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Speaker 2: Yeah. We got, of course a lot of coverage today

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Speaker 2: he said that Joe Biden actually should be arrested just

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Speaker 1: Oh, they broke it themselves.

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Speaker 2: Our immigration policy is broken. That what that means is

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Speaker 1: to talk with Todd Bensman on now. He was with

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Speaker 1: us the other day. He's uh. He writes news stories.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's good. It's good to have you on again. We're

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Speaker 2: What kind of message you think these migrants are getting.

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Speaker 2: Todd Bensman. He is a with the Center for Immigration

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Speaker 2: Study senior National Security Fellow, and the book is Overrun,

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Speaker 2: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in US History.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to him. He's in Matamoros, Mexico, right across

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Speaker 1: Boy, it's an eye opening report we have from Todd Bensman.

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Speaker 1: He's a writer. His stuff has appeared this week in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I just were out of time, but Todd, it's always

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Speaker 2: good to talk to you, and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: For a great, great reporting. Todd, You're doing something almost

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Yeah. I mean I was the only American

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe it all right, Todd Bensman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is in Matamoros, Mexico, right across from Brownsville. Texas.

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Speaker 2: His book is Overrun, How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest

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Speaker 2: All right, next hour brings us back to the moistline people.

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Speaker 2: At three twenty and three fifty. We will throw a

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Speaker 1: I guess at age ten thousand a day.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of a ridiculous way to say, oh, there's

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Speaker 2: Now, the number of migrants in the border city of

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Speaker 6: If I went down to the border and I picked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you heard Todd mention something important. What they're

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Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty different countries, and there's no two

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Speaker 1: hundred countries, one hundred and fifty just there in that

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Speaker 1: county in Arizona. Yeah, right, two hundred countries apparently have

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Speaker 1: been recorded. And nobody you are taught explained he's talking

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Speaker 1: to these people from the stands. I never heard Russian

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Speaker 1: Russian republics, right, who have found a.

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Speaker 2: Way to apply and get in here. And everybody knows

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Speaker 2: now's the time this president, this guy's policies. All right,

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Speaker 2: we'll have more, of course, on the border crisis as

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Speaker 2: we continue when we return. There's another big story today.

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Speaker 2: The number is now thirty one and a half billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what that represents? Yeah, the California state

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Speaker 2: deficit that we're expecting. Last time we checked it was

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Speaker 2: like twenty five billion. It's jumped a lot. We'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what Newsom said. The goofball coming up, John and

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Speaker 2: Ken KFI AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 5: You're listening to John and Ken on demand from KFI

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Speaker 5: AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Were of course going to have the moistline, two rounds

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Speaker 2: of it about three twenty and three point fifty. We

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Speaker 2: are gonna have the mob members come in. Here are

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Speaker 2: some of them from the stands that our guest Todd

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Speaker 2: Bensman mentioned earlier this hour, those Russian republics where some

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Speaker 2: of the migrants are at the you know that, you

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Speaker 2: know that used them to help us throw this hack

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Speaker 2: into the dumpster.

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Speaker 1: You know, at the country. We were trying to pronounce,

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Speaker 1: you know, the how to spell uh Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan right,

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Speaker 1: k y r g y z s Now you look

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Speaker 1: at that and that looks like seven consonants in a row.

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Speaker 2: That's why he said a lot of people mispronounced it.

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Speaker 2: I looked up, but I looked up Dagistan too. That's

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Speaker 2: a real one.

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Speaker 1: That's a new one. There's a celebrity from Dagistan. Oh

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Speaker 1: has Bulah.

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Speaker 2: What celebrity is that.

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Speaker 7: He's a very tiny man. He's like a Benjamin Button

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Speaker 7: type guy. Yeah, he's got that uh Cindrome. I don't

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Speaker 7: know what the actual name is, but he's.

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Speaker 2: A celebrity aware on social media.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he's like he's he's a social media influencer

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Speaker 7: for being really tight media. Yeah, he's a really cute

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Speaker 7: little guy. He's about twenty years old, but he looks

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Speaker 7: about three four years old.

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Speaker 1: What is what is he?

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Speaker 7: So he's just a social media influencer. Yeah, what is

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Speaker 7: he influencing? Well that's that's for you to find out.

