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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Wood Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in. What a week all ready?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, we're just getting started, but we've got one lined
up for you, a big meeting with Putin in America
of all places. We'll tell you where and what's going
down to President Trump set for that meeting later this week.
And a massive announcement coming this morning, the crackdown on
(00:31):
crime and chaos in DC and the President speaking shortly.
Plus is Alligator Alcatraz shutting down? We've got that story
and the latest to jump in the race for governor
here in Michigan coming up. Yeah, the stories of matter
most should be talking about these round of water cool
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folks putin coming to America. Trump says he's invited Vladimir
Putin to Alaska. Uh, this said, this is this will
be a big This is like the first one. First
(01:48):
time we've seen this happen in a long time. President
Trump says he'll meet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
These weigh whether to invite Volodo Zelensky. You got to
say it right, you know, to join as they have
(02:09):
a possible conversation on what it might look like to
get peace there between Russia and the Ukraine. Yeah, a
lots of big stories coming out. This one, I gotta
tell you more of a clickbait story than anything else.
Is Alligator Alcatraz shutting down? In fact, the answer is no,
(02:30):
not really any time. So what they are doing is
halting some of the construction temporarily at least. And this
is one of these wacky federal judges who's in charge
of this.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think it's an Obama endpoint appointee. Is what I remember.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Seeing part of the conversation Judge pat pausing that cane
construction for two weeks, that what they really want to
have here is some sort of environmental study. This is what,
By the way, this is what Americans have had enough of.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This is why we voted for Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's always stuff like this when the administrative state, or
you call it the deep state, the bureaucracy, red tape,
wants to get in the way when folks are actually
trying to get a few things done. Here, By the way,
it's not going to stop him, he says, wait a minute.
In fact, hold my diet coke. Just I feel like
(03:26):
he's in the oval right now hitting the button. Somebody's
racing in with one. He's ready for a big news conference,
one coming today in fact, all about cleaning up the
crime and chaos in DC. Trump posting on true Social
We're having a news conference in the White House. I'm
(03:49):
going to make our capital safer. A lot of folks
looking forward to this story, including people that live in Washington,
d C. Look, I don't know if you've been there
anytime so recently, but I have, and I will tell
you it's kind of hit or miss in a lot
of these places. You saw the young man that worked
for Doge Gott and had to get in between the
(04:12):
carjacker and the victim not too long ago, a couple
of days back, in fact, he was assaulted. He's beat
up pretty badly, and it's just nasty to see. Not
only did he have you know, bruises, cuts and things
like that, but he also had some sort of a concussion.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But he's already searched.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Trump's already searched a few federal agents FBI and whatnot
into NTO DC ahead of this announcement. In folks, I'm
telling you it'll happen around ten this morning, and well,
you know, if they're on time, we'll have the Latest
coming at you. So stand by for that and and
(04:53):
more and we'll fill you in on everything.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Also coming up today, we're gonna hear from the latest
to drop their hat in for the governor's race as
a Republican here in the state of Michigan. Carlo Wagner,
who is a front of the the push to get
rid of property taxes here at Michigan. The ax My
Tax crew has decided to throw her hat in the ring,
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and as she describes, it's really a way to get
more eyes on the move to get rid of property town.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
What she in fact wants to do, why she's running,
and more coming out.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Called Justin Now at six one six seven seven four
twenty four twenty four at six one six seven seven
for twenty four to twenty four West Michigan Live with
Justin Barclay on news radio Wood thirteen hundred and one
oh six nine f M.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So here's more from Trump's truth social post. We're having
a news conference in the White House. I'm going to
make our capital safer and more beautiful than it ever
was before. The homeless haves to move out immediately. Will
give you places to stay, but far from the capital.
The criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going
to put you in jail. So he's telling you in
(06:07):
one bre I've almost move out. It's time to go.
Criminals is saying, yeah, you don't have to go anywhere.
We're just going to lock you up where you belong.
He says, it's all going to happen very fast. Just
like the border. We went from millions pouring into zero
in the last few months. This will be easier, be prepared.
