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Speaker 3: The Daily Show. It was tax day this week.
Speaker 4: But some people, and this is crazy, don't like paying taxes,
Speaker 4: and one of them is our own Josh Johnson.
Speaker 2: It's long been known that in America the rich often
Speaker 2: don't pay their fair share of taxes by exploiting a
Speaker 2: complex tax system filled with loopholes. The riches one percent
Speaker 2: pay a lot less than the average taxpayer. But how
Speaker 2: they do it? And could I learn their tricks to
Speaker 2: help out the everyday taxpayer like you?
Speaker 3: And I?
Speaker 1: I spoke to.
Speaker 2: Tax expert Robert Wood of tax Froom would Lop to
Speaker 2: find out the easiest ways to dodge the irs. His
Speaker 2: first hip.
Speaker 5: Real estate, big tax shelter. So generally speaking, you write
Speaker 5: off a piece of the building every year.
Speaker 2: So this year I'll claim the bathroom, and then like
Speaker 2: the next year.
Speaker 5: But just to clarify, you only get to do this
Speaker 5: if you own the building, not do you work here.
Speaker 2: That is all very interesting, but I do not learn
Speaker 2: a building, and so back to square one.
Speaker 5: Charity is another one.
Speaker 2: So let's say I start a charity and my charity
Speaker 2: will be real, very real. Okay, my charity of broke
Speaker 2: ass audits, like you get an audited let's break off
Speaker 2: your broke ass a little cash.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: There are lots of people who've gotten in trouble with
Speaker 5: fake charities.
Speaker 2: So that won't work.
Speaker 5: Churches are qualified charities, which is why some people have
Speaker 5: tried to start their own churches.
Speaker 2: So if I start my own church, I mean, how
Speaker 2: many followers are we taking.
Speaker 5: I don't think they call them followers, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, that's like a cult thing.
Speaker 5: Another thing that wealthy people do. You've got art, how
Speaker 5: much is it worth? Donate it to charity? And if
Speaker 5: you donate it, how much can you fairly write off?
Speaker 2: I have some art work I want to show you
Speaker 2: and don't hold back.
Speaker 5: Okay, no offense, but I mean it looks kind of infantile.
Speaker 5: My guess is it's not worth very much. You need
Speaker 5: to talk to somebody who's a qualified art appraiser.
Speaker 2: I was really banking on the art thing working out.
Speaker 5: You're just not there yet, Josh.
Speaker 2: This was not looking good for my tax return, but
Speaker 2: there had to be something.
Speaker 5: One of my great tax planning secrets for you today
Speaker 5: is dying if you own stock or if you owned
Speaker 5: a house at some point, hang on to it. It's
Speaker 5: the doing something with it selling that triggers tax. Then
Speaker 5: when you die, it's never taxed. So dying turns out
Speaker 5: to be tax efficient. That's something that wealthy people count on.
Speaker 2: That's deferring, right, Yeah, couldn't I just defer till I die?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so kill myself. It's great, great advice.
Speaker 5: I want you to die generations from now.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: It's a better tax deal. Anyways.
Speaker 2: Well, OK, I do have a quick question for you. Then,
Speaker 2: Since the rich are deferring on all these assets and
Speaker 2: higher tax lawyers to make sure that it stays complicated
Speaker 2: and they're less likely to get audited. Ye, who is
Speaker 2: paying tax?
Speaker 5: Regular wage journers? I mean, everybody pays tax if they've
Speaker 5: got income, and the wealthy people are paying tax too.
Speaker 5: But if you look at their income versus how much
Speaker 5: tax they're paying, they're typically paying a lot lower rates.
Speaker 2: So if we all learn the tax law and we
Speaker 2: all start doing these things, how will like roads get built?
Speaker 5: Good question. Somebody at the lower end has to be
Speaker 5: paying the regular taxes to make room for the government
Speaker 5: to do those things.
