1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. Associated Press I'm sorry. 3 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 2: Reuters reported on April tenth that Swiss drugmaker Novartes as 4 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 2: announced they will be spending twenty three billion dollars to 5 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 2: build and expand to sorry ten facilities in the United States. 6 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: They are a company who were at the top of 7 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 2: the chart of who would be hurt most by President 8 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 2: Trump's tariffs. Novartis has been sending products into the United 9 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 2: States at a rather. 10 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 3: Hefty rate. 11 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: No Artists manufactures close apene uh diclopinac carba, mesipin, valsartan, 12 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: I'm matt tineb cyclost foreign electrosol, what grow a, Oh 13 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 2: my goodness, the things you say methyl vinedate. 14 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 3: Oh you know where you're right. Ramon said, give you 15 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 3: the give you. 16 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: The the common that's the name of the drug itself. 17 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, so it does clos arl volterine, uh. 18 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 3: Uh tegritol dial. 19 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 2: I might get some of these wrong, folks, don't I 20 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 2: don't know a lot of these drugs gleevec or gilvac, 21 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 2: neoral sando, mune famera, riddling, which apparently they stopped making 22 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 2: riddling in twenty twenty, Lamasil and others. So look, I 23 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: hate big farm as much as the next guy. But 24 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: if products are going to be sold or one of 25 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 2: them made in this country, and so does President Trump, 26 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: and they're going, all right, we have do we have to? 27 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 3: I got an email from a fellow said, no. 28 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: Coverage of Swiss pharmaceutical company and it's twenty six billion 29 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 2: dollar US investment due to Trump investment Trump tariff's See 30 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 2: attached article by nov Arties, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, of 31 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,839 Speaker 2: their planned twenty six billion dollar investment. The article says 32 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: twenty three but still a lot in the US specifically 33 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 2: related to Trump's tariff policy. As stated by the Swiss, 34 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 2: not a word on any of our TV or radio 35 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 2: news channels see wit Swiss website. And I did see 36 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: the Swiss, and I did see the article, and it 37 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: is true. I think you're going to see over the 38 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 2: coming months a number of announcements. Now i'd like to 39 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 2: see the rubber hit the road. I'd like to see 40 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 2: ground broken. I'd like to see these things happen sooner 41 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 2: rather than later. Why don't we still have momentum? And 42 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: I think there are people who will make promises they 43 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 2: never keep with the intention of simply continuing the access 44 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: to the American market. But I think what you're what 45 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 2: you're witnessing is that these companies cannot survive without the 46 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: American marketplace as buyers of their products. 47 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 3: Before we get started, today is tax Day. 48 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: And I thought you might find it interesting, if not troubling, 49 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: that Puerto Rico attracts people and the United States is 50 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 2: in on this. If you go down to Puerto Rico 51 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 2: for six months plus one day, you don't really pay 52 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: any taxes, and that's great for the people for But 53 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: listen to this. John Stossel did a great piece on 54 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: this and on this troubling. 55 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 4: Would you like to pay zero federal income tax? There 56 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 4: is a way to do that legally. 57 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 3: I'm moving to Puerto Rico. 58 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 5: It's why YouTube star logan Paul has moved his show 59 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 5: from California. 60 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 6: I feel like people are wondering why Puerto Rico taxes one. 61 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 4: It's one vertical, Yeah, it's one. 62 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 3: It's a big one. 63 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 6: Six percent of a big one, which ironically is the 64 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 6: same amount of money you keep every year. 65 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,359 Speaker 4: Ninety six percent. 66 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 5: That's how much of your earnings you now get to keep. 67 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 5: If you move to Puerto Rico, you pay no federal 68 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 5: income tax and must give just four percent of your 69 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 5: income to Puerto Rico. Also, it's like the only place 70 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 5: you can live is zero percent capital gains. 71 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 4: No capital gains tax. I did it for the obvious. 72 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 6: Benefit of being able to keep most of what I own. 73 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 5: The tax breaks started after this Puerto Rican governor shrank 74 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 5: the bureaucracy. 