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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Wood Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What a gorgeous day.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's it's beautiful fall like.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sun is shining.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Uh, not so much down in Jamaica with the latest
star Hurricane Melissa updates. Continuing to pray for those folks
Envoy the shutdown continues.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think they're on.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The thirteen votes now. Democrats have now voted thirteen times
to deny hungry American children their snap benefits thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We'll break down the numbers coming out.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
News, Weather and Traffic. His stories of the day. We
are talking about what matters most in West Michigan and beyond.
This is the Big three now see speak three.
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Yeah, the stories amount of moons should be talking about.
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Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm trying to break this down by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Day twenty nine of the Schumer shutdown, I called to
shakedown the Democrats who voted Now thirteen times forty two
million Americans wondering how they'll feed their families. Coming up
on Saturday, essentially that's November first, when it rolls around.
Twenty five states now filing lawsuits over the benefit. There's
(01:58):
five billion dollars in contingency funding at the USDA that
they say needs to be released. Immedia, there's this one problem.
The numbers don't add up. And I'm going to get
into this coming out here in a little bit because
there's a lot that got to be straightened out here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Want to make sure you're in the.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Know, come out.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We'll do just that.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
After Jamaica, where's Hurricane Melissa headed next? Well, it's holding
strong as we speak, out a category two. The maximum
sustained wins one hundred and five miles per hour, tracking
northeast at fourteen miles per hour. The latest of date
coming out of the National Hurricane Center says that storm
center located just north of Jamaica, which remains under a
(02:39):
hurricane warning along with parts of eastern Cuba. The projected
path making Melissa on track their parallel to the US
East Coast, but won't won't come really into the path
of the United States, dear Bermuda until later. We'll see
this that their steater friend. No warning or issue here
(03:01):
with an American latform. Those folks in Jamaica, we continue
to pray for them as a begin the recovery process.
House reporting now that Biden's autopin pardons are null and void.
This is the House Over Say Committee. We had this
story yesterday on the After Show. Wanted to make sure
you've heard it too. That's right, the autopin pardons are
(03:25):
null and void, along with a few other things that
Biden signed by executive order via the auto pad. It's
a big story because what they've done essentially is handed
this over to the Department of Justice Chairman James Comer,
calling many of these actions null avoid referring to Biden's
physician and senior aides and the J and DC Board
(03:48):
of Medicine for investigation. They reporting describing essentially a cover
up that took place. You and I and anyone with
ears this ear and eyes to see. Uh, well, we've
known this for a long time. It was obvious, it
was clear to us. Now everyone else will say, hey,
(04:15):
we've got more coming up this morning, and of course
I want to get into those numbers on Snap coming
up and just.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
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Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, like I said, you can join a program at
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that little microphone button next to the play button and
let it wrap. A couple of big guests coming up today,
(05:00):
we're gonna hear from Carla Wagner. She's got the ax
My Tax Initiative getting rid of property taxes in Michigan
and let's get down on the ballot. Should remind you,
as we've seen this thing hit the ballot. It's really interesting,
or at least the petition circulating, the number of milags
that get shut down. I mean, and it's been wild,
(05:21):
not just this last election, but the time before as well,
since people started talking about this and really taking a
closer look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
She'll be here to.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Remind you that you're going to be voting for milages
again here pretty soon, and you may want to take
a closer look at all of that. By the way,
this is the solution knowing and being engaged, and particularly
on these off your elections, they are probably a few
people wondering, wait a minute, there's we got to vote
on stuff this year and take away the voting to know,
(05:51):
you know, there's always something to vote on, and this
is when they get all kinds of stuff slip through.
This is the moment, So let's break down. If we
may coming up in the next couple of days. I
guess it's Saturday, November first, Snap Benefits, Snap Benefits for
(06:15):
the poor. This is the food that again they are denying.
Democrats will tell you every day that they care about
feeding the hungry children.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
New York Post cover says it best. They don't give
a chuck.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Food benefits for four run out on Saturday, but Dems
still won't open government.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
By the way, that's the solution.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So again the importance of numbers, the things you're gonna hear,
And this is probably the most important piece of it,
because there's a lot I've seen outright, just straight up
lies from folks on the left and the Democrats, and
the newest is a lie without a lie without you know,
(06:58):
they're kind of a little bit of truth tapped into it,
and they're all walking in lockstep. And I saw this
yesterday afternoon here very interestingly enough. Okay, so here's what
this is. The latest is well, I thought the Republicans
had all the power. I thought they were in complete control.
(07:18):
They controlled the House and the Sitay, the Presidency. They
are the ones responsible.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's not true. Now what are they relying on.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
They're relying on their base largely to be uninformed, which
is something they accused of the Republicans of people on
the right quite a bit. It's just not the fact.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The fact is these people on the left don't have
a clue.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
They're running highly on emotional They don't want they don't
want their base, and the base doesn't probably even want
to know the truth, which is you got to have
sixty votes in the Senate to get anything passed. This
is a continuing resolution. This isn't even a budget. It's
a continuing resolution that would keep the the government opens
(08:01):
so that they can work on a budget. What would
they keep the government open with the same level of
funding that they they'd agreed to previously. Now Democrats have
done this, They've gone round and round. In fact, this
is the Biden budget. That's the funny thing about all this.
What you're actually hearing them refuse to do is continue
(08:23):
with the Biden budget. It shows you how much they
hate you. That shows you how much they hate Trump.
They've always hated you. He's just always been in the way.
That's That's essentially what we're learning more and more with
these these issues lately, isn't it all right? So here's
the numbers, let's get down to the number. So now,
then this lawsuit is the next big story. You're gonna
(08:45):
be hearing about twenty five states, including Michigan. Attorney General
Dana Nasso, Please please make this make sense. Dana suing
the federal government and it's the USDA Department of agriculture. Apparently,
she says they got about five billion dollars contingency funds.
Release the funds, they say, to feed the people. Here's
(09:06):
the problem. The Democrats could easily do this. Democrat attorney
generals are playing politics again. And what are they doing
providing cover? They're providing cover for the Senate and these
radical Chuck Schumer AOC types who will not just get
in line and feed the children. Why why do I
(09:32):
know this? It's a simple math, folks, It's just a
simple math. They've got forty two million people. Get a
calculator out or do this long end if you want to.
It might take a little, a little bit. Let me
just a couple of zeros. Bind That's that's the real issue.
Forty two million people and they have five billion dollars
(09:54):
if and I know they don't do this, but even
if they did, let's just say, if they split the
the five billion up evenly among forty two million people,
what does that give them? Do the math? It's about
(10:14):
one hundred and eighteen bucks. Now I'm gonna ask let's
go ask Siri and see maybe, or maybe we could
ask chachip. But just to check my math on this,
I think let's just check my math. Okay, what is
five billion divided by forty two million, so it could
(10:37):
be wrong. Yeah, one hundred and nineteen dollars and four cents.
