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Speaker 1: But my Paulus even started the Office of Saving.

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Speaker 2: People Money, so it must be saving us money.

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Speaker 3: Of course, because they oh, why did they announced? Oh

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Speaker 3: last night on the news, on the news, they announced

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Speaker 3: that they were starting a task force to study the drought.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, the drought, the water problem ever you want

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And they're gonna have a task force. So, you know,

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Speaker 3: the task force will meet and and they and everybody's

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Speaker 3: Are people from like, you know, the Department of agg

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Speaker 3: whatever it might be. Probably the teacher unions too, you know,

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Speaker 3: meet and then make a recommendation. And the recommendation would

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Speaker 3: be Actually, the way the news report was presented was

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Speaker 3: before the task force makes any recommendation about spending, they're

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Speaker 3: represented for the governor first. And I thought, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: we have a drought problem, so we're gonna spend money.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a task Force to tell us how

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Speaker 3: to spend money to solve the drought problem. Made perfect

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Speaker 3: the affordability thing I want to do today. Wow. Okay,

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Speaker 3: the governor has been the The govern and I follow

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Speaker 2: He follows you. Yes, he follows me.

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Speaker 4: Is it the gov of Co?

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Speaker 2: Or is it Jared Pollick? Both? Both? Both?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm telling you he and I are like this.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know Ross thinks that he and Jared

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Speaker 3: The goes because well we pretty much despise each other.

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Speaker 4: It is interesting seeing some of the Governor's tweets and

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Speaker 4: Do get them confused as one or the other. And

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Speaker 4: you know Jared will post as Jared and then saying

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Speaker 3: And then I wonder how often that he has to

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Speaker 3: Is that Today's Michael Brown? Mian No, there's something else

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Speaker 3: I've got to Michael Brown meant about Anyway, Let's get

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Speaker 3: back to Polis. So what I want to as I said,

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Speaker 3: Sense Institute's paper they've published about the affordability crisis. They've

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Speaker 3: covered all fifty states, but I focused on Colorado.

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Speaker 2: Now what I.

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Speaker 3: Want to do is I want to take everything that

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Speaker 2: Let's just say over the.

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Speaker 3: Past year past, not past year, twelve months, not since

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Speaker 3: impeachment by prior inconsistent statement.

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Speaker 2: So if you have a witness that say.

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Speaker 3: In a deposition said that Dragon Redbeard is the smartest

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Speaker 3: But then when that same witness gets on the stand says, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've got inconsistent statements.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to impeach that witness and say, well,

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Speaker 3: which isn't you know you said where you lying?

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Speaker 2: Then? Are you lying? Now? You know which?

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Speaker 3: Which isn't impeachment by prior inconsistent statement. So let's just

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Speaker 3: affordability in Colorado. You ready, So let's go. Here we go,

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Speaker 3: Pop bay Man, let's get started. Exhibit one, the governor's

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Speaker 3: Here's what the Common Sense Institute found about the quote

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Speaker 3: Colorado is now the ninth least affordable state in the nation,

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Speaker 3: right now, and Colorado households need to spend twenty thousand,

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Speaker 3: Thirty five percent worse than the national average. That's the

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Speaker 3: economy that works for everyone. Governor, huh, you might want

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Speaker 3: account exhibit number two. Let's go back to March six,

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Speaker 2: I can't even get through this with a straight face.

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Speaker 3: March six, twenty twenty five, Jared Polis quote in Colorado,

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Speaker 3: the supply of new housing that Colorado's can afford. Close

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Speaker 3: quote laser focused. Remember that phrase laser focused. Now here's

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Speaker 3: That is the thirteenth fastest increase of any state in

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Speaker 2: Remember we're at forty percent. You can move.

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Speaker 3: You could just throw a dart and hit almost any

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Speaker 2: How you doing, Gov? How are you feeling this morning?

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Speaker 2: In Colorado? It's higher and.