75 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 4: You let seventeen thousand workers go. If you can't pay 76 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 4: their salaries, what are you going to do? 77 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 5: He limits at the tax break to people who move 78 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 5: here and stay for at least six months a year. 79 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 6: Last year, applications for these tax breaks nearly tripled. 80 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 3: I think it's horrifying. 81 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 4: Some people don't want those newcomers coming in. 82 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 7: It's an example of the continued colonization of the people 83 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 7: of Fortificats. 84 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 5: But what AOC calls colonization, I'd call new opportunities. 85 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 6: One report showed that the tax beneficiaries created north of 86 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 6: forty thousand jobs. 87 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 5: It's too bad that Puerto Rico didn't do this decades ago. 88 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 6: They wouldn't be in the economic trouble they are today. 89 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 8: A lot of people are moving down here. 90 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 5: Social worker Melissa da Silva moved here from Rhode Island. 91 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 5: Now she runs her therapy and coaching business remotely from 92 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,559 Speaker 5: Puerto Rico. 93 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 4: What's your life like there? 94 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 7: Like living it in paradise? Every single day? I wake 95 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 7: up and I have the ocean in front of me. 96 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 7: I go out my back door, the rainforest is, you know, 97 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 7: off in a distance. 98 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 8: It's just a magical place to live. 99 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:54,600 Speaker 3: Alsome. 100 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 8: I'm saving quite a bit, twenty five percent of my 101 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 8: whole income. 102 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 5: It hasn't gotten much city in the mainland, and yet 103 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 5: it's huge. 104 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 8: People just don't really talk about it too much. 105 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 4: Why not. 106 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 7: There's this fear of all of the people from the 107 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 7: state side they're going to come down and you know, 108 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 7: take over everything, which is understandable. I mean from learning 109 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 7: about the history of Puerto Rico. The Standiards came over 110 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 7: and decided it's going to be their island and decimated 111 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 7: all the native people who lived here. And then the 112 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 7: States comes down and they decide it's going to be 113 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 7: their island, and again, you know, the rights are taken 114 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 7: away from the people. 115 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 5: That's the reason why some activists oppose this tax break. 116 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 7: We don't want. 117 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 8: They're like invading our lamb. 118 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 4: They're invading our land. 119 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 7: And you know what, honestly, there are some people that 120 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 7: are doing that. I see people who come down and 121 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 7: they just stay there six months and they're like, we're 122 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 7: out of here. But there are people, you know, they 123 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 7: want to give back to the island as well. 124 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 5: If you don't pay taxes, aren't you hurting Puerto Rico? 125 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 8: Well, I do pay taxes. I provide other things to 126 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 8: the community as well. 127 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 5: She sells digital art and gives part of her earnings 128 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 5: to a Puerto Rican charity. 129 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 8: There's some who are opening up schools. 130 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 5: I live my life in service god blest Puerto Rico 131 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 5: billionaire Brock Peers moved here and now helps run the 132 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 5: charity Toys for Tots. He also bought this hotel and 133 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 5: is renovating another, which had been abandoned after Hurricane Maria. 134 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 4: It's expected to create three hundred jobs. 135 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 5: Others are building hurricane resistant farms and. 136 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 4: Tech companies that happened. 137 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 5: Still, some people always see such investment as a problem, 138 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 5: as if someone making money means others must lose. 139 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 4: But that's not how the world works. 140 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 5: When markets are free, new wealth gets created and most 141 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 5: people win. 142 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 4: It is not acceptable. 143 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 5: AOC seems to think there are only winners or losers, subjects, 144 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 5: or rulers. 145 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 8: So we are essentially importing a. 146 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 5: Ruling I like to Silva's answer to that, a new 147 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 5: ruling class. 148 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 7: The saying is like all ships rise with a tide, 149 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 7: let's all grow with this. 150 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 5: Puerto Rico tried dig government, strict regulations, handouts. 