1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: And in hall. Thanks for holding hand and welcome, Thank you. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: For taking my call. I only called to correct the 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: information that you're giving to the Cooner country. It's very 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: important that you know that the six thousand dollars, it's 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: nothing to do with Social security. It's an extra form 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: ten forty s R Form one A that is an 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 2: extra form that the seniors can use and should use 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 2: for the next four years twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,000 Speaker 2: twenty eight. We only can use it for this year 10 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: and three more years, whether they do the standard deduction 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: or itemize their deduction. It's on top of everything, an 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: extra six thousand they're going to get for a single senior, 13 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 2: an extra twelve thousand for a couple, and they need 14 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 2: to go and get the form on ten forty forms, 15 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: they need to fill out the form. And if they're 16 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 2: a single file or they're going to get on top 17 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 2: of everything, on top of everything, six thousand dollars, that's 18 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 2: nothing to do with social security. Social security and they 19 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: can do it if they may. I believe it's under 20 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand, but the only. 21 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 3: So hold on an you're saying that if they make 22 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 3: under one hundred and fifty thousand. Their Social Security income 23 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 3: is not taxed at all. 24 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? 25 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: Nothing to do with Social Security? I'm trying to tell you. 26 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,600 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What doesn't have to do with 27 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: Social Security? 28 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: The six thousand dollars? 29 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 3: No, No, I got that. But because Trump promised no 30 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 3: tax on Social Security. So my question to you is, 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 3: are seniors still going to be paying taxes under Social 32 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: Security income? 33 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: Separate things? You can't You can't put the two of them. 34 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: This is a whole separate deduction that they're going to get, 35 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 2: whether they itemized or they or they take the standard deduction. 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 2: It's on top of I. 37 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 3: Got you, I got you, Okay, I got you, And 38 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 3: and overall, when you look at your personal circumstances, your 39 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 3: financial circumstances, have things gotten better, worse, or the same 40 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: over the last year under Trump? Say compare yourself today 41 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 3: to a year ago. 42 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 2: I'm one hundred percent behind Trump, but it's not nothing's 43 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: changed for me so far. And nobody can really tell 44 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: until after they do their taxes whether things have changed. 45 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 3: I think yeah, and I'm with you, and I think 46 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 3: when a lot of them start to see that big 47 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 3: refund check. I think I think people will start saying, 48 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 3: oh yeah, things are getting better. And I appreciate that 49 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 3: call and the clarification. I really do, and thank you 50 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 3: very much. Vern in Norfolk. Thanks for holding Vern and welcome. 51 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 4: Hello Jeff hi Vern, good morning. We're neighbors. 52 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: You know, what do you mean we're neighbors? Okay, I'm sorry. 53 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 3: I thought maybe you had another home and you lived 54 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 3: in rent them or something. 55 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: I got you. 56 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 3: Yes, we are. We're almost paies On, as the Italians 57 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: would say. Definitely. Norfolk is right near my neck of 58 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 3: the woods. Go ahead, Vern, what's on your mind? 59 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 4: Well, you were asking, you know, things are better for us. 60 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 4: My wife and I both retired my solo business about 61 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 4: boy years ago. She retired two years ago. We're trading one. 62 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 4: We're just trading water. We're trying to keep up with 63 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 4: the taxes. They killed me. When I sold the damn business. 64 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 4: I paid about forty percent uh income tax. When I 65 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 4: sold that damn business. 66 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 3: That's criminal. That my honestly, that's criminal. Forty percent. They 67 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 3: took forty percent. That's criminal. 