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Speaker 1: asked the candy man, Good morning, candy Man.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Governor, McKai hi, Jeane, I gotta get a

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Speaker 2: nick game for you. Come up with some I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: come up with something that I'm gonna Jean, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: throw that out there. I call him me, I say,

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Speaker 2: you know, Jean, Jean the dance and begin dance like that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Governor, with public figures, we have to embrace this.

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Speaker 2: Yes, this is true.

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Speaker 1: All right, Uh, I got a lot to talk to

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Speaker 1: you about. But more importantly, this is constituent service. So

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Speaker 1: the people want to talk to you at four three,

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Speaker 1: eight nine, seven seven six, and they come first.

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm here.

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Speaker 1: This is constituent service, and this is you know, I

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Speaker 1: think this is a nice part of the job. Really

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Speaker 1: where you Hey, Governor, my street's lousy or or this

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Speaker 1: is wrong? Can you help me? You enjoy doing that?

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Speaker 2: I was a mayor for twelve years and we did

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Speaker 1: That's right. Well, the first call, Paul, Uh won't sok

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Speaker 1: and on snow removal? Go ahead and make it quick, Paul, go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning guys. First off quick quick note the

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Speaker 3: for four days get the flags back up on the

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Speaker 3: State House. But I'm certain though snow removal. Last Friday morning,

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Speaker 3: I emailed your chief of staff, alvid and the mayor

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Speaker 3: What did they do? They offered ten dollars parking from

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Speaker 3: seven o'clock Saturday night till three o'clock Sunday, before the

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Speaker 3: Whodford is chock full of free parking for Uri soon

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, Paul, I read your essay on this.

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Speaker 1: Paul thinks the parking should have been free in the

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Speaker 1: in the garages over at the Convention Center, not ten

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Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that, Well, I think that the look

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Speaker 2: it's a fair fair price. I actually when I heard

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Speaker 2: get them off the streets and and then I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: want to risk having my toad which will cost me

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to David Rumford on affordability, which

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Speaker 1: is the Democrat buzzword. Go ahead, Dave.

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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, governor. So I what's the state of

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Speaker 4: the state. And you use the statistic that the average

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty one, the same statistic was twenty three

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Speaker 4: under Trump. So my question is, if the Democrats are

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Speaker 4: concerned about affordability, why is Rhode Island still going to

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Speaker 4: tax tips in overtime that's for the average person. Why

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So budgets of budgets. I've been involved with budgets forever,

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Speaker 2: and we have to balance the budget. So it's a

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Speaker 2: we're our affordability for all plan is for all, and

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Speaker 2: it's not for anyone particular, let's get rid of the

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Speaker 2: And then on the energy issues, let's start saving people

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Speaker 2: money on their energy bill. Proposal, which is very doable,

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Speaker 1: Hey David, you're going to retire here, You're going to

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Speaker 4: I'm going to go to I'm going to go to

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Speaker 4: the cake probably team, but they have a millionaire's tax too.

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Speaker 4: But Governor, you also talked about a two cent cut

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Speaker 4: ten percent, So we do have affordability green shoots happening.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure why you don't give them credit.

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Speaker 2: My plan is to be here in Rhode Island. I'm

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Speaker 2: And as far as the affordability for all, I've made

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Speaker 2: sure that we're creating affordability for all. And when I

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Speaker 2: the jobs issue is the big, big deal. Right now,

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Speaker 2: we have thirty six thousand new private sector jobs since

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Speaker 1: The gas is down on the Trump so Dave says,

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, it's not coming in the same pot because

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Speaker 1: I guess Dave and others would say, well, why don't

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Look, I am that. I've always been the person

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Speaker 2: So it's a it's a you know, there's things that

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Speaker 2: and I usually uh point out, you know, actually what's happening.

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Speaker 1: You you tweeted Governor McKee's official posts. You said it's

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Speaker 1: time for Christy Nome to go. It is if she

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Speaker 1: closed the border, why does she have to go. No,

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Speaker 1: she's done something nobody could do. Eleven million shut off Biden,

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Speaker 2: No? First of all, I said, I think we should

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Speaker 1: Isn't isn't this what you're doing jumping to a conclusion.

