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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

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Speaker 2: So Michael very show is on the air. Hey, come on, man,

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Speaker 2: wake up.

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Speaker 3: I've said it for years now.

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Speaker 4: He's cogent.

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Speaker 2: But I undersold him.

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Speaker 3: When I said he was cogent. He's far beyond cogent.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.

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Speaker 2: And f you if you.

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Speaker 3: Can't handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically

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Speaker 3: is the best Biden ever, not a close second. And

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Speaker 3: I've known him for years. The Brazinskis have known him

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Speaker 3: for fifty years.

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Speaker 4: If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't says.

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Speaker 5: You were you rise sleep very time, do not cry.

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Speaker 3: And that few if you can't handle the truth, and.

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Speaker 5: I will sing another of Biden.

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Speaker 6: Joe Biden, he fell asleep today during the latest meeting

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Speaker 6: in Angola.

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Speaker 7: What do you make of him falling asleep at the

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Speaker 3: Is it disappointing for you?

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Speaker 6: And Joe Biden is in Delaware sleeping right now in

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Speaker 6: one of his many estates, One of his many estates.

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Speaker 2: How did he get so many houses? He never was anything?

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Speaker 2: It is a politicians.

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Speaker 8: Had a fundraiser in Virginia last night. The President blamed

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Speaker 8: his performance on jet lag, saying, quote, I decided to

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Speaker 5: When the President of the United States gets a little

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Speaker 9: Press appearings and taken nap dozing.

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Speaker 5: Even climate change couldn't compete with changing time zones and

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Speaker 5: jet lag. President Biden's eyelids dropped, then flickered open, then

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Speaker 5: went down for the count. A half minute or so later,

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Speaker 5: an aide came to the rescue and roused him. After

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Speaker 10: Clapped and rubbed his eyes. He su.

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Speaker 4: And f you if you can't handle the truth.

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Speaker 7: Doing and regular.

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Speaker 9: I'm still.

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Speaker 7: Wind them in the middle all the dream.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's Christmas time, and that means that thefts will

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Speaker 2: be up, and with more shoppers in the stores, the

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Speaker 2: Democrat turds will blend in easier, so they will increase

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Speaker 2: the amount of theft they will undertake. So used to

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Speaker 2: back in the day, because I had nurtured law enforcement

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Speaker 2: relationships while I was on city Council, not just with

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Speaker 2: the constables, the sheriffs, DPS, Texas Rangers, all of them.

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Speaker 2: I would get pretty good tips DEA, FBI, and most

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Speaker 2: was them. But in time, almost twenty years at this

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Speaker 2: Now there's folks that will give me a tip from

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Speaker 2: the DA's office, from the court system. The court system

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Speaker 2: actually turns out to be your best source of information

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Speaker 2: because if you have one law enforcement agency, there's a lot,

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Speaker 2: The problem is most of it I can't use or

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Speaker 2: it would burn the person who gave it to me.

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Speaker 2: So I give you an example of what we're seeing

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Speaker 2: right now, and this is one that happened this week.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this week, there was a blackmail forty four years old.

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Speaker 2: He goes into the academy next to Willabrook Mall and

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Speaker 2: brown paper sack. Because if it's in a brown paper sack,

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Speaker 2: so wonder anybody knew it was a liquor bottle because

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Speaker 2: know unopened? There is a liquor store directly next door,

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Speaker 2: and there is a shoe store in Willowbrook law. As

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Speaker 2: you'll find the way this story develops, those other two

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Speaker 2: it's a new pair of high dollar shoes. Then he

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Speaker 2: this Saint Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread for

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Speaker 2: his sister's son. It's stupid stuff. So even if you

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Speaker 2: pull off a thousand heightsts, what have you or a

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Speaker 2: thousand thefts? What have you really done? So he steals

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Speaker 2: another pair of sneakers, but this time they got eyes

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Speaker 2: catch him coming out. He's got the newly stolen pair

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Speaker 2: of shoes in a brown paper bag. I guess he thought.

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Speaker 1: Nobody'll ever know it's in my magic brown paper bag.

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Speaker 1: It hides all identities. The point of this story is this,

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Speaker 1: once they arrest him, he doesn't have one prior arrest

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Speaker 1: or two, not five, not ten. I gotta cut this

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Speaker 1: guy's record. He's got beaten up twice, beating up elderly people.

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Speaker 1: Now that might have been he's stealing from those elderly people,

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Speaker 2: He's got robberies. That's where a human being is involved.

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Speaker 2: He's got crimes up. He was given a twenty five

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Speaker 2: sometimes even waive the amount of that. That's why you're

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Speaker 2: Now you might have to edit that. This is Mark

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Speaker 2: Yest nut Enjoy Bizaar of talk radio.

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Speaker 6: From Television City in Hollywood.

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Speaker 7: Boy the way Glenn Miller plays songs that neither parade

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Speaker 2: And you do win.

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Speaker 2: Welfare stage.

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Speaker 10: Everybody Goes his Way Jr.

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Speaker 1: On the Sound.

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Speaker 10: Nos Wild.

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Speaker 2: One year ago today, Norman year past Now. Norman Lear

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Speaker 2: is claimed by the left, and probably for good reason,

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Speaker 2: but a classic liberal of those days in many cases

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Speaker 2: would not be today because what they were fighting against

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Speaker 2: of course was a spin off Good Times. Never missed it,

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Speaker 2: would be All in the Family and the amazing thing.

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Speaker 2: I've spent a lot of time studying this show. They

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Speaker 2: thought that Archie was the anti hero. He was supposed

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Speaker 2: reactionary to what was going on? Sure? Did he sometimes

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Speaker 6: Oh let me tell you something. I am so sick

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Speaker 6: of Washington and Orleans, wikes and all them politicians down there,

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Speaker 6: won't find none of them congressman signing down their electric

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Speaker 11: God did great on that stuff.