Is that enough to feed these families for a month,
even if they dug into the emergency that five billion,
which is really supposed to be used for other things.
In fact, they're saying that there's a legal loophole that
(10:58):
money can't be used for snapping. Is it's supposed to
be used for something else. But that's why these folks
are suing these attorneys general in these Democrat states. Even
if they did release to five billion, some say at six.
Either way, do you know the budget The monthly budget
for SNAP is nine billion dollars a month. Don't blame
(11:23):
me here, by the way, blame the numbers. They need
sixty votes to get the cr passed, and the c
are supposed to only go through like the second week
in November.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Anyway, this is continuing resolution.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
This is to continue the levels of spending that Biden,
they had agreed to under Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So Meg, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
These people that are out there, and I'm sure you
got to see them all the usual suspects out there
playing the same tune over and over and over and
over again. So it's I just want you to be informed,
because what is real, what is actually happening, is that
(12:13):
Republicans have passed this bill they want to keep. Well,
it's not a bill, it's it's it's a resolution. They
want to continue the same spending, kick the can down
the road, which normally Republicans are against. In this case,
they thought it prudent so that they could work out
the budget. And there's real issues with healthcare they're going
to work out too. Democrats don't want to do that.
(12:35):
They want you in crisis mode. They want people in
your backs against the wall, so you give in and
do whatever it is that they want you to do,
make horrific decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Trump won't.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He won't play that game, and neither were the Republicans
in the House. In the Senate, Johnston did the right
the right thing. Now here's an interesting question, Jack points
out in the check Yet, I think it's time for
Republicans to take.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The nuclear What is the nuclear option?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And is it is it time for the Republicans to
to take the nuclear that that's a really good one.
We'll talk about that coming on in just a bit.
I just wanted to break those numbers down for you
so that you understood you gonna have full away. See
that's what we do here, truth logic and common sense,
(13:25):
giving you the stories and the context that nobody else
will back right after this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Informative engage it. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
nine a f M.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
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twenty ninth. I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News
original story. Jocelyn Benson's transparency website is still malfunctioning eighty
nine days past her self imposed deadline to fix it.
The Secretary of State's nine million dollar Michigan transparency network
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is still a bungled mess. In other news pertaining to Benson,
the Secretary of State wants a federal court to dismiss
a lawsuit alleging foul play in the August Flint City
Council election that alleges violations of state and federal laws.
President Trump meeting with the South Korean Prime Minister today
during his trip to Asia. The President saying he'll try
to broke her a peace deal in the decades long
(15:39):
conflict between North and South Korea.
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The Korean Peninsula, and I know you are officially at war,
but we will see what we can do to get
that all straightened out.
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Speaker 2 (15:55):
Love aren't gonna like get one bit. They gave him a.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They gave him a gold crown in South Korea, hailing him.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And the Golden Age.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
This has got to be one of the funniest things
I've ever seen. And you know it kind of it's
probably is sort of a little maybe a little bit
of trolling, oh involved there, But they gave Trump a
golden crown. How funny is that? Oh my goodness, hey,
(16:39):
question about the nuclear option? Will they pull off the
nuclear Well, first of all, what is it? GROC describes
it as this. By the way, it's a dramatic procedural
maneuver in the United States, and it allows the majority
party the nilatterly ultra chamber rules typically to eliminate or
reduce the filibuster. Now, there's a number of reasons, and
I've seen them talking about it, but there's a number
of reasons why they might or might not want to
do it using just a simple majority vote fifty one
(17:01):
votes or fifty with the Vice President's tye records seid
of the usual two thirds super majority required to change
Senate rules. The term evotes the destructive power of nuclear weapons,
symbolizing out of ye. That's that's how they describe it.
At its core, the nuclear option exploits Senate precedents. A
senator raises the point of order, challenging a rule, then
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they get into the comps so filibuster, trup bill or
nominee faces a philib This is why they're not going
to do it. I'm just going to tell you they
still have all these folks, these nominees that President Trump
put up that they they they have yet to be
able to get through.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You imagine if they can have.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Some some some guy hit the Senate floor and just
start yapping for hours and hours on end and not
give it, then they just they're not going to They're
not going to a.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Lot, especially as.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's it's it's pretty clear and easy to see at
this point the Democrats are the point of pain here.
Now I understand you might think it's a good idea
and maybe it's a good time to hit to hit
this for them to do it.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In fact, Jack, in the chances, I think it's time
for them to take take the nuclear option, put her
on the table. They gave THEMS a chance to step
up and vote to go forward. Since the Dems want
to say is Republican shutdown, then they'll prove the Dems
are behind the shutdown all along. The only problem with this,
and I understand what you're saying, it's the only problem
is as you're using truth, logic and common sense and
(18:36):
that just doesn't apply on the left. These people aren't
gonna see it even after that happens. And why risk
it that that'll be the point of discussion. I'm not
saying it they will or they won't with one hundred
percent certainty, but that that is, that is part of
the conversation. And speaking of conversations, we're gonna talk with
Carlo Wagner coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
She is with ax of my tag.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And of course you're getting you're getting close to another
We got another election just like a little less than
a week away. Now, well you'll decide millages, how much
you'll be paying in property taxes for things like pickleball courts. Folks,
this is a serious subject and it's getting a lot
more scrutiny in recent days because of Carla and are as.
(19:22):
My text push back with a reminder of why it's
so important. After this or about the hour news, Why
I fourteen more dead Narco terrorists taken out by US
strikes on boats and folks, you're talking about thousands of
(19:46):
lives saved every time they do it. Another big numbers.
We're looking at the numbers today. I got a poll
I gotta get to and I will in just a
little bit. Seventy percent of people think that the Democrats
are out of touch. Dig in for this one. All
you say, I don't I don't know if I believe
(20:07):
the polls. Yeah, I don't know if I believe that
one either. I think it's probably low. But yeah, I
just think it's probably low. We get into it. But
speaking of numbers, the millions of dollars being siphoned off
for your property taxes, and in the case of folks
even risking losing their homes if they can't pay for them,
(20:29):
just to pay for pickleball courts and the like has
been a subject of definite ire with some folks, and
Carlo Wagner's been talking about this ax my Tax and since,
by the way, Carla has been bringing up this subject
for discussion over the last couple of cycles, it's really
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made an impact. Sat down with Carl and had lunch
together beautiful, beautiful restaurant and antique shop there, and I
gotta tell you, Carl, we really fascinating back and forth
on this and one of the things you mentioned, and
I know this is right because I've been paying attention
to it, but it was a really good reminder is
in the last couple of cycles, these things have been
(21:13):
getting turned down, and I think that's largely due to
the popularity of this Act My Tax movement.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
I sure hope, so, I hope so justin I hope
we're reaching people, and I hope we're educating people, because
that is the one thing that I did realize with
so many people were disconnected from their property taxes. Either
they pay them at through escrow and never look at
the bill, or they just don't understand that when they
go and vote yes on a millage, their property tax
(21:42):
is going to increase. And that is the reason why
is because they voted yes on a millage and they
increase their own property tax bill. But they don't understand that,
because why would anyone vote to increase their property tax bill? Knowingly?
