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If you're a California, conservative a Libertarian, a
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moderate Democrat. Believe in common sense, or just
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the same person. This is the political podcast
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for you. It's the California underground
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podcast. What's going on everybody?
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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the
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California underground. Trying to get back on that
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weekly schedule. Always busy, always crazy.
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Always lots to talk about. And this week, it's always no
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exception. So let's start with this week's
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out of the gate and get right into it.
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So I want to thank the Beto or, I mean Robert Francis O'Rourke,
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he has been a blessing in disguise during this early
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presidential election cycle. Now, why is Robert Francis a
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blessing? And it's pretty simple.
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Actually, Robert has been completely honest and
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forthcoming in And goals for present.
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And while I made a test the man's political aspirations.
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I respect him for his truthfulness.
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You see, Robert has become completely unhinged and knows.
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He has no shot at winning the nomination.
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I mean, he couldn't beat Ted Cruz with hundreds of millions
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of dollars flowing in from California.
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So what makes him think he can use that to springboard into the
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Oval Office with his Vanishing, poll numbers and chances at
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becoming the nominee. Robert is only Relevant because
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of his outrageous claims of what he plans to do.
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Now the most popular position. He has been taking is that he is
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going to confiscate your guns, all your guns.
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He dropped the whole quote by back narrative and instead going
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with the confiscation rhetoric. He's just coming out and saying
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it's not buy back, its confiscation.
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He's come right out and said that he plans to March law
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enforcement to everyone's home and start rounding up your guns.
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Sounds a little brown sugar - right.
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It's because the left main goal has always been one single
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thing, total and complete control by using the power of
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the state to run over your civil liberties.
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Robert is just crazy enough to say it out loud.
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While most Democrats tiptoe around issues that would turn
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Middle America off to their campaign.
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Robert is diving writing with complete, totalitarian talking
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points. And is Unapologetic about it.
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He's also Unapologetic about how we need to see all control of
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our economy. The government for the sake of
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climate change, the climate change argument, as I've
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covered, is simply coded speak to hand over all your freedom
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and civil liberties to the government because like the
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world is totally going to end in like 12 years.
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So we have to act fast and now so yeah, I want to thank Robert
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Francis O'Rourke for his courage, to speak the truth
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about what the left really wants, and to put it on display
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for all to see while candidates like Elizabeth Warren.
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Can't answer a simple question about whether any of her plans
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will raise taxes on the middle class, spoiler alert.
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They will Robert has the brevity to speak the truth to the
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people. So, thank you.
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Robert Francis O'Rourke. Thank you for laying it all out
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for everyone. To see what leftist really
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talked about in their safe spaces and behind closed doors.
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While they may come out as gee, golly moderates.
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Most Democrats are wolves in sheep's clothing when it comes
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to what they want and it's total and complete control.
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If there's any doubt, what leftist wants?
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And you're not sure just listen to a Robert row Francis, Robert
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Francis O'Rourke speech and you'll get the whole picture.
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I'm just glad we learned this well in advance.
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Ants of the election year. So Robert Francis O'Rourke, I
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don't want to take too much time to talk about.
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Obviously. He's coming out with this gun
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confiscation thing and this leads right into my first story
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that I want to talk about, which is that Elizabeth Warren is had
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been having a little bit of a problem with how do you say
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being able to honestly or forthcoming Lee?
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Say how she's going to pay for everything and whether or not
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it's going to raise taxes on the middle class because anything,
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I'll politician does that if there's anything A politician.
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Does the third rail that will never ever?
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Get you elected? Is to say, I'm going to raise
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taxes on the middle class and they will dance around it.
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They'll say things, they'll say they're normal, slogans.
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Like, you know, what, going to talks to bail your ass and the
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Millionaires and I showed up be billionaires and just society,
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and this is immoral to have billionaires.
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They'll tiptoe around it and they'll use their talking points
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in their red meat to get people ass out.
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Yeah, obviously, that makes sense, but when it comes to
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saying whether or not they're actually going to attack small
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class, they'll dive around it. And since Elizabeth Warren
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knows, she's most likely at this point, statistically going to be
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the nominee of the democratic party and she's going to have to
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run against Donald Trump in the general election, and she's
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going to have to probably move off of some of her far-left
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speech talking points. She It come out and say well,
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yeah, my plan is going to tax the middle class because Donald
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Trump President. Donald Trump is going to run
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with that and kill you over it. Because he'll just say, well
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look, she wants to raise your taxes.
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I cut your taxes and more money was in your paycheck.
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So if you want to give up more money to the federal government,
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go right ahead, go right ahead and vote for Elizabeth Warren
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because she'll take more money out of your paycheck.
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Meanwhile, I have been taking less money out of your paycheck.
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I think giving you pay cuts. I've been giving your businesses
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pay or tax cuts. So and this is what has been
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contributing to this enormous growth.
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And the economy is obviously the deregulation, the tax cuts.
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All of that has been an enormous boost for the economy in which
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is why we're seeing outrageous numbers, why we're seeing record
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low unemployment numbers and why we're seeing a lot of people who
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aren't foreclosing on houses are foreclosures are down why we're
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starting to see incomes rise. Why we're Starting to see the
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average middle-class monthly salary is going up by a lot.
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But Elizabeth Warren is dancing around the subject.
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So this is a piece from town hall and it's called eye-popping
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liberal Think Tank projects enormous price tag for Warren,
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single-payer plan. Now, this is something that
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they're all jumping on with this single-payer idea.
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Starts nothing, terribly new here except for the fact that
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leftist can't dishonestly dismiss out of hand.
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These cost projections for single-payer healthcare previous
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similar. Estimates were lazily derided as
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Koch funded which does not seriously attempt to Grapple
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with the calculations themselves, but nobody can
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remotely accuse the left-wing Urban Institute being some
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right-wing front. They'd already put out an
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astronomical number on the 10-year price tag of
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single-payer health care, but updated figures further
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underscore how enormous the expenditure would be via the
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Atlantic. This is the part from the
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Atlantic says, the urban Institute a center-left think
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tank, highly respected. Among Democrats is projecting,
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that a plan similar to what Warren and Senator.
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Bernie Sanders are pushing would require 34 trillion dollars in
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additional federal spending over its first decade and operation.
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That's more than the federal government's total cost over the
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coming. Decade for Social Security
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Medicare and Medicaid combined. According to the most recent
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Congressional budget. Your office projections in
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recent history only during the height of World.
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War Two has the Federal Government.
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Tried to increase taxes as a share of the economy as fast as
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it would be to offset the cost of single-payer plan Federal
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figures show. There are quote.
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No analogous peacetime tax increases.
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Unquote, says Leonard Burnham, a public administration professor
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at Syracuse University and a former top tax official in both
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the Bill Clinton administration and at the CBO, raising that
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much more tax revenue quote is plausible in the The sense that
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is theoretically possible unquote, Berman told me but the
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revolution that would come along with it would get in the way.