(06:28):
There will be no more. Mister nice guy. We want
our capital back. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
which has become a sort of a trademark for him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Anyway, that
news conference coming up at what ten today. I don't
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think I've ever felt I will tell you there was
one time it was kind of strange. Okay, I guess
this is Was it twenty three, two twenty four? There
was a moment when I think it was twenty four,
early twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it maybe the March, March.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Or twenty I don't remember the year, but it was
Biden's I think it was his last State of the Union.
And I went to broadcast. Congressman Molnar invited me as
his guest, and so I got to sit in the audience,
and boy, that was a that was an experience altogether
in itself. But I went to broadcasting. We were broadcasting
(07:33):
from the Heritage Foundation. They have studios in their building. Well,
I mean, I'm on the air at this point. I
had to be there very early, five thirty or so
in the morning to get ready for the show that
I was doing in Detroit at the time. And I
got dropped off by the uber and the people at
(07:54):
the Heritage Foundation weren't there at the door yet, and
I'm in the middle of this real kind of sketchy
looking neighborhood at five point thirty in the morning, just
me and my bag, and I was sitting there like wow.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So there's like.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
This construction going on at the Heritage found this you
can imagine. They have scaffolding, they have like barrels, and
they have like things that are up around the front
of the building. And I saw some people walking by
and they looked normal, but there were lots of people
who didn't. So what I decided to do is go
like sort of hide behind the construction stuff so that nope,
(08:32):
you know, if anybody was walking.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Around, they weren't gonna see me.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I wasn't gonna like stand out like a sore thumb
while I waited for somebody to come unlock the doors
and let me in.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It was. It was a really weird moment. I don't.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I don't think I would tell you that I ever
felt unsafe at any time necessarily.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But I don't know. I will tell you this.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it's like any other liberal, like very left
heat kind of run city. It same would be with
the really right or even Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, downtown at
night at the wrong time and the wrong place you're
going to run into, You're going to run into, Sobelty
could anyway some problems and the situation you want to
(09:15):
be it you don't want to be planning. I look,
I bring my family down to the city here sparingly.
I certainly wouldn't do it at certain times, you know,
at night and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I look, I know I'm not the only one.
I hate to.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Say that in a city where when I first moved here,
you know, like twenty years ago, whenever I first set
foot in Grand Rapids, i'd never been here before. One
of the things I thought when I when I hit
Monroe Center and I got out of my course, how
clean the streets were of Oh man, this like Disney
World clean and over the years not so much. I mean,
(09:53):
you'd walk down Monroe Center where there's a hotel next
to where our building is U it was it was
it was the doors or the former I think was
the Fox Jewelry store, I think is what it was.
But they were all closed up, you know, boarded up.
But people would go. And when I say people, you know,
certain folks the housing challenged. I don't know what the
(10:19):
word of the day is to call. But folks who
were drunk and high or whatever, they would go. And
they would use that corner not just to sleep in,
but they would also use it to go to the
bathrooms in a hot on a hot summer day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You walk past that and boy, it was bacon. You
walk right past it. It was.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
They have the same problems in places like San Francisco.
It's even worse there because you have to step over
human discard material. I'd think of the best way. Because
for some of you sipping your coffee right now, trying
to think of the best way, I can say that
(11:00):
without turning your stomach as you're reaching for your bangle.
But that's what you had to do, is step over that,
or you have to step over syringes and even worse
in places like that, And unfortunately a lot of these
places end up in these situations because out of a
toxic compassion. In other words, they're so afraid of actually
(11:21):
helping the people that they need to help, giving them
the boundaries and telling them look consequences. Just like my kids, like,
we can't allow certain things. You know, when they're throwing
the fit. Nine times out of ten, my girls, it's
they're tired or they're hungry. Now, I know this isn't
the same thing, but you know what I mean, I
have to show them there are consequences to your actions.
(11:42):
And I know you're tired, you're hungry, and this is
what's driving this. But we can't do these things the
same way in situations with the crime the way people
are doing what they're doing, and nine times out of
ten because they never got the boundaries, they never got
the idea that there were consequences. And if we can't
learn those lessons, boy, it's it's time to take action
(12:04):
and make sure we lock them up. But people would say,
don't lock them up, that's the compassionate thing to do.
