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Speaker 1: Cooner Report is State Auditor Diana Dizoglio. Diana, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for coming on the Kooner Report. How are you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jeff. I am digging out, probably like everybody else,

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Speaker 2: but you know, we're finally we're finally got our heads

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Speaker 2: So hope everybody safe and good to be on. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's truly my pleasure, Diana, look right out of

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Speaker 1: the gate. Let me ask you the big question. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you have a mandate from the people of Massachusetts over

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Speaker 1: seventy two percent voted in the election in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four on the ballot to conduct a thorough, complete state

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Speaker 1: audit of the spending up on Beacon Hill. You are

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Speaker 1: being blocked, stonewalled by House Speaker Ron Mariano, Senate President

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Speaker 1: taking them to court. You are suing them so that

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Speaker 1: to conduct a state audit. So let me ask you

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Speaker 2: Losing power for themselves? To be honest, Look, I've said

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Speaker 2: this many times. You know, the people who happen to

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Speaker 2: It has to do with people who have power, too

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Speaker 2: much of it, and that absolute power has been corrupting absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And what we have is a system where a few

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Speaker 2: and that allows them to be more informed than we are.

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Speaker 2: It allows them to have access to knowledge about different

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Speaker 2: remembers when we were kids, at least for me, and

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Speaker 2: I'm maybe dating myself right now, but we used to

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Speaker 2: they would have a saying that said knowledge is power.

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Speaker 2: Remember that knowledge is power. Yeah, and that's saying you know,

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Speaker 2: I just go back to that knowledge is power. It

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Speaker 1: Are you, well, let me phrase it like this. There

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Speaker 2: So no separation of powers there and audit for the

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Speaker 2: When it comes to executive branch agencies. What the legislature

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Speaker 2: they're saying that we can look at everybody else's state contracts,

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Speaker 2: So there could be some funny business there, there could

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Speaker 2: what I believe they're most concerned about because that's what

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Speaker 1: Diana. This, by the way, we're talking to Diana Disoglios,

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts State Auditor. I want to give you a chance

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Speaker 1: That there's something called the separation of powers according to them,

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Speaker 2: How can they audit and provide oversight to the executive branch?

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Speaker 2: Like I just said, if there is a separation of

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Speaker 2: Separation of powers simply means you can't exercise the power

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Speaker 2: and I can't exercise their powers because that's the power

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Speaker 2: We are simply trying to take a look at the books,

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Speaker 2: take a look at things like these state contracts. Right now,

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Speaker 2: all we've asked for is to be able to examine

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Speaker 2: what they're alleging is that that's somehow an inherent power

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Speaker 2: are able to write reports. And Jeff I would say this.

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Speaker 2: You know a lot of folks ask me, well, you

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Diane, I don't mean to cut you off. Mike,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Diana, Please go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're saying, essentially, well, you know, can't be auditor

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Speaker 2: The answer is absolutely not. The only thing I am

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Speaker 2: then write a report much like a journalist, right and

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Speaker 2: at your fingertips. So that's that, Jeff, Thank you, Diana.

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Speaker 1: Thirty seconds, you've got a lawsuit. You're suing Mariano Spilka,

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Speaker 1: think is going to happen in this suit? Very quick?

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Speaker 2: Well, my confidence in the courts is not really at

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Speaker 2: If we've passed that in November, that will make all

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Speaker 2: at least we will have another law on the books

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Speaker 2: that tells them to release the documents, release the receipts

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Speaker 2: in answer to the taxpayers of Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, Diana, I'm behind you one thousand percent. We

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Speaker 1: have been talking with State Auditor Diana Disoglio, fighting the

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Speaker 1: good fight. Okay, let's go to John in Peabody. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for holding John, and welcome.

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Speaker 3: The greats and oh powerful Doudah.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, Captain?

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Speaker 1: Doing very good? How are you? John?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I gotta say this out right right now. I

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Speaker 3: Of calling. I'm very disappointed not only with the state

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Prime example, my wife did her taxes last night. I

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Speaker 3: haven't done them yet, but she did them, paying full

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Speaker 3: extent of what she has to pay throughout the year,

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Speaker 3: all of her benefits that she had to sacrifice, and

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Speaker 3: she owes money. Now, you tell me what happened there. Now,

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Speaker 3: I'm listening to this state audit that's going on, and

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Speaker 1: Well, John, I'm a little surprised. You're sure when your

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Speaker 1: But I'm hearing from John, I'm hearing from Mary Anne.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for holding Joe and welcome.

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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot for taking my call, my pleas are you.

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Speaker 5: I am still stuck on the mind blowing topic of

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Speaker 5: it's allowed to move on. Trump has made many strides

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Speaker 5: of striking language, not paying for sex change operations by

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Speaker 5: for children's innocence, you have that's your number one job, Jeff,

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Speaker 6: You have to protect their innocence. Who they hang out with,

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Speaker 6: even it's not even in his universal thinking. And that's

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Speaker 6: And it will shop later in their later teen years.

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Speaker 6: And he is breeding the.

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Speaker 7: Next generation of school shooters, Catholic church shooters. The woman

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Speaker 1: Oh Joe, you're right. I would even go further if

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for him to be adamant on this issue.

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Speaker 1: And again, the scary thing is this is a position

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Speaker 1: And so they're after our children. They've always been after

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Speaker 1: His name is Michelle. Sorry, his name is Angelo. Forgive me.

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Speaker 1: He's a crazy moonbat. He's one of the many moon baths.

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Speaker 1: They keep emailing me and emailing me. It's hate after

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Speaker 1: You would figure, Hey, look, hey, whoa Jeff, whoa Jeff.