Speaker 2: Just don't be poor, ok Yeah? That's terrifying.
Speaker 5: The more you know about tax the more terrifying it
Speaker 5: can be. So why I don't sleep very much.
Speaker 2: So whether I have become rich or just died, at
Speaker 2: least I know how to avoid my taxes like a millionaire.
Speaker 2: I'm man, I do actually need your help picking this up.
Speaker 2: This is like all the money that I have. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't really, I'm not taking a no. No, I
Speaker 2: didn't think you were going to take it. New Yorkers
Speaker 2: disagree on a lot of things. Yankees sources, mets, pizza toppings,
Speaker 2: whether you can poop on the subway or not. But
Speaker 2: now there's one thing ripping New Yorker's apart more than ever.
Speaker 6: Congestion pricing is official.
Speaker 4: Drivers are now paying to drive us south of sixtieth Street.
Speaker 2: I had to pay the congestion pricing. How do you
Speaker 2: feel about it? Not too happy cars or congestion pricing cars,
Speaker 2: both the cars. I don't like the idea of all
Speaker 2: of those New Jersey people being taxed so hearly do
Speaker 2: you think that maybe it should go the other way?
Speaker 2: Maybe New York sh you have to pay nine dollars
Speaker 2: to get into Jersey.
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. El Poopy wants to go to Jersey unless
Speaker 7: they have to.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, because cars are very important because as a
Speaker 2: New Yorker, how old are you going to get where
Speaker 2: you need to be besides the subway or the or
Speaker 2: the bus or a bike or like a petticab or
Speaker 2: the horse drawn carriage. Scooters, segues, moler blades are in again,
Speaker 2: solo wheels, piggyback rides, you know from nice walking, walking
Speaker 2: with a purpose. Yeah, yeah, we need more options.
Speaker 8: Well, they need the money for the MTA. It's supposedly
Speaker 8: raised fifty million dollars a year, so you know, I
Speaker 8: definitely feel okay to the city doing this.
Speaker 2: What type of improvements would be made to the MTA.
Speaker 9: Regular service that's completely reliable.
Speaker 8: Teleportation?
Speaker 2: Teleportation is actually way more likely than the regular service.
Speaker 4: The first thing I would love to fix is that
Speaker 4: we have lights everywhere. I don't have to be afraid
Speaker 4: to walk into dark tunnel when I get out the
Speaker 4: work at night.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 4: I would also like to have them have some people
Speaker 4: maybe help the people that I see walking around naked.
Speaker 2: I'm very sorry about that. That was that was me
Speaker 2: and that was a hot day. I mean, maybe they
Speaker 2: could use some of the money put like some glade
Speaker 2: plugins in the subway cars. That'd be a huge improvement
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 8: I'm guessing because of the crime rate in the subway
Speaker 8: it is probably not the number one priorities, I guess.
Speaker 2: But if I'm being mugged on the subway and it
Speaker 2: also stinks, that's two bad things happen in me at
Speaker 2: the same time. I want to get robs somewhere clean.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think hygiene is important.
Speaker 2: One of my biggest hopes is that with less cars,
Speaker 2: with less congestion, right, it'll make Airic Adams trying to
Speaker 2: go away from the Figs a much cooler chase. You
Speaker 2: got that, He'll be born supremacy level chase. So I mean,
Speaker 2: less cars means less noise. Who would have thought with
Speaker 2: less noise, I can finally hear jackhammers, I can hear sirens.
Speaker 2: I can You're like hues and screams and stuff. That's
Speaker 2: that's you know, that's showing love in New York.
Speaker 8: So you know I walk out this camera's love?
