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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report

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Speaker 1: weekend edition WRKO, The Voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: Are the Democrats in the process of destroying themselves? Good morning,

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Speaker 2: Cooner contrary. Okay, my friends, obviously a lot to talk

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Speaker 2: about today, so much news. But look, this is now

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Speaker 2: a question many, many, many people are now asking you.

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Speaker 2: Have a new set of polls out and normally, you

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Speaker 2: know me, I don't really care for poles, but they

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Speaker 2: do show an alarming pattern if you're a Democrat, and

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Speaker 2: in some ways for the country as a whole, and

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Speaker 2: I'll get to that later, but if you're a Democrat

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Speaker 2: or Democrat leaning or left leaning or whatever it may be.

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Speaker 2: Right now, as things stand, the popularity of the Democratic

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Speaker 2: Party as as a whole has never ever been lower

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Speaker 2: throughout you know, since the history of polling. Never has

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Speaker 2: the Democratic Party as a brand been this toxic, this unpopular.

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Speaker 2: And the question people are asking is why what has

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Speaker 2: happened to the party of Andrew Jackson, of FDR, of

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Speaker 2: John F. Kennedy, not that I like him, but even

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Speaker 2: of Bill Clinton who managed to you know, serve two

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Speaker 2: terms and having a presidency that had some impact on

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Speaker 2: the country. In other words, a party that was able

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Speaker 2: to command majorities for long stretches of time now is

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Speaker 2: seen very much as a marginal, radical, far left party

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Speaker 2: that is completely out of touch of the American people

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Speaker 2: and out of the mainstream. And I just want to

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Speaker 2: give you an example, an example of what is taking

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Speaker 2: place that maybe this works in a blue city, deep

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Speaker 2: blue city with potentially a lot of voter fraud, a

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Speaker 2: lot of illegals and migrants that are poured in under Biden.

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Speaker 2: But to the rest of the country they're looking on

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Speaker 2: in absolute horror. And this is what is taking place

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Speaker 2: in New York City under Zoran Mamdani, the Islamo communist. Now,

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Speaker 2: leave aside his support for Hamas, leave aside his support

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Speaker 2: and his deep profound jew hatred and anti Semitism. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let all of that go. Just let it go for

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Speaker 2: a second. Okay. He is literally economically driving the city

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Speaker 2: into the ground. So I want you to listen to this.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, these are proposals that are embraced

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Speaker 2: by the national leadership of the Democratic Party. AOC loves

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Speaker 2: this Bernie loves this, Elizabeth Warren, ed Markey, all the

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Speaker 2: California Democrats. This to them is the tax policy we

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Speaker 2: should have for the future. So zoron Mumdani now is

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Speaker 2: calling not just for a massive two percent wealth tax

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Speaker 2: and higher corporate tax rates, as businesses are fleeing already,

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Speaker 2: as the wealthy and these are big taxpayers are leaving already.

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Speaker 2: He's calling now for a nine point five percent increase

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Speaker 2: mean level, middle working class people who managed to own

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Speaker 2: a home in New York City. But it's not enough

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Speaker 2: to just soak the rich and hit middle class people

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Speaker 2: with a massive tax increase on their property, on their

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Speaker 2: property every year, going up and up and up and up. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that's not enough. He now wants to lower the threshold.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this for the exemption for estate taxes. You

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Speaker 2: know when you die and you want to leave something

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Speaker 2: behind for your children. Well, in New York I didn't

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Speaker 2: know this. It's at sixteen percent, which is very high.

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Speaker 2: Remember that's just local, we're not talking about state and federal. Okay,

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Speaker 2: sixteen percent. He wants to lower that threshold, so up

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Speaker 2: at the they have an exemption, you can have it

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Speaker 2: up to seven million dollars. Sixteen percent doesn't kick in.

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Speaker 2: He wants to lower that from seven million to seven

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand. Now, New York, as you know,

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Speaker 2: working class, you know, schmuck who's got a seven hundred

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Speaker 2: leave something for his children, her grandchildren, and baboom, sixteen

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Speaker 2: percent estate tax leveled. And that's not even enough for

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Speaker 2: the Zoran. He wants to increase the estate tax from

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Speaker 2: not only lower the threshold the exemption from seven million

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Speaker 2: the whole damn thing. I mean, and seriously, just take

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Speaker 2: take my house when I die, just take the freaking house.

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Speaker 2: So I'm paying through the nose in federal taxes, state taxes,

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Speaker 2: sales taxes, local taxes. You're now increasing my property taxes.

