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Speaker 3: But I got to imagine if I was getting carted

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Speaker 1: Now people were reporting that he wasn't he wasn't upset,

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Speaker 4: That was That's how it works.

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Speaker 3: That's the reaction I would expect to somebody whose name

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Speaker 2: His name that he's using, Drew mount Baton Windsor.

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Speaker 3: That sounds like somebody who's part of the royal family,

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Speaker 1: So police are investigating whether he shared confidential business or

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Speaker 2: He has not been charged. He has also not been cleared.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that there are a lot of

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Speaker 8: Amanda, how much confidence do you have that will happen,

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Speaker 1: So public trust eroads when powerful figures appear untouchable. But

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Speaker 1: And if there is new evidence, state authorities they should

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Speaker 2: You're listening to ninety three WYBC. When you allow.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing more and more reports about these trucks licenses

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Speaker 1: Witnesses and police reported that the semi ran a red

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Speaker 3: Well, but it's our responsibility to raise the noise about

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Speaker 4: And we did this. So it's us.

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Speaker 3: It's us, the citizens of this country that have to say, look,

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Speaker 1: It makes me think when we were driving back from

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Speaker 4: And that's why this is such a big deal.

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Speaker 3: Look everything that you look and see around you right now,

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Speaker 1: We do love our transportation experts, our truckers.

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Speaker 1: The ones that are doing it illegally without having proper

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about sleep vacation. It's a vacation. Sleepcation

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Speaker 2: And then you come back more exhausted.

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Speaker 3: If you've ever taken a child to Disney World, you

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to get back to work, to work

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a new trend sleepcations, and it is literally

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Speaker 3: It sounds fantastic to me. Here's the problem with me

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Speaker 3: We slept on the absolute hardest beds I have ever

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Speaker 4: What I need for a sleep vacation.

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Speaker 3: Look, all this sounds wonderful, nice comfy bed, you know

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Speaker 4: Completely dark in there.

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Speaker 3: But I'm at the point where I need I need

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Speaker 4: Over the waw.

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Speaker 1: Some hotels are now offering sleep focused packages with CBD products.

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Speaker 4: There's something fine.

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Speaker 1: Weighted blankets, pillow menus, and also other sleep aids like

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Speaker 2: The news and a lot of them not good, and.

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Speaker 1: Just the stress of increased bills and the faster pace

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Speaker 3: When you said the word sleep menu or pillow menu

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, the idea of a pillow menu

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Speaker 1: Finally, vacations that are actually helping you recharge. Hotels selling

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Speaker 1: these sleep packages, proving that people are valuing their health

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Speaker 1: over thrills or just need a break.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to ninety three WIBC.

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Speaker 10: Under the last administration, every economic policy punished American workers

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Speaker 10: the exact opposite, taking in order to outsource while rewarding

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Speaker 1: Apparently Donald Trump has not seen the job openings at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and for jobs that you would think there would

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Speaker 1: So there's a new word going around, and it's called

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Speaker 3: at twenty twenty five today. I think it was one

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Speaker 3: point seven percent. There were people talking that it should

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Speaker 3: be around four point five or maybe even five percent.

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Speaker 3: So it was really a struggle and a lot of

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Speaker 3: economists back to what you were saying, Casey, you're talking

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Speaker 3: about this is a K shaped recovery. So if you

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Speaker 3: think of a capital K, part of it's going up,

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Speaker 3: but the other part of it's going down. And we

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Speaker 3: talked about this a lot. If you hold assets things

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Speaker 3: like stocks, if you've got a lot of equity in

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Speaker 3: your home, if you're a small business owner, if you

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Speaker 3: own gold or silver or any sort of maybe you

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Speaker 3: own a small business or some commercial real estate.

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Speaker 4: If you have.

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Speaker 3: Hard assets as investments, things have been going great for

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Speaker 3: you for years. The stock market's way up, housing prices

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Speaker 3: are way up, Asset values for everything are way up.

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Speaker 3: The problem is for the vast majority of people in

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Speaker 3: this country, they don't.

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Speaker 4: Own a ton of assets.

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Speaker 3: They have to live their life and get you know,

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Speaker 3: pay for their bills based on the income they get

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Speaker 3: from their job, and that's where things are really struggling.

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Speaker 3: We saw a much softer job market in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: And while you.