I don't think they would.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It really is interesting when you think about it, because
you know the things that they're doing and the things
that they get caught. In fact, you've gone through this list.
It's a laundry list of things. And you know, a
pickleball court, that's sort of the thing that you are
right now. But a pickleball court is nice and all.
(22:19):
But the question you have to ask yourself is building
that pickleball court, whatever the value of it might be,
is that worth putting somebody at risk of losing their home.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Absolutely not. And you know, as a real estate agent,
I've never had anyone ask me about the availability of
a pickleball court, as like where they want to buy
a house, Like, hey, I want to buy a house
over there because they've got a really nice pickleball court,
or a splash pad, or even a library. I don't
even have people ask me about those things. That's not
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what it's important to the people, Is it nice to
have in the community, absolutely, but never at the risk
of someone losing their property. And that is what's happening
every day, every day across the state.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So we have a number of issues that are up
in the next week or so that folks are even
already starting to take a look at right now. I
don't know if you even have a list of what
they are, but if folks want to go through this,
I think one of the best look, we just mentioned
one of the best reasons or outcomes of the push
(23:27):
of this axe my tax it. So we're going to
tell you how to get petitions because it's still probably
need some help getting some of those out and getting
them passed around. Getting this on a ballot could be critical,
so think about that. But there's a long list of
these things if we're looking at I'm not sure if
you have any of those in front of you.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Or whatnot, but I do, in fact, justin and I
think this is hilarious. I mean it's not hilarious, it is,
but it isn't. But like Byron Township, they just they
want to add a two percent excise tax on lodging
to fund a communities. Okay, so that's not really hitting
property tax owners, but didn't Kent County, and I think
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Kent County just added an excise tax to lodging to
pay for the amphitheater.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, and they're looking at doing something like that Oliver
in Detroit too for any sort of event, which is
which is wild.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Yeah, but you know, at some point people are going
to start thinking it's too expensive to travel, the hotel
expenses are too too high. Then we have a township
that wants a spongy moth moth spongy moth suppression millage proposal.
We have Byron Center Public School bond proposal one hundred
(24:40):
and ten million dollars. And listen to this. They are
going to borrow. Now it says part of it is
they're going to borrow two point eight million and the
interest on there is going to be six point one million.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Okay, So and they already have qualified bonds out standing
of one hundred and forty six million and a qualified
loan outstanding of another eighteen million. Do you really think
they should be borrowing more money to do? I know
we have you know, there's one in East Grand Rapids,
a sinking fund. There's one in Godwin Heights bond proposal
(25:18):
forty five million, five hundred and here's what it says.
These proceeds cannot be used for repair or maintenance, teacher administration,
or employee salaries, or other operating expenses. So it's to
buy a bus, it's to buy equipment for school buildings
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forty four million dollars. Here's another one, eighteen mills on
commercial property, non homestead, So eighteen mills, that's all your
businesses are gonna get slammed with that. You know what
We're We're putting businesses out of business left and right.
And then how do we make up that revenue?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Right?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
We have another sinking fund. We have some of them
that even I mean, here's Wyoming Public Schools a sinking
fund proposal, and Wyoming Public Schools has a bond proposal
Rockford Public Schools two hundred and thirty million dollars ask
And it's so funny because some of these things they say, well,
(26:24):
we have to make up for what the headley. When
you have a Headley rollback, the heady rollback forces the
millages to decrease because they're making too much money too fast,
because assessments are going up and new homes are being built,
so they're making money too much money too fast, which
the Headley requirement means they back off on the millages.
(26:47):
And now they're asking to be able to reinstate that
millage back to where it should be at the very
highest point because they don't like having to roll it back.
They want it to be at the very maximum. But
the Headley Amendment is there to protect the taxpayers so
we don't pay too much, and they just want to
subvert the Headley Amendment. They're doing everything they can to
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get as many dollars out of the property taxpayers. And
I will tell you what, after all of these millages
that are going to be in all of these different
school districts, then we also have one from the Kent
Intermediate School District, which means Rockford might have their own
(27:28):
bond proposal ask But then the Kent Intermediate School District
has one too, So that's two millages that are going
to affect Rockford, Rockford Public Schools, Kent Intermediate, Godwin Heights,
Kent Intermediate Byron Center, plus the Kent Intermediate School District.
So there's multiple millages that could get added onto your
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property tax bill at in one election. It's not just
a little bit of money, it's money from multiple millages.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's incredible and shining a light on this over the
last couple of cycles. Because of the ax my tax movement,
there's a chance to get it on the ballot, and
Carla is pushing for that once again axmi tax dot org.
But Carla, I give you a couple of moments here,
you're also running for governor. This is another big point
that folks are looking at as you make your run,
(28:23):
really to shine a light on this cause and beyond
some of the insanity happening in Michigan.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
You know, that's exactly it. Justin because the last five
years that I've spent on ax my tax, you know,
working to save people's homes, farms, and businesses. I've spent
some time with people in Lansing, and I've recognized that
they're not going to help us. They do not want
to help us, even our you know, the Republicans had
the ability to cut the budget, to cut the spending,
(28:51):
and they didn't. In fact, they increased it. There's not
one dollar worth of savings to the taxpayer in that
new budget that they just wrote, Not one dollar of
savings for us. In fact, they just increased the spending.
It's it's so ridiculous. We have no one in lancing
representing us. So I hope to be that person and
(29:13):
I will work to eliminate property taxes. The funny thing
is we Governor DeSantis is now talking about it in Florida.
President Trump has jumped on my bandwagon and he now
talks about property tax elimination. I spoke to people from
Tennessee and Georgia yesterday that saw me on the wbu
(29:34):
R program, and they said, we want to start this here.
We've already got Ohio doing it. Ohio is a x
H tax, so Ohio's doing it. I'm hoping that we
can make this a nationwide movement because if we don't
own our property, we have no rights at all.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's Carla Wagner XMI tax dot org and Carla ka
r LA FOURMI dot com. But an important reminder because
a lot of people don't even realize in these off
year elections that these melogies are taking place, and I
think that's why we've gotten in such the mess that
we've gotten in the first place. We've got to be aware,
(30:15):
we got to stay on top of this stuff because
it impacts you in so many others that you know, Carl,
always a pleasure. Thank you for taking the time to
be here with us today.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Thank you, Justin. And you know what, There's going to
be a debate tonight in Sparta, Gubernatorio the first one. Yeah,
going to be tonight in Sparta. I'm not all I'm
not sure which of the candidates are going to be there.