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Speaker 3: Housing is the single largest driver of our ninth from

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Speaker 3: for six plus years and housing costs went up forty percent.

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Speaker 2: Now, I don't know, do I need to.

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Speaker 3: Draw the conclusion for you or can you draw your

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Speaker 2: Got it, all right, Let's go on Exhibit three.

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Speaker 3: This is from May fifteenth, twenty twenty five. The Governor

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Speaker 3: signing the bill, he writes this quote, Housing is the

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Speaker 3: investments I e. Read spending. So let's just put in

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Speaker 3: And to be fair, he's right about one thing. Housing

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Speaker 3: like a diagnostician. He's like a really good doctor. He's

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Speaker 3: correctly diagnosed the disease. The question is whether his prescription

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Speaker 2: But you did on X.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I want to check and see if the Governor's

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Speaker 2: On XM. I'm want to find that out. Exhibit four.

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Speaker 3: This post announces a package of housing bills, and he

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Speaker 3: I might I just humbly suggest that you did not

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Speaker 3: If you're going to invest fifty million dollars, did we

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Speaker 2: Forty percent? What do we get?

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Speaker 3: And by the way, divided by households, as I said,

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Speaker 3: help pay my ever increasing property taxes?

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Speaker 3: You know, if I could just speak the cowboy English

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Speaker 3: full of manure, absolute manure. So that was exhibit number four.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to exhibit number five, July of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Here the governor posts about a national zoning Atlas, and

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Speaker 3: Colorado's land zone for housing restricts affordable options like apartments

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Speaker 3: Not we did or not we have, but we must.

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Speaker 3: Now that's a present tense aspiration after six years in office.

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Speaker 3: Here's what's remarkable about this post. It's actually correct. Restrictive

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Speaker 3: So when you say we must, guess what, that doesn't

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Speaker 3: must once again, is in cowboy English bullcrap. There are

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Speaker 2: Yes. Now let's go to the sixth. He's up at

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Speaker 3: This post comes from October seven of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Here he's on the bandwagon with you know, Trump and

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Speaker 3: he says, and I quote again, too many Colorados struggle

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Speaker 2: Close quote.

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Speaker 3: Now let's acknowledge something here, This one is actually true.

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Speaker 3: And the Prescription Drug Affordability Board doing price caps on

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Speaker 2: Is at least an action.

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Speaker 3: That's not a tweet, it's actually an action' So I'll

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Speaker 3: He's saying, too many color runs are being forced to

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Speaker 2: Going to do?

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Speaker 3: Price caps, fixed prices, which will do what limit the

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Speaker 2: And to think that.

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Speaker 3: At one time the National Review, whoever it was, called

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Speaker 2: What bull crap? That was Extipt number six. Les's coach

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Speaker 2: to exhibit number seven.

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Speaker 3: On January thirteenth of this year, he praises the Public

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Those two goals.

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Speaker 3: One's headed north, one's headed south, or one's headed east,

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Speaker 3: going in opposite directions. Two goals are in direct tension,

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Speaker 3: and the data knows it, because Colorado's shelter and utility

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Speaker 3: costs again rose forty between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty five. Now,

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Speaker 3: you this our energy transition mandates passed under this governor.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what they've done. I apologize Elmer for making

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Speaker 3: fun of him, but Polis is a dead ringer for him.

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Speaker 4: If Polis weren't like six y two sixty three, then yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Well maybe when he's you know, squatted down, he kind

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Speaker 3: of looks like Elmer Fudd. You know, just where was I?

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Speaker 3: What was I on? Let's see? Oh yeah, the Public

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Speaker 3: Utilities Commission. This is exhibit number seven. This is a

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Speaker 2: Quote.