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Speaker 3: Add up all the inflation from the last seven several years,

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Speaker 3: inflation's up about thirty five percent, but wages are only

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Speaker 3: up about twenty one percent. And that's really the problem

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Speaker 3: here is that when we talk about inflation, and yes,

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Speaker 3: the rate of inflation has come down and it's better,

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Speaker 3: but the wages haven't gone up to make up for

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Speaker 3: all the inflation that we've seen since twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: And that's the exact reason why life is unaffordable for

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Speaker 3: too many Americans right.

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Speaker 1: Well, if data is showing growth, it doesn't matter if

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Speaker 1: people feel like they can't pay their bills or if

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Speaker 1: they can't pay their bills. You can have a rising

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Speaker 1: GDP and you can have market gains. But if everyday

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Speaker 1: Americans are feeling squeeze higher prices for essentials and slow

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Speaker 1: wage growth. Like you mentioned, it doesn't matter the policymakers.

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Speaker 1: They need to focus on real world well being, not

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Speaker 1: just headline numbers and the boom. It's not for everybody

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Speaker 1: when you've got stock market games, but not everybody is

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Speaker 1: in the stop stock market game, right.

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Speaker 2: That doesn't translate down to main street for everybody.

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Speaker 3: And I think we have to say this as many

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Speaker 3: times as we have to say it until people understand it.

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Speaker 3: The stock market is not the US economy. It just isn't.

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Speaker 3: And that's what we're seeing right now, and that's why

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Speaker 3: this two term boom session is being thrown around in

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Speaker 3: K shaped for coveries are being thrown around. Look, the

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Speaker 3: stock market's fantastic. It was up to fifty thousand. It's

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Speaker 3: down just a little bit from that.

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Speaker 4: But look, the.

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Speaker 3: Stock market had a spectacular year last year and it's having.

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Speaker 4: A very good to twenty twenty six so far.

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Speaker 3: But the American worker is not did not have a

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Speaker 3: good twenty twenty five and they're not having a good

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty six so far.

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Speaker 1: You can't just use Wall Street metrics because wealthier households

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Speaker 1: and markets tend to benefit more while lower income families

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Speaker 1: are going to feel worse off, and that's going to

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Speaker 1: lead to the feeling of.

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Speaker 2: A boom that doesn't reach most people.

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Speaker 1: You've got Donald Trump, though, he's saying that he won affordability.

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Speaker 8: And then I have to listen to the fake news

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Speaker 8: talking about affordability, affordability. You notice what word have you

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Speaker 8: not heard over the last two weeks affordability?

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Speaker 4: Because I've won. I've won affordability. I had to go

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Speaker 4: out and talk about it. But we inherited a mess.

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Speaker 4: We inherited the worst inflation in history.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so he won affordability.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, do you feel like you won? No, he's you win.

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Speaker 3: I think the only person that thinks that he wanted

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Speaker 3: affordability is him. He's declared himself the winner of affordability.

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Speaker 3: And yes, while we don't have seven dollar eggs anymore,

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Speaker 3: I get that. But there are three areas that are

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Speaker 3: crushing Americans right now, actually four, we'll talk about four,

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Speaker 3: but it's housing.

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Speaker 4: And Donald Trump just came out yesterday and said.

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna build a ton of more housing because

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Speaker 3: if we build a lot more housing, that means that

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Speaker 3: basic supply and demand. But were gonna lose equity. The

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Speaker 3: existing housing prices are going to fall. That's you build

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Speaker 3: a ten thousand or twenty thousand new homes in Karmel tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: the value of the existing homes in Karmel just flat

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Speaker 3: out will go down. So housing is number one. Healthcare

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Speaker 3: is number two. We know health insurance has gone up

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Speaker 3: for everybody. Shoot, that's what the big government shutdown was

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Speaker 3: all about last year. Extendsing the Obamacare subsidies and people

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Speaker 3: aren't gonna be able to afford their healthcare. That is

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Speaker 3: crushing people.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna pause you there for just

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Speaker 1: a second because let's get real. Many of our listeners

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Speaker 1: know that at the beginning of the year, I was

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Speaker 1: out sick and we paid bills last night, and one

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Speaker 1: of those was the medical bills.

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Speaker 2: It was over two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we have health insurance.

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Speaker 2: I have health insurance.

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Speaker 4: You have health insurance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, your health insurance went up a

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Speaker 3: lot this year, certainly, not just a normal three percent

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Speaker 3: increase from twenty five to twenty six. It was a

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Speaker 3: big increase. So not only are you paying more for

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Speaker 3: the insurance, we're paying more for the actual medical procedures. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you're right, that's a great world world example. The third

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Speaker 3: thing is energy. This is going to become a bigger

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Speaker 3: thing going forward. We heard reports earlier this week about

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Speaker 3: people in northern Indiana which saw their energy bills double triple,

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Speaker 3: in in some instances went up.