But you know what, mister Mike Cox, who normally talks
about income tax elimination, just jumped on our property tax
reform wagon, not quite all the way, didn't take the
(30:45):
big jump to elimination. So I think pretty much every
we have forced all of the governor candidates to start
talking about property tax because they hear from the people
that that is what they want, relief or elimination of
property tax. So I think we got all of the
governor candidates talking about it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Now, keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We will always a pleasure. You got at Carlo Wagner,
God bless more conversations. By the way, we had this
magnificent report inflation report on Friday, and then we see
the market moving with the Try and China trade deals
and more and we know the Fed's going to be
looking at bringing those rates down. You out again, what's
that mean for you right when it comes to mortgage rates,
(31:34):
other rates, but also the housing market, particularly in Michigan
and beyond. When to talk about that coming up in
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Speaker 2 (32:10):
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Speaker 2 (32:29):
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Speaker 3 (32:31):
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Speaker 1 (33:27):
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Speaker 2 (34:36):
News seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
What a number Newpaulings showing seventy percent of Americans think
that Democrats are out of touch. That latest will try
and get into that, and the after show the fastest
town Radio flying by. I had to do this though.
We got the news again on Friday, inflation numbers again
trending in a way that it looks like Fed's gonna
(35:01):
start moving on those rates again and in the direction
we went. In fact, we set records at the markets Friday.
I think we set records Monday. Tuesday. Who knows what's
going to happen today. Uh, we're watching it all kind
of take place. A lot of that's, you know, other
things to China, trade deals, et cetera. My good friend
Kevin yoders here with this right now. A lot of
people wonder, uh, speaking of keys, like the king of
(35:24):
real estate here in West Michigan. Kevin's a guy if
you want to sell your house, you know, you want
to buy a house, you to do and you just
have questions and you're like, I don't know what to do.
Kevin's a guy I call when it comes to all
these things. But Kevin, first of all, welcome in. Good
to see you my friend.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Thanks brother, so great to see you again as well.
Appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There's a lot of questions about whether homes are moving
or they're not moving, or what happens in a market
like this when you've got these interest rates to the
way they are and people want to see him come down.
I think it's going to save a lot of a
lot of folks a lot of money. What do you
what's your take on it? What are you seeing right
now and where things are going and what the market
looks like as we speak.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, let me let me start with this justin You know,
everyone's talking about mortgage interest rates like their sky high
right now, but that's mostly perception.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
It's really not reality.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
At the start of twenty twenty five, the thirty year
fixed mortgage was around seven percent, but today it's actually
more than one percent lower.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
It's like I look at them this morning, five point
eight seven five. So it's a big job.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
And historically speaking, today's rates are actually pretty good. People
forget and historically speaking, you know, you go back to
when they first started tracking them at seven percent back
in nineteen seventy one. So people forget in twenty twenty
one rates at two point seventy five to three percent,
home prices for through the roof, inspections, for being waved,
(36:45):
multiple offers. It just absolute chaos. And so at a
place where we're at the high fives and six is
I think people are missing the forest for the trees
and they're not capitalizing on the opportunity that's right in
front of us. Perspective goes back if you look at
nineteen eighty one eighteen point six seven three, nineteen eighty
(37:06):
five thirteen point two nine percent. Even twenty twenty five
years ago when I bought my first house, interest rates
were eight point six four percent, So you know at
the takeaway here is at five percent range, actually below
the long term average. We're talking about some of the
lowest interest rates in the last fifty years. And I
think that people have amnesia when it comes to this
(37:28):
kind of thing we do.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Well. It's interesting because, as you mentioned this, it was
so funny. I'm watching I'm on YouTube watching all kinds
of stupid stuff, but I all the nostalgia watching they
have videos. This is how crazy the times are right
that we live in the videos of commercials from the
nineteen eighties, and I just like, I wanted to start
watching them, and I'm like, oh man, what a simpler
(37:50):
time it was. And they show these in the show
car videos and the Dodge this and the Chevy that,
and they're like with low interest rates of five or
six or sid whatever it was, and I'm like, wow.
So that just to your point, what is all this
doing to the market right now when it comes to
buying home selling homes that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Well, I think the challenge is is it's it's perception.
In perception is reality. So if we were if buyers
were looking at an objective viewpoint of the market, they
would look at interest rates that are favorable from a
thirty year standpoint.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
We just gave you the numbers on it. And they
would look at affordability.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
They would look at the fact that right now, at
three hundred thousand dollar home, which would have been three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars back in twenty twenty two,
would cost you about two thousand and eighty five dollars
a month, compared to about eighteen hundred and thirty four
dollars a month. A's a two hundred and fifty dollars
difference in payment, and so you might think, let's two
hundred fifty dollurs, but we're spending two hundred fifty dollars
on all sorts of nonsense a month anyway.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
But the point is that you could be a homeowner.
You can be a homeowner and build equity and build wealth.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
So it's creating it's creating some some hesitation, it's creating
some uncertainty, but not not like it should be. And
I think that that's a big thing. So right nowadays
on the market is up from last year.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
We're about twice as long on the market.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
I think that the sellers out there, if you're thinking
about this and you hear bad market or good market,
or anybody that's listening to us, it's super important to
know this. Stop saying that there's no bad market or
good market. There are just markets. And we're moving from
an extreme seller's market into a balanced market, which means
that buyers and sellers can navigate around a lot more
(39:31):
easily than we.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Could have three or four years ago. So there's some hesitancy.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
Seasonality is playing into it here in West Michigan, which
means this time of year, things tend to slow down
a little bit, and I think that this could this
could really turn into an amazing opportunity for both buyers
and sellers.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Sellers that want to sell their home.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
And buy a new one. There's a lot more room
to move around. There a lot more time you have
on your side. And buyers, if you want to get
a get a value for a home, they're not as
high as they were before.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
And it just rates are actually pretty good, Kevin, to
sit on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I hate to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
We got to get to a commercial break here in
the Glenn Back program coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Can you hang on just for a moment. I know
some folks have some questions.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I think you might be willing to answer off the
air here too in the after so we'll get to
some of that coming up in just most you have
questions for because questions, what do you do? Kevin's selling
homes and probably better and faster than anybody else. So
if you've got a home that you need to sell,
how do you get into it?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Kevin?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
The meantime, UH, the best way for them to reach
out if they want to get in touch with you.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
Sure, easy you go to Yoda Real Estate dot Com, Yoder.
Actually you can go to sold by Yoda dot com.
Sold by Yoda dot Com. I'll move my tear round
so you can see the domain there is sold by
Yoda dot Com. There you go right there. You can
also just give a call writer or office number ninety
four two two four four nine. Even though the number
on the back there, don't call that number there because
that's the side number six one six.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Two four four nine. That's our office number or Yoga
or sold by Yoda dot Com.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Here you go, all right, folks, Kevin appreciate you as always,
back with more. The Glenn Beck program is coming up
next to the meantime, folks, we got an after show.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
The fastest air on radio just flies right by. Make
it a great one. God bless
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Wood Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What a gorgeous day.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It's it's beautiful fall like.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sun is shining.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Uh, not so much down in Jamaica with the latest
star Hurricane Melissa updates. Continuing to pray for those folks
Envoy the shutdown continues.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I think they're on.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The thirteen votes now. Democrats have now voted thirteen times
to deny hungry American children their snap benefits thirteen times.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We'll break down the numbers coming out.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
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This is the Big three now see speak three.