151 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 4: Even a government controlled power company. This is our invitation high. 152 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 5: Bed tax breaks, Ramone, the King of Ding, and this 153 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 5: other guy, Michael Barry. 154 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: About one hundred and ten years ago, the income tax began. 155 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 2: We didn't have one before that. To build up to 156 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: World War One, build up to being a world power 157 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 2: did not require that the government eat the core of 158 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: the apple we produce, leaving us with very little. That 159 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 2: tax was promoted as only being on the rich. Don't 160 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 2: worry about this new tax. It's only for the very 161 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 2: very wealthy, which is how they pass everything off. See, 162 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: we're going to attack the very wealthy and take what 163 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 2: they have. That's good, right. You hate there very wealthy, 164 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: don't you, because you're not the very wealth Yes, take 165 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 2: what they got. I don't care what you. 166 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 9: Use it on. 167 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 3: Just take what they got, because I don't got it, 168 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 3: and they got it, so you get it. Why would 169 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 3: you want the government to take from a citizen. How's 170 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 3: that help you? But jealousy. 171 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 2: Oh, it's a powerful thing, and the people who run 172 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 2: government understand that. In fact, that's how all the great 173 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 2: revolutions begin. That's how the Russian Revolution began. They told 174 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 2: the poor people, the serfs, we're going to take from 175 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 2: the rich people. Now get your pitch fork and help 176 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 2: us take from the rich people. The minute they took 177 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: from the rich people, kill them, took power. They then 178 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: killed the very people who had helped them acquire power. 179 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 2: That's similar in so many cases. But people without have 180 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 2: the mistaken belief that they can somehow acquire wealth by 181 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 2: someone else losing theirs. 182 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 3: That's not how it works. 183 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 2: During the campaign, which was just a few months ago, 184 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 2: President Trump stopped at a barbershop to speak to the 185 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 2: people there and he was asked about abolishing the income tax. 186 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 2: Don't underestimate how important this was to his appeal. Such 187 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 2: a radical notion, and I do believe, I do believe 188 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 2: that he intends to do that. Whether he's able to 189 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 2: do it, I do believe that he intends to. I 190 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 2: think he understands forget Mount Rushmore create his own if 191 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 2: you could get rid of the income tax, and you 192 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 2: could with tariffs and reduce spending. 193 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 10: But here's what he said, Well, all this extra revenue 194 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 10: we're going to be bringing into the country. So do 195 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 10: you believe at some point in time we could find 196 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 10: a way once the country's back on its feet and 197 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 10: getting enough revenue and paid off our debt. Do you 198 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 10: think it's possible to find a way to eliminate federal taxes? 199 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 4: But there is a way. How do you feel about 200 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 4: you know, in the old days when. 201 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 11: We were smart, when we were a smart country in 202 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 11: the eighteen nineties, and all this is when the country 203 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 11: was relatively the richest it ever was. 204 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 4: It had old terrafts, it didn't have an income tax. 205 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 11: Yes, okay, now we have income taxes, and we have 206 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 11: people that are dying. They're paying tax and they don't 207 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 11: have the money. 208 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 4: To pay the tax. 209 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 11: Now, in the old days eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we 210 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,319 Speaker 11: had so much money they had to set up committees, 211 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 11: blue ribbon committees, how to spend our wealth. We had 212 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 11: no idea how to spend it with so much money. 213 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 11: Then we went to the income tax system and the 214 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 11: rest is sort of history. 215 00:11:58,120 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 4: But no, there is a way. 216 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 11: I mean, if what I'm planning comes out is a 217 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 11: great question. By the way, everyone could have tended them 218 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 11: a sophisticated cat. 219 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 4: You know, everyone could attained. 220 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 10: The American dream if it wasn't for the High Court. 221 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 10: That the burden of high taxes, and we tax at 222 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 10: every step of the. 223 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 4: Way when we make it. And regulations and regulations. 