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Speaker 3: They work here, referring to the Public Utilities Commission, They

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Speaker 3: energy future. As I pointed out before the break that

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Speaker 3: those are two opposite directions. Those are goals going in

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Speaker 3: opposite directions. Well, the Common Sense Institute breaks out shelters

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Speaker 3: I can tell you is this and you know it

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Speaker 3: as well as I do. Colorado's energy transition mandates passed

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Speaker 3: under this governor had consistently driven rate increases. Congressman Gabe

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Speaker 3: Evans recently noted that Colorado families are facing yet another

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Speaker 3: emergency rate hike, up seventeen dollars per month because of

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Speaker 3: our state energy policy. So the Public Utility Commission is

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Speaker 3: not some sort of firewall against higher cost governor the legislature,

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Speaker 3: the others and then go on Twitter or X and

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Speaker 3: tweet about how the Utilities Commission is keeping your bills low.

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Speaker 3: That's not policy, that's bull crap.

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Speaker 2: That's a trick.

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Speaker 3: That's a magic trick of some sort, some sort of magician.

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Speaker 3: Now let's take a break, just a quick break. Do

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Speaker 3: you get the drift? Oh, I still have other exhibits

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Speaker 3: to go through. The governor lies l I e s.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Gonna I'm not gonna dance around. He doesn't miss state,

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Speaker 3: he doesn't prevail Kate. He just outright lies to you.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's a Democrat. I forgot. I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking.

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Speaker 3: Of course, he lies to us. So if you're following

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Speaker 3: don't know, two hundred over one hundred, go read the

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Speaker 3: comments now, some of the comments you'll find interesting and

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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, their comments are freaking hilarious. Well, let's

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Speaker 3: keep moving on. Exhibit number eight, probably my face. February one,

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. The governor posts, quote, Trump's tariffs will

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Speaker 3: be a tax on Coloradins and American families and increase

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Speaker 2: Is that okay? Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Quote policies will be a tax on Coloradins and increase

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Speaker 3: the cost of everything. Close quote Whether federal policy raises costs.

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Speaker 3: Governor Polus calls it a tax and sounds the alarm.

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Speaker 3: He gets more than one hundred and forty eight thousand

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Speaker 2: Those are called investments.

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Speaker 3: Those are for the clean energy future, Those are bold reforms.

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Speaker 2: The cost is.

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Speaker 3: Never the problem when Polus is the one imposing it.

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Speaker 3: And that brings me to the tax question, because this

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Speaker 3: But I could not find, and I ask my AI

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Speaker 3: We could not find a single post in the last

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Speaker 3: burden was just average, not zero, not some radical libertarian fantasy,

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Speaker 3: just average, our affordability ranking would improve by six places,

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't even have to talk or touch childcare. You

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Speaker 3: to go to a housing summit up in Breckenridge, or

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Speaker 3: you wouldn't have to have a river cutting, a ribbon cutting.

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Speaker 3: Just by taxing, Colorado's less than ninety percent of other states.

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Speaker 3: What does polics have to say about that?

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: And his silence is its own kind of data point.

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Speaker 3: So let's get to the child care number. Because of

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Speaker 3: my view, it's the most damning of everything in this report.

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Speaker 3: Child care costs in Colorado up fifty six point four

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Speaker 3: the federal government says that seven percent is affordable, We're

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Speaker 3: But what are the policy consequences? Common Sense says it explicitly.

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Speaker 3: That's under a governor who describes himself as fighting for

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Speaker 3: an economy that works for everyone. So, Governor, I'm talking

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Speaker 3: to you. Gov, pay attention. If this economy is working

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Speaker 3: for everyone, tell me what it does when it stops trying,

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Speaker 3: because it ain't working right now. Now, Jared Polls maybe

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Speaker 3: a smart man. He might be a successful entrepreneur. Hang on,

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Speaker 3: I'm having an online conversation because my garbage company didn't

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Speaker 2: Oh, just take a break, it's almost that time. No,

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Speaker 1: All right, Your Scottish Canadian and the Irish fan calling

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Speaker 1: you about. You know, I want to appreciate you're playing

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Speaker 2: Mike Hook, you did nothing. You suck.