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Yeah, the stories amount of moons should be talking about.
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Speaker 2 (01:33):
I'm trying to break this down by the numbers.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Day twenty nine of the Schumer shutdown, I called to
shakedown the Democrats who voted Now thirteen times forty two
million Americans wondering how they'll feed their families. Coming up
on Saturday, essentially that's November first, when it rolls around.
Twenty five states now filing lawsuits over the benefit. There's
(01:58):
five billion dollars in contingency funding at the USDA that
they say needs to be released. Immedia, there's this one problem.
The numbers don't add up. And I'm going to get
into this coming out here in a little bit because
there's a lot that got to be straightened out here.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Want to make sure you're in the.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Know, come out.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
We'll do just that.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
After Jamaica, where's Hurricane Melissa headed next? Well, it's holding
strong as we speak, out a category two. The maximum
sustained wins one hundred and five miles per hour, tracking
northeast at fourteen miles per hour. The latest of date
coming out of the National Hurricane Center says that storm
center located just north of Jamaica, which remains under a
(02:39):
hurricane warning along with parts of eastern Cuba. The projected
path making Melissa on track their parallel to the US
East Coast, but won't won't come really into the path
of the United States, dear Bermuda until later. We'll see
this that their steater friend. No warning or issue here
(03:01):
with an American latform. Those folks in Jamaica, we continue
to pray for them as a begin the recovery process.
House reporting now that Biden's autopin pardons are null and void.
This is the House Over Say Committee. We had this
story yesterday on the After Show. Wanted to make sure
you've heard it too. That's right, the autopin pardons are
(03:25):
null and void, along with a few other things that
Biden signed by executive order via the auto pad. It's
a big story because what they've done essentially is handed
this over to the Department of Justice Chairman James Comer,
calling many of these actions null avoid referring to Biden's
physician and senior aides and the J and DC Board
(03:48):
of Medicine for investigation. They reporting describing essentially a cover
up that took place. You and I and anyone with
ears this ear and eyes to see. Uh, well, we've
known this for a long time. It was obvious, it
was clear to us. Now everyone else will say, hey,
(04:15):
we've got more coming up this morning, and of course
I want to get into those numbers on Snap coming
up and just.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Call Justin now at six one six seven seven four
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Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, like I said, you can join a program at
any time. We'd love to have you on the phone
or via the iHeartRadio and that talk pack feature MKD
Funeral Homes makes that happen every day. It's simple, it's
really easy, and it's kind of fun. You just tapped
that little microphone button next to the play button and
let it wrap. A couple of big guests coming up today,
(05:00):
we're gonna hear from Carla Wagner. She's got the ax
My Tax Initiative getting rid of property taxes in Michigan
and let's get down on the ballot. Should remind you,
as we've seen this thing hit the ballot. It's really interesting,
or at least the petition circulating, the number of milags
that get shut down. I mean, and it's been wild,
(05:21):
not just this last election, but the time before as well,
since people started talking about this and really taking a
closer look at it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
She'll be here to.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Remind you that you're going to be voting for milages
again here pretty soon, and you may want to take
a closer look at all of that. By the way,
this is the solution knowing and being engaged, and particularly
on these off your elections, they are probably a few
people wondering, wait a minute, there's we got to vote
on stuff this year and take away the voting to know,
(05:51):
you know, there's always something to vote on, and this
is when they get all kinds of stuff slip through.
This is the moment, So let's break down. If we
may coming up in the next couple of days. I
guess it's Saturday, November first, Snap Benefits, Snap Benefits for
(06:15):
the poor. This is the food that again they are denying.
Democrats will tell you every day that they care about
feeding the hungry children.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
New York Post cover says it best. They don't give
a chuck.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Food benefits for four run out on Saturday, but Dems
still won't open government.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
By the way, that's the solution.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
So again the importance of numbers, the things you're gonna hear,
And this is probably the most important piece of it,
because there's a lot I've seen outright, just straight up
lies from folks on the left and the Democrats, and
the newest is a lie without a lie without you know,
(06:58):
they're kind of a little bit of truth tapped into it,
and they're all walking in lockstep. And I saw this
yesterday afternoon here very interestingly enough. Okay, so here's what
this is. The latest is well, I thought the Republicans
had all the power. I thought they were in complete control.
(07:18):
They controlled the House and the Sitay, the Presidency. They
are the ones responsible.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's not true. Now what are they relying on.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
They're relying on their base largely to be uninformed, which
is something they accused of the Republicans of people on
the right quite a bit. It's just not the fact.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The fact is these people on the left don't have
a clue.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
They're running highly on emotional They don't want they don't
want their base, and the base doesn't probably even want
to know the truth, which is you got to have
sixty votes in the Senate to get anything passed. This
is a continuing resolution. This isn't even a budget. It's
a continuing resolution that would keep the the government opens
(08:01):
so that they can work on a budget. What would
they keep the government open with the same level of
funding that they they'd agreed to previously. Now Democrats have
done this, They've gone round and round. In fact, this
is the Biden budget. That's the funny thing about all this.
What you're actually hearing them refuse to do is continue
(08:23):
with the Biden budget. It shows you how much they
hate you. That shows you how much they hate Trump.
They've always hated you. He's just always been in the way.
That's That's essentially what we're learning more and more with
these these issues lately, isn't it all right? So here's
the numbers, let's get down to the number. So now,
then this lawsuit is the next big story. You're gonna
(08:45):
be hearing about twenty five states, including Michigan. Attorney General
Dana Nasso, Please please make this make sense. Dana suing
the federal government and it's the USDA Department of agriculture. Apparently,
she says they got about five billion dollars contingency funds.
Release the funds, they say, to feed the people. Here's
(09:06):
the problem. The Democrats could easily do this. Democrat attorney
generals are playing politics again. And what are they doing
providing cover? They're providing cover for the Senate and these
radical Chuck Schumer AOC types who will not just get
in line and feed the children. Why why do I
(09:32):
know this? It's a simple math, folks, It's just a
simple math. They've got forty two million people. Get a
calculator out or do this long end if you want to.
It might take a little, a little bit. Let me
just a couple of zeros. Bind That's that's the real issue.
Forty two million people and they have five billion dollars
(09:54):
if and I know they don't do this, but even
if they did, let's just say, if they split the
the five billion up evenly among forty two million people,
what does that give them? Do the math? It's about
(10:14):
one hundred and eighteen bucks. Now I'm gonna ask let's
go ask Siri and see maybe, or maybe we could
ask chachip. But just to check my math on this,
I think let's just check my math. Okay, what is
five billion divided by forty two million, so it could
(10:37):
be wrong. Yeah, one hundred and nineteen dollars and four cents.