224 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 11: So I cut more regulations in four years than any 225 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 11: other president by four times. 226 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary. So what people are missing about 227 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 2: Trump's tariffs is that revenue could be used to provide 228 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 2: Trump's tax agenda. There is a purpose to this. It 229 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 2: would replace the income tax. 230 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 4: And for someone who says that this money coming in. 231 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 3: Is really a tax on consumers, what do you say, 232 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 3: I say a couple of things. 233 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 12: One, we're seeing the CEO Walmart is pushing back on 234 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 12: his Chinese suppliers and he is telling them they have 235 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 12: to eat all the carrot increases. 236 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 3: They're the largest retailer in America. 237 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 12: I think forty million Americans go into Walmart every week. 238 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,079 Speaker 12: We saw in Trump one point zero prices didn't go up. 239 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 12: And if we have that happening. At the same time, 240 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 12: we are able to use that income to provide President 241 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 12: Trump's tax agenda, no tax and tips, no tax on 242 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 12: on Social Security, the excuse me, no tax in overtime, 243 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 12: and making auto interest deductible for American cars. That's a 244 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 12: home run for working class Americans. 245 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 3: And then we'll take this one to the break. Ron Paul. 246 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 2: Flashback, the brilliant Ron Paul who called for the abolition 247 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 2: of the FBI and the CIA and saying that the 248 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 2: income tax should be abolished. We should all give credit 249 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 2: to the godfather of all these ideas Trump has today. 250 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,160 Speaker 3: And that was the great run Pole. The income tax 251 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 3: is unnecessary. 252 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 13: Again, something happened in the twentieth century where the American 253 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 13: people decided that there would be There's something happened where 254 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 13: we have changed our attitude about what we want from 255 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 13: our government. We've ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state 256 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 13: that we cannot afford, and we've also became an American 257 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 13: empire where we have troops around the world and we 258 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 13: pay for the defense of Japan and Germany and everybody else. 259 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 13: But at the same time, you had to have two 260 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 13: ways of financing this one we decided we'd have an 261 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 13: income tax that we would start subtlely and small, that 262 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 13: would escalate to the point that it really is the 263 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 13: biggest rip off in the country, along with a federal 264 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 13: reserve system that allows us to monetize. 265 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 3: Sixty five years ago. 266 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 13: Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have 267 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 13: seen the deterioration of this society. 268 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 3: That we love. 269 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 13: I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us 270 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 13: because the amount of tax coming out of the economy 271 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 13: is still much greater. The amount of tax the government 272 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 13: takes is over forty percent. You know, when the funding 273 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 13: fathers got sick and tired of the British taxes, they 274 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 13: had a taxable twenty five percent. The American people are 275 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 13: rather complacent to put up with this, and so we 276 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 13: are a bit we have enslaved ourselves. Not only do 277 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 13: are we enslaved through the tax system, but we're enslaved 278 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 13: because we keep all the records. 279 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 3: We don't keep the right records. 280 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 13: Can you imagine this tax simplification bill that just came out, 281 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 13: and if we don't learn those forms and do it right, 282 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 13: we have a gun pointed at our head by the 283 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 13: irs and say you're going to be put in prison 284 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 13: if you don't wanted to fill. 285 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 3: Out those forms. 286 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 13: How many times that they have to go through the 287 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 13: W four form, I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. 288 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 13: We have to keep the information, then we have to 289 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 13: turn it over the government. We then set ourselves up 290 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 13: for self incrimination. Then we are guilty until proven innocent. 291 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 13: They say you owe such and such amount, we are 292 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 13: guilty and proven innocent, and then we will go to 293 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 13: jail and they confiscate money. 294 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 3: From our banks. 295 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 4: You got a little bit wrong. 