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Speaker 3: Were you playing some Irish group yesterday? I didn't he

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Speaker 3: Oh you like you played Van Morrison? I didn't even

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Speaker 3: notice it. Yep, all right, well turn about's fair play.

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Speaker 3: You don't listen to me. I don't listen to you, Neil. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're not. I can't believe I've missed Van Morrison song.

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Speaker 3: I've seen Van the Man like three or four times

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Speaker 3: him in concert at one of his little Sometimes you'll

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Speaker 3: have concerts at dinner theaters, like very small venues, like

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Speaker 2: That's wrong.

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Speaker 3: I want to sing, you know why. I want to

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Speaker 3: he's all. He's got the hat down, the sunglasses on.

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Speaker 3: I want to see his eyes. That's what I want

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Speaker 3: to do. So you want to give it late? They

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Speaker 3: I'll get a credit. This is the third time this

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Speaker 2: Just look?

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Speaker 3: Is it empty? Automation is not necessarily more efficient, right,

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Speaker 2: Do you a number forty five nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Mike, it was first time all caps homeowners, not all households.

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Speaker 3: Still a small amount. But be correct about it. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'll be correct about it. Let's say it was first

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Speaker 3: Maybe somebody here in the news booth, somebody out in

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Speaker 3: So I compared it to households just to show you

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Speaker 3: the number. Whether it's twenty two dollars a household or

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Speaker 3: twenty two thousand dollars a household, whatever, that fifty million

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Speaker 3: dollars is going to be used for. Why and when

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Speaker 3: did it become the responsibility of the government, which means

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Speaker 3: you and me. When did it become the responsibility of

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Speaker 3: all taxpayers in Colorado to give money to an individual

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Speaker 3: or a family or anybody else that wants to go

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Speaker 3: buy a home. No, I pay enough in taxes and

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Speaker 3: don't get anything back for it. This worthwhile? Oh, Michael,

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Speaker 3: you get roads? Really you're going to go if you

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Speaker 3: go ride with me? On the road sometime. Bring your

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Speaker 3: crash helmet. Uh, it's not my responsibility to support that.

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Speaker 3: If I want to support my children.

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Speaker 2: Which they should be supporting right now.

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Speaker 3: If I wanted to go help somebody get their first home,

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Speaker 3: that's my choice. Don't force me to use money. By

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Speaker 3: the way, we got a budget hole. We're a billion

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Speaker 3: dollars in the hole or whatever it is, and you're

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Speaker 3: gonna spend fifty million dollars for that. It's just totally absurd. Now, look,

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Speaker 3: pose my think he's smart, and some will say this

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Speaker 3: a successful entrepreneur. His parents were successful entrepreneurs. I think

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Speaker 3: he understands economics.

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Speaker 2: But as some and some what.

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Speaker 3: He's doing might be marginally okay, But I'm not even

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Speaker 3: gonna give that. But the posts on X, the press releases,

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Speaker 3: the ribbon cuttings, they're just an affordability record that does

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Speaker 3: not exist. When you think about ninth least affordable state

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Speaker 3: housing up forty percent, car insurance up fifty two percent,

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Speaker 3: childcare up fifty six percent, tenth highest tax burden in

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Speaker 3: the entire country. And he's out on X telling you

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Speaker 3: what a wonderful job he's doing. That's not a guy

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Speaker 3: who's laser focused on affordability. That's the guy who's laser

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Speaker 3: focused on talking about affordability. And in Colorado right now,

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Speaker 3: the difference between those two things is costing you more

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Speaker 3: than twenty thousand dollars a year. Jared Polus is absolutely

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Speaker 3: full of bull crap, and so are his cohorts, his comrades.

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Speaker 3: It's the Colorado, Colorado Pollit Bureau. They're not doing a

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Speaker 3: damn thing to make the state more affordable. Every single

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Speaker 3: thing there. Take the task force on the drought. The

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Speaker 3: first thing was how much money do we need to spend?

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Speaker 2: What are you going to do? Send to check to

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Speaker 2: Mother Nature and say, hey, make it rain, really