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Speaker 4: Four times what it normally is.

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Speaker 3: And then the last one is taxes and taxes, especially

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Speaker 3: in the form of property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes.

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Speaker 3: Those four things are really the big reason why life

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Speaker 3: is so unaffordable and so difficult for so many people

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 1: So you've got utilities, electronics, appliances, other everyday goods. They've

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Speaker 1: all seen increase costs this year. Corporate America bracing to

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Speaker 1: be blamed for it, but they're not stopping either. They

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Speaker 1: say that they're going to adjust their messaging. They're not

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Speaker 1: going to adjust their prices, They're going to adjust how

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Speaker 1: they talk about it because they're not going to absorb

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Speaker 1: the cost. But they're going to tell you they're going

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Speaker 1: to absorb the cost to try and help well.

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Speaker 3: Corporate America has no responsibility to us, the American.

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Speaker 4: People to keep prices low.

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Speaker 3: They have a responsibility of their shareholders and they're going

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Speaker 3: to try and charge us as much as they possibly can,

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Speaker 3: and in the free market system, great, if they charge

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Speaker 3: us an incredible amount, way more than what the market

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Speaker 3: should bear, that should tell you that there should be

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Speaker 3: a lower cost opportunity for somebody to come into the

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Speaker 3: market to prove that point home. We just heard this

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Speaker 3: week the CEO of Chipotle came out and basically said,

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Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing here, but the CEO of Chipotle basically said,

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Speaker 3: we want to target customers with household incomes over one

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars because that way we can raise the

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Speaker 3: price and they're not going to complain about it. So

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Speaker 3: those corporations, they don't care about you. They don't care

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Speaker 3: how much money you make. They're trying to make as

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Speaker 3: much money for their shareholders as they possibly can. Sol

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Speaker 3: do not expect Chipotle to be nice to you. Do

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Speaker 3: not expect big corporation to sit here and say, look.

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Speaker 2: They're in the business to make money.

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Speaker 3: We made this money, but we don't need to make

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Speaker 3: more money. What if we lowered our prices and made

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Speaker 3: less profit. They're not going to do that, And to

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Speaker 3: have any expectation that they are as ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Look at the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 3: The Chicago Bears and the mccaske family are worth billions

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Speaker 3: of dollars, but they know if they pit the state

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Speaker 3: of Illinois versus the State of Indiana, one of them

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Speaker 3: is going to bring a dump truck full of money

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Speaker 3: and back it up to Hallas Hall and give them

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Speaker 3: whatever they want.

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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: And it turned out that it looks like it's the

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Speaker 2: State of Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Could very well be the stake billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: So even though the State of Indiana just raised taxes

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Speaker 1: by a billion and by the way.

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Speaker 3: That dump truck full of money that they're going to

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Speaker 3: back up to Hallas Hall is your money. They got

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Speaker 3: your tax dollars that are in that dump truck.

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Speaker 1: So we were just talking about the sleepcation, which is

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Speaker 1: the new trended vacations.

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Speaker 2: If you're considering something like this because.

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Speaker 1: You just need a break, Friday now the cheapest day

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Speaker 1: of the week to book flights and to take off.

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Speaker 1: Flying on a Friday can save you on airfare compared

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Speaker 1: with the weekend. So if you're like, I can't do it,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get away. Apparently you're supposed to book on Fridays.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and traveling on Fridays and over the weekends is

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Speaker 3: always better. As us as consumers, we tend to think

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Speaker 3: about the travel business around our vacations. Oh, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to Florida for spring break, or I'm going skiing in Colorado,

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Speaker 3: or I'm gonna fly somewhere and take a vacation. The

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Speaker 3: travel industry is all based off of the business traveler,

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Speaker 3: and the business traveler flies Monday through Friday for the

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Speaker 3: most part, and so yes, you're going to have better

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Speaker 3: travel options on the weekends because the business traveler is

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Speaker 3: what makes up the vast majority of the revenue for

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Speaker 3: airlines and hotels and all the other associated industries.

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Speaker 1: But according to an article that we may touch on later,

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas seeing a sharp visitor drop because leisure spending

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Speaker 1: is waning.

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Speaker 2: People just can't do it. They're not taking the vacations.

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Speaker 1: If you are inclined, though, here's a tip for domestic trips.

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Speaker 1: Booking fifteen to thirty days before your flight will often

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Speaker 1: get you lower prices.