68 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 4: I busted my hump for forty two years. And when 69 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 4: my accountant said, well, this is what Joe and what 70 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 4: can't be and he said, hey, you want to dance, 71 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 4: you're gonna have to pay the piper. Oh, and then 72 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 4: my wife when she retired two years ago, what she 73 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: had to pay. And then our health insurance to the roof. 74 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 4: We can't keep up with it. We're treading water. So 75 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 4: I feel like I'm paying taxes and health insurance. And 76 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 4: then you said, well, what about groceries. I paid fourteen 77 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 4: almost fifteen bucks for pstronomy the other day, part of 78 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 4: atas army fourteen bucks. 79 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: Vern, what kind of pastromi were you buying? 80 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 4: My friend, well, good stuffer road Brons. 81 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 3: But yeah, it's not fourteen to fifteen bucks now, I 82 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: hear you, Vern, But that's all only. That's very expensive pastrami. 83 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 4: Vern. 84 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 3: If you don't mind me asking, and if I'm getting 85 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 3: too personal, please tell me. I promise I won't be 86 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 3: offended for everything that you've paid in taxes and the 87 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 3: forty percent, the hammer they hit you with when you 88 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 3: finally sold your business after as you put it, breaking 89 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 3: your hump, you know, for the last forty forty forty 90 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 3: two years, and then your wife as well. Do you 91 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: feel that you got that back in government benefits? And 92 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 3: government services like. 93 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 4: Never. No, that'sing changed there, but by everything else is 94 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 4: growing up. And I'll tell you what. When they started 95 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 4: about ten years ago to Gear Vern. 96 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 3: Can you Vern, I'm up against a break. Please hang on. 97 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 3: I want you to come and finish your thought. Six 98 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 3: one seven, two sixty six, sixty eight sixty eight. 99 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: Let's go right back to Vern. 100 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 3: They hammered him with a forty percent tax when he 101 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 3: sold his business forty two years. He's got insurance payments 102 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 3: through the nose, He's got taxes through the nose. Poor 103 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 3: guy wants to get himself a little bit of pastromi 104 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,239 Speaker 3: at fourteen to fifteen bucks a pound. Uh, he says, 105 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 3: even groceries for him are getting expensive. 106 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: Uh. He's just barely treading water. 107 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 4: Vern. 108 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: Please pick up where you left off. Hello, yep, go ahead, Vern, 109 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 3: you're on the air. 110 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: Go ahead. 111 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 4: A lot of talk about my healthcare too, you know, 112 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 4: when Obama was in and they kind of helped, Thank Azie. 113 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 4: I was supposed to say, twenty five hundred golls each 114 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 4: my wife five air or my health insured. Well that 115 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 4: didn't happen, and now I'm paying not only that, each 116 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 4: of us is paying twenty five hundred dollars more a 117 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 4: year or a health insurance. My primary care doctors, my 118 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 4: first one retired and another one said why should I work? 119 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 4: And he left, and another one he went on to 120 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 4: something else. My current primary care is going to one 121 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 4: of those private practices, which is twelve thousand dollars a 122 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 4: year just for that. We're not going to pay that. 123 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 4: And what am I going to do with my healthcare? 124 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 4: That's what I worry about. 125 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 3: Vern Again, I don't want to get too personal, but 126 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: aren't you on Medicare? 127 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 4: But it's horrible. The doctors that they sign us are horrible. 128 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 4: The wait lists are terrible. You know, you go into 129 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 4: what they say you're sitting around and I wander to it. 130 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 4: Am I getting the premium healthcare? Probably not? And so 131 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 4: we like the guys we had the primary doctors and 132 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 4: great guys and women, but we are gonna be able 133 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 4: for ten grandier to do that to these? 134 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 3: Well, you see, Verned, your problem is you're an American citizen. 135 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 3: So that's your problem. Vern You see, if you said 136 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 3: you're an illegal alien, then moriy Heely, I'm not kidding. 