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Town Hall, goes on to say such gargantuan tax.
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Increases are in fact, theoretically possible.
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We but the piece accelerated notes that throughout the
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campaign. Warren refused to provide any of
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those specifics about how she would fund a single-payer plan.
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Instead, whether question, by moderators or challenged by
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other candidates. She recycled variants on the
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same talking points. She is used in various venues.
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She was avoiding this question like the play because she knows
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that bruising across. The board.
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Tax increases are unavoidable to fund this game.
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That would add roughly three point four.
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Billion in new spending each year.
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Now, the federal government only spends about 4 trillion last
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year is already racking up enormous deficits because of it.
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The war in Friendly media is now trying to frame questions about
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this glaring issue as a republican aiding off-limit
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gotchas. Despite the fact that quote, how
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will you pay for X Y, or Z is the veritable definition of a
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legitimate policy question, especially for someone who holds
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herself as out to be as a wonky, planner this gaslighting.
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From a prominent journalism. Professor is quite revealing
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thou shall not ask questions of candidates might help
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Republicans. And this is a tweet from Jay
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Rosen on Twitter. He says, the quote, make
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Elizabeth Warren say she would raise taxes on the middle class.
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Question, unquote, should be a credibility killer for the
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journalists who keep asking it. The Lefty rebuttal to the tax
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increase question, is that the net-net many people will pay
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less overall, is their premiums and deductibles or eliminate.
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That math is not clean. However, is the overall cost of
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Pear. And therefore taxes could sort
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even higher. As on paper, anticipated,
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government savings failed to materialize.
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Pie private coverage would be outlawed under warms plan.
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But long time long, wait times at government rationing could
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likely lead to an outcry in favor of supplementary plans,
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which would raise people's costs even further.
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Also, why should anyone trust lower-cost assurances from the
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same people who dishonestly pedal, the Affordable Care Act
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which utterly failed in its core premise.
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I'll leave you with this reminder.
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Pete, mayor, Pete pressing this point further after this week's
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debate saying, that she is more interested in how many selfies
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she has taken, rather than how her plan is going to be funded.
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obviously, this is just More posturing from the front-runner.
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As she knows, she's going to have to slowly bring her
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positions back. Even if she try, if she can get
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all the way through. Assuming she gets all the way
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through the general election and no one asks her this.
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Pern poignant question of how are you going to do this play
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without raising taxes on the middle class?
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People can see the writing on the wall.
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A single-payer health care plan is going to raise taxes on the
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middle class because everyone's going to have to foot the bill
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one way or another. This is scary and this relates
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to California. Now because you know, you have
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gruesome news. I'm up there, who's obsessed
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with the single-payer health care plan and not only that,
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it's the same kind of I guess. It's the way California goes.
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The rest of the nation goes because you have a plan that is
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going to not only be for taxpayers, who guess this.
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I mean, guess what you're going to In to do it, no matter,
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whether your middle class or rich, or whatever, you're going
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to end up paying for this plan. You're also going to end up
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spending it on people who are not taxpayers.
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Now, California is already floating or how already.
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Gives out the idea that you can. If you're an illegal immigrant.
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You can get Healthcare here through California plans who
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pays for that. Well that pain that comes from
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Californians. People who are here who are
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paying their taxes. Now, how is she going to get
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around this? I don't know.
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I don't know how she's going to get around.
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This is a big glaring problem for a lot of these socialist
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left Democrats who have gone so far to the left.
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They can't, I can't foresee them coming back.
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This ties in with the whole theory of why I think they're
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going after impeachment with Donald Trump because they looked
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at their field of candidates. If it was so easy to beat Donald
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Trump in 2020. Who cares about impeachment, who
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cares about miring him and impeachment proceedings.
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If they knew that he was going to be super easy to be.
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If he had, let's say he was George w-- Bush.
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At the end of his second term, and he had 25 or 30 percent
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approval rating. And his approval rating was in
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the Tank, but he doesn't, he floats around that, that a
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normal area. Everyone goes always underwater.
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So I don't know how good this looks for him.
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But if you look at poll numbers, kind of across the board, he
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sort of at the same place that President Obama was at Doreen.
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His in sometimes he's actually ahead of where President Obama
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was in certain times of his presidency at the same time.
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How they're going to force. This on people is beyond me and
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you're starting to see some Democrats wisely, use it as ammo
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against Elizabeth, Warren. If you watch the last democratic
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debate, and I only watch highlights of it because I don't
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want to sit through three hours of them yammering on about how
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much they hate President Donald Trump, but you started to see
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more and more people going after the front runner.
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You can always tell who the front-runner is in any election,
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simply because you have to look, Who's being attacked?
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So when Joe Biden was the front-runner, everyone was going
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after Joe Biden. Now, Elizabeth Warren is the
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front-runner. So guess what?
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Everyone came in going after Elizabeth Warren?
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And by the way, if you saw her body language, she looked
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uncomfortable, kind of being attacked.
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It didn't look like she was comfortable with the attacks,
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which I'm going to tell you right now.
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Donald Trump had no problem going after Hillary Clinton.
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He's going to have no problem going after Elizabeth Warren, as
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you can see with his continued attacks.
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Calling her Pocahontas and all that stuff.
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So if you think Donald Trump is going to be nice to Elizabeth
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Warren, if she gets out on the campaign Trail and she is the
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nominee. You've got.
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Another thing coming. Can she stand on the stage with
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Donald Trump? I don't know.
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It may be visually. It might be one of those scenes
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that you look at. Go.
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Who do you want as commander-in-chief?
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Do? I want Elizabeth Warren, or do I
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want Donald Trump? But the fact of the matter is
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that you just can't put these audacious plans out there and
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try and pull the wool over people's eyes and say, it's
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never going to increase middle-class taxes.
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It's the same here in California, California continues
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to say, well, we have the biggest economy in the country.
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Where the fifth largest economy. Okay?
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Okay, but we also are 17th in the world when it comes to
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income inequality. If we were our own country.
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We have the highest homeless rate and poverty rate out of the
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entire nation. So we're already starting to get
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towards that income inequality, socialist type of Haves and Have
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Nots here in California. We don't see a middle class
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anymore because The middle class is taxed to death.
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It's too expensive, everything's expensive.
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And that's what happens with these big leftist plans is that
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they don't tell you the little fees and taxes, and all the
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regulations that's going to come down the pike and how it's going
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to make. They always tell you, it's the
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free stuff, the free stuff. And this is what happened in
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Venezuela, they fell for it, they fell for, you want free
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stuff. Give me free stuff and everyone
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says, oh, I'm gonna get free stuff from the government.
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This is great. And then all of a sudden when
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the bill comes, everyone kind of looks at goes.
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Well, I didn't expect it. Across this much for free stuff,
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but it always happens that way. I don't think it's going to sink
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Elizabeth horn when it comes to the Democrats.
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She's the new Bernie. She's the female burning.