Is that enough to feed these families for a month,
even if they dug into the emergency that five billion,
which is really supposed to be used for other things.
In fact, they're saying that there's a legal loophole that
(10:58):
money can't be used for snapping. Is it's supposed to
be used for something else. But that's why these folks
are suing these attorneys general in these Democrat states. Even
if they did release to five billion, some say at six.
Either way, do you know the budget The monthly budget
for SNAP is nine billion dollars a month. Don't blame
(11:23):
me here, by the way, blame the numbers. They need
sixty votes to get the cr passed, and the c
are supposed to only go through like the second week
in November.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Anyway, this is continuing resolution.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
This is to continue the levels of spending that Biden,
they had agreed to under Biden.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So Meg, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
These people that are out there, and I'm sure you
got to see them all the usual suspects out there
playing the same tune over and over and over and
over again. So it's I just want you to be informed,
because what is real, what is actually happening, is that
(12:13):
Republicans have passed this bill they want to keep. Well,
it's not a bill, it's it's it's a resolution. They
want to continue the same spending, kick the can down
the road, which normally Republicans are against. In this case,
they thought it prudent so that they could work out
the budget. And there's real issues with healthcare they're going
to work out too. Democrats don't want to do that.
(12:35):
They want you in crisis mode. They want people in
your backs against the wall, so you give in and
do whatever it is that they want you to do,
make horrific decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Trump won't.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
He won't play that game, and neither were the Republicans
in the House. In the Senate, Johnston did the right
the right thing. Now here's an interesting question, Jack points
out in the check Yet, I think it's time for
Republicans to take.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The nuclear What is the nuclear option?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And is it is it time for the Republicans to
to take the nuclear that that's a really good one.
We'll talk about that coming on in just a bit.
I just wanted to break those numbers down for you
so that you understood you gonna have full away. See
that's what we do here, truth logic and common sense,
(13:25):
giving you the stories and the context that nobody else
will back right after this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Informative engage it. It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
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Here your headlines from the Midwestern or this Wednesday, October
twenty ninth. I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner dot News
original story. Jocelyn Benson's transparency website is still malfunctioning eighty
nine days past her self imposed deadline to fix it.
The Secretary of State's nine million dollar Michigan transparency network
(15:17):
is still a bungled mess. In other news pertaining to Benson,
the Secretary of State wants a federal court to dismiss
a lawsuit alleging foul play in the August Flint City
Council election that alleges violations of state and federal laws.
President Trump meeting with the South Korean Prime Minister today
during his trip to Asia. The President saying he'll try
to broke her a peace deal in the decades long
(15:39):
conflict between North and South Korea.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
The Korean Peninsula, and I know you are officially at war,
but we will see what we can do to get
that all straightened out.
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Speaker 2 (15:55):
Love aren't gonna like get one bit. They gave him a.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
They gave him a gold crown in South Korea, hailing him.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And the Golden Age.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
This has got to be one of the funniest things
I've ever seen. And you know it kind of it's
probably is sort of a little maybe a little bit
of trolling, oh involved there, But they gave Trump a
golden crown. How funny is that? Oh my goodness, hey,
(16:39):
question about the nuclear option? Will they pull off the
nuclear Well, first of all, what is it? GROC describes
it as this. By the way, it's a dramatic procedural
maneuver in the United States, and it allows the majority
party the nilatterly ultra chamber rules typically to eliminate or
reduce the filibuster. Now, there's a number of reasons, and
I've seen them talking about it, but there's a number
of reasons why they might or might not want to
do it using just a simple majority vote fifty one
(17:01):
votes or fifty with the Vice President's tye records seid
of the usual two thirds super majority required to change
Senate rules. The term evotes the destructive power of nuclear weapons,
symbolizing out of ye. That's that's how they describe it.
At its core, the nuclear option exploits Senate precedents. A
senator raises the point of order, challenging a rule, then
(17:23):
they get into the comps so filibuster, trup bill or
nominee faces a philib This is why they're not going
to do it. I'm just going to tell you they
still have all these folks, these nominees that President Trump
put up that they they they have yet to be
able to get through.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You imagine if they can have.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Some some some guy hit the Senate floor and just
start yapping for hours and hours on end and not
give it, then they just they're not going to They're
not going to a.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Lot, especially as.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's it's it's pretty clear and easy to see at
this point the Democrats are the point of pain here.
Now I understand you might think it's a good idea
and maybe it's a good time to hit to hit
this for them to do it.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
In fact, Jack, in the chances, I think it's time
for them to take take the nuclear option, put her
on the table. They gave THEMS a chance to step
up and vote to go forward. Since the Dems want
to say is Republican shutdown, then they'll prove the Dems
are behind the shutdown all along. The only problem with this,
and I understand what you're saying, it's the only problem
is as you're using truth, logic and common sense and
(18:36):
that just doesn't apply on the left. These people aren't
gonna see it even after that happens. And why risk
it that that'll be the point of discussion. I'm not
saying it they will or they won't with one hundred
percent certainty, but that that is, that is part of
the conversation. And speaking of conversations, we're gonna talk with
Carlo Wagner coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
She is with ax of my tag.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And of course you're getting you're getting close to another
We got another election just like a little less than
a week away. Now, well you'll decide millages, how much
you'll be paying in property taxes for things like pickleball courts. Folks,
this is a serious subject and it's getting a lot
more scrutiny in recent days because of Carla and are as.
(19:22):
My text push back with a reminder of why it's
so important. After this or about the hour news, Why
I fourteen more dead Narco terrorists taken out by US
strikes on boats and folks, you're talking about thousands of
(19:46):
lives saved every time they do it. Another big numbers.
We're looking at the numbers today. I got a poll
I gotta get to and I will in just a
little bit. Seventy percent of people think that the Democrats
are out of touch. Dig in for this one. All
you say, I don't I don't know if I believe
(20:07):
the polls. Yeah, I don't know if I believe that
one either. I think it's probably low. But yeah, I
just think it's probably low. We get into it. But
speaking of numbers, the millions of dollars being siphoned off
for your property taxes, and in the case of folks
even risking losing their homes if they can't pay for them,
(20:29):
just to pay for pickleball courts and the like has
been a subject of definite ire with some folks, and
Carlo Wagner's been talking about this ax my Tax and since,
by the way, Carla has been bringing up this subject
for discussion over the last couple of cycles, it's really
(20:50):
made an impact. Sat down with Carl and had lunch
together beautiful, beautiful restaurant and antique shop there, and I
gotta tell you, Carl, we really fascinating back and forth
on this and one of the things you mentioned, and
I know this is right because I've been paying attention
to it, but it was a really good reminder is
in the last couple of cycles, these things have been
(21:13):
getting turned down, and I think that's largely due to
the popularity of this Act My Tax movement.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
I sure hope, so, I hope so justin I hope
we're reaching people, and I hope we're educating people, because
that is the one thing that I did realize with
so many people were disconnected from their property taxes. Either
they pay them at through escrow and never look at
the bill, or they just don't understand that when they
go and vote yes on a millage, their property tax
(21:42):
is going to increase. And that is the reason why
is because they voted yes on a millage and they
increase their own property tax bill. But they don't understand that,
because why would anyone vote to increase their property tax bill? Knowingly?