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Speaker 3: That's always been the case, and you know there are

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Speaker 3: still some low call. Look if you want to fly

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Speaker 3: Spirit Airlines and go through all the stuff that it

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Speaker 3: takes to fly for spirit airlines, you can probably get

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Speaker 3: a cheap flight, and a lot of people are doing

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Speaker 3: that because they can't afford to fly a full service

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Speaker 3: airline anymore.

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Speaker 1: Now here's a real indicator of the state of things.

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Speaker 1: When you think of a rich guy, you might be thinking, Oh,

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Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg, right, yeah, famous movie director. Dude's loaded, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he can afford anything.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he's moving out.

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Speaker 1: Of California because he doesn't want to pay the wealth

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Speaker 1: tax that is being proposed in that state.

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Speaker 3: So here is And if you don't know, the state

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Speaker 3: of California is seriously considering a one time five percent

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Speaker 3: wealth tax.

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Speaker 4: So this isn't that's not an income tax. It is

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Speaker 4: a wealth tax.

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Speaker 3: So if you're Elon Musk and you're worth eight hundred

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Speaker 3: billion dollars, you're going to have to pay five percent

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 1: It's for residents that are worth over a billion dollars

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Speaker 1: and they want to use it to help fund their healthcare,

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Speaker 1: their education, in any assistance programs.

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Speaker 4: They have yea.

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Speaker 3: And what's the famous line for Margaret Thatcher. Socialism is great.

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Speaker 2: Until you run out of other people, Until I run.

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Speaker 4: Out of every other people's money.

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Speaker 3: So here this is the list of billionaires that have

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Speaker 3: left the state of California recently because of this. Both

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Speaker 3: co founders of Google, Larry Page and Serge Brn. Peter Thiel,

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Speaker 3: the founder of Paypalace, moved to Florida. Larry Ellison, the

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Speaker 3: founder of Oracle. All these guys are billionaires. He's moved

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Speaker 3: out of state. David Sachs, who's a venture capitalist and

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Speaker 3: now part of the Trump administration, moved to Texas. Don Hanke,

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Speaker 3: another billionaire, moved to Nevada. Mark Zuckerberg no longer a

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Speaker 3: California resident. He's now a resident of Florida. Elon Musk

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Speaker 3: famously relocated to Texas. And now you've got Steven Spielberg,

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Speaker 3: which look, I get the list of the other guys.

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Speaker 3: Those are all business guys. They tend to be more conservative,

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Speaker 3: more Republican. But look, Steven Spielberg is a massive liberal.

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Speaker 3: He's the guy that loves higher taxes everywhere. But that's

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Speaker 3: how bad California has gotten is that even rich liberals

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Speaker 3: like Steven Spielberg, You're like, I can't take this no more.

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Speaker 1: So. His spokesperson says that the move wasn't about the tax,

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Speaker 1: and it was motivated by family reasons.

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Speaker 2: He wants to be closer to Charlae.

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Speaker 1: It's just what we talked about yesterday, using the family

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Speaker 1: as that's always it is.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not being run out of this job or

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Speaker 3: run out of office because of some scandal.

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Speaker 4: I'm leaving to spend more time with my family.

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Speaker 1: Expensive in California, even for a billionaire. Okay, we need

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Speaker 1: to take a break when we come back. Did you

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Speaker 1: hear the completely hammered Australian Olympic reporter drunk drunk?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you'll hear it when we come back.

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Speaker 2: It's ninety three WIBC coming up at eleven o'clock. We're

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Speaker 2: going to be joined by Ray Corta Passi. You might

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Speaker 2: remember him.

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Speaker 1: He was an anchor on RTV six from ninety nine

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Speaker 1: to two thousand and eight, and then he was an

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Speaker 1: anchor on Fox fifty nine from twenty and nine to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. He is now residing in Chicago Land with WGN.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with him and discuss the Illinois version

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Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll be good to get somebody's perspective. Who is

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Speaker 3: in the media in Chicago to just kind of get

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Speaker 3: a how are you doing, Chicago? You doing Okay? We're

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Speaker 3: gonna find out.

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Speaker 1: He's familiar with Indiana and now Illinois, so it'll be

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Speaker 1: interesting to hear from him. We do have some breaking

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Speaker 1: news to share with you. The Supreme Court has struck

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Speaker 1: down Trump's tariffs. The Supreme Court ruled six to three

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Speaker 1: that the Trump sweeping tariffs imposed under the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: seven Emergency Powers Law were unconstitutional because the law doesn't

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Speaker 1: authorize the president to levy broad import taxes.