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Bernie was hot in 2016 because he was that far left socialist
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candidate and he was the only other option viable option to
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Hillary Clinton. Elizabeth Warren.
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On the other hand. She's the new it girl right now
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and she's the front-runner and people see her as oh, we're
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going to run another woman and but she also ticks off all those
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boxes of being super Progressive.
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Massive, how does that play out? When it comes to the general
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election, I'm going to guess it's not going to play out.
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Well at all. When you have people on Wall
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Street who are sending in letters to newspapers and saying
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look. If you nominate Elizabeth
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Warren, I can tell you all me and my stockbroker bodies on
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Wall Street, the people with money who are really funding
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Democrats. They don't want to tell you
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that. See they want to rail against
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the billionaires and all the rich people, but they don't want
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to tell you that behind closed. Doors.
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They're still taking money from those on Wall Street and the
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elite bankers and all that stuff.
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They don't they're not going to tell you that they're going to
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make it sound like I'm for the little people.
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I'm for the little guy. I'm for the middle class.
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But then all of a sudden, they're running behind closed,
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doors and getting their huge donation, checks from the Wall
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Street bankers. And those Elite Bankers are in
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New York and all over the country.
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But if you have bankers and stockbrokers already who are
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saying look, if you nominate Elizabeth Warren, we're sitting
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it out. That's a huge problem for the
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Democratic party because that's a huge block.
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Of your fundraising just went up in smoke.
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And if you can't compete with Donald Trump right now, who is
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raking in the money. I think he already raked in like
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a hundred fifty million dollars. I mean, it's enormous amounts of
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money. He's raking in compared to
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Democrat candidates and he's just sitting back and just
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raking in more money raking in more money and he's not spending
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any of it, which is the sort of the best thing about being in
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the incumbent. You just sit by and wait until
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the opponent's long primary is over and after they've spent all
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this money and they're exhausted.
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Now, they have to give themselves up for the general
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election as the accommodate, you just Kind of walk out and say,
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okay here I am with, you know, half a billion dollars in
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funding, ready to go. It'll be interesting to see how
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Elizabeth Warren continues to tap.
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Dance. Her way around all of these
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subjects. Now speaking of short of the big
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audacious leftist plans. There are these or protest going
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on in London and it is a group called the extinction rebellion.
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And what they've been doing is they've been you can look it up
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online. Of course, I All the articles
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that I read from in the show notes.
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So if you ever want to go and read these for yourself, you can
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kind of go through and you can see the videos, but there's this
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group called Extinction rebellion, and they've been
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staging protests throughout London for a while now.
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And I'm sure you've seen some of the photo or the videos of
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people than blocking traffic and stuff like this.
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Then the videos they're showing here is disruption on the tube
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or what they call the, it's their Subway, over in London.
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Ian. And the video goes on to show
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how normal people. We're fed up with it.
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They just say look, we're tired of you holding up our day.
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We just want to get home, or we just want to get to work.
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This is just an example of how the climate change activism
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that's going on right now is not a winning argument for those on
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the left. Of course, there's going to be
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people if you ask them a general question and you say, hey, do
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you think we should do something about climate change or do you
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think it's a problem? Well, they've been fed enough
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stuff through the mainstream media.
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They've been fitted up stuff through Hollywood and all that
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stuff. And I'll say, yeah, climate
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change was a great day or not. Great thing.
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It's a big thing that we got to care about.
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No one's gonna sit there and very rare, are people get.
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So there's a all, it's not a big issue.
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We don't really have to worry about So they did a poll.
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After all of this and they found out the protests have been
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extremely unpopular and this is information coming from the
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Federalist. Again, if you want to read the
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whole article, I don't want to sit here, read the whole
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article. It's a very long Federalist is
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known for their really long. Well researched articles by just
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want to read a small snippet of it.
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Let's and talking about how climate change is not really as
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popular as people think it is, or at least the fight to combat
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climate change. A yougov poll on Thursday, found
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that 63% sympathized with the commuters who pulled the
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protesters off the train. So this was for people in London
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who are pulling those protesters off of the train in the tube and
00:21:01
it only 13% said they support the protesters.
00:21:05
Now, this is easy to see why even if One Believes In
00:21:07
catastrophic manmade, climate change and supports policies to
00:21:11
limit or reverse it. There's only so much the average
00:21:13
person is going to do skipping work to indulge extreme and
00:21:17
Extremist demonstrating on top of a train, simply isn't an
00:21:21
option for most people, neither is going without electricity or
00:21:26
foregoing air travel. In fact, most people are
00:21:28
increasingly of two minds about climate change.
00:21:31
On the one hand. They fear and want something to
00:21:33
be done. On the other hand.
00:21:34
They're not willing to do anything extreme.
00:21:37
That's what a recent poll by The Washington Post in the Kaiser,
00:21:39
Family Foundation found the vast majority of Americans about
00:21:43
eight and ten. So, climate change is man-made
00:21:46
about half I said urgent action is needed and nearly four and
00:21:49
ten said it's crisis at the same time fewer than four and ten.
00:21:53
So they were willing to make major sacrifices or pay it out
00:21:57
of their own pockets. So, less than 50% on 40% are
00:22:04
willing to make these major sacrifices in that sense, the
00:22:07
scene at that train and the station in London on Thursday
00:22:10
morning is really the entire climate change to debate in
00:22:13
microcosm when extremist climate change.
00:22:15
Ideology conflicts with the facts of everyday, like, like
00:22:18
commuters need to get to work. Most people choose the latter.
00:22:22
If people aren't willing to give up relatively minor things,
00:22:24
still never support the radical and Mission cards and structural
00:22:27
changes to the economy. By Advocates of the green New
00:22:30
Deal like AOC, maybe that's because most people know these
00:22:34
changes would wreak economic Devastation across the world and
00:22:37
condemn millions of people to Poverty, consider the aims of
00:22:41
the group behind the London protest.
00:22:43
Extinction Rebellion wants the UK government to declare
00:22:45
climate. Emergency reduce carbon emission
00:22:48
to Net Zero in six years and form a citizen assembly to
00:22:51
oversee the changes. Whether the group will admit are
00:22:54
not reducing carbon emissions to Net Zero and six years would
00:22:57
devastate the economy United Kingdom and Get into a
00:22:59
pre-industrial dystopia. Simply put, most people are on
00:23:03
board with that. So this just goes to show you
00:23:08
that a lot of the people in this is I keep coming back to it.
00:23:12
I stick to a lot of the same principles and things that I
00:23:15
talked about here on this podcast.
00:23:19
What is winning political strategy?
00:23:23
What is a winning political strategy?
00:23:26
And I've said this before, it's all about and it's everyone says
00:23:29
it's about the economy stupid. I it's it's broader than that.
00:23:33
And my theory is it's what I call the kitchen.
00:23:36
Politics kitchen, table politics is what it's all about.
00:23:40
When it comes down to it. Most people when they're given
00:23:43
the choice between, what's going to help them survive.
