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We'll talk about that. 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:34.280 And also the latest with the upcoming North Korea US 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.000 summit Trump and Kim Jong own there are some threats 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.520 passing back and forth. The media continues to lie about 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.600 what had transpired in last forty eight hours between Israelis 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.440 and Palestinians at the border of Gaza. And also the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.840 social justice warriors have taken over the sciences including medicine. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.200 That and more coming up. This is the bus Sexton Show, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.320 where the mission or mission is to decode what really 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.840 matters with passionable intelligence. Make no mistakes American. Let brank, 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:16.240 You're a great American Again The Buck Sexton Show begins. No, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.000 Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody's great to have 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.919 you with me. Is always live from the Swamp. We've 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.480 gotta get some cool swamp sound effects. You know, Gate 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.560 is in the Bayou, that kind of thing. Although this 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.960 isn't a charming swamp like what you have in Louisianna. 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.960 This is uh. This is a swamp of lobbyists and 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.840 influence seekers. You know, if I had to give you 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.799 a a tagline on our nation's Captain Washington d C. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:55.400 It's where tremendous ambition meets relentless mediocrity. That's really what 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 I think of when I think of DC. That that 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.400 should I don't think they're gonna put that up on 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.959 the on the board of tourism anytime soon for the 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.280 District Columbia. But that's the do you want to know 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.600 what's really going on here? There? You have it. So 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.680 I've got a lot of stuff that I'm excited. I'm 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.280 excited to talking about today. I had so much time 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.520 to read it. I was up late last night reading 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:20.880 in doing research, and then today uh, getting situated here 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.600 in in the district, in in the swamp. Um. But 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.160 the story I want to leave with is not one 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.560 that I think you're seeing grabbing all the headlines. Right. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.120 I know that there's a lot of attention on North Korea. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.560 Will we'll get to that and the possibility of a 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.040 cancelation of the summit. This is where we're seeing the 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.760 Kim Jong on that we expected. Right, He's gonna be KG. 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.880 He's not someone we can trust. Administration knows all this 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.880 um I want to start, though, with a continuation on 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.040 a theme that we often have here in the Hut, 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.760 the freedom Hut, as it were, and that is that 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:04.600 progressives espouse certain beliefs. They tell us that they really 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:13.240 care about certain things, and yet when it affects them directly, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.440 all of a sudden is whoa hold on a second, all, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.279 what's all this, what's all this status m going on here? 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.159 What's all the latest here? With big government? In effect, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.360 settle down with those taxes. Great examples of this that 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:34.000 we've been discussing recently schools. Liberals are all about just 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.599 the social experimentation by social justice warriors in the public 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.880 school system in all schools if they can until it 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.839 affects like their kids school, then all of a sudden 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.080 there like, you know, I don't want to just bring 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.039 in a bunch of low performing students and make the 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.160 better performing students in this school, the school that you 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.479 know my kid goes to have to deal with that, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.640 but everybody else should have to deal with that. But 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.320 I don't want to deal with that. You know, this 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:04.560 is for thee but not for me. A definitional slogan 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:10.640 for modern democrats and progressivism also true amount illegal immigration. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.320 I remember and when we talked, yes in Alibu, hey 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.120 do you come here at the booze goes syr feing, Right, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.880 That's not what anyone Malibu talks like. They're like, well, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.279 where's the butler. The chardonnay has gone warm. That's what 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.400 they sound like in Malibu. But they don't like it 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.240 when homeless people are camping out down the street from them. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.160 They want the city of Los Angeles, for example, to 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.920 allow there to be ten cities that pop up and 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.480 and no ordinances enforced about not Remember it's not just 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.560 the tents on the street. Then the cooking occurs on 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.920 the street, urination, defecation, uh, sexual activity. This is all 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.760 occurring intense on the street. Do you want to walk 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.440 past that? I remember New York City in the late eighties, 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.520 really nineties, I tell you, you you know, as a little kid, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.520 you know, holding my dad or my mom's hand real 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.440 tight as we walked past and open there homeless shelter 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.120 that wasn't actually a shelter. It just was people that 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.920 had set up a city on the street, you know, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.560 yelling at each other, fights would break out, their sexual 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.040 assaults would happen, And I'm like a six seven eight 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.599 year old kid. I remember walking past that. It was 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.480 not something that we wanted, but it was in our neighborhood. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.560 What are you gonna do. You're gonna cower and fear, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.719 you're gonna hide. The city authorities didn't want to clean 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.480 it up. And I was in liberal New York by 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.960 the way. But that's a whole other discussion. Now you 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.080 get all these liberals that have managed to separate themselves 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.680 in the rest of society. So they're all in favor 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:39.200 of illegal immigration, but they don't want I legal immigrants. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.000 They don't want asylum seekers for example from Nicarago or 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.280 a Salvador being put in their school system. Right. They 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:52.200 don't want those undocumented miners, right, those dreamers, if you will, UH, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.000 in their school system. They want them in your school system. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.320 They want the taxpayer to pick up the bill for them, 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.719 but not them as a taxpayer. They don't want to 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.520 have to deal with the hit. And here we are. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.680 So with all of that lined up, here we are 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:15.000 with a UH and a completely unsurprising circumstance of two 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.960 of the biggest most progressive corporations out there, Amazon, owned 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.800 by Jeff Bezos and Starbucks. Remember, don't forget Bezos about 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.160 the Washington Post. He has tremendous influence on elite opinion 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.400 as a result of that. But you have Amazon and 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.720 also Starbucks, two of the biggest companies in the country 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.480 right to the and very progressive ones at that. You know, 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.080 Starbucks just decided that you no longer have to be 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.960 a customer to use the bathrooms. You know what that's 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.640 gonna mean for the bathrooms at Starbucks. They're going to 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.040 make the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan's Circle like 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:57.200 five when it was for you know, people fleeing the law, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.160 runaways and and homeless uh, you know, homeless vagrance right there, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.280 a lot of that in the Port Authority Buster. It's 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.680 gonna be the bathroom like you'd find there. That's what's 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.520 gonna end up and a lot of Starbucks, not all 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.960 of them, but because people don't care, there's no longer 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.880 any relationship between the customer and the establishment. Now, look, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.120 I'm not gonna follow my sword over Starbucks bathrooms. I 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.480 don't really care all that much, but it's not gonna 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.680 be good total aside. But this goes in the buck 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:27.440 wisdom category. I I think it was Anthony Boordain, but 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.920 I forget who it was who wrote that. You can 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.800 tell everything you need to know about the bathroom in 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.520 a restaurant, everything if you just pay attention. I used 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.880 to think that was silly. I've actually found it. I've 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.400 gotten older, it's true. Just that's just file that one 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.640 away on the random Buck Random Buck Nuggets of Wisdom. Um, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.520 there are some other things, you know, there's some other things. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.600 If if the soup is good, you're usually in very 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.000 good shape. If the bread is good they bring out, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.920 you're usually in very good shape. But stories for another time. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:05.800 Back to Starbucks and Amazon. Seattle is a very very progressive, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.079 left wing city has a big problem with homelessness. So 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:15.679 the Seattle City Council has introduced a way of alleviating 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.959 that problem. And here's what it is. We gotta we 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.079 got some affiliates on Washington State. So if any of 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.760 you folks by the way, you're listening eight four four 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.880 two five eight four four nine buck, light light it 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.640 up here and tell me what it's like. Oh you're 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.720 I think a lot of our affiliates are in interior 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.440 Washington State, not not out in Seattle, are anyway, they've 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.800 got a lot of homeless people in Seattle. Homelessness is 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.960 a very serious problem, and you know, all of us 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.600 listening have a lot. I look, I have a lot 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.800 of sympathy for the homeless. I think a lot should 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.959 be done to help the homeless. And the more you 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.160 learn about homelessness, what you find out is that you know, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.760 the media often portrays it. Oh and by the way, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.320 depending whether you have a Democrat or Republican as president, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.440 the home listness problem. I think Bernie Goldberg did a 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.760 whole chapter on this in his book Bias many years ago. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.240 And it's true, the problem of homelessness gets highlighted when 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.439 you have Republican in office, even though the same number 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.240 of homeless may have been there a week before when 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.920 it was a Democrat in office. It's used as a 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:24.560 political as a political tool, political cudgel. And the truth 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.920 about homelessness is that a vast majority of the homeless 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.960 now and this is a little bit different where you 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.680 have these kind of able bodied occupy wall street vagrant 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.240 types who carry around iPhones and iPads while they're like 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.559 sleeping on the street and camping around. That's different. That's it. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.560 I'm talking about real long term homelessness. It is overwhelmingly 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:54.599 tied to alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and mental illness over whelmingly. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.440 Now that's not to say that that means that we 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.280 shouldn't care or we shouldn't help whatever, but you know, 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.320 we need to understand what the problem really is. Because 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:07.080 also once you get that the homeless population are not 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.079 people who just like lost their job at the middle 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.600 and now couldn't make ends meet. That's very it can happen. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.600 I mean, and people say, oh, buck, I know this 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.080 story about a person who lived in his car for 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.640 a year. By the way, I think I'm being serious 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.760 with you there, there's a term um actually think used 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.480 it in here somewhere when you're when you're living in something, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.760 but you know, like a car, you're not homeless. You're 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.000 like considered unhoused, I think, is what they say. Um. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:32.720 But yeah, it can happen, you lose your job, hit 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.760 hard times, but long term what you could consider the 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:40.760 same way there's structural unemployment, there's kind of structural homelessness 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.319 in the sense that there's a certain um, you know, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.640 long term homeless population that we're dealing with. Uh. And 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.760 if you're gonna look at the problem. Realistically, it's not 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.559 a downturn in the stock market that calls it. It's 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.439 not you know, the the unemployment rate affects it a 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.080 little bit, but not all that much. It's really alcohol abuse, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.280 drug abuse, and mental illness. Okay. That also means that 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.440 those people really need help that are on the streets. 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.000 It's not a you know, you get some people and 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.120 some of my more radical libertarian friends are like, you know, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.800 leave them alone, like they can do whatever they want. Well, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.600 you know, urinating and defecating and sexual activity in public 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.199 and you know, setting fires because you're cooking stuff and 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.520 unsafe way like, these are municipal issues. These are problems 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.800 for cities and towns that to deal with because it's 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.960 a problem for everybody else. And also there are these 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.439 cases of um, you know, a majority of vast majority 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.040 of the homeless even more than that, right whatever. Overwhelmingly 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.560 the homeless are nonviolent, but there are cases where some 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.400 pretty terrible stuff happens because somebody's mentally ill and a 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:47.960 threat to the public and they don't get dealt with. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:53.200 So that's just some back backstory for this issue of 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:59.280 the tax. Because what is the government's first, well, government's 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.000 first rule, have had a deal. The problem is is 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.400 hold the committee right or have hearings? You know, have meetings. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.959 What's the second? The second thing that the government always does. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.719 That's right, find a way to spend your money. You 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.760 gotta hold the meetings. You figure out where you're spending 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.719 the money. Not that it's going to be spent well, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.760 but then they take your money. That's how government solves problems. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.839 They think, that's what government thinks it is doing. We're 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.040 gonna spend money on this, it will solve the problem. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:29.679 You would think though, that Amazon, which is one of 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:34.280 the largest most powerful companies in the world. I mean, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.480 it's on track to be a trillion dollar company in 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:42.520 terms of its value. And you think that Starbucks as well, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.640 which is I think just after McDonald's in terms of 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:52.040 number of franchises across the country. Um that they would 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.120 be all in favor of attacks to deal specifically with homelessness. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.920 And the Seattle City Council must to figure the same 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.720 thing that they're gonna raise tens of millions of dollars 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.240 by having a head tax on those on on any 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:10.040 company with revenues of over twenty million dollars. By the way, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.440 that's not just Amazon and Facebook, but they're just two 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.280 companies that have gotten very vocal about this. And it's 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.960 gonna be roughly two. Originally they said five dollars a person. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.680 So for every if you make over twenty million dollars 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.640 a year, you have to give five hundred dollars a 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.160 person in taxes to this fund in Seattle deal with homelessness. 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.560 And then they cut it down two fifty dollars a person. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.120 But what they're seeing is, sure enough, the biggest companies 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.800 involved here are losing their minds over this. Starbucks and 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:56.440 an Amazon specifically all of a sudden feel like they 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.280 need to call out how the government is inefficient. Oh, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.400 they're saying, the government's not going to spend the money. Well, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.560 whoa hold on a second? Starbucks and Amazon, you guys 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.120 are pushing progressive agenda all the time. You know. Now 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.040 now all of a sudden, you're worried about the government 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.800 being inefficient, about taxes that are punitive, About the effect 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:24.560 on employment. Oh when the tax affects you, meaning you 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:31.120 mega corporations of the left. Now it's a problem. Now 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:36.200 it's anti business, Now, it's anti competitive. You know, couldn't 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.520 that be said to be true of other taxes that 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.160 are instituted with the best of intentions. You know, things 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:49.320 that any social justice warrior would be pleased about. You 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.360 see the moment that it starts to affect them, the 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.120 loudest voices in the Democrat Party, in the left, they 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.240 start to change their tune. It is so very, very 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:06.040 predictable because you know where I'm going. Hypocrisy is the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.560 defining characteristic on an individual level, and now is if 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.280 you're on a corporate level of the modern progressive hypocrisy 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.920 is they're defining characteristic. They want all these things to 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.760 be done by the government in their name that they like, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.200 but not be done to them and not to affect them. See, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.560 I got a problem with that. We also got to 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.320 talk about going on in Illinois with their system here, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.000 we got a lot more show team. I mean, we 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.240 just got started, but I'm just getting started. We haven't 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:37.360 even gotten into North Korea, fallout from Gaza yesterday, a 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.200 whole lot more stuff. Oh and the I think the 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.800 single silliest thing that Kirsten Gillibrand has ever said, which 0:16:43.880 --> 0:17:00.400 is really saying something that are more coming up. Yeah, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.760 Bernie Sanders is getting in on and play their team. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:11.119 The move toward oligarchy in our country not only impacts 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:16.840 our political system, it impacts our economy and the standard 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.040 of living of working people. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.879 saw his wealth increase by two hundred and seventy five 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:35.320 million dollars every single day. Meanwhile, thousands of Amazon employees 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:40.960 are forced to rely on food stamps, medicaid in public 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:48.960 housing because their wages are just too low. Moving toward oligarchy, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:54.359 baby um, Bernie's wrong in the economics, but he's right 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.760 about this debases a lot of power. But I wonder 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.040 where he is on, where Ernie is on what he 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.920 thinks about the pushback on this proposal? Right, you know, Bezos, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.400 I'm sure, and and the the folks who run Amazon, 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.919 the folks who run Starbucks, And I would note a 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.920 lot of other companies that make over twenty million dollars 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.560 in Seattle. Those these are just the two super big 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.480 you know, those are the two companies most associated with Seattle, 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.680 along with UH. I think Microsoft moved out of Seattle, right, 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.119 it's somewhere else now, I don't know, I forget what 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.840 Microsoft is headquartered out of. But they're making a lot 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.880 of noise about this, and you would think that if 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.800 they agree with Bernie on all these issues, that here's 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.160 an opportunity to do more about the problem of homelessness. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.800 I just thought it was so interesting to see the 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.960 that Amazon's vice president wrote or said, quote, the city 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.600 does not have a revenue problem. This is Seattle and 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.880 has a spending efficiency problem. We are highly uncertain whether 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.680 the city council's anti business positions or it's spending inefficiency 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.040 will change for the better end. Quote well, how is 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:58.480 that any different than any of us who have to 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.480 pay taxes on all kinds of uf feeling like, uh, yeah, 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.520 Microsoft is in Redmond, Washington. Producer Mike has told me 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:10.919 so different place. Um, but how is that any different 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.040 than all of us who feel like, yeah, they're just 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.000 gonna take more of my stuff and spend it poorly 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:20.160 on crap. You know, remember the Obama stimulus, a trillion dollars, folks, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.840 just to give away to left wing Democrat interests. Didn't 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.159 do anything for the economy. Just spend a lot of 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.720 your money, That's the Democrat answer to everything. But when 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:33.879 it hits home, when the progressive corporations that love to 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.840 push social justice policies all over the place. When they 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:39.320 gotta pay a little more in taxes, though specifically they 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.840 have to pay more, not everybody. They go, what do 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.639 you mean, I don't like this anymore? I got another 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:57.919 tax problem to talking about. Stay with me. He's holding 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:04.760 the line for America, Buck Sexton his back. So not 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.840 only do you have this idea of listeners or or 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:12.640 I should say, addressing to be fair to the the 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.920 liberal redistributionists do gooders out there in Seattle and elsewhere. 