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Speaker 2: Investigation, gene is. Look, if that happened in Rhode Island,

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Speaker 2: So yes, a person in charge of a of a

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to profile your family and my family.

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Speaker 2: And that is happening. And in terms of like the escalation,

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Speaker 1: No, we don't know the final outcome of the investigation.

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Speaker 2: What I do know is when something happens like that,

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Speaker 1: The justice the problem will challenge that and say no,

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Speaker 2: We're investigating and there's the problem. Right, there's the problem.

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Speaker 2: So when and and I'll you know, I'll bring up,

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Speaker 2: you know, the tragedy there at Brown. I fully understood

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Speaker 1: But that's a completely different scenario. That was a local crime,

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Speaker 2: It's not different. It's if a if something rises to

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Speaker 2: as well as a federal But but you should not

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Speaker 1: But your thoughts. If I say, is Paxson got to go?

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Speaker 2: Now I'll let the board decide.

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Speaker 1: Okay, right, fair enough, you say christin Ome has to go.

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Speaker 1: You said it's an overreach. You make your point on

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Speaker 1: I got to go to a break, but I want

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Speaker 1: What have you told your state police to do with

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Speaker 2: No, the directive is if if they're they're pursuing a

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Speaker 1: Or point well taken, I understand. Do you know if

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Speaker 1: look a operation on Tuesday, I'm going to be on

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Speaker 2: Do you know if that's happening, Gene, I do, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's important to know the people to know

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Speaker 1: In other words, Ice, tell us you're coming, will be

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Speaker 2: They won't tell us that coming Geene. That's that's the

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Speaker 2: to have to have eyes open. Yeah, and then we're

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Speaker 1: Well, right, you know, taking you at your word and

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Speaker 1: We have an operation. Please be around the corner if

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Speaker 1: Okay, Governors, stay, wele this. It's say twenty four more

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Speaker 6: Hi, good morning.

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Speaker 7: I go to air cargo a lot. I have a

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Speaker 2: All right, Gonor go ahead, Well thanks, you know, thank

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Speaker 2: you of that information. That is you know, I'll, i'll, we'll,

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Speaker 2: They determine when it's open, when it's closed. But we

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Speaker 1: Sansy would say, look out your window. You should see

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Speaker 6: Good morning everybody, Dan Governor. All four of my people,

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Speaker 6: Tell me your friends and I'll tell you you are

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I said he wanted to talk about snaps.

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Speaker 1: I can't disparage another host on my show. I'm responsible

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Speaker 1: whatever you'd like to do.

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Speaker 2: Well, and you know the call is entitled to his opinion.

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Speaker 2: I'll just sit here and say that Dan's a friend

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Speaker 2: and just like here with Gene, So there's people maybe

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Speaker 1: Then gonna be hard fee if you like could the

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Speaker 2: Well maybe uh yeah, they're lining up Gene and uh

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Speaker 2: and then then you want to take it out on me,

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Speaker 2: which I you know, I guess that, ue, Governor.

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Speaker 1: I could laugh at that because I have a thick skin.

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Speaker 1: You do too, right, you have that. It's just a

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Speaker 2: There's a business we've chosen. And I understand that there's

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Speaker 2: But I can tell you that, Uh, if you like Gene,

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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. If you don't like Gene, you

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Speaker 9: Good morning, Governor. I'm a single person. I'm on health sauce,

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Speaker 2: So you know this is coming away, and you know

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Speaker 2: some of the people like yourself. I don't know exactly

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Speaker 2: And then your your point is well taken. I had

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Now I'm not even sure what it is is if

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Speaker 2: you now have the insurance, what is it like five

435
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars or something like that?

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Speaker 9: What seven dollars?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we're going to take Thank you for the call.

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Speaker 2: You're supporting what what what? Somebody talked to me yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Under the circumstances which is being driven by, you know,

440
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Speaker 2: the policies that are coming back at us from Washington,

441
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Speaker 2: we're trying to address those things and what you just

442
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Speaker 2: talked about. I think that we need to kind of

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Speaker 2: make sure that the you know, insult is not added

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Speaker 2: to injury.