00:23:46
What's going to help them make money?
00:23:48
What's going to help them provide for their family?
00:23:50
They're going to pick those things over these ethic.
00:23:55
Esoteric whole big questions, rhetorical issues that most
00:24:01
people don't really understand. Most people don't know what the
00:24:04
debate is. And at the end of the day, if it
00:24:07
comes between, do I want to give up my job?
00:24:11
My car, my way to support myself and my family for climate
00:24:16
change. Most people are going to pick
00:24:19
the stuff that supports their family and themselves.
00:24:24
That's why climate change. It's hard to sell to people and
00:24:29
it's you can because people are about self-preservation.
00:24:34
And I know at the end of the day, people say well it's about
00:24:36
self-preservation because if we don't do something now the
00:24:40
world's going to like totally and in 12 years.
00:24:43
Okay. Well if it's going to end in 12
00:24:44
years and there's nothing we can do to reverse it than what's,
00:24:46
why are we worried about it? That's always my question if
00:24:50
it's going to be 10 or 12 years. Who cares?
00:24:52
What are we going to do in 10 or 12 years that's going to
00:24:55
radically change what happens? Even if we don't know that
00:24:59
climate change is actually man-made or it's Or if it's
00:25:06
actually something we can reverse.
00:25:08
I mean, it's very narcissistic of us as human as mankind to
00:25:14
think that somehow we can reverse what's going on with
00:25:17
this globe. I mean, we have been such a
00:25:19
small part of this globe's, entire history for us to think
00:25:25
that in 10 to 12 years, which is a blip.
00:25:29
In the life span of this planet. We think we're going to be able
00:25:35
to change. It is very narcissistic and
00:25:38
almost unreasonable to think about.
00:25:40
Now. I'm going to have to find a you
00:25:41
to. I'm going to add this into the
00:25:43
show notes. There was a great YouTube video
00:25:46
with Dan Pena and I'm going to warn you.
00:25:48
It's not safe for work. There's a lot of f-bombs because
00:25:51
Dan Pena is easy. So spirited guy, but he brought
00:25:55
up a good point about climate change and why he says, it's all
00:25:59
just a big hoax. The climate.
00:26:03
I'm not going to dispute that. The climate does change.
00:26:06
That's like saying I'm going to dispute that the sun rises in
00:26:10
the East and sets in the west. I can't dispute that.
00:26:14
I can, I can't dispute that climate does change every year.
00:26:18
We have different seasons every year.
00:26:20
We have different Cycles every year.
00:26:23
So one year, it's really warm and hot in California.
00:26:26
Next year. It's super rainy.
00:26:28
Climate does change. So that's why it's such a basic.
00:26:33
That's why they kind of got rid of the whole global warming
00:26:36
thing because it was debunked as whether or not whether we can
00:26:38
say it's global warming or it's man-made us.
00:26:41
Now. They just say it's climate
00:26:42
change because how can you dispute climate change the
00:26:46
climate changes all the time? But Dan Payne, you said, and he
00:26:51
made a really really good point. First off.
00:26:54
He told the story about how he went down to Antarctica to spend
00:26:56
some time with his wife, because that's what I guess
00:26:58
billionaires. Do they spend time in Antarctica
00:27:01
on vacation. He was talking to a scientist
00:27:03
down there in the scientist. Basically said, when it comes to
00:27:06
all of this, when it comes to climate change and humans, and
00:27:10
what we have done, It's nothing but a fart in the wind, there's
00:27:16
nothing we've done that really made that big of a difference in
00:27:21
the climate and how it's going about?
00:27:25
Just look at all the predictions that Al Gore made in An
00:27:27
Inconvenient Truth. Have any of them come to
00:27:30
fruition. He said 15 years ago that all of
00:27:34
the Eastern Seaboard in California is going to be
00:27:36
underwater if we don't do anything.
00:27:38
None of it's changed. President Obama just bought a
00:27:42
seat oceanfront property up in Massachusetts.
00:27:46
He doesn't seem too worried about actually, the rising,
00:27:48
oceans. But the point Dan pain you made.
00:27:51
Is that if you look at all of the money being dumped by Banks
00:27:55
and developers into Oceanfront Condos, beachfront, condos and
00:27:59
places like Florida or California, you look at that and
00:28:04
say not any of these contracts. Are any of these agreements have
00:28:08
anything to do with Climate change.
00:28:11
No one brings up climate change, when they're building an
00:28:14
oceanfront property. Why is that?
00:28:17
It's because these people who spend their lives, looking at
00:28:20
the dollars and cents, predicting everything from the
00:28:24
area to the demographics, to the changing demographics, to the
00:28:27
money coming into this. That and the other thing they
00:28:29
look at every single thing to determine whether it's a good
00:28:31
loan or not to develop this property.
00:28:34
So you're going to tell me the bank's look at this and say,
00:28:38
Everything looks great, but I know that at the end of the day
00:28:42
in 10 to 12 years, you're not gonna be able to make your money
00:28:44
back because we're going to be underwater in the world's going
00:28:46
to end the banks. Don't look at that that Banks
00:28:49
don't care because they don't if they if it was a foregone
00:28:53
conclusion that we were going to be underwater or that the world
00:28:57
was going to end in 10 to 12 years Banks would never ever
00:29:01
ever loan a dollar out to these Developers.
00:29:06
They would never help in building any of this oceanfront
00:29:09
property. All oceanfront property would
00:29:13
cease to exist because Ever every Banker every developer
00:29:17
would look at and say, well I need this building to be here.
00:29:20
Hopefully, I don't know the next 50 to 80 years, but if the
00:29:24
world's going to end in 10 to 12, then I'm going to lose my
00:29:27
entire investment or if it's going to be underwater in 10 to
00:29:29
12 years. I'm going to lose my entire
00:29:31
investment, smart, investors and financiers.
00:29:33
You look at the finding is people who look at the reality
00:29:36
of it, dollars and Cents. Real real evidence.
00:29:41
Real objective evidence, know that climate change is not that
00:29:46
big of, it's not going to change what they do.
00:29:49
If it was things would be different.
00:29:54
Just look at the bankers. Look at the financiers.
00:29:57
Look at what they're putting their money in, because these
00:30:00
people have to get everything down to the dollar and Cent when
00:30:07
it comes to when they're investing in these properties,
00:30:10
but I'll post a link. It's a really funny video.
00:30:14
He kind of yells are this woman. This woman who is kind of
00:30:18
obnoxious, but it's kind of funny to hear him yell at her.
00:30:23
But again, he makes this Excellent point, if climate
00:30:26
change was such a big deal and it was a foregone conclusion.
00:30:30
And we knew this for absolute certainty that the world was
00:30:34
going to end in 10 to 12 years or that we knew to the day or
00:30:38
the year that oceans were going to rise.
00:30:41
Why do we continue to build ocean from property?
00:30:44
Why do financiers continue to invest in oceanfront property?