296 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 8: Pull. 297 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 13: The IRS can come and confiscate our money very easily 298 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 13: if they send us a bill and we don't pay it. 299 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 4: If they send you a bill at the. 300 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 13: End of the year and say you did not pay 301 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 13: ten thousand dollars on taxes, you jolly well better prove 302 00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 13: that you don't know it. 303 00:15:58,720 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 12: It's up to you to. 304 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 13: Hire your try and hire your accountants and spend a 305 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 13: lifetime or many years of agony to prove yourself innocent 306 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 13: with your records that you turn over to them. But 307 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 13: back to the general principle, taxation is bad knowing because 308 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 13: the IRS. 309 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 4: I think, is such a vicious organization. 310 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 13: But because taxes is confiscation of wealth, because it isn't 311 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 13: part of the American tradition. It wasn't what the founding 312 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 13: fathers intended, it isn't what we had through the nineteenth century, 313 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 13: and it's totally unnecessary in a libertarian society. 314 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 3: One I remember Scott. 315 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 4: Can Man. 316 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: And that right there is the stone. This whole assent, Oh. 317 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 8: Brah, watching her best friend and go to space. 318 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 11: The light instructor said that I am her best success story. 319 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 11: Why because she's never had somebody go through the course who's. 320 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 4: Terrified of flying. 321 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 9: Everybody who's gone through the course is somebody that there 322 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 9: has been a lifeling dream they wanted to do it. 323 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 4: So she said, I'm her best successor. 324 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 3: I'm so proud of me right now. 325 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 4: Very very fine grain. Didn't you get quoting powder. 326 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 3: I'm so proud of me right now. 327 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 9: I'm so proud of me right now. 328 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 14: I tell you something. 329 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 8: Right now, you are officially an astronaut. Thank you so much. 330 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 4: How do you feel? 331 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 3: I feel super connected to love. I'm so proud of 332 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 3: me right now. You never know how much love is 333 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 3: inside of. 334 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 4: You, rocket Shad. 335 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 3: It's all about. 336 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 15: Like how much love you have to give and how 337 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 15: loved you are until the day you launch. 338 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 14: As I loved that the month of April, You're like, 339 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 14: I'm going to space and I'm launching my tour. It's 340 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 14: really incredible. Now I know I'm asking this question for 341 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 14: your fans. Will you write a song about this experience? 342 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 13: Oh? 343 00:17:58,440 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 4: For sure, one hundred percent. 344 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 14: And not only that, I have got to reveal my 345 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 14: setlist for the tour on a butterfly. 346 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 4: I'm just flying in space. 347 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 8: I don't know anyone's ever been space, anyone's. 348 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,439 Speaker 4: Ever done that before, So I'll just do There's a 349 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 4: lot of things that you've done. 350 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 14: First, you are now officially an astronautic. Let me just 351 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,959 Speaker 14: tell you on behalf of everyone here a blue Origin. 352 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 14: I'll webcast and everyone all of these individuals that put 353 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 14: this incredible thing on congratulations. 354 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 2: I went on ride alongs with police officers. Does that 355 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 2: make me a cop? I went today to a day 356 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 2: of the fire Academy. We wore the uniform and you 357 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 2: sweated and the fire come, you know, came flying over 358 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 2: the top of you down these hallways. That make me 359 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,640 Speaker 2: a firefighter? If you sat next to somebody on a plane, 360 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 2: does that make you a pilot? All of this is 361 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: just this playing as astronauts. It demeans the accomplishment of 362 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 2: the great men and a few women who went into 363 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 2: space and braved the dangers and a fair number of 364 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 2: people die. From the beginnings was Mercury Gemini, there was 365 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 2: you know, I got to be careful because we broadcast 366 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 2: from Houston, and part of Houston is Clear Lake, and 367 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 2: just outside the city limits there are a series of 368 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 2: little towns that are really just an attempt to be 369 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 2: out of the city of Houston, so you don't have 370 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 2: to be part of the welfare state and crime little community. 