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Speaker 2: You want to now raise lower the threshold the exemption

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Speaker 2: for a state taxes when I die, and you want

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Speaker 2: to take half of what I bequeathed to my children

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Speaker 2: or grandchildren. As I'm in the coffin, and you're wondering

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Speaker 2: why there is no economic growth in New York. There's

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Speaker 2: fleeing wealthy individuals, middle class taxpayers. They're all leaving, baby,

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Speaker 2: many of them to Florida. And it is so bad.

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Speaker 2: Listen to this, Kathy Hokl, the gun governor of New York.

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Speaker 2: The governor of New York is now, I mean, this

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Speaker 2: is pathetic, begging, absolutely begging all of these wealthy businesses

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Speaker 2: and wealthy corporations and wealthy people who left New York

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Speaker 2: please come back. Why because we need your tax money.

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Speaker 2: Because the tax base is shrinking. We can't fund all

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Speaker 2: of our welfare programs anymore. You know, all of the

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Speaker 2: goodies that we give out, the food stamps, the public

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Speaker 2: housing the medicaid, all of it, the free stuff for

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Speaker 2: the illegals. Because now you're taking your money and your

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Speaker 2: taxes with you. We don't have enough to pay for

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Speaker 2: basic social services and to basically keep people living on welfare.

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Speaker 2: And now to Kathee HOCl please please come back. Someone's

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Speaker 2: got to pay for all these social programs.

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Speaker 1: Please.

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Speaker 2: We're running out of money to pay for people on welfare.

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Speaker 2: Roll cut fifty one, Mike.

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Speaker 3: I need people who are high net worth to support

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Speaker 3: the generous social programs that we want to have in

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Speaker 3: our state. Right now, there are some patriotic millionaires who

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Speaker 3: stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. I mean, just

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Speaker 3: if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first

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Speaker 3: step should be go down to Palm Beach and see

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Speaker 3: who you can bring back home. Because our tax base

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Speaker 3: has been eroded. So I philosophically don't have a problem.

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Speaker 3: It is like I have to look at the fact

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Speaker 3: that we are in competition with other states who have

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Speaker 3: less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals,

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Speaker 3: and I would say remote work changed everything. There are

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Speaker 3: people who could only work in an office in Manhattan

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Speaker 3: and work in New York State, and they were captives

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Speaker 3: to our state. They were going to state. We saw

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Speaker 3: that that's not the case. I mean, you know Wall

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Speaker 3: Street businesses looking at Texas. They're not going there because

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Speaker 3: they have a nicer governor, I know that for sure.

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Speaker 3: But they're going there because of the text. Right, we

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Speaker 3: have to be smart about this, but we can fund

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Speaker 3: what we want to fund with what we already are

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Speaker 3: taking in.

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Speaker 2: There. You go, there, you go, And we warned them.

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Speaker 2: I warned them, You warned them, We all warned them.

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Speaker 2: Now my advice, don't come back. She can beg and beg,

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Speaker 2: she can lick your toes, she can kiss your feet

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Speaker 2: and lick your toes. Don't go back. Don't go back,

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Speaker 2: because I'm telling you, it's only going to get worse.

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Speaker 2: With Mamdani and the Democrats, It's only going to get worse.

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Speaker 2: So what you're seeing now is a party that has

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Speaker 2: declared war, war on business, war on the middle class,

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Speaker 2: war on their own tax base, on their own taxpayers,

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Speaker 2: war on the American people. And they're wondering why they're

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Speaker 2: at historic low numbers. Now, on top of all of this,

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Speaker 2: there's been a series of primaries this week across the country,

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Speaker 2: and it's all been lost, obviously because the two big

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Speaker 2: issues have been the same. Act and the war on Iran, obviously.

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Speaker 2: But what you're seeing now is a democratic party. This

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Speaker 2: is now what they officially stand for. This is their

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Speaker 2: openly now say their top priority will be to reopen

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Speaker 2: the southern border what they did under Joe Biden. They

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Speaker 2: want to do it again and allow tens and tens

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Speaker 2: of millions more of illegals to come in. They want

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Speaker 2: to defund the police, defund the police so crime will

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Speaker 2: explode again. They want to abolish ice, no deportations ever,

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Speaker 2: Medicare for all, socialized medicine, no voter ID. They want

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Speaker 2: to continue voter fraud and amnesty for illegals. And you

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Speaker 2: wonder why they're finished.

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