137 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 3: Mory Heally would say you can get free health care. 138 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 3: You wouldn't pay ten thousand, you wouldn't pay twelve thousand, 139 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 3: you wouldn't pay twentys, you wouldn't pay anything. So you 140 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 3: know that would take care of that. Plus, Vern, they 141 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 3: give you food stamps, they pay for your meals, so 142 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 3: you know you can have all the pastromi sandwiches you want. 143 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 3: Plus they would pay for your housing. You see this, 144 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 3: So in other words, your problem, Vern is is that 145 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 3: you're an American. If you're an illegal, you wouldn't pay 146 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 3: for a thing. And that's literally the problem in this 147 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: state is that you me the list law biding tax 148 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 3: paying hardworking or formally you know, I know you're retired, 149 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 3: so you're not working now, but you know law biding 150 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 3: tax paying hardworking Americans, someone like you forty two years 151 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 3: broke your back to keep your business afloat, your your 152 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 3: wife's same thing, and we're getting the short end of 153 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 3: the stick. That that's we're being discriminated against in our 154 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 3: own state, in our own country. And that's why to me, 155 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 3: I'm waiting for the tax revolt. I'm waiting for this 156 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: populist revolt. I keep saying it's going to come. There's 157 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:40,719 Speaker 3: going to be a time where people are going to 158 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:42,599 Speaker 3: say I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to 159 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,679 Speaker 3: take it anymore. And I'm waiting, and I'm waiting, and 160 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 3: I'm waiting, and I think what people are waiting for 161 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: is a leader that they can believe in, at a 162 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 3: bare minimum, a party that they can believe in. And 163 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 3: that's why I've been I don't want to sound like 164 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 3: a broken record, but said this over and over again, 165 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 3: your knee. As they keep losing to the Democrats, that's 166 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 3: all they care about. So I say, let's get a 167 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: real opposition party. You get a real opposition party, the 168 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 3: Democrats will fall like a house of cards because Vernon, 169 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 3: I'm telling you, you're not the only one. And you 170 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 3: know we're sick and tired of it. The forgotten American, 171 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 3: especially in Massachusetts, is saying enough is enough. 172 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,200 Speaker 1: You can't keep doing this. 173 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 3: I can't keep doing this because you're right, we are 174 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 3: treading water six one seven two six six sixty eight 175 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 3: sixty eight. And look, let me be honest with all 176 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 3: of you. If this was a war, I don't know, 177 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 3: world War two, people have to make all kinds of sacrifices, Okay, 178 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 3: they have to go without. There was rationing taxes went up. 179 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 3: I mean, there was all sorts of things. Fine, okay, 180 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 3: we're willing to sacrifice for the country, of course, if 181 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,719 Speaker 3: you know we're involved in a war. Our troops are 182 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 3: you know, sent overseas and they're dying, and hey, well 183 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 3: you know, I'll sacrifice. But what are we paying taxes for? 184 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 3: What are what are we paying for higher you know, 185 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 3: higher insurance, for higher energy, higher electricity, higher utilities, well, 186 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 3: you know, higher cost of living. It's either free illegal 187 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 3: aliens in other words, the voter base in a democratic party, 188 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 3: or these insane radical environmentalists with their climate change mandates 189 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 3: and climate change agenda, in other words, for the radical left. 190 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 3: So no, I'm sorry, We're not suckers. We're being exploited. 191 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 3: That's what this is. Frankly, We're being abused as taxpayers, 192 00:11:58,240 --> 00:11:59,719 Speaker 3: and I think it's time we said enough. 193 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 1: As an. 194 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 3: I'm not a surf and they're trying to turn us 195 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 3: into a surf. Well those days are over. Joe in Westfield, 196 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 3: Thanks for holding Joe, and welcome. 197 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 4: Jeff. 198 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 5: I man to give you two examples between business in 199 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 5: a red state and a blue state, such as TAXI 200 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 5: choose it's I don't know if you heard this, but 201 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 5: Correndo Foods in Springfield, they make spiral hams and sausages. 202 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 5: They've been in business over one hundred years. A relative 203 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 5: works there. 204 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 6: They were just informed, unfortunately that by the summer they're 205 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 6: going to be close two hundred people are going to 206 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 6: be out of work, and the media is making it 207 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 6: look like it's just consolidation. But the sad truth is 208 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 6: from people that he knows, you know, working their thirty 209 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 6: plus years, is that they're moving out of mass because 210 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 6: they're just it's just a total, total, total unfriendly business environment. 211 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 6: They wouldn't work with them, they wouldn't try to help 212 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,439 Speaker 6: them with tax breaks and the fronmental stuff and all 213 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 6: that other stuff. 