00:30:47
And not care about climate change?
00:30:49
Why does someone like President Obama who's been harping on
00:30:52
climate change by Oceanfront? 30.
00:30:54
If he thinks the world is going to end in 10 to 12 years or that
00:30:57
the oceans are going to rise. I mean, obviously, if President
00:31:02
Trump gets eight years that's going only going to exasperate
00:31:05
the the oceans rising at a faster level, right?
00:31:08
Because supposedly President Trump doesn't care about the
00:31:10
environment. So why would President Obama go
00:31:15
out and buy that if he thinks that well, it's the oceans going
00:31:18
to rise and wipe away my house in 5 to 10 years.
00:31:20
Anyway, it doesn't make any sense because it's about
00:31:24
hypocrisy and going back to Robert Francis O'Rourke.
00:31:26
Its climate change is not about the actual climate.
00:31:30
It's about control. And it's about the Church of
00:31:33
climate change in the religion and bowing down to the religion
00:31:36
and sacrificing everything at the altar.
00:31:39
Everything. We have every civil liberty.
00:31:42
We have our families, our money, everything needs to be
00:31:45
sacrificed at the altar in the Church of climate change.
00:31:49
You have to give up total control and Let the Church of
00:31:51
climate change, just come in and run your life.
00:31:55
And that's why climate change is just coded speak to take over
00:31:58
every aspect of your life. Most importantly.
00:32:02
They just want to take over the economy.
00:32:04
They want to say, we want to be able to take over housing
00:32:07
because we need to fight climate change.
00:32:09
We need to be able to take over the schools because of climate
00:32:11
change. We need to be able to take over
00:32:14
our entire economic system, because of climate change.
00:32:21
because even though, You can see the hypocrisy around you.
00:32:25
They continue to go with this argument.
00:32:29
Simply because it's not about the climate changing.
00:32:33
It's not about this world ending.
00:32:34
It's about fear-mongering and it's about you sacrificing, what
00:32:39
your Liberties are, what your freedom is, how you can support
00:32:43
your family to the Church of climate change.
00:32:47
That's what it's about. So when you hear them talk about
00:32:50
it, just think in the back of your head.
00:32:53
How are they? You always ask this question
00:32:55
when they start talking about climate change when they have
00:32:57
huge town halls for seven or eight hours on CNN or MSNBC and
00:33:01
they all espouse climate change. Think and ask this question if
00:33:07
you're watching it and say, how is this?
00:33:12
How is this Being Framed to take control over my life?
00:33:18
And just look at it through that lens and you'll start to see.
00:33:22
The problem with the climate change argument.
00:33:27
So with that, I want to move on to the next article.
00:33:29
We're heading into the California stuff.
00:33:31
This should be no shocker to anybody.
00:33:34
When it comes to gruesome Newsom.
00:33:37
This is an article from the foxes and the Hound, it's about
00:33:40
the fact that gruesome Newsom took the gas tax money that was
00:33:45
supposed to be spent on roads and switched it.
00:33:47
So, going back to the whole climate change issue.
00:33:52
This is foxes in the Hound written by Joel Fox.
00:33:55
I'll post it in the Notes the flare up over moving
00:33:58
Transportation funds from fixing road projects, to alternative
00:34:01
transportation modes to fight fight.
00:34:03
Climate change has the distinct feel of a bait and switch on the
00:34:06
public even though Newsome Administration denies the
00:34:09
charge. Last month, Governor Newsom
00:34:12
signed an executive order to leverage more than 5 billion
00:34:15
dollars in annual state. Transportation spending for
00:34:17
construction operations, and maintenance to help reverse the
00:34:21
trend of increased fuel consumption, and reduce
00:34:25
Greenhouse emissions. Our greenhouse gas emissions
00:34:28
associated with the transportation sector among the
00:34:31
items cited in the executive order was to reduce congestion,
00:34:34
by encouraging people. To get out of their cars and
00:34:36
fund Transportation options such as Transit walking and biking,
00:34:40
critics say the money cited in the executive order comes from
00:34:43
the revenue. Raised by the gas tax increase
00:34:45
of 2017. Sb1 voters affirm the use of the
00:34:49
tax money for roads and no uncertain terms when they
00:34:51
rejected prop 6, the next year an attempt to repeal the text
00:34:56
the In the campaign from the government and its allies was an
00:34:58
offer Reformation to use the money for roads.
00:35:02
The California State Transportation agency, insist
00:35:04
that sb1 money is protected. And that fixing Rose is the
00:35:08
agency's top priority, others. Don't buy it.
00:35:12
Sean. Yeah, dung Aden, CEO of the
00:35:16
California Trucking, Association argued if the effect of the
00:35:19
executive orders divert funds from roads and Bridge repairs,
00:35:22
these projects will once again be placed on the back burner
00:35:25
leading to increased congestion. And unsafe roads for all Motors.
00:35:29
Assemblyman Republican leader. Marie Waldron said it's time to
00:35:33
use this money appropriately and stop, the Newsom
00:35:35
administration's bait-and-switch State actions back up.
00:35:40
The critics. The administration is putting
00:35:42
off some Road fixes while intending to spend more on
00:35:44
alternative Transit projects to widen highways in the Central
00:35:48
Valley and San Luis Obispo have been set aside for now with the
00:35:52
money earmarked for those projects be used elsewhere to
00:35:56
meet the A change challenge. There is no question.
00:35:58
What is going on here? More engineering by government
00:36:01
planners to dictate how Californians should live the way
00:36:04
of the infamous road diet. Living the way their Infamous
00:36:06
Roe diets, you know about road diet slimming Road, corridors
00:36:10
down to a lane to make room for bicycle and or walking paths.
00:36:13
The plants that commuters still doing that produced a wave of
00:36:16
recriminations against local public officials State.
00:36:19
Transportation authorities can expect the same one word gets
00:36:22
out about the priority and money shift using Road repairs as
00:36:26
reason to raise taxes than divert funds to other projects
00:36:29
feels like a double-cross, even if this particular specific
00:36:33
dollars for other projects didn't come from sb1 taxes.
00:36:37
The road fixed tax money was supported to be added to current
00:36:40
road funds, not substitute for him.
00:36:42
The problem for the governor, and the transportation agencies
00:36:45
is that it goes deeper than spending choices.
00:36:47
It undercuts, trust in government is certainly
00:36:49
qualifies as a bait switch. As usual, if anyone, and I'm not
00:36:56
surprised. This should not be a shocker to
00:36:59
anybody that gruesome Newsom. Took the money that was there
00:37:05
that we were duped into voting for I would, you know, the way
00:37:09
they worded prop 6, and they did it, deceptively on purpose.
00:37:15
So that people were confused. To not repeal the gas tax.
00:37:20
You knew this was going to be a money, grab.
00:37:24
It says, don't be shocked when you vote for taxes in
00:37:29
California. And you get an Administration
00:37:32
like like gruesome Newsome and he doesn't care about ethics.