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Speaker 1: We may disagree on many issues, but when it comes

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Speaker 1: are Chris in the Freedom State Florida. Thanks for holding

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Speaker 4: Hey Jeff. I'm glad John brought this up. So I

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Speaker 4: to get me one hundred and sixty bucks back. Great,

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Speaker 4: I just did my taxes again for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: The only difference this year is my wife did start

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Speaker 4: working in July. That could be it. And before I

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Speaker 4: added her W two, it looked like in TurboTax that

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Speaker 4: I was going to be getting about seven hundred bucks back.

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Speaker 4: I added her income in there. Now I owed two

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Speaker 4: hundred and sixty bucks this year. And again saying no kids,

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Speaker 4: our only daughter, she's an adult now she's on her own,

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Speaker 4: so no dependence, both claiming zero on our W fours

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Speaker 4: and I and I said the same thing, like what

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Speaker 4: happened to the more money in our pockets? And when

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Speaker 4: I was hearing you talk about we're all going to

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Speaker 4: be getting a big refund, I love you, Jeff. When

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Speaker 4: I was aggravated with you, I'm like, where where is this?

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Speaker 4: Like I'm not getting it? Am I the only one?

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Speaker 4: So I'm really glad to hear that other people are

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Speaker 4: dealing with it as well. And yes, Jeff, I do

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Speaker 4: believe because you have children that is a big factor

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Speaker 4: because when we had our.

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Speaker 1: Dependent Yeah, I'm sorry, Chris, I'll give you all the

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Speaker 1: time to finish your point. I just want I think

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Speaker 1: you're right. I think I look I made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: I think I made a mistake, and I'm very sorry

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Speaker 1: for that. I just you just assume, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: you have children, and I don't know. You just assume

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Speaker 1: you know I should have realized. Well, I'm claiming those

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Speaker 1: are two dependencies, two dependents. And by the way, just

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Speaker 1: as an aside, man, they're reading me out of house

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Speaker 1: and home, Chris, if you only knew, Oh my, I

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Speaker 1: buy four freaking muffins, okay, four Raisin brand muffins, and

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Speaker 1: I haven't touched them. Within a day, They're gone. They're gone.

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Speaker 1: Ashton has two, bang Ava has one, bang Grace has

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Speaker 1: one with their coffee in the morning. I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: that'll happen to the muffins? Look, I didn't even have

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Speaker 1: a muffin. But anyway, sorry, just let that go. So

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Speaker 1: believe me. I need a refund check. Oh do I

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Speaker 1: need a refund check? But no, to your point, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I think I just I thought, well, maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: I have a couple of dependents, and I just assumed

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Speaker 1: that others will be getting a refund check. What I'm

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Speaker 1: what I've been told i'll be getting as well, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I mean it's you know, it's nice money,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be at a couple thousand dollars, which

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Speaker 1: is nice, and I'm not gonna you know, laugh or

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Speaker 1: sneer it a couple thousand bucks, you know, but it's

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Speaker 1: and I thought, well, people are going to be getting

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Speaker 1: what I'm getting, and no, I think you're right. I

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Speaker 1: think it's the fact that I have two kids that

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Speaker 1: are still under eighteen, that there's still dependents. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: keep going, Chris, that was my mistake, and I apologize.

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Speaker 1: Keep going, my friend, were.

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Speaker 4: All made to believe that this was going to happen.

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Speaker 4: There was no fine print, you know that says, oh, well,

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Speaker 4: this is only going to apply to people with children.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, I'm really glad that we at least

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Speaker 4: had the four thousand you know, I had four thousand

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Speaker 4: dollars of overtime premium, so partly that big beautiful bill

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Speaker 4: kicked in and I'm like, oh, this is the overtime premium. Cool,

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Speaker 4: that's going to help with some Well what if I

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Speaker 4: didn't have that, how much more would I be paying

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Speaker 4: all my taxes this year? So I'm really hoping twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty six taxes are going to be where he says

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Speaker 4: or where where we all assume that they should be

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Speaker 4: more money in our pocket, you know, and I thought

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Speaker 4: we were. I didn't realize that that overtime premium was

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Speaker 4: just to take away from the taxes that we owe,

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Speaker 4: just to help offset. It has nothing to do with

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Speaker 4: putting money back in our pocket. Is just to offset

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Speaker 4: what we owe in taxes at the end of the year.

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Speaker 4: So I'm hoping twenty twenty six is better. But no,

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Speaker 4: I know you're a cut for time here, Jeff. I

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Speaker 4: do appreciate your time. I'm a lot other folks talk.

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Speaker 4: But you have a good day, and thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's a really important clarification. And I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you again. Best audience in the business. Really, Chris, God

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Speaker 1: bless you and please keep calling. Six one seven two

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Speaker 1: six six sixty eight sixty eight Maestro Mike. All right, Jim,

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Speaker 1: you want me to go to Jim, Jim and Wilmington.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for holding Jim, Jim, I've got one minute.

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Speaker 2: Go.

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Speaker 8: Hello, Jeff, thank you for taking my call. My wife

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Speaker 8: and I and Trump's first term, my wife was still working.

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Speaker 8: We did very well. We pay a lot of taxes.

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Speaker 8: We've paid at least one hundred and fifty that year,

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Speaker 8: and the tax preparer kept saying to us, you people

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Speaker 8: have done very well. And he wouldn't put I would

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Speaker 8: deductions in Forrest. And he said, matter of fact, your

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Speaker 8: whole family's doing well, and my sisters and brother.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Mike, you gotta be kidding me, man, This is

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Speaker 1: where you cut them off, Mike,