Speaker 2: Yeah A good good you let you know? Now are
Speaker 2: you in New York? But you're really alive?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Before we part ways, you do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Taylor Swifts endorsement of Kamala Harris was a boom for
Speaker 2: her campaign with women, but a lot of people say
Speaker 2: she still needs to do bear with men. So I'm
Speaker 2: here outside one of the bastions of masculinity, a gym
Speaker 2: to talk to real men about which celebrity endorsement would
Speaker 2: move the needle for them. Hopefully I don't get mistaken
Speaker 2: for Terry Crews. What celebrity endorsement carries the weight for
Speaker 2: you that like a Taylor Swift would carry for women?
Speaker 2: Do you have to be alive or alive with help?
Speaker 2: Alive is probably one of the most import things that
Speaker 2: they could be, cause the first thing I said was Prince.
Speaker 2: The Prince came back from the dead and was like,
Speaker 2: my man, you gotta vote for Kamla. Would that move
Speaker 2: the needle for you? Absolutely? Okayron Owan, why because you
Speaker 2: just saw a ghosts? What about some non paranormal endorsements.
Speaker 2: Is there a male celebrity that would make you vote
Speaker 2: for Kamala Harris, Kendrick Lamar, Maybe Lebron He's a big guy.
Speaker 9: I feel like Lebron can move the needle a little bit.
Speaker 2: Okay, probably Travis Scott. Travis Scott, those selects were so
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. How about some throwbacks. I would say,
Speaker 2: Payam Manning, Peyton Manning, Dooner Standings, Deon Sanders, and.
Speaker 7: Celine Dion.
Speaker 2: That's my girl, you know what I mean? Celene Dion Yes,
Speaker 2: So everyone that you've mentioned, yes, and Celine Dion yes.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter to you that she's Canadian. Oh,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. So what male celebrity endorsement would move
Speaker 2: the needle for you? I leave Michael j'all waite, Michael
Speaker 2: Jai White, Okay, all right? And why is that he
Speaker 2: works out? I work out?
Speaker 3: You know, You'll have to sit down and like really think.
Speaker 2: For myself, look at the issues, look at the candidates,
Speaker 2: and then maybe of Michael Ji White.
Speaker 3: Maybe we gotta sit down together and chit chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, I feel like you just try to
Speaker 2: meet Michael Jai White. Sure, he's tough, he's talented, he
Speaker 2: got killed by the joker, I get it. But maybe
Speaker 2: I could prove to these swow voters that they could
Speaker 2: look to me for political guidance. There you go.
Speaker 5: Men.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to bench press, right now, I'm
Speaker 2: hitting like a clean one. Okay, that's pretty good.
Speaker 9: Right, fantastic really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, I was that's that's good news for me.
Speaker 2: Are there any male celebrities right and we don't and
Speaker 2: we don't have to talk about a list. They could
Speaker 2: be in front of you right now in this moment.
Speaker 2: Whose opinion means something to you? By a long pause,
Speaker 2: clearly he was intimidated by meeting such a famous and
Speaker 2: yolke celebrity IRL, So I decided to change the subject
Speaker 2: to the candidates. What do you think tam Oh Harris
Speaker 2: would have to do to appeal to more men if
Speaker 2: she agreed to a boxing match with Logan Paul? What
Speaker 2: do you think that would do? If that moved the
Speaker 2: needle for her? I think if she knocks him mountain,
Speaker 2: no doubt. Wow, Okay, knock him out gold, drag him
Speaker 2: out the ring, all right? President, Round after round. He
Speaker 2: kept me back to the same question about masculinity, like,
Speaker 2: is Trump like a man's man to you? No, he's
Speaker 2: not not, really.
Speaker 9: He's not an honest person, gotcha. And that's a big
Speaker 9: part of being a man to me is being vulnerable,
Speaker 9: admitting your mistakes.
Speaker 2: So if I'm vulnerable with you right now, that's that's manly. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 2: I may have fived earlier with the one twenty five,
Speaker 2: it's really one fifteen.
Speaker 9: It's okay, I know you moved. Now.
Speaker 2: Does Trump seem manly to you when you think about
Speaker 2: like a man's man? I'm being honest.
Speaker 7: The reason why I respect what he says sometimes because
Speaker 7: he speak his mind.
Speaker 2: So for you, it's speaking your mind. That's like the
Speaker 2: manly thing that you like. Yeah, could you tell you
Speaker 2: straight up now?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So you you like that?
Speaker 6: Trump?
Speaker 2: Lets you know, from far away, far away, I'm crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 2: At the end of the day, it seemed like the
Speaker 2: only way to get some men to vote for Kamala
Speaker 2: might be to trick them into it. What if they
Speaker 2: put a forty five pound kettlebell on the lever to
Speaker 2: vote for Kamala Harris? Do you think more guys would
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 9: We would do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Put a sign that says like like try and try
Speaker 9: and pull this, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Oh, man, don't even tell them the way, just be like,
Speaker 2: I bet you can't.
Speaker 9: There you go, bet you can't. Okay, Yeah, that you can't.
Speaker 2: That's that should be the slogan, I bet you can't.
Speaker 2: I mean it might if you don't understand the context.
Speaker 2: Look pretty bad. Just say, Kamala Harris, bet you can't.
Speaker 2: That's that that that may backfire? Yeah?
Speaker 5: What a world?
Speaker 2: Is Josh Johnson full time Daily Show correspondent and full
Speaker 2: time black guy. But more than that, I'm also a
Speaker 2: part time voter. Now, black voters have been the backbone
Speaker 2: of elected Democratic president since Bill Clinton went on our Senio.
Speaker 2: In fact, ninety one percent of black voters vote for
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen and ninety two percent vote
Speaker 2: for Joe Biden last election. So why does this year
Speaker 2: feel different?
Speaker 6: New Poland shows twenty three percent support among black.
Speaker 5: Voters for former President Trump. That's up nineteen points since
Speaker 5: the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 2: Contrary to popular believe, not all black people know each other.
Speaker 2: So in order to find out how all black people
Speaker 2: felt about Trump, I got six from the Tri State area.
Speaker 8: To ask, do we see the Trump?
Speaker 2: Okay? So who will you be voting for in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four? Darrel?
Speaker 3: Do I have to see his name?
Speaker 1: I don't want to, but more than likely it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll believe colle and then Victor.
Speaker 7: I'm with her?
Speaker 2: Oh Biden okay? Trump? Eric Trump's Biden Biden Trump. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're an even split, which I didn't Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 2: see that coming. So do you think there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a big shift, any sort of change.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a big shift me too,
Speaker 1: shift really okay? For me, I've always been a Democrat
Speaker 1: and it's like for the for the most part, with
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, they always make a bunch of promises
Speaker 1: that they can't deliver.
Speaker 3: You know, they use the issues of the African American
Speaker 3: community as a soapbox to stand on and make promises,
Speaker 3: you know, just to get us to come out and vote.
Speaker 3: And then once we vote and everyone's in place, it's like.
Speaker 2: What happened? Would you say? It's anything like somebody's in
Speaker 2: your DM and they're really laying it down and take
Speaker 2: you over here, girl, I'll take you to the top,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And then you finally go
Speaker 2: on the date and it's Burger King and you know,
Speaker 2: if the polls are right and Trump is going up
Speaker 2: with black voters, what changed?
Speaker 7: I wish I knew. I am not a huge fan
Speaker 7: of Trump.
Speaker 2: He don't respect the black.
Speaker 3: Person and Biden does. Has Biden issued an apology for
Speaker 3: the things that he's been taught saying.
Speaker 2: He said, if you don't vote for me and you're
Speaker 2: not black, not black, what is that?
Speaker 3: They have both said that we're questionable, unsavory. Yes, but
Speaker 3: when you start looking at facts, it's like Biden, you
Speaker 3: don't drop the ball.
Speaker 2: Brother. Okay, So some black voters feel let down by Democrats.