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Speaker 2: You've got Chief Justice John Roberts who wrote the only uh.

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Speaker 1: He wrote that only Congress has the power to impose

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Speaker 1: taxes and tariffs, and that the emergency power statue Trump

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Speaker 1: used don't explicitly allow tariffs. Now, this ruling doesn't be

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Speaker 1: all tariffs, and you've got to imagine that Trump's team

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Speaker 1: is going to try some legal avenues, of course, maneuvers

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Speaker 1: to try to keep these tariffs in place. But the

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Speaker 1: broad use of emergency powers were rejected.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it was a six to three ruling.

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Speaker 3: And so the dissenters were who you would expect. It

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Speaker 3: was Thomas, Alito and Kavanaugh so that means that Justice

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Speaker 3: Roberts and amy Cony, Barrett, and Gorsich went with the

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Speaker 3: liberal justices.

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Speaker 4: On this move.

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Speaker 3: Here, look, it was always a stretch when Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: tried to invoke this nineteen seventy seven you know, emergency

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Speaker 3: International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It was always going to

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Speaker 3: be a stretch. And here here's what you're going to see.

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Speaker 3: You're going to see a couple things here today from

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Speaker 3: conservative influence.

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Speaker 4: You'll hear them bash the.

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Speaker 3: Three conservative Supreme Court justices that sided with the liberals

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Speaker 3: on this. And by the way, keep in mind, for

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Speaker 3: the last several years you've heard the liberals say nothing

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Speaker 3: about except that the Supreme Court is totally illegitimate. Both

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Speaker 3: of those are a bunch of bs. I believe that

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Speaker 3: the Supreme Court looks at these things. Sure, they've got

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Speaker 3: liberal and conservative bents, but the vast majority of their

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Speaker 3: decisions are done by looking at the laws that are written,

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Speaker 3: the actions that are taken, and applying to them to

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Speaker 3: the Constitution. And I think that the Supreme Court got

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Speaker 3: it right in this specific instance. That nineteen seventy seven

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Speaker 3: law was always a stretch when Trump invoked.

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Speaker 4: It and tried to use these tariffs.

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Speaker 3: And now the problem that we're sitting with here, and

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Speaker 3: again this is breaking news, so we don't know how

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Speaker 3: this is going to shake out in all the specific details.

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Speaker 4: What do we do with all the tariffs that we collected?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: How do you refund of this? I mean, it's a

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Speaker 3: total mess. I'll give you a perfect example of it.

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Speaker 3: I run a small business and I have a lot

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Speaker 3: of customers in Canada, and since last year, I've been

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Speaker 3: selling a lot of items to Canada. They've been paying

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Speaker 3: tariffs on all of that.

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Speaker 2: So now you're going to have to pay those back.

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Speaker 3: But I never saw that money. The money didn't ever

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Speaker 3: come to me on that. And again the same thing.

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Speaker 3: They're going to be small businesses in other areas that

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Speaker 3: had to absorb these tariffs, and how are they going

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Speaker 3: to get that back? Not to mention these large international

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Speaker 3: companies that have been absorbing all of these terrorists. This

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Speaker 3: is going to be a mess to clean up.

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Speaker 1: Well, it does reinforce the ruling constitutional principle that the

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Speaker 1: power belongs to the lawmakers, not one person in the

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Speaker 1: White House, and even strong presidents need clear authority from Congress.

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Speaker 11: And it's a lesson for both parties going forward. Absolutely,

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Speaker 11: both parties have been terrible at this. Over the last

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Speaker 11: several decades, Congress has completely abdicated so much of their

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Speaker 11: authority and given it over to the president. Democrats have

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Speaker 11: done it and Republicans have done it. The president was

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Speaker 11: never ever supposed to be this powerful, and go back

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Speaker 11: forty or fifty years, presidents weren't this powerful.

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Speaker 10: Look.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter talks about this all the time. He had

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Speaker 3: trouble dealing with both Republicans and Democrats when he was president,

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Speaker 3: had a lot a real hard time getting anything that

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Speaker 3: he wanted done. But since then, Congress has basically just said, hey, President,

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Speaker 3: do whatever you want to do.

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Speaker 4: It's fine, it's cool with us. And the Supreme Court

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Speaker 4: has finally.

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Speaker 3: Said, no, we've got three equal, rich, separate branches of government.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, broad use of emergency powers rejected from the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 4: Ray Quarter pass.

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Speaker 2: He's going to join us.

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Speaker 1: Next, we're going to talk about Chicago bear stuff coming

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Speaker 1: up from ninety three wiv C