1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: Ye're okay, Ethan. 2 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 2: I got to help me with some math here because 3 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 2: my politicians would never lie to me. So there's something 4 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:08,960 Speaker 2: I'm missing in this math equation. Are you ready? 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: Let's go. 6 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 2: It's kind of a Casey show. I'm Rob. Casey's doing 7 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: the afternoon SHOWGN with Jim today. So Ethan from Saturday 8 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 2: night on the Circle is in for Casey. So Capitol 9 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: Chronicle our friends over there at a big article. Indiana 10 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: revenue comes in strong for September first quarter, and in fact, 11 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: we're two hundred and seventy million dollars ahead for the 12 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 2: first quarter of the year, which began in July. Now 13 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,559 Speaker 2: that is good news. However, the mens of members who 14 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 2: run our state made very clear at the end of 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: the legislative session that would have been April, that the 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 2: state was out of money, couldn't pay our bills. The 17 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: revenue projections were bad, and because of that, we're not 18 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 2: going to cut the government. We just have to raise 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: taxes by a billion dollars to fund the government. And 20 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: I was trying to do some math in my head, 21 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: and again I'm you know, I struggle a little bit 22 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 2: in math in high school. Luckily, we have the handy 23 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 2: dandy cellular telephone with the calculator on it and two 24 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: seventy plus two seventy plus two seventy plus two seventy, 25 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: Well that's more than a billion, which means they didn't 26 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 2: need to raise taxes. So when do we get our 27 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 2: tax increases back? This is the same there is something. 28 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: This is the same drift that they play with the 29 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: road funding, where they say we don't have enough money 30 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: to take care of the roads, even though road funding 31 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: has increased since twenty fifteen to the tune of tens 32 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in increased revenue, but they still 33 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: play the old SOB story. 34 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: Well, you're spot on. We've met Jim Merritt talk about this, 35 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: and when the session was winding down, he said, look, 36 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: the responsible thing for the legislature to do would be 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 2: to say, we want to pass a budget right the 38 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 2: second we can call a special session, as they're clearly 39 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: open to doing on redistricting. Let's wait until June. Let's 40 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 2: see how things look, and then we'll make a decision 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: accordingly before raising taxes on people, which comes to what 42 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: you said, they just wanted to raise taxes on people 43 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: care about actually quote unquote properly funding the government. They 44 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 2: just wanted to raise taxes, and you're not hearing a 45 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 2: peep from people going, hey, maybe we should while we're 46 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: in the special session redistricting, unwind some of those tax 47 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: increases on people since the revenues appeared to be fine. 48 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: George Orwell once famously said his vision of the future 49 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: was government stamping its boot on your face forever. But 50 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: I think I think he got it slightly wrong, because 51 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: government turns out to be an infinite pig eating from 52 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: an infinite trial. That's that's what the government is. 53 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: Real quick. I wanted to come back. We had Nathan 54 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: Gotcha on last segment if you missed it from Independent Indiana. 55 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 2: And those poll numbers, those poll numbers on Braun are awful. 56 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: For what is He was twenty twenty one percent among Republicans. Yeah, 57 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: I mean it's a It's just an awful, awful number. 58 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 2: So Braun was twenty four percent overall, forty three percent disapproved, 59 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 2: twenty four percent approve, forty three disapprove in his first 60 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 2: year in office. That's horrible. 61 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: You just won election. I can't think of another administration 62 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: that has managed to tank their approval in such spectacular 63 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: fashion as the Braun administration, and a lot of that 64 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: has to do with the way he disappointed Hoosier's very 65 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: specifically on the property tax discussion, and that's reflecting the 66 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: conversation here where the government is taking in enormous amounts 67 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: of revenue but they don't care the pain that they 68 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: have to put you through and squeeze you to get 69 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: every last dime. Yeah, they can continue to feed at 70 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: the trough. 71 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: You're spot on with that, because there's nothing that Braun 72 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 2: does that connects with regular people, Like when he's on 73 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: Hammer and Nigel, and they do a great job interviewing him, 74 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 2: but it's just like this iloof disconnected, sort of discombobulated 75 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: answers he gives where there's zero, there's zero in him. 76 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: Where you go, he gets regular people like he understands 77 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: what normal people are going through. And I think it's 78 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: not going to get any better for him. There's nothing. 79 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 2: There's nothing he's going to do or shows an inclination 80 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: are assigned to do that shows it's going to get 81 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: better for him going forward. 82 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: Disconnected is an excellent word for it. On their last 83 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: interview when he revealed he didn't even know that Blackrock 84 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: was attempting to buy out indianapolis primary electric generating utility. 85 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: He's completely unaware. This is the capital city, this isn't 86 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: somewhere in the boondocks.