I don't think they would.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It really is interesting when you think about it, because
you know the things that they're doing and the things
that they get caught. In fact, you've gone through this list.
It's a laundry list of things. And you know, a
pickleball court, that's sort of the thing that you are
right now. But a pickleball court is nice and all.
(22:19):
But the question you have to ask yourself is building
that pickleball court, whatever the value of it might be,
is that worth putting somebody at risk of losing their home.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Absolutely not. And you know, as a real estate agent,
I've never had anyone ask me about the availability of
a pickleball court, as like where they want to buy
a house, Like, hey, I want to buy a house
over there because they've got a really nice pickleball court,
or a splash pad, or even a library. I don't
even have people ask me about those things. That's not
(22:52):
what it's important to the people, Is it nice to
have in the community, absolutely, but never at the risk
of someone losing their property. And that is what's happening
every day, every day across the state.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So we have a number of issues that are up
in the next week or so that folks are even
already starting to take a look at right now. I
don't know if you even have a list of what
they are, but if folks want to go through this,
I think one of the best look, we just mentioned
one of the best reasons or outcomes of the push
(23:27):
of this axe my tax it. So we're going to
tell you how to get petitions because it's still probably
need some help getting some of those out and getting
them passed around. Getting this on a ballot could be critical,
so think about that. But there's a long list of
these things if we're looking at I'm not sure if
you have any of those in front of you.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Or whatnot, but I do, in fact, justin and I
think this is hilarious. I mean it's not hilarious, it is,
but it isn't. But like Byron Township, they just they
want to add a two percent excise tax on lodging
to fund a communities. Okay, so that's not really hitting
property tax owners, but didn't Kent County, and I think
(24:06):
Kent County just added an excise tax to lodging to
pay for the amphitheater.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, and they're looking at doing something like that Oliver
in Detroit too for any sort of event, which is
which is wild.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Yeah, but you know, at some point people are going
to start thinking it's too expensive to travel, the hotel
expenses are too too high. Then we have a township
that wants a spongy moth moth spongy moth suppression millage proposal.
We have Byron Center Public School bond proposal one hundred
(24:40):
and ten million dollars. And listen to this. They are
going to borrow. Now it says part of it is
they're going to borrow two point eight million and the
interest on there is going to be six point one million.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Okay, So and they already have qualified bonds out standing
of one hundred and forty six million and a qualified
loan outstanding of another eighteen million. Do you really think
they should be borrowing more money to do? I know
we have you know, there's one in East Grand Rapids,
a sinking fund. There's one in Godwin Heights bond proposal
(25:18):
forty five million, five hundred and here's what it says.
These proceeds cannot be used for repair or maintenance, teacher administration,
or employee salaries, or other operating expenses. So it's to
buy a bus, it's to buy equipment for school buildings
(25:41):
forty four million dollars. Here's another one, eighteen mills on
commercial property, non homestead, So eighteen mills, that's all your
businesses are gonna get slammed with that. You know what
We're We're putting businesses out of business left and right.
And then how do we make up that revenue?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Right?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
We have another sinking fund. We have some of them
that even I mean, here's Wyoming Public Schools a sinking
fund proposal, and Wyoming Public Schools has a bond proposal
Rockford Public Schools two hundred and thirty million dollars ask
And it's so funny because some of these things they say, well,
(26:24):
we have to make up for what the headley. When
you have a Headley rollback, the heady rollback forces the
millages to decrease because they're making too much money too fast,
because assessments are going up and new homes are being built,
so they're making money too much money too fast, which
the Headley requirement means they back off on the millages.
(26:47):
And now they're asking to be able to reinstate that
millage back to where it should be at the very
highest point because they don't like having to roll it back.
They want it to be at the very maximum. But
the Headley Amendment is there to protect the taxpayers so
we don't pay too much, and they just want to
subvert the Headley Amendment. They're doing everything they can to
(27:07):
get as many dollars out of the property taxpayers. And
I will tell you what, after all of these millages
that are going to be in all of these different
school districts, then we also have one from the Kent
Intermediate School District, which means Rockford might have their own
(27:28):
bond proposal ask But then the Kent Intermediate School District
has one too, So that's two millages that are going
to affect Rockford, Rockford Public Schools, Kent Intermediate, Godwin Heights,
Kent Intermediate Byron Center, plus the Kent Intermediate School District.
So there's multiple millages that could get added onto your
(27:51):
property tax bill at in one election. It's not just
a little bit of money, it's money from multiple millages.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's incredible and shining a light on this over the
last couple of cycles. Because of the ax my tax movement,
there's a chance to get it on the ballot, and
Carla is pushing for that once again axmi tax dot org.
But Carla, I give you a couple of moments here,
you're also running for governor. This is another big point
that folks are looking at as you make your run,
(28:23):
really to shine a light on this cause and beyond
some of the insanity happening in Michigan.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
You know, that's exactly it. Justin because the last five
years that I've spent on ax my tax, you know,
working to save people's homes, farms, and businesses. I've spent
some time with people in Lansing, and I've recognized that
they're not going to help us. They do not want
to help us, even our you know, the Republicans had
the ability to cut the budget, to cut the spending,
(28:51):
and they didn't. In fact, they increased it. There's not
one dollar worth of savings to the taxpayer in that
new budget that they just wrote, Not one dollar of
savings for us. In fact, they just increased the spending.
It's it's so ridiculous. We have no one in lancing
representing us. So I hope to be that person and
(29:13):
I will work to eliminate property taxes. The funny thing
is we Governor DeSantis is now talking about it in Florida.
President Trump has jumped on my bandwagon and he now
talks about property tax elimination. I spoke to people from
Tennessee and Georgia yesterday that saw me on the wbu
(29:34):
R program, and they said, we want to start this here.
We've already got Ohio doing it. Ohio is a x
H tax, so Ohio's doing it. I'm hoping that we
can make this a nationwide movement because if we don't
own our property, we have no rights at all.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's Carla Wagner XMI tax dot org and Carla ka
r LA FOURMI dot com. But an important reminder because
a lot of people don't even realize in these off
year elections that these melogies are taking place, and I
think that's why we've gotten in such the mess that
we've gotten in the first place. We've got to be aware,
(30:15):
we got to stay on top of this stuff because
it impacts you in so many others that you know, Carl,
always a pleasure. Thank you for taking the time to
be here with us today.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Thank you, Justin. And you know what, There's going to
be a debate tonight in Sparta, Gubernatorio the first one. Yeah,
going to be tonight in Sparta. I'm not all I'm
not sure which of the candidates are going to be there.