371 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 2: But the residents were for many years part of the 372 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 2: space program. Houston is known as space city for good reason. 373 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 2: And there are a number of people in war, especially 374 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 2: when NASA was going and blowing, that were part of 375 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 2: this amazing thing to go to space, and those people 376 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 2: undertook great risk of their lives and they worked very 377 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 2: hard to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this, and 378 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 2: now they're playing this game. Oh, Katie Perry, you're an astronaut, 379 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 2: Neil oh, gil can You're an astronaut? Is Oprah proud? 380 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 16: I met? 381 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 2: Oprah's very proud. You get to be an astronaut? And 382 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 2: you get to be an astronaut and. 383 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 3: You it's all so, it's all. It's the everybody gets 384 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,920 Speaker 3: a trophy mentality. 385 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 2: It's the idea that all you need to do to 386 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 2: be a member of our armed forces is really really 387 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: want to you're a boy who wants to be a girl, 388 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 2: just call yourself a girl. The truth be damned. Everybody 389 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 2: gets a trophy, everybody wins. You dumb everything down, and 390 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:10,199 Speaker 2: you leave as disgusted and frustrated those who are the 391 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 2: best in class. And what you see in this case 392 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 2: is a race to the bottom. You see a culture 393 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 2: in decline. You see the sorts of people who are 394 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 2: bringing quote unquote news, bringing stories of failure as success. 395 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: What is this whole body positive movement but an attempt 396 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,719 Speaker 2: to say your fat ass is not gross any longer. 397 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 2: You're beautiful, you're wonderful. Here spill over into the seat 398 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 2: of the guide next to you. Don't strive to be 399 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: more healthy, don't strive to weigh less. Be as fat 400 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 2: and gross as you possibly can, and we'll even watch you. 401 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 3: Eat job of the hut. 402 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: Well, the whole body positivity movement is a way of saying, 403 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 2: don't do things to make you feel better, look better, 404 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 2: be better, be healthier. No, no, no, embrace very bad habits. 405 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:20,159 Speaker 2: And before you tell me, but Michael, they may have 406 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 2: a grand problem. That's like pointing out that some of 407 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: the illegal aliens aren't being trafficked or doing the trafficking, 408 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: or carrying fentanyl or killing people. You may be right, 409 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 2: but I'm comfortable going ahead and deporting all of them, 410 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: and you should be too. Don't make excuses for this 411 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 2: nonsense because the body positive movement does not come from 412 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 2: a good place. None of these things come from a 413 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,199 Speaker 2: good place, and none of these things end up in 414 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: a good place. If you're the coach who comes in 415 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 2: and institutes ice cream parties instead of two if you say, guys, 416 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: you don't have to hit the weight room, because that's 417 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 2: hard work. Everybody should get to play on every play 418 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 2: in every game, and we're just gonna make it work 419 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 2: without any of the sacrifices that traditionally accompany a championship team. 420 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 4: You would be a. 421 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: Loser of a team, you'd be a loser of an individual, 422 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 2: and we would be a loser of a nation. 423 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 3: We're not gonna let that happen. 424 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 4: What can that allow me to introduce myself. My name 425 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 4: is Mitch Michael Ferry. 426 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 3: Genius. 427 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 2: Now, we did a poll without doing any research, of 428 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 2: the five most famous tax cheats, it being tax Day, 429 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 2: that we could think of off the top of our heads, 430 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 2: and we ranked them from fifth to first. Our fifth 431 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 2: was Joe Francis. You may not know the name, but 432 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 2: if you remember the Girls Going Wild videos, that was him. 433 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 2: He was indicted on charges of deducting more than twenty 434 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 2: million dollars in false business expenses back in two thousand 435 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:10,479 Speaker 2: and two. 436 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 3: Two thousand and three, he. 437 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 2: Pled guilty to misdemeanor council false return in bribery, accepted 438 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 2: a plea deal including eleven months in prison, two hundred 439 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars in restitution to the irs, served 440 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 2: time for other more disturbing charges, false imprisonment, assault after 441 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 2: slamming a woman into a wall. A real stand up 442 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: guy here, he is calling the jurors retarded. 