00:37:36
He doesn't care about bait-and-switch.
00:37:38
He gets his hands on the money and he does what he wants with
00:37:41
it. This is not surprising to me at
00:37:45
all. And if anyone is actually who
00:37:48
follows politics in California, is shocked by this, and you're
00:37:51
not paying attention. A lot of people were foreseen
00:37:55
this. They knew that this money was
00:37:58
not going to, always go towards Road fixtures.
00:38:02
You knew that all of California's roads were not
00:38:04
going to be fixed because of this gas tax increase.
00:38:07
If you look around and the streets, you're driving on are
00:38:10
still garbage. It's because you knew this money
00:38:13
was not going to be used for Road fixes.
00:38:17
You knew it was going to be used for quote unquote, fighting
00:38:21
climate change and other ways of public transit and bicycles and
00:38:25
people walk and stuff like that, which I'm not against you want
00:38:29
to walk to work. You want to bike to work?
00:38:31
I'm not going to stop you. But guess what millions of
00:38:34
people still use the highway? And this is the government.
00:38:39
Trying to force people, to change their lifestyle public
00:38:42
transit is not an option for everybody in this state.
00:38:47
It's not even a good option for most people here in San Diego
00:38:50
County. The trolley only go.
00:38:53
So many places. The bus takes forever.
00:38:56
Public transit is not a viable option, unless you put in the
00:39:00
time to figure it out and have the time to spend hours on
00:39:04
public transit. And bicycling here in San Diego.
00:39:08
Well, if you want a bicycle around downtown or you want a
00:39:10
bicycle and certain neighborhoods, there's plenty of
00:39:13
lanes for that, but bicycling to work if you live in one
00:39:15
neighborhood or you want to get to another neighborhood and you
00:39:17
want a bicycle, it's not a real viable option.
00:39:20
So millions of people are still using our roads every single
00:39:23
day. But don't be surprised.
00:39:27
Don't be surprised that every time you vote for a new tax.
00:39:31
Every time you vote for a new tax here in California.
00:39:35
The money's not going to be used to how they tell you.
00:39:38
And this is why I brought this up around last year around the
00:39:42
time that all these props were up for a vote.
00:39:47
Here's the thing, whenever you see a proposition, this is an
00:39:51
easy way to go through. If you are a conservative, who
00:39:56
doesn't like raising taxes or raising money, or spending more
00:40:00
money, giving it to the government.
00:40:01
This is there's a real simple way to just eliminate and say no
00:40:05
on any proposition. If it says this will authorize
00:40:10
the use of the city to issue a bond.
00:40:17
Because that means it's basically asking to borrow
00:40:20
money. And you're fine with that but
00:40:23
then the bond obligation has to be paid eventually.
00:40:28
Now, if they don't have any projections of how they're
00:40:30
actually going to pay for it. If you can actually believe that
00:40:32
their projections are true and that they're not going to lie to
00:40:35
you and paints which you then you're going to have these
00:40:38
outstanding Bond obligations. And when you say that, oh, we're
00:40:42
going to take these bonds that we take.
00:40:43
This is it did it? You're just authorizing the city
00:40:46
to take on debt. Now when the city gets too much
00:40:49
debt or your city or county or whatever.
00:40:51
Takes on too much debt, in the form of bond obligations.
00:40:54
Guess what happens? Well, we got to raise taxes
00:40:57
because we got to pay off these Bond obligations.
00:40:59
Otherwise, we're going to go belly-up or bankrupt.
00:41:02
That's an easy way to see if you see a bond obligation and they
00:41:05
use this all the time. Issue, a bond o issue.
00:41:08
We're going to issue a bond to raise money.
00:41:12
That always ends up in a bond obligation.
00:41:15
Having to be paid back and how does the government pay back
00:41:18
bonds? Money that they make off of
00:41:22
whatever, they're raising the bond for it.
00:41:23
No. Governments only make money with
00:41:27
through one. One venue.
00:41:28
They make money through taxing the citizens.
00:41:32
So, you're authorizing. It's like if someone in your
00:41:35
family said, well, I'm going to apply for this loan, and I'm
00:41:39
going to put you on as a cosigner.
00:41:42
If your family member, all of a sudden decided.
00:41:44
I'm not going to pay this anymore.
00:41:46
I can't pay it. Guess who has to step up and
00:41:47
pay. You have to pay it.
00:41:50
And that's what happens with citizens here.
00:41:52
Every time you issue a bond, it's more debt obligation.
00:41:57
But going back to the gas tax every time.
00:41:59
You see these taxes, don't be surprised when they
00:42:03
bait-and-switch you and they write these don't, don't be
00:42:07
surprised because they write these things.
00:42:09
Deceptively. They have lobbyists.
00:42:12
They have lawyers who work on the language of these
00:42:15
propositions. So when these propositions go
00:42:17
into effect, they know exactly what they can do and what they
00:42:19
can't do. They don't write these with
00:42:23
altruistic ideas of saying, we're going to use the gas tax
00:42:26
to fix roads, no ifs, ands or buts period.
00:42:30
The end, they write it. So they can say, oh, well, we
00:42:33
could put it towards transportation that is deemed
00:42:39
acceptable or they make it wishy-washy language.
00:42:42
So at the next governor who comes in, who can just look at
00:42:45
the oh I'm going to issue. I'm going to take that money and
00:42:48
spend it for something else. and the same goes for basically
00:42:52
anything when it comes to government, but California,
00:42:54
especially they write these propositions, so, That they can
00:42:59
give themselves this wiggle room that when they start seeing the
00:43:02
money coming in, when they start see it all trickle in, they can
00:43:06
say, oh, I'm going to take some of this money.
00:43:08
I'm going to spend it over here, not on the roads that I promise
00:43:11
the citizens. And that's because they want to
00:43:16
do that. They want to do it.
00:43:18
So they give themselves the power to do it.
00:43:21
They're not stupid. They don't, they don't write
00:43:24
these things just because they write these things, because they
00:43:27
want to figure out how they can give themselves more power, More
00:43:30
Money, More tax revenue, stuff like that.
00:43:33
So who's surprised, who's surprised that Gavin Newsom took
00:43:37
this money and started to divert it.
00:43:40
I'm not because you know, is going to happen every time you
00:43:43
raise a tax when it's federal or state, they always find a way to
00:43:47
take the money for their own purposes or their own political
00:43:50
agendas. So while we still drive around
00:43:54
on crappy roads, gruesome Newsom is still out there doing
00:43:57
whatever he wants with your gas tax money.
00:43:59
So for people who voted for to keep the gas tax because he was
00:44:03
going to fix our roads. We need people to fix our roads.
00:44:08
Well, don't say I told you so because this was you knew this
00:44:15
was going to happen. You knew that he was going to do
00:44:17
this. So moving on to another article
00:44:22
because someone brought this up and I actually saw this article
00:44:26
regarding contractors independent contractors
00:44:30
Freelancers. The gig economy.