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Speaker 1: Here, Okay, next call at John and Warwick. Go ahead, John,

446
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Speaker 1: that John's on the air now, I'm sorry, Rachel, go ahead,

447
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Speaker 1: Rachel and NK go ahead. Rachel around with the governor.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 8: I actually called back in December about the affordability four

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Speaker 8: renters and buyers in every town and city and Rhode Island,

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Speaker 8: and I was told I would get a call back

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Speaker 8: from your office, but I never heard anything.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry about that. I will call you back.

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Speaker 2: So leave the number and I will call you back.

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Speaker 1: Well, since you've picked all of our interests, what is

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Speaker 1: it you want to say to the governor. What do

457
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Speaker 1: you need done?

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Speaker 8: Well that I was trying to find a new place

459
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Speaker 8: and I'm one of those people that can't find it.

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Speaker 8: I work at essentially for the government, and I can't

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Speaker 8: afford a place anywhere in the state to move to.

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Speaker 2: You leave your number. I will call you personally.

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Speaker 1: Where do you want to live near? Will you work?

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Speaker 1: Give me an ideal town if I could wake.

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Speaker 8: All right, I work in Newport. I live in Wickford,

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Speaker 8: North Kingstown right now. It would nice, be nice to be,

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Speaker 8: you know, close enough quote unquote as a Rhode Islander

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Speaker 8: to not be at any time and gas money to

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Speaker 8: how close I am already. But there's just nothing really anyway, nothing.

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Speaker 1: In Middletown something like that.

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Speaker 8: No. I grew up on a Quinneck Island. I was

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Speaker 8: forced out of there after twenty twenty and I ran

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Speaker 8: for city council down there.

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Speaker 1: As a what Republican and Democrats just depending that.

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Speaker 8: You called back city council.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, leave your number. I will call you

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Speaker 2: personally and then I'll ask you some of the questions

478
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Speaker 2: that I don't want to be asking you here on

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Speaker 2: income and what you can afford paying that type of thing.

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Speaker 1: Olivia has got the number. So all right, Olivia and

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Speaker 1: you you're good. I'll call it a person has the

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Speaker 1: number when I leave here, Bob, hold on, hold on,

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Speaker 1: hold on, Bob, Governor, just give me thirty seconds short

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Speaker 1: answers on each one millionaire's tax. I had an accountant on,

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Speaker 1: and I had an estate planner on, a lawyer. They said,

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Speaker 1: you're going to chase more people of Florida, and we

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Speaker 1: all know they've running already. I'm gonna go, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I'm going down to Benita in uh in a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, and I'm going to stay with somebody who

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Speaker 1: just became a six month and a day member of

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Speaker 1: the club. A lot of people are going to hit that.

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Speaker 1: Now what why don't you say I'm gonna do. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna cut that down and I'm gonna I want people

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Speaker 1: to stay here, and I want them to retire here

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Speaker 1: with their grand kids.

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Speaker 2: We do, and that's one of the first step is

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Speaker 2: eliminate the Social Security tax, because more people are impacted

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Speaker 2: by that than the than the than that death tax.

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Speaker 2: Uh And I am. I am in favor of elevating

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Speaker 2: the death tax. But it's the same answer that I

501
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Speaker 2: gave earlier in the show is you still have to

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Speaker 2: balance the budget. So if you're you're reducing income, you've

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Speaker 2: got to figure out how to balance the budget. Uh.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons I'm running again to make

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Speaker 2: sure that we continue to suffordability and we're going to

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Speaker 2: address those issues right now. Social Security tax make people

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Speaker 2: leave on that because most people, by the way, on

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Speaker 2: a millionaires tax, you can run over nine hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars and have one of the lowest income taxes in

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Speaker 2: New England.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And when you when you get over a million dollars,

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Speaker 2: which the bingarity. The people who are going to get

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Speaker 2: taxed on this thing, and it's just factual don't even

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Speaker 2: live in the state right now.

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Speaker 1: But you're chasing the people with money out. I know them,

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Speaker 1: and you know them too, because maybe you do. You

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Speaker 1: get down the Florida Palm Beach to raise money. There's

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Speaker 1: a circuit down there. I should car She goes, Helena goes,

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Speaker 1: do you have you been down there to raise money?

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Speaker 2: No, my money is raised right here and run.

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Speaker 1: You never go to Florida for a fundraiser in some

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Speaker 1: rich guy's house.

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Speaker 2: We've gone through the DGA. They raise money the detail,

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Speaker 2: not a private fundraiser so and so's house. Okay, all right,

526
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Speaker 2: but they're down there, Governor, give me their names, because

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Speaker 2: raising money is out of the day.

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Speaker 1: It's no secret. We all know these names. But they're

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Speaker 1: down there, Governor, and so are other people in Naples

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Speaker 1: and everywhere else, because they're going to be taxed the

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Speaker 1: hell out of them. And now you want a millionaire's tax.

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Speaker 1: So they said, what am I staying here for. I'll

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Speaker 1: join the six months of the day club and on

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Speaker 1: my address and my license plate is Florida, and I'll

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Speaker 1: come and visit you in the summer and rent the

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Speaker 1: and rent the boat. And that's happening, Governor. And with

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Speaker 1: the millionaire's tax, isn't going to happen more.

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Speaker 2: No, because the amount of people that are already in

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Speaker 2: that space, most of them live outside the state. Already,

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Speaker 2: they've already made that move. So they've already decided to

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Speaker 2: leave before there was a millionaire's tax. So uh so,

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Speaker 2: the idea that somehow this is going to push out them,

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Speaker 2: they've already decided to leave it and there wasn't even

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Speaker 2: a millionaires tax. So and what we're doing on the

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Speaker 2: millionaires tax we're responding to a problem. You just had

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Speaker 2: a caller that said, is health insurance went up triple right.

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Speaker 2: We've put ten million dollars of money to offset to

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Speaker 2: help some of those people, twenty million dollars to offset

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Speaker 2: some of the regulations that we're going to have to

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Speaker 2: comply with on the Medicaid we have to. So that's

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Speaker 2: a pressure that's coming our way. There was no way

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Speaker 2: for me to handle it. I did not I was

553
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Speaker 2: not a big promoter of that issue, but that was

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Speaker 2: the best option for the people in the state or

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Speaker 2: at island. Again, people can earn nine hundred and fifty

556
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Speaker 2: thousand dollars and still play one of the lowest income

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Speaker 2: tax in New England. Our competition is Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: And that core group that you just talked about, they

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Speaker 2: had already left the hold on.

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Speaker 1: There's new people behind them. There's people every year that

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Speaker 1: make decisions who're gonna go because of what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: That's why let's get rid of the Social Security tax.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the main drivers. Because people who are

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Speaker 2: not under that income level, which is the like it's

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Speaker 2: the overwhelming majority majority, right, they're making their decisions on

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Speaker 2: those dollars I get in taxed on my on my

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Speaker 2: Social Security, I make more than one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. I'm out of here because I don't want

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Speaker 2: to pay on two Social Security. I don't want to

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Speaker 2: pay the three thousand and four thousand dollars extra on that.

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Speaker 2: Let's get that eliminated and then we can start addressing

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Speaker 2: those things you're talking about. Gene. We want to be

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Speaker 2: competitive with our bordering states and the death tax right

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Speaker 2: now we are of Connecticut has a pretty good strategy.

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Speaker 2: I've talked to Governor Lamant about it. It's on my radar.

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Speaker 2: But we got to take one thing at a time.

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Speaker 1: You know what your your far left members of your

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Speaker 1: party up there at the state House. They want to

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Speaker 1: start the millionaire's tax at six hundred and forty thousand.

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Speaker 1: Let's just listen to this. You're begging for doctors to

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Speaker 1: come to Rhode Island because we have a doctor shortage.

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Speaker 1: A good doctor is going to make six six forty

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Speaker 1: easy and in his day.

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Speaker 2: I don't support that, okay, and they want to.