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Speaker 7: He's hilarious though. He just got arrested in Dakistan, uh

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Speaker 7: huh for driving recklessly with his crew and they put

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Speaker 7: him on house arrest.

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Speaker 1: Oh, so he's like an entertainer. Yeah, yeah, a very

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Speaker 1: tiny house.

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Speaker 2: Our guest right after the news at three o'clock. This

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Speaker 2: is a good local story coming out of Orange County.

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Speaker 2: The California Ara Sources Board has put out these new

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Speaker 2: emissions regulations. They want to get rid of diesel. Right,

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Speaker 2: we talked about that a couple weeks ago. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: going to destroy the Balboa Island Ferry, which went into

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Speaker 2: business in nineteen nineteen to transport cars and passengers across

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Speaker 2: eight hundred feet of water between Balboa Island and Newport Beaches,

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Speaker 2: Balboa Peninsula. Well, the new regulations couldn't cost them millions

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Speaker 2: of dollars for their three boat boats to go electric.

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Speaker 2: They can't afford that. Really silly, This is coming down

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Speaker 2: hard on a very small operation. They can't possibly contribute

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Speaker 2: much for emissions.

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Speaker 1: No, no, it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: This is silly. We're gonna talk to the president of

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Speaker 2: the Balbo Island Ferry after three o'clock to explain.

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Speaker 1: Freaking state of California doesn't contribute that much to worldwide emissions.

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Speaker 1: This is nonsense. This is such destructive nonsense.

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Speaker 2: You know what they use for their entire operation every day?

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Speaker 2: Thirty gallons of diesel.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what they're coming after. Wow, there you go.

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Speaker 1: You see these these are these These are our maniac dictators,

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Speaker 1: are what they are. Now they should be able to

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Speaker 1: get an exemption.

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Speaker 7: They should.

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Speaker 2: There should be any of these fairy people who.

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Speaker 1: It's just so nasty. This is really malicious nastiness what

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Speaker 1: they're doing wrecking people's lives.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, you said during the last segment that

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Speaker 2: people are not good with numbers, and a lot of

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Speaker 2: stuff goes over the head. But I just want to

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Speaker 2: try to impact this on you May of twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 2: Governor dipity Do announced surely a ninety seven and a

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Speaker 2: half billion dollar state surplus. All right, so nearly one

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Speaker 2: hundred billion dollars. Two years later, suddenly we're in a

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Speaker 2: thirty one and a half billion dollar deficit. Try to

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Speaker 2: wrap your brain around that. That one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 2: eight billion dollar change something like that in just the

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Speaker 2: last two years.

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Speaker 1: Massive mismanagement.

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Speaker 2: How does it? Yeah, exactly how does that happen?

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Speaker 1: It has when you have a buggling bloob as governor.

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Speaker 1: He can't do math either, can't he. I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of a swing like that.

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Speaker 2: It's never happened in the No, the state budget is

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Speaker 2: now over three hundred billions or some are saying, oh,

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Speaker 2: you know, so it's only a ten percent deficit? Is

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Speaker 2: that so harsh? But it's something we haven't seen now

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Speaker 2: and Newstin's never had a deficit, it's governor, Well.

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Speaker 1: Ten percent in this case is huge because he he's

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Speaker 1: got to have a balanced budget and he's got nowhere

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Speaker 1: to get the money from. Because he sounds like he's.

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Speaker 2: Going to pull budget tricks, He's going to defer some

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Speaker 2: spending things like that for childcare, transportation and education capital

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Speaker 2: improvement seven and a half billion.

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Speaker 1: Because he can't as long as there's a chance he's

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Speaker 1: running for president in twenty twenty four, he can't risk

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Speaker 1: a tax revolt in California right now. You know what,

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Speaker 1: And maybe this is the only thing that's going to

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Speaker 1: constrain him is his ambition to become president. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: the one thing we can hope and he's going to

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Speaker 1: tamp down some of these progressive all this progressive jackassery.

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Speaker 2: Well, and the reasons are pretty simple. The California state

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Speaker 2: budget is incredibly dependent on the high end arders from

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Speaker 2: their income taxes. I heard this morning. Well, you know

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Speaker 2: they've delayed the tax returns until October. Remember they did

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Speaker 2: that because we had some rain earlier this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because of some rain, some rain, so that some of

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Speaker 2: the money's not coming in yet. Because people who owe

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Speaker 2: money can defer until October, which is probably true.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's true. Well, yeah, I'm doing that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you owe money, yeah, you might

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Speaker 2: as well wait until October to file. When you have

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Speaker 2: to file, my money, you can do it longer. You're

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Speaker 2: not gonna get it now, right, You don't even have

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Speaker 2: to file a delay there, it's automatic. All filings are

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Speaker 2: not doing until October now. And of course, the stock

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Speaker 2: market's been kind of a bumpy ride this year and

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Speaker 2: last year, so they're not getting in as much money.

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Speaker 2: It's capital gains from the stock market, bonuses, initial public offerings,

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Speaker 2: all of these have dropped off because the state is

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Speaker 2: so dependent on the super wealthy. As much as they

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Speaker 2: like to complain about the super wealthy not paying their

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Speaker 2: fair share in California, they actually do. They pay their

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Speaker 2: fair share and more. They're holding the state up when

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Speaker 2: it comes to the biggest source of taxes, the income tax.

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Speaker 2: Top one percent pays forty five percent of the income tax,

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Speaker 2: so stuff it with your fair share.

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Speaker 1: That's propaganda. That is another misleading why that progressives tell.

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Speaker 1: Of course, if you're in the top one percent and

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Speaker 1: you're paying forty five percent of the income tax, you're

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Speaker 1: paying your fair share. Not to mention, you tend to

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Speaker 1: own the most expensive property in the state. Share property

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Speaker 1: tax bills are really really, really high, and you buy

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Speaker 1: more stuff than other people, so you're spending more in

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Speaker 1: sales tax than most.

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Speaker 2: So we mentioned this before. How do you spend that

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Speaker 2: how do you have one hundred billion dollar surplus you

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Speaker 2: now have a thirty one billion dollar deficit. Or remember

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Speaker 2: they handed out ten billion dollars in gas rebates. They

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Speaker 2: handed out all that stimulus money because of the.

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Speaker 1: Pandemic, which created inflation. Right, it made everything cost more.

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Speaker 2: They've expanded healthcare to a much larger class of illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 2: That cost money too. So all of these things begin

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Speaker 2: to add up. And some of these things, well, the

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Speaker 2: stimulus payments at least aren't permanent. But some of the

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Speaker 2: programs they've expanded, it's a ridiculous amount of money to

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Speaker 2: commit to. So now because I'm looking here, they have

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Speaker 2: this preschool expansion. Remember they did this, Yeah, two years ago,

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Speaker 2: knew someon announced a big plan for some of California's children.

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Speaker 2: By twenty twenty five, nearly four hundred thousand four year

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Speaker 2: olds would be enrolled in an additional year of public

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Speaker 2: education called t K Transitional Kindergarten. Well, it's a two

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Speaker 2: point seven billion dollar plan, but apparently it's been a flop.

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Speaker 1: Not that many parents have signed up for this.

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Speaker 2: They have not, Nope, nope. Family interest in the program

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Speaker 2: has been surprisingly lackluster. Many school districts are still focused

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Speaker 2: on meeting even the most basic requirements for starting this

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Speaker 2: new grade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. I'm wonder is that because they hadn't

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Speaker 1: get they were unable to get enough schools up and running,

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Speaker 1: or was it a lack of interest from the parents

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Speaker 1: because they didn't know about it. They didn't I think

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Speaker 1: that's why they just want They want their little kids

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Speaker 1: around the house for another year. They don't think it's

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Speaker 1: necessary to send them to school.

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Speaker 2: And maybe because of the pandemic, they don't want to

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Speaker 2: be sending them any earlier to any school. Right, some

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Speaker 2: people freak out over that stuff. It's probably all of those.

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Speaker 1: Things together, all right.

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Speaker 2: When we return, the topic is save the Balboa Island Ferry.

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Speaker 2: This poor little ferry system, which is eight hundred feet

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Speaker 2: to get people between Balbo Island and Balboa Peninsula eight

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Speaker 2: hundred feet of water, is in trouble because the state

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Speaker 2: California Arasources Board is mandating they go electric. They got

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Speaker 2: to get rid of their diesel ferry boats, and that

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Speaker 2: could cost them more than they can afford. We'll be

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Speaker 2: talking to the president of the Balboa Island Ferry, Johnny

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