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Speaker 1: incredibly push. The word they call it is progressive taxes.

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Speaker 1: They're such corrupt liar communists. But this less leads us

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Speaker 1: a good stock market year, yeah, California'll do okay, but plummet,

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Speaker 1: do we have to We're really super screwed. Do we

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Speaker 1: have to pay Medicare medical care for illegal aliens? That's necessary? Well,

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Speaker 1: they work and play taxes too, so they shouldn't be here.

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Speaker 1: They shouldn't be working. They should they hardly pay any taxes.

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Speaker 1: That the taxes are microscopic, that is, that is another

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Speaker 1: conversation that's been hashed over fifty times. All Right, we're

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Speaker 1: control of the House of Representatives and of course finally

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Speaker 1: got themselves a speaker, California's own Kevin McCarthy. Now they're

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Speaker 1: making headlines for a different reason, and this would be

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Speaker 1: quite a move. They're voting on abolishing the IRS. That

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Speaker 1: seems pretty bombastic. This idea has come up before. It

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Speaker 1: would abolished the IRS, eliminate the National income tax and

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Speaker 1: replace it with the old national consumption tax. That's something

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Speaker 1: they do in Europe, right or is it a value

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Speaker 1: added tax? Yeah, it's a sales tax, right, not everything. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so the wealthy would pay more because they buy more,

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Speaker 1: that's the theory. The poor people pay less because they

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Speaker 1: buy less. Yeah, and you com poor. But the rich

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Speaker 1: people also pay higher tax rates and more taxes in general.

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Speaker 1: So would it really wash out that way or is

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Speaker 1: that just the way they're selling it. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen any any statistical analysis on who ends

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Speaker 1: up paying what. Right, But rather rather than tax you

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Speaker 1: as the money's coming in as income, they'll tax you

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Speaker 1: as the money's going out based on spending. I mean theoretically,

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Speaker 1: if you're a rich person and you don't buy a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff but invested, you'll get a lot richer. Right,

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Speaker 1: You're only going to be charged for what you buy.

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Speaker 1: Some of this has been well, it's a congressman from

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Speaker 1: Georgia and Buddy Buddy Carter, a Republican. He's calling it

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Speaker 1: the Fair Tax Act, and this this crowd got pretty well. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we mentioned this that they're supposed to be adding tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands of agents at the IRS eighty seven thousand

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Speaker 1: because they want to they want to go after the

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Speaker 1: tax cheats, and of course after the whole Trump fiasco

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Speaker 1: with his tax returns. Not that he's a cheat, but

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Speaker 1: I think what they're trying to do here is to

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Speaker 1: stop having the IRS come after everybody. They want to

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Speaker 1: also simplify the tax code. Well, well, yeah, I've heard

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Speaker 1: that all my life. Yes, the tax codes about one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand pages. Oh at least. I remember when I

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Speaker 1: took a tax class in college because I was studying accounting.

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Speaker 1: First day the professor came in and he threw the

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Speaker 1: big book the tax code down on the table as

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Speaker 1: a long time ago, and said, this is your tax code.

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Speaker 1: This is all the lobbying that made this possible. That's

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Speaker 1: why it's so complicated. It's just a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: special interests who get their way with a congress person

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Speaker 1: and get something passed into the tax code for some

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Speaker 1: sort of break or some sort of tax or some

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Speaker 1: sort of something. And that's why it's grown over the

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Speaker 1: years to such a monster, the tax that you know,

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Speaker 1: nobody understands. Instead, you have to pay an accountant to

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Speaker 1: try to decode it as best as he can. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, this thing actually repeals the sixteenth Amendment giving

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Speaker 1: Congress the right to lay and collect taxes on incomes.

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Speaker 1: That's also in the bill to actually repeal the sixteenth Amendment. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's a pretty major development. Well, the thing

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Speaker 1: is past the Senate. The way the world is supposed

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Speaker 1: to be the original idea of our form of government

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Speaker 1: is that you'd have a very limited government with limited taxation.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't need high taxes because the government isn't supposed

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Speaker 1: to do very much. It's supposed to do the big things,

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Speaker 1: for example, have a military to defend us from enemies invading.

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Speaker 1: That was the idea of the government, this idea that

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Speaker 1: it's this all purpose and nanny state. For example, I

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Speaker 1: was just reading a piece on this in the National Review,

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Speaker 1: this whole gas stove issue. The government has really no

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Speaker 1: right to hell us if we're going to use gas

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Speaker 1: stoves or electric stoves, especially a bunch of fuzzy headed bureaucrats.