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Speaker 6: But they're all gonna have us over the hill to

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Speaker 6: good for you.

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Speaker 11: Oh, ain't that lovely?

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Speaker 6: You read his digest can always put a little joy

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Speaker 11: This is my whole paint, My whole paint.

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Speaker 6: Is this whole thing with the energy and everything.

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Speaker 2: This is all a conspiracy.

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Speaker 6: Know you know that it is a conspiracy. There listen

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Speaker 6: for years, all our lives, they've been telling us go

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Speaker 2: Pivot. I uh spoke to Justin White, who owns Senior

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Speaker 2: This Saturday is the annual election period expiration for Medicare.

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Speaker 2: They call it the AEP. That is the primary time

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Speaker 2: I told you that first week. It ends this Saturday

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Speaker 2: within which you had to renew your options. What kind

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Speaker 2: of did you want a PPO or an HMO? How

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Speaker 2: much did you want with? Hell? Did you want this?

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Speaker 2: Did you want that? Well, that period is going on

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Speaker 2: right now with Medicare, and if you don't know anything

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Speaker 2: to Justin White at Senior Health Services. It is a

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Speaker 2: Who knew they got to a thousand stores. Interestingly, if

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Speaker 11: We install the everlast muffler you needed thirty minutes. In

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Speaker 13: You're not gonna pay a lot in that minuke thing

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Speaker 2: the story when you do the interview. Well, that'd be

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Speaker 2: the fun Midas Muffler. It is Midas Muffler had the

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Speaker 2: they were my neighbors growing up. Sam was a great guy.

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Speaker 2: He started his business in Pasadena and Houston with bass

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Speaker 2: there you go. David gave us the answer. Let's see

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Speaker 2: if there was anything else. Muffler shops. Ripley Muffler on

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty at Kirkandal had the pipe figure guy out front.

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Speaker 2: That's from Sean Elkins at Stem Distributors. And Josh Writes says,

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Speaker 2: Ken's Muffer in Beaumont at College and eleven had the

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Speaker 2: big muffer man out front. I know that one is

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Speaker 2: true now that you mentioned Kens Muffer and Beaumont, that

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Speaker 2: is definitely true. I don't maybe there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: the muffer man out front. Maybe that's a common thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So there we go. Thank you to Lena and Rodney

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Speaker 2: Ellis Harris County homeowners see historically high. So that was

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Speaker 2: to see that. Just how smooth that segue with historically

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Speaker 2: high tax bills, in part because of the Democrat majority

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Speaker 2: on Harris County Commissioner's Court. Using the state's natural disaster

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Speaker 2: loophole to raise your taxes twenty five percent, among other

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Speaker 2: tax hikes. The story of Fox twenty six.

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Speaker 14: These historically high increases are hitting homeowners already hammered by

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Speaker 14: escalating insurance costs and lingering inflation. Bottom line, get ready

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Speaker 14: to budget hundreds, if not thousands of dollars more because

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Speaker 14: local governments say they need it and aren't taking no

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Speaker 14: for an answer. In Harris County, property tax bills are out,

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Speaker 14: and as Fox twenty six was the first to forecast,

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Speaker 14: they are punishing.

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Speaker 9: To be sticking. This kind of tax increase on top

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Speaker 9: of people is on consiable and somebody are to pay

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Speaker 9: the price for doing this.

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Speaker 14: Bill King, Fox twenty six contributor and fellow at Rice

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Speaker 14: University's Baker Institute, was the first to sound the alarm.

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Speaker 9: This is going to hurt people sort of in the

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Speaker 9: middle class the most. They're the ones that are on

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Speaker 9: the titus budgets.

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Speaker 14: His analysis of an average homeowner's twenty twenty five tax

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Speaker 14: bill is shocking. A twenty five percent hike from Harris County,

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Speaker 14: nineteen percent increase from Houston ISD, fifteen percent from HCC,

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Speaker 14: and a comparatively modest ten percent hike from the City

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Speaker 14: of Houston. The total hickey for this household eighteen percent,

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Speaker 14: a perfect storm of higher home appraisal and jacked up

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Speaker 14: rates from local governments.

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Speaker 9: This is one year, Greg, This is not over a

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Speaker 9: five year period. This is one year now. I'm pretty

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Speaker 9: sure that this person probably didn't get an eighteen percent

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Speaker 9: raise last year.

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Speaker 14: The two damn how already we caught up with South

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Speaker 14: Park super Neighborhood President Travis McGee at the shack on

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Speaker 14: Red Road. He says, very few folks in Sunnyside can

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Speaker 14: absorb this kind of hit.

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Speaker 15: It's a big way go call.

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Speaker 14: We about to get priced out.

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Speaker 15: Being a home owner and business own has always been

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Speaker 15: the American dream, but these taxes make it to the

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Speaker 15: American nightmare.

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Speaker 14: As for return on the additional taxpayer investment, McGhee, like

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Speaker 14: most is cynical.

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Speaker 15: If you look around on some of the infrastruction and

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Speaker 15: three thousand stuff. We're now saying all taxiles at work.

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Speaker 15: But each time they misuse the money, mismanaging money and

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Speaker 15: sometimes even stealing money.

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Speaker 14: Turns out, these local hikes have totally wiped out the

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Speaker 14: much bally hooed property tax relief delivered by the Texas

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Speaker 14: legislature two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five percent increased, Harris County nineteen percent, HISD fifteen percent,

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Speaker 2: HCC ten percent, City of Houston. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: it's not going to anything you're ever gonna see it,

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Speaker 2: not one bit of it.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm