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Speaker 2: I am six forty. You're listening to the John Cobel

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Speaker 2: do this. Next segment, we have an idiot new idiot councilwoman,

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Speaker 2: next segment and you'll see I tell you the collective

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Speaker 2: IQ about of that entire city council. Not very much

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Speaker 2: brain power there, not at all. And I guess this

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Speaker 2: is this is really the issue when you have when

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Speaker 2: you have people that's stupid, what are you gonna do? Right?

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Speaker 2: You can't teach intelligence to people. Play that coming up?

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Speaker 2: All right, Let's go to Susan Shelley, very smart woman.

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Speaker 2: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. She's their vice president of communication.

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Speaker 2: She's a calumnist and her columns appear in the Southern

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Speaker 2: California News Group, which is all the suburban papers like

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Speaker 2: the La Daily News, the Arch County Register, and many others.

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Speaker 2: And also she's very active online. She posts a lot

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Speaker 2: of fascinating stuff on X Susan welcome. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm great, John, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: Uh. We talked about this briefly yesterday. I wanted you

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Speaker 2: to explain it in detail. We have a potential big

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Speaker 2: new tax coming to La County. It's a sales tax.

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Speaker 2: It's a half percent increase. We're going to get to

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Speaker 2: vote on it. Go through, go through the details for everyone.

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, it's so full of lies. What they've just

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Speaker 1: this very detailed list and they're talking endlessly about tax

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Speaker 1: It's a general tax. They don't have to spend a

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Speaker 1: second lie is that this is allowed by state law.

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Speaker 1: And where is this law that allows them to go higher? Well,

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Speaker 1: I looked it up, John. It was just introduced on

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Speaker 1: February ninth. It hasn't passed, it not even in a

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Speaker 1: which was introduced by Isaac Bryan, because this is an

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Speaker 1: Whether the voter's approve it or not, it's an illegal

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Speaker 1: there's no reason to do that. This is just the

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Speaker 2: They just raised the sales tax a half cent a

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Speaker 2: They were shorter of money, they raised taxes to cover

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Speaker 2: Whatever food you buy that's eligible for a sales tax,

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Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of people, a lot of people

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Speaker 2: How do we do that?

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Speaker 1: Two eighteen from nineteen ninety six, and it's an initiative

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Speaker 2: It's going up now, it seems every year, because this

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that's what it would do.

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Speaker 2: And people should call their assemblymen and their state senator

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Speaker 2: now today since this waiver bill was just introduced, and

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Speaker 1: That will help. If the thing people will notice in

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Speaker 1: this is what they're up to. You have protections in

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Speaker 1: and they are trying to override it. Again. The bill

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Speaker 2: No matter what we do, they find some way around it,

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Speaker 2: the second part of their plot is they come up

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Speaker 2: medical care, medical care for children, and that Trump is

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration is going to cut more federal aid

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Speaker 1: And you don't see any investigations in La County. I

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Speaker 1: don't see the supervisor's voting for that.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean they're they It makes me crazy when

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Speaker 2: otherwise people are going to suffer. And then they charge.

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Speaker 2: They charge poorer people, you know, in some cases eleven

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Speaker 1: They are groceries, not on streets. It's only a luxuries.

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Speaker 1: Luxuries like toothpaste and paper towels and children's clothing and

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Speaker 2: Now. For food, though, if you go to a restaurant,

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Speaker 2: that food is taxed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is tax at McDonald's. It's taxed at the

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Speaker 1: finest four star restaurant. Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The food isn't taxed at grocery store, but every

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Speaker 1: And the City of Los Angeles is putting three tax

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Speaker 2: Good sure there, Oh yeah, they keep trying that, all right.

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Speaker 2: So this is this is you ought to call in

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Speaker 2: Assembly built seventeen sixty eight. This is going to give

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Speaker 1: June second, really second, because that's when the mail ballots arrived.

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Speaker 2: All right, Susan, we'll talk a lot more about this

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim.

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Speaker 2: And when you when you send tax money to the government,

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Speaker 2: we're going to play you a clip from one of

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Speaker 2: the idiots in charge of spending it. Listen to this doozy.

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Speaker 2: When we return on the LA City Council.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM

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Speaker 3: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Remember we go to a new time slot three to

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Speaker 2: six o'clock starting Tuesday, February seventeenth. Now I just found this.

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Speaker 2: This is on This is on Twitter. This is Emmelda Padea.

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Speaker 2: She is the councilwoman in Los Angeles for Council District six.

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Speaker 2: We've been telling you that so many street lights are

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Speaker 2: the county and the state nobody puts these criminals away.

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Speaker 2: They just leave everything dark, and all all angel Litos

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Speaker 2: this is the reaction of Emelda Padea.

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Speaker 4: You know, in my neighborhood, I talked to some of

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Speaker 2: So she's saying, we can't have street lights because some

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Speaker 2: That is correct, Germany. Gavin Newsom has no interest in

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Speaker 2: this turd, Gavin Newsom is heading to a conference of

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Speaker 2: This frustrates me so much because the progressive writers are

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Speaker 2: the California gas taxes crumbles the California The California gas

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Speaker 2: lawmakers have now flinched. They backed off. But we can't

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Speaker 2: going to crumble without the mileage tax. Look at that

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Speaker 2: the gas tax is shrinking in total dollars. We need

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Speaker 2: a mileage tax otherwise the highways ooh burst into pieces.

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Speaker 2: Well see here here is the fact that didn't make

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Speaker 2: the political article. Instead, they put a quote from a

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Speaker 2: someone named Keana Valentine, Executive director of Transportation California. If

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Speaker 2: we don't try to start thinking now about thoughtful, responsible

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Speaker 2: been wasted. See. This is this is the This is

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Speaker 2: the eternal struggle, and they've always won because they have

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Speaker 2: the media running these absurd false stories that we're not

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Speaker 2: are going to fall apart. Don't know, they've already fallen apart.

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Speaker 2: And you've wasted the highest taxes in the country. You

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Speaker 2: don't get anymore. It's just crazy. All right, we got

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