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Speaker 1: Nobody ever stops and takes on the premise. It's like,

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Speaker 1: what the hell is it their business? It's not their business.

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Speaker 1: It's not their decision. I'll use a gas stove because

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Speaker 1: I want to. They should have no right to tell

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Speaker 1: me not to. And we've just everybody's gotten used to

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Speaker 1: the nanny state. And from what I've read, especially younger generations,

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Speaker 1: they're very compliant. They not along. Yes, the government says

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Speaker 1: that there's a good reason to get rid of gas stoves. No,

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Speaker 1: there's not. They make it up. It's a bunch of lies.

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Speaker 1: It's a bunch of fanatics. Same thing with the tax

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Speaker 1: The tax coach shouldn't be thousands and thousands of pages

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Speaker 1: and pages. The government doesn't have the right to take

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Speaker 1: fifty percent of a person's weekly income. Well, what is

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Speaker 1: this that The concept is absurd. It's not their business,

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Speaker 1: it's not their money. It's not like they do anything

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Speaker 1: good with most of the money. That's another thing they

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Speaker 1: keep smacking my head with. For people who want all

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Speaker 1: this tax money coming in and all this all these

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Speaker 1: departments and all these bureaucrats and employees, what is it

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Speaker 1: that they do that's good for us? So a consumption

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Speaker 1: tax that would be on top of like paying your

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Speaker 1: local sales taxes, you'd pay the federal government some kind

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Speaker 1: of I guess, yeah, I guess. Like the word they use,

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Speaker 1: the word consumption tax, right, you see, but even that's

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Speaker 1: a loaded word. Oh you're consuming thing? Yeah, nobody likes

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Speaker 1: sales tax word. Yes, I think, well, yes, we're consuming

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Speaker 1: things because we're alive and we live everything. I decode

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Speaker 1: these arguments all the time. What are they really going

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Speaker 1: after here? What are they really criticizing? They're criticizing our

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Speaker 1: existence and everything we do. They try to make you

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Speaker 1: feel guilty for everything we do. Going back to a

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Speaker 1: previous segment, there are residents who want to get rid

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Speaker 1: of a homeless encampment on a bike path Unculver Boulevard.

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Speaker 1: They call a Bondon's office. What does Bonnin's rep say? Well,

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Speaker 1: how would you like it if somebody told you to

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Speaker 1: leave your home? In other words, and I've seen this

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Speaker 1: term your house privileged. That's a new term that the

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Speaker 1: psychotics are using. Yes, your house privileged, which means having

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Speaker 1: a house is some kind of special grace that you're enjoying.

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Speaker 1: You don't deserve it, you're not entitled to it, you

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Speaker 1: didn't work for it, you shouldn't have it. And who

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Speaker 1: are you telling somebody who's living in a tent and

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Speaker 1: defecating across the street from your house that they shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have their tent to defecate in? This bill to eliminate

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Speaker 1: the IRS apparently was part of the deal that got

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Speaker 1: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy the post the House Freedom Caucus.

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Speaker 1: A lot of this is just symbolic, yes, to make

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Speaker 1: the political point that we're mad that the IRS is

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Speaker 1: getting more agents and they're gonna come after us. This

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Speaker 1: is right wing virtue signaling it is because it has

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Speaker 1: no chance of going any Maybe they have I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's an abolished the IRS hashtag. That's how about a

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Speaker 1: ballist Congress, the Bolis DC. That's a good start. We

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Speaker 1: could try all of that. I'm telling you. Every time

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Speaker 1: you hear about a tax, every time you hear about

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Speaker 1: a spending idea or an apartment or a new regulation

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Speaker 1: like no gas stoves, stop and say is that their business?

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Speaker 1: Should it be their business? Or is this my money,

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Speaker 1: my gas stove, my business? All right? When we come back,

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Speaker 1: we're getting a little break starting this afternoon with the rain.

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Speaker 1: That's going to come back again, but up north and

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Speaker 1: in the central part of the States, some really big

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Speaker 1: problems from the flooding. Alex Stone, ABC News for KFI

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Speaker 1: will be here to talk about what happened up and

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Speaker 1: down California. Johnny Ken kf I Am six forty live everywhere,

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