214 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 7: So they're gone. 215 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 6: Sadly, they're going to be gone by the end of summer. 216 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 6: And on the positive side, not in our area. But 217 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 6: I'm a long called trucker and my companies out of 218 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 6: Wisconsin I call exhaust fans for roofing, for flat roof 219 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 6: buildings new construction. Eighty percent of the deliveries I do 220 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 6: are the Red States, and the only deliveries I do 221 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,599 Speaker 6: in Blue states are normally just the Amazon facilities that 222 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 6: they're building because they build them everywhere, but it's certainly 223 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,599 Speaker 6: not any bargain as opposed to actual manufacturing jobs that 224 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 6: pay a lot. 225 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 3: It's like we're living in two different countries, you know, 226 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: I mean, John the shoe forgive me, Joe, the way 227 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,000 Speaker 3: you describe it, it's like we're living in two different countries. 228 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 3: And you know, look, you know you mentioned that that 229 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 3: company in Springfield. You know, I spoke about Cape Cod 230 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 3: Chips earlier, no Cape caught ships to their credits that 231 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 3: it was more heey. They said exactly what you mentioned, 232 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 3: the excessive regulation, the crushingxes, these crazy climate change environmental mandates. 233 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,720 Speaker 3: They go, they're squeezing us everywhere. We can't make a profit. 234 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: And they go, what's scary is you try to explain 235 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 3: this to them, and it's like dealing with Zoron Mamdani. 236 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 3: It's like, you know, they're so far to the left, 237 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: they're so anti business, anti capitalists, anti private sector. Either 238 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 3: they don't want to listen or they don't care. And 239 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 3: my suspicion is, Joe and I'm gonna give you the 240 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 3: final word on this, I think. And it's not just 241 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 3: happening in Massachusetts. Gavin Newsom Here Zuckerberg now is out. 242 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 3: Zuckerberg is now leaving California because to flee the wealth tax. 243 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 3: And he's not the only one. And by the way, 244 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 3: they're relocating where Florida, Florida. Everybody's relocating to Florida. Why 245 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 3: because you can make money. Their business friendly, they won't 246 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: have regulations that choke you and strangle you. But the 247 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 3: point is this. Okay, so it's not just here in 248 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 3: mass but it's in blue states everywhere. But the point 249 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 3: is this. Morey Healy looks at something like Cape Cod 250 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 3: Ships or I bet that company in Springfield, and here's 251 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 3: what she says, Well, it's private sector, so they don't 252 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 3: vote Democrat most likely. The owners definitely don't vote Democrat 253 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 3: because we're taxing them to the hilt, so you know, 254 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 3: we're trying to basically run them out of the state, 255 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 3: so they're not going to vote for us. And those 256 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 3: are private sector jobs that the employees have, so they're 257 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 3: also paying taxes through the nose. So they're looking at 258 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: them and saying, these are either Republicans or Independents. They're 259 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 3: not really our people. They're not our voters. So if 260 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 3: they want to leave, blank you leave. And they're so 261 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 3: stupid that they don't realize that the more taxpayers leave, 262 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: the less money there is for them and their government 263 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 3: programs and their welfare handouts. Am I wrong, Joe? 264 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 6: You're not only right, but you're a million percent right. 265 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 6: It's umble And as far as trucking goes and transportation 266 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 6: and cost of everything, think is so high besides low 267 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 6: your interest rates, I think the price of diesel should 268 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 6: still go down. It's still too high. 269 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: I agree. 270 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 3: I agree they should drill even more. I mean, I 271 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 3: know Trump came out today and said, now officially we 272 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: are the number one producer of oil. 273 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: And natural gas in the world. 274 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 3: Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight 275 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 3: is the number. Down the stretch we come. John in Walpole, 276 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 3: Thanks for holding John, and welcome. 277 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 7: Good morning John. 278 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 1: You're on the air. Go ahead, my friend. 279 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 7: Yeah, Jeff, can you hear me? 280 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, loud and clear, John, go ahead. 