00:44:34
This article originally came from Cal matters again.
00:44:38
I'll post a link to it. It's called California's, me5
00:44:41
will force more companies to leave.
00:44:44
Proposition 13 was called the political equivalent of a Sonic.
00:44:48
Boom. By Economist art Laffer in
00:44:50
limiting, how much local governments could drain from
00:44:52
Californians through property, taxes Fed Up voters.
00:44:55
Change the political landscape with the 1978 ballot measure in
00:44:59
a way that few State policies have before or since Howard
00:45:04
Jarvis Proposition 13, swept the country and made headlines
00:45:08
around the world. Sounds a lot like assembly.
00:45:11
Bill 5, the difference is Prop 13, is a Force for good.
00:45:15
A B5 is a destroyer worse. Other states are determined to
00:45:19
duplicate California's mistake, a B5 passed and signed last
00:45:24
month. Virtually bars, Californians
00:45:26
from working in the gig economy. The law which implements a
00:45:29
California Supreme Court decision, implements imposes, a
00:45:32
three-pronged test that identifies who's still free to
00:45:36
be a contract worker and who has to be a hired employed.
00:45:39
Worker can be an independent contractor.
00:45:41
Only if he or she a is free from the control and direction of the
00:45:46
higher in connection with the performance of the work both
00:45:49
under the contract for the performance of such work.
00:45:51
And in fact, be performs work, that is outside.
00:45:54
The usual course of the hiring nadh business and C is
00:45:57
customarily. Engaged in independently
00:45:59
established trade occupation or business of the same nature as
00:46:02
the work performed for the hiring enter entity.
00:46:06
Is there a freelance worker? Who could possibly pass Part B
00:46:10
under that requirement janitors, could work as independent
00:46:12
contractors only, when they have contracts with companies, not in
00:46:14
the business of cleaning or a Rideshare drivers, could work
00:46:17
under a contract with Uber Lyft only.
00:46:19
If those companies were probably primarily in the business of
00:46:22
say, selling vacuum cleaners. It's a rigid framework says
00:46:26
labor law, firm Fisher Phillips, that will appear.
00:46:28
If it hasn't already in the nightmares of your average gig
00:46:32
economy, business Executives. It's already a bad dream for
00:46:35
work. Quote, despite A b-58 ubirr
00:46:38
drivers would rather quit than become employees unquote.
00:46:41
Reach the headline of a first installment of a two-part Series
00:46:43
in the online. Publication, Los Angelino One
00:46:46
driver interviewed for the story said, that, quote, when the
00:46:49
lawmakers make these laws, they don't live our lives quote.
00:46:53
I have to pick up my kids or drop them off.
00:46:55
I do that and come back to work driving.
00:46:57
What shift is going to let me do that?
00:46:59
Other than this, Los Angeles Times columnist, George Skelton,
00:47:02
no pepper. No puppet for corporations
00:47:04
recently. Wrote quote there.
00:47:06
Tens of thousands of independent contractors who apparently don't
00:47:09
feel the slightest bit exploited and they don't want anything to
00:47:12
do with formal employment or unions.
00:47:14
Quote the few able to pass the test will remain independent
00:47:18
contractors might not be independent for long in a
00:47:20
signing statement. Governor.
00:47:21
Gavin Newsom said, the next step is creating Pathways for more
00:47:24
workers to form a union collectively, bargain to earn
00:47:27
more and have a stronger voice at work, unquote.
00:47:30
It is in this Spirit. He said that would persuade
00:47:32
political labor and Business Leaders to support an effort.
00:47:35
Which workers Excluded from the National Labor Relations.
00:47:38
Act have the right to organize and collectively bargain.
00:47:42
When skeleton said that maybe the aim of a B5 was to quote
00:47:45
roping, more do, Spain, union, members and quote.
00:47:48
He might have been more corrupt than he realized.
00:47:51
We're Proposition 13, set off an extended era of prosperity, a B5
00:47:55
will rob workers of the freedom and flexibility as they want.
00:47:58
And sometime need for freelance work, and force more companies
00:48:02
to leave the state than already are California's wants Dynamic
00:48:05
economies on track. Becoming permanently schools
00:48:09
score or Square. Sorry sclerotic a B5.
00:48:14
Is a historic mistake. No one knows what kind of jobs
00:48:18
Americans will be working at 50 years.
00:48:19
Not even 25. Just as who lived the
00:48:21
depression. No idea.
00:48:22
What was work was going to look like in the 21st century.
00:48:25
Classifying jobs, through the government.
00:48:27
Order is going to hold back. The Natural Evolution of work.
00:48:29
There are already regrets in. There will be many more.
00:48:35
So why is this a big deal to you as most people who are
00:48:41
employees? If you're listening, maybe not a
00:48:44
big deal. To most people who use an Uber
00:48:47
big deal. Most people use a lift really
00:48:50
big deal to most people who use Postmates door - any of those
00:48:57
Services where you can be an independent contractor and turn
00:49:01
on and just start working, Uber Eats, all that stuff.
00:49:04
This is a big deal. And you might say well it sounds
00:49:09
nice. It's good for the employees.
00:49:11
They're going to get benefits wrong.
00:49:13
The idea of an independent contractors that you get to come
00:49:15
and go as you please and do what you need to do to make money,
00:49:20
limiting that already in a state that is so expensive to live in
00:49:25
when it's already expensive to live in, people are trying to
00:49:27
use these jobs to make extra money.
00:49:30
Maybe they're using it to pay school.
00:49:32
Maybe they're using it to save up for a business.
00:49:35
These jobs can be crucial lifeline.
00:49:37
Into a lot of California citizens.
00:49:40
I, for example, I freelance, I freelance as an attorney.
00:49:47
So what does that mean? That means that I can go and
00:49:52
work for other attorneys on a project-by-project basis, and
00:49:55
I'm paid out as an independent contractor.
00:49:58
Under this. This is going to be a problem,
00:50:01
because how do I perform work? That is outside.
00:50:05
The usual course of the hiring enemies business.
00:50:08
And in the legal World itself were starting to see more and
00:50:12
more virtual receptionist. We're starting to see virtual
00:50:16
legal, assistants and paralegals.
00:50:17
We're starting to see more contract attorneys.
00:50:21
This is an issue because you have firms that are trying to
00:50:24
cut back on costs. Who can't cut back on costs.
00:50:28
Now by hiring a contract attorney, when they need it.
00:50:33
So, a small firm that just needs help on one project.
00:50:38
They do civil litigation. They need someone to come in and
00:50:41
help them. They just need a contractor
00:50:43
project attorney to come in for this little bit because they got
00:50:45
a big case and they need some extra hands to work on it, but
00:50:48
they don't want to hire the person.
00:50:49
They want to hire the person on and give them the benefits and
00:50:52
pay, the payroll taxes, which is a good option.
00:50:55
As some businesses, go some businesses, exploit it, and they
00:50:59
try and say, well, you're an independent contractor, even if
00:51:02
they work 30 hours a week in their told when they have to
00:51:05
show up, that's not independent contractor.
00:51:07
Independent contractor is, hey, I have this project.
00:51:10
I want you to come in and work for me and help me get it done.
00:51:13
I'm not going to tell you when it, when I just have to tell you
00:51:16
what it has to be done, how you get it done.
00:51:19
That's all up to you. Use your own office, use your
00:51:21
own computer. Whatever you do your thing to
00:51:23
help me get it done. And that's huge in the legal
00:51:26
world now because you're starting to see solo and small
00:51:28
firms using this model to help grow their businesses faster or
00:51:34
stay solo and still take on big cases.
00:51:37
Because they know, they can go out and hire a contract attorney
00:51:40
or a contract paralegal, or a contract Legal Assistant to help
00:51:43
out just for those matters. That creates an enormous problem
00:51:50
for people hiring and trying to grow business here in
00:51:53
California. It provides, especially with the
00:51:58
age of the internet. Anybody can be an independent
00:52:03
contractor and a freelancer in this gig economy.
00:52:06
If you are a graphic designer, okay, and you want to work for
00:52:11
somebody and do some graphic design work.
00:52:15
You want to be an independent contractor?
00:52:17
Can't do that? Only if it's not outside.
00:52:21
Now. This may be an exception.
00:52:24
If I is a as a business, I don't do graphic design, and I want to
00:52:28
hire someone to do graphic design.
00:52:31
That could be an independent contractor, but that doesn't
00:52:34
help when you have businesses that are trying to use the
00:52:37
flexibility of the independent contractor to grow their
00:52:40
business or for that matter. Allow people the opportunity to
00:52:45
make money on the side to pay and support themselves.
00:52:48
Like I said, In an already expensive state to either pay
00:52:52
for food or rent or support their children or to pay for
00:52:57
themselves to go to school or maybe they're doing it to start
00:52:59
their own business. Maybe they're doing it because
00:53:02
they've started their own business and they want to just
00:53:04
make some money on the side. While their business is going,
00:53:07
they say, okay. Well, I start my own business.
00:53:08
It's not bringing in money. Let me go be an Uber driver for
00:53:11
a little bit, at least to pay the bills.
00:53:14
Maybe they, maybe they were called out their business and
00:53:16
then they drive Uber, or Lyft at night or they do Postmates or
00:53:20
something like that. Making this, an employee
00:53:23
relationship is a problem because an employee and legally.
00:53:27
In this is just a little snippet, is the real simple.
00:53:31
Simple, simple and I'm not employment lawyer.
00:53:34
This is just simply what I know from my time in law school, the
00:53:38
difference between an employee and an independent contractor is
00:53:41
control. If you are an employee, I have
00:53:45
control over your hours, I get to schedule.
00:53:48
When you show up. I get the schedule when you have
00:53:50
to leave. I schedule, when you take your
00:53:54
break, I schedule all that stuff.
00:53:56
I have the control over what days you show up?
00:54:00
I have control over that. That's what an employee is an
00:54:03
independent contractor. Does not have that.
00:54:06
You have the freedom to work on your own time, to get the
00:54:10
project done. One.
00:54:11
You need to get it done, to use your own materials to use your
00:54:14
own, whether it's your own car, whether you're at your own
00:54:17
office, whether it's your own that, you know, whatever
00:54:19
materials you have. You don't have to use the
00:54:23
employers. It gives you that flexibility.
00:54:26
Now. Imagine if you took all these
00:54:28
Uber drivers and made them employees.
00:54:32
What does that do? You have all these people who
00:54:34
are technically employees of uber, what control can do burr
00:54:39
exert over? What what power can Uber exert
00:54:45
over? Those drivers.
00:54:48
They can exert a lot because as an employee, there's a whole
00:54:50
different level of control. There is no more freedom.
00:54:54
You've Lost That freedom. So if they say, for example,
00:55:02
this is a wild speculation. This is just me, wildly
00:55:06
speculating as an employer. I can tell you one to go home
00:55:09
and when you're done for the day and say, come back tomorrow, if
00:55:13
you're my employee. What happens if you're an Uber
00:55:18
driver and all of a sudden Uber contacts you and says that we're
00:55:20
good. We don't we don't need you to
00:55:22
work tonight or they start blacking out days that you can
00:55:24
work and say, well we don't need you to work this day, you know,
00:55:28
there's a lot of people out there demands really love.
00:55:30
So we're going to up to man so we can up our prices.
00:55:33
So you're going to stay home. We're going to turn off your
00:55:35
Uber. Could you imagine?
00:55:38
Could you imagine the people who are in limbo in their lives who
00:55:42
all of a sudden they don't have access to that Lifeline or
00:55:45
Financial Lifeline, or that way to make extra money because you
00:55:50
are now an employee as opposed to an independent contractor.
00:55:56
It's a mess. And it's again because
00:55:59
California does these things, not, because they have any
00:56:03
interest in helping businesses. They have no interest in helping
00:56:07
businesses, anything California could think of when it comes to
00:56:11
business, anything they could think, they think.
00:56:14
Oh, well, what's good for business?
00:56:16
Let's see. What's good for business in
00:56:18
California. Let's do the complete freaking
00:56:21
opposite of what is good for business in California.
00:56:26
Should we make it easier for people to start businesses?
00:56:29
Now, we shouldn't we should make it even harder.
00:56:31
Make it more prohibitive, more cost-prohibitive, more
00:56:35
expensive, more regulations. We should just do the opposite.
00:56:39
What happens when we want to hire people?
00:56:41
Should we make it easier for businesses to grow through the
00:56:43
use of independent contractors? So they can take on more work
00:56:45
and grow their business. No, we should all of a sudden
00:56:50
decide that everyone's going to be an employee.
00:56:51
There's no such thing as an independent contractor anymore.
00:56:54
Or make the test. So absolutely difficult.
00:56:59
That it's impossible for people to be independent contractors
00:57:04
only in very slight circumstances. so, this is going
00:57:14
to go into effect in January. It's going to have an enormous
00:57:20
ripple effect on the business of California.
00:57:23
It's going to have an enormous economic ripple effect, and
00:57:27
you're going to see it. It may not happen.
00:57:30
January first 2020. But it may happen.
00:57:35
April May 2020 halfway through the year in 2020 when you start
00:57:40
to see the economic repercussions of this.
00:57:47
You're going to see how this is a bad decision.
00:57:53
And hopefully I can only hope that somebody comes along and
00:57:58
funds a proposition to repeal this because it is a enormous
00:58:03
mistake on the part of California to allow this to
00:58:06
happen. It will have a bad ripple effect
00:58:13
as worse than most things. I've seen in California.
00:58:17
It comes to businesses. This will have an enormous
00:58:19
impact. So with that and this podcast as
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