Speaker 2: But I wasn't sure if they knew about how Trump
Speaker 2: liking himself to Black Americans. So I showed them some
Speaker 2: footage of Trump at the Black Conservative Federation.
Speaker 5: Gallup.
Speaker 10: I'm being indicted for you, the black population.
Speaker 2: I want to play a little game all right now.
Speaker 2: The game is going to be either fists or finger.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you like what's happening, you're going to put up
Speaker 2: your your black fists.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: If you don't like where that's happening, there's a finger.
Speaker 9: All ready.
Speaker 2: You're right?
Speaker 10: Okay, good.
Speaker 6: These lights are so bright in my eyes that I
Speaker 6: can't see too many people out there. But I can
Speaker 6: only see the black ones. I can't see any white ones.
Speaker 6: You say, that's how far I've come, That's how far
Speaker 6: I've come.
Speaker 1: Your anthem.
Speaker 2: I'll play the next clip for you real quick.
Speaker 6: Black conservatives understand better than most that some of the
Speaker 6: greatest evils in our nation's history have come from corrupt
Speaker 6: systems that try to target.
Speaker 10: And subjugate others.
Speaker 2: You understand that.
Speaker 6: I think that's why the black people are so much
Speaker 6: on my side now, because they see what's happening to
Speaker 6: me happens to them.
Speaker 3: You had me at the first question, I mean, and
Speaker 3: then he messed up at the end.
Speaker 2: So okay, keep can we get our signs up? So
Speaker 2: the same again. Okay, let's go on to the next
Speaker 2: clip real quick.
Speaker 10: But I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,
Speaker 10: and a lot of people said that that's why the
Speaker 10: black people like because they have been hurt so badly
Speaker 10: and discriminated against. And they actually viewed me as I'm
Speaker 10: being discriminated against.
Speaker 8: It.
Speaker 6: It's been pretty amazing, all right.
Speaker 2: So so kind of still along the same party lines, now,
Speaker 2: do you think Trump is being discriminated against?
Speaker 6: Not at all.
Speaker 9: It's not one side.
Speaker 2: It's the legal system. No matter who you are, if
Speaker 2: you do these things, you get charged for it. That's it.
Speaker 7: There are two systems of justice. We cannot get away
Speaker 7: with the same thing. Why folks get away with.
Speaker 2: But with this different sort of accountability system does it
Speaker 2: feel like Trump is bad at being white? That is
Speaker 2: ninety one.
Speaker 7: I noticed how when I was incarcerated, right, how the
Speaker 7: white incarcerated people seem to be more angrier than the
Speaker 7: black incarcerated people. Trump is like the same thought that
Speaker 7: it ain't supposed to happen to me. I'm not supposed
Speaker 7: to be indicted. People are not supposed to tell me
Speaker 7: I committed a crime because I am privileged.
Speaker 2: Damn, I had no idea the appeal process for incartrated
Speaker 2: white people's gaslight. But Trump is fighting close to one
Speaker 2: hundred fellony charges. How much of a criminal is too
Speaker 2: much of a criminal. If more charges get racked up,
Speaker 2: maybe things that start to become a bit more egregious.
Speaker 2: Is that going to start to weigh on whether or
Speaker 2: not you're going to change your vote?
Speaker 3: Now you start you pay attention, You listen to the facts,
Speaker 3: not the fluff, and then you actually have to start
Speaker 3: doing some searching to make sure that what's being presented
Speaker 3: to you is actual fact.
Speaker 4: And it takes some digging.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you dug and you did your research
Speaker 2: and you found out what Josh said was true, that's
Speaker 2: where your vote probably not. I definitely you know, did
Speaker 2: not sit down with this panel to change any minds,
Speaker 2: and I clearly have not, So Yeah, I guess some
Speaker 2: black folks do Trump, But was there anything I could
Speaker 2: get this panel to agree on?
Speaker 3: Can we keep these?
Speaker 5: This is so useful?
Speaker 2: Every day?
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