Compassionate to Who is that compassionate to the people that
are victims of these crimes? Is it compassionate to the
lady that was hijacked. Is a compassionate to the doge member,
mister balls, mister big balls, was it compassionate to him
(12:28):
that these people are running the streets. So today at ten,
we're gonna find out exactly because that's the era we're in, folks,
We're gonna find out exactly what is in store. The
find out era fooled around long enough. Trump is setting
the record straight coming out. You can join in the
program at any time two six, one, six, seven, seven,
(12:48):
four twenty four. Give you a chance to do that.
I got some news clips from over the weekend. You've
got it here. We'll get into some of the doozies
and Carlo Wagner My tax is on the way nine
thirty five today, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're back after this.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
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The goal of the meeting to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
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You're losing thousands of people a week, Russians and Ukrainians,
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This morning, nine thirty five got a couple of Michigan issues.
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Day or two to talk about insurance rates.
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He's a patriot, he's a good guy, and I just
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How about this headline today? A new analysis Governor Whitmer's
Michigan Healthy Climate Plan says that your energy rates could
go through the roof.
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Even more so.
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He's got a three hundred and eighty six billion dollars
plan over the next twenty five years, which translates to
an average two hundred and twenty eight dollars eighty three
cents a month on utility bills for Michigan households.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Mine's been that or much higher this summer. I don't
know about you.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The Mackinaw Center is following this modeling it out. Whitmer's
team disputing it, saying the clean up energy laws will
lower typical household costs, well, not when you pair it.
I don't think, first of all, wind solar and unicorn farts.
Not when you pair it along with all the energy
they're going to be using with AI and the data
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centers and manufacturing and everything else. Oh dare you the
wind solar anoying? The green pipe dream just doesn't stack up.
That's a problem. And energy cost is not just about
hitting you in your pocket, which it does and I
feel it, But you know what else, it's about the
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manufacturers who want to come and maybe build here. They
can't do it if the energy costs are way too high.
They just go across the border to places like Indiana, Ohio,
maybe even Illinois. So it's a major issue. And as
I stated from day one, we have President Trumpet was
out there right now trying to bring all the manufacturing
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back and make America a hub for that again and
to make things and great things here in America again.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I just I, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
How much of it we're gonna miss out on because
of the high cost of energy. So it's another piece.
In fact, we'll bring that up. Carlo Wagner running for governor.
We talked to her. Next we'll get some news and
be back with her. She's got started this ax my
tax get rid of property taxes, will lay it all
(18:34):
on her and get answers for you after.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
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today at the Good Feet Store. Well, we've got a
new name, folks, we've got a brand new name, throwing
her hat in the ring, but it's one that you're
familiar with. In fact, we've talked to her number times
on this program, and I know you're going to love
(20:46):
to hear from her again today. Carlo Wagner at ACTS
my tax. That's the initiative that's set forward to get
rid of property taxes here in Michigan, she said last week.
In fact, I got a text message right after we
talked to Carla last week and I got off the air,
I got a message from her. Carla said, Hey, I'm
(21:08):
throwing my hat in the ring. Carl's here with us
right now. The late is to announce that she's.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Running for governor here in Michigan. Good morning, Carla. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Hey, Justin, I'm great, My voice is a little froggy,
but I'll make it through. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, thank you for doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We'll get you to I know lots of folks have
lots of different questions for you, and I'm sure you're
welcome being able to hear from them. Let's start with
this first easiest question. I mean, you've put the initiative
out there to get rid of the property taxes. Ask
my tax. That's sort of taken off. But the question
is why so you hat in the ring here to
run for governor too.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yep, Justin, and I'm going to be really honest with
you and the listeners here, Ask my tax. Property tax
elimination has been very near and dear to my heart
for a long time, for almost five years now, and
we've been working really hard to get the signatures we
need to get this on the ballot. We didn't make
it the first time around. We were short, we were
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shorted days. This time we'll have the full one hundred
and eighty days. We have a better army, a little
bit more educated populace. Right But here's what I'm seeing.