But you know what, mister Mike Cox, who normally talks
about income tax elimination, just jumped on our property tax
reform wagon, not quite all the way, didn't take the
(30:45):
big jump to elimination. So I think pretty much every
we have forced all of the governor candidates to start
talking about property tax because they hear from the people
that that is what they want, relief or elimination of
property tax. So I think we got all of the
governor candidates talking about it.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Now, keep fighting the good fight.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
We will always a pleasure. You got at Carlo Wagner,
God bless more conversations. By the way, we had this
magnificent report inflation report on Friday, and then we see
the market moving with the Try and China trade deals
and more and we know the Fed's going to be
looking at bringing those rates down. You out again, what's
that mean for you right when it comes to mortgage rates,
(31:34):
other rates, but also the housing market, particularly in Michigan
and beyond. When to talk about that coming up in
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Speaker 2 (34:36):
News seventy percent.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
What a number Newpaulings showing seventy percent of Americans think
that Democrats are out of touch. That latest will try
and get into that, and the after show the fastest
town Radio flying by. I had to do this though.
We got the news again on Friday, inflation numbers again
trending in a way that it looks like Fed's gonna
(35:01):
start moving on those rates again and in the direction
we went. In fact, we set records at the markets Friday.
I think we set records Monday. Tuesday. Who knows what's
going to happen today. Uh, we're watching it all kind
of take place. A lot of that's, you know, other
things to China, trade deals, et cetera. My good friend
Kevin yoders here with this right now. A lot of
people wonder, uh, speaking of keys, like the king of
(35:24):
real estate here in West Michigan. Kevin's a guy if
you want to sell your house, you know, you want
to buy a house, you to do and you just
have questions and you're like, I don't know what to do.
Kevin's a guy I call when it comes to all
these things. But Kevin, first of all, welcome in. Good
to see you my friend.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Thanks brother, so great to see you again as well.
Appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
There's a lot of questions about whether homes are moving
or they're not moving, or what happens in a market
like this when you've got these interest rates to the
way they are and people want to see him come down.
I think it's going to save a lot of a
lot of folks a lot of money. What do you
what's your take on it? What are you seeing right
now and where things are going and what the market
looks like as we speak.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Yeah, let me let me start with this justin You know,
everyone's talking about mortgage interest rates like their sky high
right now, but that's mostly perception.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
It's really not reality.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
At the start of twenty twenty five, the thirty year
fixed mortgage was around seven percent, but today it's actually
more than one percent lower.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
It's like I look at them this morning, five point
eight seven five. So it's a big job.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
And historically speaking, today's rates are actually pretty good. People
forget and historically speaking, you know, you go back to
when they first started tracking them at seven percent back
in nineteen seventy one. So people forget in twenty twenty
one rates at two point seventy five to three percent,
home prices for through the roof, inspections, for being waved,
(36:45):
multiple offers. It just absolute chaos. And so at a
place where we're at the high fives and six is
I think people are missing the forest for the trees
and they're not capitalizing on the opportunity that's right in
front of us. Perspective goes back if you look at
nineteen eighty one eighteen point six seven three, nineteen eighty
(37:06):
five thirteen point two nine percent. Even twenty twenty five
years ago when I bought my first house, interest rates
were eight point six four percent, So you know at
the takeaway here is at five percent range, actually below
the long term average. We're talking about some of the
lowest interest rates in the last fifty years. And I
think that people have amnesia when it comes to this
(37:28):
kind of thing we do.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Well. It's interesting because, as you mentioned this, it was
so funny. I'm watching I'm on YouTube watching all kinds
of stupid stuff, but I all the nostalgia watching they
have videos. This is how crazy the times are right
that we live in the videos of commercials from the
nineteen eighties, and I just like, I wanted to start
watching them, and I'm like, oh man, what a simpler
(37:50):
time it was. And they show these in the show
car videos and the Dodge this and the Chevy that,
and they're like with low interest rates of five or
six or sid whatever it was, and I'm like, wow.
So that just to your point, what is all this
doing to the market right now when it comes to
buying home selling homes that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Well, I think the challenge is is it's it's perception.
In perception is reality. So if we were if buyers
were looking at an objective viewpoint of the market, they
would look at interest rates that are favorable from a
thirty year standpoint.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
We just gave you the numbers on it. And they
would look at affordability.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
They would look at the fact that right now, at
three hundred thousand dollar home, which would have been three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars back in twenty twenty two,
would cost you about two thousand and eighty five dollars
a month, compared to about eighteen hundred and thirty four
dollars a month. A's a two hundred and fifty dollars
difference in payment, and so you might think, let's two
hundred fifty dollurs, but we're spending two hundred fifty dollars
on all sorts of nonsense a month anyway.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
But the point is that you could be a homeowner.
You can be a homeowner and build equity and build wealth.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
So it's creating it's creating some some hesitation, it's creating
some uncertainty, but not not like it should be. And
I think that that's a big thing. So right nowadays
on the market is up from last year.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
We're about twice as long on the market.
Speaker 7 (39:10):
I think that the sellers out there, if you're thinking
about this and you hear bad market or good market,
or anybody that's listening to us, it's super important to
know this. Stop saying that there's no bad market or
good market. There are just markets. And we're moving from
an extreme seller's market into a balanced market, which means
that buyers and sellers can navigate around a lot more
(39:31):
easily than we.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Could have three or four years ago. So there's some hesitancy.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
Seasonality is playing into it here in West Michigan, which
means this time of year, things tend to slow down
a little bit, and I think that this could this
could really turn into an amazing opportunity for both buyers
and sellers.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
Sellers that want to sell their home.
Speaker 7 (39:48):
And buy a new one. There's a lot more room
to move around. There a lot more time you have
on your side. And buyers, if you want to get
a get a value for a home, they're not as
high as they were before.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
And it just rates are actually pretty good, Kevin, to
sit on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I hate to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
We got to get to a commercial break here in
the Glenn Back program coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Can you hang on just for a moment. I know
some folks have some questions.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
I think you might be willing to answer off the
air here too in the after so we'll get to
some of that coming up in just most you have
questions for because questions, what do you do? Kevin's selling
homes and probably better and faster than anybody else. So
if you've got a home that you need to sell,
how do you get into it?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Kevin?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
The meantime, UH, the best way for them to reach
out if they want to get in touch with you.
Speaker 7 (40:29):
Sure, easy you go to Yoda Real Estate dot Com, Yoder.
Actually you can go to sold by Yoda dot com.
Sold by Yoda dot Com. I'll move my tear round
so you can see the domain there is sold by
Yoda dot Com. There you go right there. You can
also just give a call writer or office number ninety
four two two four four nine. Even though the number
on the back there, don't call that number there because
that's the side number six one six.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Two four four nine. That's our office number or Yoga
or sold by Yoda dot Com.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Here you go, all right, folks, Kevin appreciate you as always,
back with more. The Glenn Beck program is coming up
next to the meantime, folks, we got an after show.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
The fastest air on radio just flies right by. Make
it a great one. God bless
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