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Speaker 1: By the way, that's do you talk to that you

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Speaker 1: said you are you do you see what you're doing well?

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Speaker 2: That's not a where our millionaires taxes is the tax

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Speaker 2: as well, and so that it will increase, you know,

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Speaker 2: the spread, but it's every dollar, one dollar over a

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Speaker 2: million dollars we'll get taxed at this new rate, and

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Speaker 2: the first million dollars is going to get taxed at

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Speaker 2: the lower rate. So uh yeah, that's not a millionaires tax.

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Speaker 2: When you start getting into six hundred thousand vegle four

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand and five, that is now I agree with

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Speaker 2: that gene. That would be a really big problem for

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Speaker 2: the state of Rhode Island. And that's why I did

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Speaker 2: the same thing on the on the veterans pension where

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Speaker 2: I got rid of the vention pension. I put that

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Speaker 2: in there. I felt as though that there show other

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Speaker 2: things I slipped in the Lino veto this year to

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Speaker 2: make sure that that gets on the discussion. Right, So

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Speaker 2: the same thing here, we put the millionaires tax, and

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Speaker 2: we put it towards things that are causing expenses coming

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Speaker 2: from Washington. And let's get rid of the Social Security tax,

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Speaker 2: give a child tax credit to every family, not just some.

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Speaker 2: And then let's put the billion dollars of savings for

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Speaker 2: our energy back in the pockets of the people that

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Speaker 2: act paying the.

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Speaker 1: Veils, hit the guy who's making money, who's responsible? Who

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Speaker 1: who hit him? Because he's got it because you can Okay,

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Speaker 1: I get it, Governor. We're not trying to convince you otherwise,

612
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Speaker 1: just trying to plow the fertile field of ideas.

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Speaker 2: Well. I love the you know, peple, I like the

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Speaker 2: idea that you're defending. The people are making over a

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Speaker 2: million dollars, but by I said again, the majority of

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Speaker 2: them have already decided to leave the state before this

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Speaker 2: tax went in.

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Speaker 1: Let me take the last road on that, because Governor,

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Speaker 1: there's another generation behind them. Every year, new people plow

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Speaker 1: the same route, and I'm going to tell you them

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Speaker 1: because I'm going to go stay with someone who just

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Speaker 1: did it. So it's every year it's a it's another conveyor,

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Speaker 1: but somebody gets off, all right, govern to stay with

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Speaker 1: us a couple more minutes and we'll see if we

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Speaker 1: squeeze another phone calling. Go ahead, Tom, Tom, we got

626
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Speaker 1: time from another local person here, Yeah, local Bob, Bob,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 5: I know you can't answer this question specifically, but if

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Speaker 5: I paid roughly five hundred thousand for my host and

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Speaker 5: I sold it for three points million. How much would

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Speaker 5: I pay the state in this new millionaires tax.

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Speaker 2: Well, the millionaires tax wouldn't apply, but you will pay

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Speaker 2: more than you than I would have did. That's why

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Speaker 2: I didn't pass the I signed the budget last year

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Speaker 2: on the conveyance tax. The conveyance tax went up. I

637
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Speaker 2: don't think it needed to go up as high as

638
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Speaker 2: it went up. But you will pay some money on

639
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Speaker 2: the conveyance tax to the state. But that will not

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Speaker 2: impact you on the millionaires.

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Speaker 1: Right, I would I have packed him on capital gains, right,

642
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Speaker 1: capital gain if he depending on what he does with

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Speaker 1: the money conveyance tax, but not it's not income. The

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Speaker 1: millionaire's taxes on income. That's correct, what you make.

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Speaker 2: And I would say what I said, just as a

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Speaker 2: gene offs the air. You know, make sure you get

647
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Speaker 2: a good tax advisor in terms of how you would

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Speaker 2: deal with a transaction like that, because if you still

649
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Speaker 2: buy in real estate, there's ways that you can do

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Speaker 2: exchanges that can actually offer it.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Blackstone Valley area triple deckers in Central Falls, right,

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Speaker 1: do you know what they're getting for them? Six't eighty

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Speaker 1: seven twenty Yes, it's not another part of the story.