281 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 7: Okay, Man, I want to talk to Things are a 282 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 7: little better, but I'm on Social Security, so I don't 283 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 7: know what the other one was talking about. That's if 284 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 7: your individual six thousand, and if you're if you're a 285 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 7: couple of twelve thousand, that is going to reduce your 286 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 7: your cost of the Social Security. But I want to 287 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 7: wanted to talk more about the energy and obviously in 288 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 7: Massachusetts it's more herely's responsibility for ever source the national grid. So, 289 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 7: but I want to talk about the cost of the 290 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 7: home eating fude and under Trump in twenty twenty, in 291 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 7: December his last time, you know, he lost in November 292 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,199 Speaker 7: in twenty twenty, I got a fill up, Jeff, it 293 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 7: was a dollar sixty nine a gallon, okay, and currently 294 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 7: I'm paying three seventy nine a gallon. So if he 295 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 7: can reduce that, if you can reduce that, I think 296 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 7: that'll be a lot better and people will see that. 297 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 7: And in regards to the gas at the pump, it 298 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 7: was what when he was in office was a dollar 299 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 7: seventy nine a gallon, and it's hovering around a lot 300 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 7: of here in Walpole is what to sixty five for 301 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 7: cash for regular and reading. So he said, you just 302 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,880 Speaker 7: mentioned the fact that with the number one producer, did 303 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 7: you just. 304 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 3: Mention that, Yes, Trump came out today and announced apparently 305 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 3: it's official again we were number one under Trump in 306 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 3: his first term, Biden obviously waged war on fossil fuels, 307 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 3: and you know, with the pipelines and the Keystone Excel 308 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 3: pipeline and all of the other pipelines. We are now 309 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,239 Speaker 3: number one again. So we are now, as you and 310 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 3: I speak, the number one producer of oil and natural 311 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 3: gas in the world. 312 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 7: So he said, a couple of six months ago, get 313 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 7: it down to two dollars a gallon. He's going to 314 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 7: get that down to two dollars a gallon. And the 315 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 7: home heating oil, it was staying about three. It went 316 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 7: down to about two eighty nine three dollars, or was 317 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 7: paying three dollars. And then he brought the ships out 318 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 7: of the Iran and the barrel went up ten dollars 319 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 7: a gallon, so it shot up sixty cents. Yeah, so 320 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,239 Speaker 7: if he gets those down, it'll be even better. And 321 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 7: in regards to Chris about the overtime, no taxmon all 322 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 7: the time, he's absolutely right. So you may mentioned of 323 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 7: the fact that sometimes you have to compromise. Did you 324 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 7: mention that about the Senate? 325 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 3: Well, no, what I said was that Trump to be 326 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 3: fair to him. He basically said, look, you pay your 327 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 3: income tax forty hours, but after forty hours, you don't 328 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 3: pay a penny in over when once you start making overtime, 329 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,640 Speaker 3: you don't pay a penny an extra tax that includes 330 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 3: your full salary on top of the extra overtime. 331 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: That you make. 332 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 3: Right, you make fifty bucks an hour, so you're now 333 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 3: making seventy five dollars an hour as you're you know, 334 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 3: for overtime. Well, what the what they Congress did was 335 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 3: was both the House and the Senate they said, yeah, 336 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 3: we're not going to tax the twenty five dollars extra 337 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 3: that you make when you have overtime, but we're still 338 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 3: taxing that initial fifty dollars an hour that you get. 339 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,080 Speaker 3: And I said, well, to be fair to Trump, he wanted, 340 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 3: you know, the seventy five dollars, all of it per 341 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 3: hour untaxed. But you know, he had to make a 342 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 3: compromise to get the big beautiful bill through. 