I don't say these things just

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Speaker 1: to just to stroke my ego. I say these things

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Speaker 1: because I'm trying to cut off calamity. And yet all

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Speaker 1: these MENSA members, these steamed greatest amongst us down the

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Speaker 1: street from US at two hundred Washington on two hundred

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Speaker 1: West Washington Street, have their heads apparently so far jammed

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Speaker 1: up their backsides that they can't see the most obvious

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Speaker 1: of stuff. And now here we go, it looks like

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Speaker 1: we're going to be proven exactly correct. You are going

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Speaker 1: to see as we described what it would be the

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Speaker 1: wild West next year of school referendums.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so w An E. Wayne has an article Indiana

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Speaker 2: could see upwards of almost one hundred referendums.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so Wayne is a Fort Wayne based television station.

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Speaker 1: They I believe, right, I believe therefore Wayne. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: obviously there was a school referencem in Fort Wayne which

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Speaker 1: failed just the other day. And we said this when

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Speaker 1: they were debating this nonsensical, ridiculous gobblygook that they came

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Speaker 1: up with. That is Senate Bill one. We said you

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Speaker 1: are not you. You the lawmakers, you the governor are

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Speaker 1: not addressing several of the core issues and the core

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Speaker 1: problems with property taxes. One, if you eliminate the eye, well,

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Speaker 1: let even talk about the idea of whether there should

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Speaker 1: be property taxes, which there shouldn't. That's your home, you

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Speaker 1: bought it, the government didn't have anything to do with it.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't have to pay taxes on something you own

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Speaker 1: that doesn't exist anywhere else other than with property taxes. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: but let's just operate from the premise that property taxes exist.

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Speaker 1: It is utterly ridiculous for any person with an IQ

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Speaker 1: of seven would agree with this seven or above would

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Speaker 1: agree with this, that you pay taxes based on what

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Speaker 1: someone else does with their home. As in, when some

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Speaker 1: other guy sells his house and makes money, you get

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Speaker 1: punished because your property taxes go up because then they say,

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Speaker 1: well it's sold, Yeah, it's sold for whatever. This guy's

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Speaker 1: house sold for whatever. So now you're homesordmore and you

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Speaker 1: pay more in taxes. That doesn't make any sense to anyone.

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Speaker 1: That is the problem with property taxes if they're going

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Speaker 1: to exist, and that is why they have skyrocketed because

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Speaker 1: other people have cashed out, and you being a good

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Speaker 1: and decent member of the community who trims their grass

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Speaker 1: and waters their lawn and and you know, yes, right,

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Speaker 1: you are getting screwed for setting up stable roots in

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Speaker 1: your community and living there ten, fifteen, twenty thirty years.

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Speaker 1: You get the big punishment while other people get the

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Speaker 1: big payoff. That's the first part of it. They did

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Speaker 1: nothing in this bill to address the systemic the root

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Speaker 1: cause of this systemic problem. The other thing they didn't do,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't address, is raining in the spending and

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Speaker 1: the ability of these local governments of which schools are

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Speaker 1: the primary viewser to hold the community hostage. And we said,

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Speaker 1: as soon as you pass this bill, you are going

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Speaker 1: to see some school corporations aren't even going to wait

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Speaker 1: for your stupid little bill to take effect. Were we

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Speaker 1: right on that? We were absolutely right on that. Look

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Speaker 1: at all the referendums it took place this year, and

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Speaker 1: then we said the next year, you are going to

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Speaker 1: see a sprint. Now they got to wait till November,

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Speaker 1: but you are going to see a sprint for these

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Speaker 1: school corporations to try to pass these referendums. Because They're

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Speaker 1: not going to take the cut in revenue. They're not

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Speaker 1: going to take the decrease in revenue unless you force

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Speaker 1: them to do it, and there's nothing that forces them

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Speaker 2: According to this article, they say that some school districts

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Speaker 2: are already mobilizing for next year. Sure, I'm already planning,

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Speaker 2: I don't doubt it, which means the opposition needs to

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Speaker 2: start planning as well.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is, and we saw this like in Amon,

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Speaker 1: you have a system set up in which government employees

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Speaker 1: can go out and mobilize and lobby in maths else

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Speaker 1: for themselves to raise the taxes. Oh and by the way,

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Speaker 1: many of these people live in the community. How is

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Speaker 1: this not a conflict of interest? They get to vote

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Speaker 1: on whether they should financially benefit from people's taxes getting raised.