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.080 They want to address the problem of homelessness with us. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.240 They know it's not gonna fix it. Okay, fine, but 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.399 just tax people, tax the rich. It's the Bernie plan. Baby. 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.879 Oh yeah, Bernie. Thanks you tax rich people enough, you're 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.880 gonna get You're gonna get more of what you need. 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.760 The problem with doing things like that in cities and 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.440 and Amazon, by the way, is big enough that it 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.360 did throw its weight around. It threatened to stop building 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:48.199 a headquarters because of this tax specifically. But you know, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.000 Amazon is a company that can do that. Not all 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.240 companies can. But sometimes they'll be able to fight back. 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.399 Sometimes they will find a means of trying to push 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:04.560 back and refused to just get pillaged by the government 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:08.080 for its own needs, for its own reasons. But it's 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:09.879 not just in Seattle. It's happening all over the all 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:15.400 of the country in different ways, different times, different places. Illinois, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:21.480 Illinois is a is the the blue readout in the Midwest, right, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:27.440 it's the it's the fortress of liberalism because of Chicago 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:34.440 in the Midwest. And Illinois has got a massive budget 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.600 crisis that it's dealing with, right It's it's got it's 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:43.560 billions and billions of dollars in the whole and it's 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.680 been run by Democrats, as you know, for a very 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:52.440 long time. It is a it is a big problem. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.520 What do you think the biggest issue they have is 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.560 when it comes to budget in the state of Illinois. Oh, 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:01.680 that's right, pensions, the because as I've told you, there 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.439 is an unholy alliance. It's not just the Illinois, it's 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:09.360 a number of states, but an unholy alliance between Democrat 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:14.000 party politics and public sector unions. And the way this 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:18.760 works is the best way to get benefits, to give 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.600 benefits the public sector unions is to back end it, right, 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:27.000 juice up the back end of the deal by giving 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.920 people cushier long term benefits than just you know, if 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.920 you start paying third grade teachers a D fifty grand 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.280 across the board, people are gonna start asking questions. Right, 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.160 But if you give them pensions where they pay very 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.880 little into their health care, they have health care for life, 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:45.199 their family has health care for life, all paid for 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:49.040 by the taxpayer, and some formula where it's you know, 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.600 sevent of the last of the average of the last 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:54.440 three years, or you know, it depends where you are. 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:55.880 I don't know. I knew what it was in New York. 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:57.800 I forget what it is, or I don't know what 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:01.959 it is in other states. But they have unfunded pension 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.679 liabilities and the taxpayers just can't keep up. Now you 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:07.440 may be seeing yourself, well, hold on a second, but 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:09.320 now this is at the state level, mind you, and 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:13.160 so you do have some redress here. And that's what's 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.960 going on with California, with Illinois, with New York. People 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:19.879 are saying I'm out, I'm done. Those who can not 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:24.160 everyone can. People if you're you know, underwater on your mortgage, 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.679 or if you're even just you know, you don't have 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.080 that much equity in your home, and it's the market 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.200 goes this the market for sellers go soft, and there's 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:36.040 all kinds of reasons why leaving is not impossible from 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:40.840 a certain state when it embraces more confiscatory tax model. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.879 But it's hard. It's not that easy, you know. I 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:49.760 I wish that there were some conservative friendly, low tax 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:53.720 parts of the country that we're also major media capitals, 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:57.840 but I've yet to find one, have yet to find one. Unfortunately, 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:01.760 where where there's media, there are liberals. And that's just 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:04.200 the reality that I have to deal with right now. 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:10.800 But Illinois is as really decided to to up the 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:12.240 stakes here a little bit with how they're going to 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:18.000 approach their pension, their unfunded pension liabilities. And this courtesy 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:21.040 of of zero Hedge, a site that does a lot 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:27.560 of interesting particularly bearish and uh dare I say, catastrophe 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:33.520 leaning analysis, but they also do some interesting stuff. It's 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:36.199 a site that does affirm a good amount of traffic 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:40.400 and has some insightful posts. But they talk about this 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:46.479 this uh last month a pension event with the Civic 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:50.520 Federation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and what 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.480 they decided is okay, so there's the Federals are big Chicago, 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.320