343 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: That was it. 344 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 3: I mean, I would have liked Trump to have held 345 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 3: out and fought for more because I don't think you 346 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 3: should pay any tax on overtime. But half a loaf 347 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 3: is better than no loaf, as they say, Chris, but 348 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 3: please go ahead, Sorry John, my bad. 349 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: I go ahead, John. 350 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 7: I understand that, Jeff. But the thing is during the 351 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:15,919 Speaker 7: there of the campaign, and I'm happy with him, I 352 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 7: voted from three times. I'll vote another three times. And 353 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 7: then Ronnie in Boston, I haven't done my taxi yet, 354 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 7: but I'm gonna fix Nate come and social Security me 355 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 7: and my wife. I'm gonna see how that's gonna affect it. Okay, 356 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,919 Speaker 7: usually you try to break even. But he said, what 357 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 7: do you belame when it says no tax on social Security, 358 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 7: no tax on tips, no tax on all the time. 359 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 7: That means no tax. So why does the Republican president 360 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 7: who's seventy seven million people voted for. I didn't vote 361 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 7: for Johndon, I didn't vote for Mike Johnson. He should 362 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 7: have held firm and said no, this is the way 363 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 7: it's gonna be. Okay, and the big beautiful bill to 364 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 7: say when they extended the Trump tax cuts, that was great. 365 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 7: They had to do that, okay, because remember Biden used 366 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 7: to say that Trump tax cuts were awful. Remember that. Yes, 367 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 7: but he never got rid of him. Did He never 368 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 7: got rid of him Okay, because he knew they were good. 369 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 7: They were to tank the economy even more. 370 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 4: Okay. 371 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 7: So the bottom line is he never should have compromised 372 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 7: with Congress. 373 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 4: Okay. 374 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 7: Oh so tax on Social Security No, it should have 375 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 7: been zero, okay, the way it's currently constituted. So I'm 376 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 7: disappointed at that, but I think it can be even better. 377 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 7: He has to get those energy prices down and I'm 378 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 7: paying for So it just shot up to three seventy nine. 379 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 7: So we've already lost twenty twenty five and Nick and 380 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 7: Weymouth is correct. We've already lost twenty twenty five home 381 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 7: Eating season and now we're into the twenty twenty six 382 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 7: home eating season. 383 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 4: Okay, and the. 384 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 7: Prices have stabilized, but they just shot up again, so 385 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 7: it's nothing to divide by. No, he's paying four fifty 386 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 7: a gallons, okay, which was crazy. I don't know what 387 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 7: you have, Jeff. Do you have natural gas? You have 388 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 7: home meeting? 389 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: Yeah? 390 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 3: I have electricity and that a little bit of natural gas. 391 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 7: Okay, you're screwed. Okay with electricity, yes, No, I pay 392 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 7: a lot. 393 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: My energy costs are we're really through. 394 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 7: The roof the cost of because National Britain in episours 395 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 7: have to buy their power. And when it was under Trump, 396 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 7: you were paying less a kill a watt. 397 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 4: Okay. 398 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 7: So the bottom line is he talked about two dollars 399 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 7: a gallon gas at the pump, it goes to sixty, 400 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 7: then it goes back down, and Diesel has. 401 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 4: Never come down. 402 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 7: The truckle was right, Diesel has never come down. So 403 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 7: now with a number one producer, so now I want 404 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 7: to see it. So if people see that, and it 405 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 7: is a red state, blue state situation. The only thing 406 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 7: good about Massachusetts, and there's not much good about it, okay, 407 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 7: is they don't tax your Social Security and they don't 408 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 7: tax your federal tension. 409 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 4: Okay. 410 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 7: So other than that, it's terrible. 411 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: John, You're right. 412 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 3: The only thing I would just add to that, You're right, 413 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 3: You're completely right. Don't get me wrong. I have to 414 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: say the healthcare here is very good. 415 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: It really is. 416 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 3: I've you know, I've been using my you know, I've 417 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 3: had to use healthcare. The hospitals here are excellent. I 418 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 3: have eye specialists because I have glaucoma, because of my 419 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,680 Speaker 3: type two diabetes. They really are some of the best 420 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 3: in the world. And you got people who drive up. 421 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 3: I mean I see them when I'm at the doctor's office, 422 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 3: you know, from Maine, from Vermont, from New Hampshire, from 423 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 3: Rhode Island, from Connecticut. So we do have That's the 424 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 3: one thing we have access to really good quality healthcare. 425 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 3: I'm hoping that more healy doesn't drive them away as well.