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Speaker 1: That's the system setup.

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Speaker 2: See.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the things that these local governments have,

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Speaker 1: these schools, suburban school districts have done. That has happened

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Speaker 1: quietly over the past decade decade and a half is

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Speaker 1: they have started making these teachers live in the school

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Speaker 1: district in order to get the job. And they do

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Speaker 1: it under the guys of well, we want people who

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Speaker 1: are invested in our community.

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Speaker 2: No, they want you to be able to vote.

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Speaker 1: They want these people to vote when they do these

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Speaker 1: school referendums. And so if you start, you know, at

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Speaker 1: a seven eight, nine hundred person advantage, which you know,

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Speaker 1: that's how many employees a lot of these local school

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Speaker 1: districts will have. That's it's not we're trying to do

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Speaker 1: everything on the uput up. And then you got people

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Speaker 1: mobilizing for their own money, and then you got people

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Speaker 1: their spouses they're voting. You start with conceivably a two

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Speaker 1: thousand person advantage in some cases of people who are

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Speaker 1: going to financially benefit off of you getting.

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Speaker 2: Screwed referendums going yeah, but our lawmakers looked at all

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Speaker 2: this and said, this seems reasonable to me. Let the

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Speaker 2: school districts take care of it. So anyway more money,

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Speaker 2: they're going to have to work for it.

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Speaker 1: So what you're going to have now is you're going

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Speaker 1: to have these school districts. They're going to try to

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Speaker 1: do these referendums. Now, people who like me, it would

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Speaker 1: be great sport and fun for me to beat another. One.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I don't think some of

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Speaker 1: these school districts are going to think through is that

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Speaker 1: you're going to have many of these school board members

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Speaker 1: up for reelection while these referendums are on the ballot.

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Speaker 1: You're going to now have more people voting because they're

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Speaker 1: in the general election. You won't be able to just

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Speaker 1: mobilize your people like those sneaks, he scoundrels and Amon

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Speaker 1: did so. I don't think you're going to see them

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Speaker 1: passed at the rate you've seen them pass before. But

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous that you have to even go through this process.

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Speaker 1: And I blame the Indiana General Assembly because people like

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Speaker 1: us have been screaming about this, and yet they still

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Speaker 1: pass this bill that did nothing to curtail to spending.

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Speaker 1: It did nothing to increase accountability in local governments across

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Speaker 1: the board, including our schools, and it's just made the

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Speaker 1: problem infinitely worse.

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Speaker 2: Well, and they threatened right, staff cuts, larger classes, reduced programming.

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Speaker 2: These are all the things we're going to have to

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Speaker 2: deal with or they're just.

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Speaker 1: Going to do the referendum. Yeah, well, they use kids

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Speaker 1: as human shields. It's the only place like what do

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Speaker 1: we hear all the time in our business? Hey, Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: we had to let blah blah blah, go right, you know,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes that person had been here fifteen twenty years. Right.

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Speaker 1: Every industry other than government is going through this right now.

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Speaker 1: And the question everyone should be asking when these referendums

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Speaker 1: pop up in your school district is what did you

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Speaker 1: do with all the money, the excess revenue that you

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Speaker 1: have received over the past five years. I know what

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Speaker 1: they did where I lived. They build a bunch of

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Speaker 1: fieldhouses and an extra football field. Oh and they build

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Speaker 1: a giant road near my neighbor's backyard to ruin their day.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be a real tough cry for me,

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Speaker 1: Argentina Spiel in a lot of these, especially suburban school districts,

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Speaker 1: when you're able to point out, look at all this up,

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Speaker 1: the tennis courts, all of this stuff that has nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with actual in classroom learning, and now you

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Speaker 1: come out and cry poor. I don't think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people go buy that