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Speaker 1: Well, Elon Musk is the head of DOGE, which is

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Speaker 1: the Department of Government Efficiency, Okay, and he suggested that

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Speaker 1: every US taxpayer receive a five thousand dollars refund by mail.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, Musk posted on x that he plans to

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Speaker 1: ask President Donald Trump to send a five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: payout to each US taxpayer. Musk called it the Dodge

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Speaker 1: the DOGE dividend, and said this money is available because

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Speaker 1: of budget cuts that his agency has made. Before anyone

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Speaker 1: gets too excited, we pulled some statistics. There's an estimated

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty five million people in the US,

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Speaker 1: and if each taxpayer gets five thousand dollars, that would

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Speaker 1: be close to two trillion dollars. That is almost forty

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Speaker 1: percent of the federal budget, according to a twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four financial report. So why is Musk doing that? Why

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Speaker 1: is he lying? Why is he saying this? I mean

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Speaker 1: trying to wet our appetites? What's going on here? Steve?

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Speaker 2: I'm killo? Come on, man, First of all, we as

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Speaker 2: black people, you already know it's not coming.

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Speaker 1: We didn't get reparations of right, we ain't got we

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Speaker 1: ain't got a mule.

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Speaker 2: Yet one mule which was less than five thousand back

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Speaker 2: of it, and we ain't got acre, right, so we

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Speaker 2: already know. So buckle up if you're not getting five

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars, if you did, if they're calling it a dividend,

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Speaker 2: which means there's a surplus of money being made by

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Speaker 2: a company and they pay dividends to its stockholders. If

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Speaker 2: you're gonna give me five grand back, but I still

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Speaker 2: got to pay taxes, that ain't gonna help me at all.

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Speaker 2: Some people they might some that's some people in the

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Speaker 2: world that five thousand dollars day gonna clean clean them out,

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Speaker 2: and they'll be even it's gonna do nothing for me.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is, so five thousand dollars you

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Speaker 1: have to pay income?

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Speaker 2: Is that considered income? So you're saying you don't have

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Speaker 2: to pay taxes on it, Well, diffidends are paid out differently.

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Speaker 2: If you get capital gains from stocks and diffidends, I

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Speaker 2: think the greatest thirteen percent some like that.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and that's just what he's calling it because

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Speaker 1: the budget cuts are because these five thousand dollars rewards

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Speaker 1: or dividends are because of the budget cuts. His agency

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Speaker 1: is made. I mean a lot of people. Here's the

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Speaker 1: other thing, these agents.

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Speaker 2: These budget cuts are a lot of people's jobs going. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they care about their damn five thousand.

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Speaker 1: Right, Get these people their jobs. Yes, that's why there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not crazy, we see what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: No, we are crazy, surely we are. We are crazy

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Speaker 2: to sit up here and think that a billionaire gives

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Speaker 2: a damn about your little regular ass.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know how they ever thought. I told him the

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Speaker 2: whole time. He's never been you, he don't care about you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no empathy. You're listening. Dave Harvey Morning Show