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Speaker 1: It is all the Latinos, and there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of Latinos there. They bought property, their landlords. Now they've

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Speaker 1: they've wealth has come to them. That's another we don't

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Speaker 1: hear that side of the story. We always here complaining

658
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Speaker 1: about affordability. Can't afford the rent? What about that young family.

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Speaker 1: They bought the house a long time ago. They're sitting

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Speaker 1: on a lot of money. Now, Well, I.

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Speaker 2: Have three things I can say in fifteen seconds. I

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Speaker 2: want to help the kids do better in school. I

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Speaker 2: want to raise incomes in every family. And part of

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Speaker 2: that is home ownership in terms of wealth. And I'm

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Speaker 2: been advocating for home ownership. I got that into the

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Speaker 2: last bond. I'm asking them put it into this next bond.

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Speaker 2: Let's get people into home ownership. That's the way. That's

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Speaker 2: the way you actually build wealth. Most of us will

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Speaker 2: build our equity, just like that caller. That was a

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Speaker 2: real example. That caller is built a great deal of

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Speaker 2: wealth through real estate ownership and they're owning their own home.

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Speaker 1: It's just something nobody talks about.

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Speaker 2: I talk about it, yeah, okay, and I and I

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Speaker 2: had to really work really hard to bring this idea

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Speaker 2: of home ownership into this conversation about uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: making sure that we're building out more inventory of home

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Speaker 2: housing in the state so we can help control the

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Speaker 2: cost by adding to the uh, the indventory.

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Speaker 1: Tom, how much time with the left here? You got

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Speaker 1: a minute left? Govern in one minute? Uh, you're going

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Speaker 1: to get the hospital sold? Is that thing going to

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Speaker 1: be done? And I got a minute?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I think it will be based on where I

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Speaker 2: see right now. Let's see what happens the general assemblies

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Speaker 2: are putting forward and you know, working together to offset

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Speaker 2: some of the things to make that happen. We're not

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Speaker 2: going to close those hospitals. We can't afford to close

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Speaker 2: those hobbits, lose the jobs or lose the care that

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Speaker 2: people need.

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Speaker 1: It's the charter, It's what's the fatima and and and

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Speaker 1: Roger Wills and Roger Williams, Okay, Uh, do you do

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Speaker 1: you like the idea of a medical school being built

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Speaker 1: at u R a state medical school.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good idea, and we're trying to

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Speaker 2: see where the funding is to make sure that that

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Speaker 2: that you can actually afford it. But I think it's

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Speaker 2: a very good idea. Had a good meeting yesterday with

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Speaker 2: the Senate President and the and the and the speaker

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Speaker 2: with their consultant. And I think there's a path towards that,

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Speaker 2: but I'm getting him a little more details, and.

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Speaker 1: You can give me a yes or no answer. Buddy,

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Speaker 1: Cis did ten years this this this week is do

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Speaker 1: you think there should be a memorial or a ploque

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Speaker 1: or name a street or a park after him? Why not?

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Speaker 1: You'd be okay with that because some people are. You

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Speaker 1: know how it ended for buddy.

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Speaker 2: You know, if Providence wants it should be in Providence,

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Speaker 2: I think, and in Providence decides the council and everyone else.

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Speaker 2: Look when my dad passed away, uh, and they wanted

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Speaker 2: to name the street in front of the you know,

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Speaker 2: the boys and Girls club that he helped build. Look,

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Speaker 2: I think that if if a local council wants to

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Speaker 2: name a street, they can name a street.

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Speaker 1: But your dad didn't go to prisoner right.

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Speaker 2: My dad was yeah, far away from that, and he

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Speaker 2: stayed away in politics by the way too, Jeane.

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Speaker 1: But but you would say, if if they if they're

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Speaker 1: okay with it, which I don't think they are, you

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Speaker 1: would you would have no problem with it. That's okay,

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Speaker 1: go great to have you in. Yes, cover a lot

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Speaker 1: of ground today. Thanks eight fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: YE enjoy your trip.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,