443 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 15: Just because a jury is mentally retarded and jealous of 444 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 15: who I am. You know that jury. You should be 445 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 15: put in jail. You stupid idiots. That's all I have 446 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 15: to say. You stupid, stupid idiots, you stupid jury. You 447 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 15: should be put in jail or lineup and shot. You're idiots. 448 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,159 Speaker 15: It's sad. 449 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 4: I mean, that's what they should give the death penalty to. 450 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 15: Stupid jury's because I'm not that person. It's awful just 451 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 15: to gettvict people because you're jealous of them as retarded. 452 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 3: Quite the charmer. 453 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 2: At number four, we have Leona Helmsley, known as the 454 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: Queen of mean. 455 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 3: Trump loves her. They're old friends. 456 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 2: He actually really likes her, and I think feels that 457 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 2: she got a bad deal. Her husband, Harry, and her 458 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 2: were indicted back in nineteen eighty eight on one hundred 459 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 2: and eighty eight counts of tax fraud. Harry was one 460 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: of the world's wealthiest billionaire real estate moguls. They were 461 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 2: alleged to have paid for personal expenses out of their 462 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 2: business accounts, like renovations to their Connecticut mansion. And yes, 463 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 2: I say Connecticut, a former housekeeper claimed. Leona said only 464 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 2: little people pay taxes. She was guilty of the crime 465 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,359 Speaker 2: of being arrogant. If you want to know, here was 466 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 2: CNN telling the story. 467 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 6: She had built up a successful real estate career in 468 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,239 Speaker 6: her own right, but when she married Harry, they were 469 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,719 Speaker 6: one of the most powerful and wealthy couples in the world. 470 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 11: He's a great Roman, sir, and he's brilliant, and he's 471 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 11: good looking, and he's rich. 472 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 4: I've got everything right. 473 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 6: Leona and Harry Helmsley were most well known for their hotels, 474 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 6: and for Leona's inclusion and advertisements is the self appointed 475 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 6: hotel Queen. The author of a book on the Helmsley 476 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 6: says the couple had it all. 477 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 2: It was a very successful marriage and as a team 478 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 2: they worked well. 479 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 6: But things went downhill. The Helmsleys were indicted for not 480 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 6: paying their taxes, and while Harry did not have to 481 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 6: face charges because of his health, Leona did, I am not. 482 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 4: Going to jail. 483 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 3: I've done nothing wrong. I have done nothing wrong. I'm innocent. 484 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 3: My only crime is that I'm Leona Helmsley. 485 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 6: Newspaper headlines blaired that she once told a maid only 486 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 6: the little people pay taxes, something she always denied. 487 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 3: She said, we. 488 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 4: Paid three hundred and forty four million dollars in taxes. 489 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 4: Of course I didn't say it. 490 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 6: The US Supreme Court turned down an appeal for Helmsley, 491 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 6: and after a federal judge ordered her to serve a 492 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 6: four year prison sentence, Leona Helmsley collapsed and was rushed 493 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 6: to the hospital where she was treated for a heart 494 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 6: to regularity and hypertension. 495 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 3: Only a month later she was off to jail. 496 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 6: The author of the Helmsley book believes that Leona forgot 497 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 6: about the priorities of life. We're not here just to 498 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,119 Speaker 6: make money, and we're not here just to accumulate power. 499 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 2: And coming in at number three on the five most 500 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 2: famous tax chief cases, the Star of White Men Can't Jump, 501 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,959 Speaker 2: The Blade trilogy, and Major League Wesley Snipes, who served 502 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 2: three years in prison and was fined nine and a 503 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 2: half million dollars for failing to file tax returns from 504 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine through two thousand and one. He was 505 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 2: acquitted of a more serious felony tax fraud and conspiracy charge. 506 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 2: He argued he was a non resident alien and that 507 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 2: the IRS was an illegitimate agency, but the jury didn't 508 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 2: buy it. After release, he was played on house arrest 509 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 2: the Associated Press with that story. 510 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 9: So he Snipes gets three years behind bars. He was 511 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 9: sentenced Thursday on misdemeanor tax charges. 512 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,959 Speaker 6: But this is a man of integrity. 513 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,360 Speaker 9: Snipes's lawyers offered dozens of letters from family and friends 514 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 9: attesting to his good character and asking for leniency. Oh 515 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 9: what I did is I just answered the question straight 516 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 9: up and down. 517 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 4: The brought. 518 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 9: Fellow actors Willie Harrelson and Denzel Washington also wrote letters 519 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,080 Speaker 9: on his behalf. The judge, though, said Snipes showed a 520 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 9: history of contempt for tax laws and granted prosecutors the 521 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 9: maximum three year sentence they had requested. Jess government alleges 522 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 9: Snipes Ow's nearly three million dollars in back taxes. 523 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 16: For over eight years, he engaged in numerous steps of 524 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 16: tax defiance conduct everything from submitting bogus bills of exchange 525 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 16: to the government to accusing the government that the actual 526 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 16: tax prosecutors are at risk if they go after him, 527 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 16: to filing frivolous documents. 528 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 9: For years on he claimed he didn't have to pay taxes, 529 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 9: still arguing the government has no right to collect. He 530 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 9: was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony, 531 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 9: tax fraud and conspiracy. 532 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 3: And number two on our list. 533 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety irs hit Willie was seventeen million dollars 534 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 2: in unpaid taxes. Assets were seized, but not before his 535 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 2: daughter hand delivered his famous guitar trigger to him In Hawaii, 536 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 2: Willie struck a deal for six million dollars which included 537 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 2: him recording an album titled the Irs booll by my Memories? 538 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 2: I passed that sprinkle with the blues, A few ol 539 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: dreams inside I can't use Who buy My Memories? Things 540 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 2: that used to be? 541 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 17: There were the smiles before the tears with a smile, 542 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 17: A little some better years? Who by my memories? 543 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 3: How things that used to be? 544 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 7: Now? 545 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 3: What I remember? How things were? My moories? 546 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 2: All lead heard the seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes 547 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 2: was covered with an asset seizure, but dedicated fans purchased 548 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 2: a lot of those items and. 549 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 3: Gave them back to Willie. 550 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 2: That was also true of John Connelly when he when 551 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 2: he was hit with a tax fraud case many years earlier. 552 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 2: The nineteen ninety case would be settled in nineteen ninety 553 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 2: three after Willie struck a deal for six million dollars 554 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 2: which included him recording an album titled the IRS Tapes, 555 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 2: Who Buy My Memory? Bringing us to the number one 556 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 2: most famous tax cheat case, and that was gangster in 557 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 2: mob Boss Al capoone, likely the most notorious tax evator 558 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 2: in all of history because we love to tell the story. 559 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 2: They didn't catch him for being a gangster. They caught 560 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: him for not paying taxes. He famously said, the government 561 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: can't collect legal taxes on illegal money. How are y'all 562 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 2: going to tax. 563 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 3: Me on things that I gained illegally? 564 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: Nineteen twenty five to twenty seven he's convicted on five 565 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 2: counts of tax evasion twenty eight to twenty nine. Willful 566 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 2: failure to to file sent us to eleven years in 567 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 2: prison in eighty thousand dollars fine. Talk about excitement at 568 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 2: the county jail, It mainly come to pass. 569 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,479 Speaker 3: And here's the proof. With Drau Fons Capo alien has 570 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: been dral Brown alias. 571 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: The Big Shock has met the enemy and he is 572 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: there and is lead to the Dearburn Street station with 573 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: a NS guard that had DoD matter to a selfad. 574 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 6: It won't be long now before the world's most notorious. 575 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 2: Gangster will be only an offensive memory. 576 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: And if he behaves himself while he's a guest of 577 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: Uncle Sam in Atlanta, he'll be out again in only 578 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,719 Speaker 1: seven and a half years. 579 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 3: And so up until nineteen forty, mister Caport will. 580 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,520 Speaker 4: Be mister forty thousand and eight eighty six. 581 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 3: Now for the change, they're taking him for a ride. 582 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 3: Let that be a good lesson to you. Always be 583 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 3: sure and pay your income tax.