This is my fear. There are other gubernatorial candidates right
now that are I think, are figuring out they should
(22:28):
talk about property tax elimination because it's going it's what
the people want. When they go, they do their they
do their meet and greets, that kind of stuff. People
are talking to them about property tax elimination because we've
been talking about it for five years. So they're changing
their messaging a little bit and they're starting to talk
about it. But I don't want it to just be
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lip service to get signatures and votes for them. This
is too important to the people of the state of Michigan,
and it's too important to the state itself that we
do something about property taxes. We are making a difference.
We have had let a couple of people in the
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legislation in Michigan here that have written bills to reform
property taxes, but they don't get enough support because they're
not listening to us. They're not listening to the people.
I believe that property tax, property taxes are the number
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one concern for people in the state of Michigan today.
Finances finances, property tax elimination. You heard the gentleman on
the news program that you had just before me. What
did he say about foreclosures or bankruptcy on collectibles? Right?
Our debt, personal debt is as high as it's ever been.
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Property tax elimination can fix that, and it will fix
so many other things along the way. I firmly believe
it is. It will fix fifty percent of what is
wrong with Michigan today if we eliminate property tax.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Why.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, just to piggyback on that. And then Andrew's question,
why are you running? What is this just to bring
more attention? Are you serious about the race for governor?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Or?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is it just to bring more attention to the acts
my tax efforts or a bit of both.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
It's both. It's both. We need the added exposure, for sure,
we need the added exposure. But again, my fear is
other people will use it and they're not going to
do anything about it. I am adamant about doing something
about it, and I will do whatever it takes to
get that done, because our state will cease to exist
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if we don't do something. And that is why it
has to be such a drastic measure. And it's like
be bold or go home. And I think that's what
it is. And I'm just afraid that some of the
other candidates that are running are not. This is not
their agenda, it is not their passion, and therefore it's
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not going to be front and center for them like
it is going to be for me. And that that
is why when I considered everything else that I saw happening,
I said, I have to do this. I have to
run for governor to make sure we get this done.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Carla Wagner acts my tax and now a Republican candidate
for governor, She's filed her paperwork.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What's what's next?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I mean, obviously you continue to have these conversations with people,
You're going to have lots of questions from different people
as you are continuing to kind of crisscross the state. Here,
let's let's let's see if we can get some of
these answers for folks today. In fact, let's see this
is Samantha and Grayville. Is a question for you, what
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will you do about external migration from the state. In
other words, the way I understand this is we get
so many people leaving the state. There's a whole other problem.
You talk about how everything costs more. We just heard
the story today that energy costs are going to be
through the roof. The macanaw Sitter estimates an extra two
hundred and twenty eight dollars in eighty three cents a
(26:26):
month on utility bills for Michigan households because of Governor
Whitmer's My Healthy Climate Plan three hundred and eighty six
billion over twenty five years. We talked about how much
insurance rates were going up last week. I mean, it's
just one thing after another piling on all of these
folks here in Michigan.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Sure, so let's talk about the utilities justin because you
mentioned it earlier. And this is to my point, what
people don't realize is consumer's energy. I think consumers energy
the last time I looked, pays about two hundred hundred
million dollars a year in property tax to the state
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of Michigan. What happens. How do they make up that
two hundred million dollars They charge it to the consumer.
That's what people don't. People need to understand this. Any business,
any business out there, property tax that they pay is
passed directly onto the consumer. So when we have rising
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property taxes, we have rising costs that we are picking
the tab up. Correct If my property taxes at my
restaurant are increased, the cost of your bacon and eggs
when you come and eat at my restaurant is going
to have to go up. If consumers energy did not
have to pay two hundred million dollars a year in
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property taxes, could our services go down? This is one
of the things when you the mass exodus of people
leaving the state is because it is too expensive to
live here property taxes and utilities. It's not only expensive
for people, it's too expensive for businesses. This is why
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our current administration is having to pay companies billions of
our tax payer dollars to bribe them to come here,
and then she forgives them property taxes, which to me
is a double negative. We're paying them to come here,
and then we're foregoing tax property taxes for them. But
(28:34):
that's the only way we can get them to come
because it is too expensive to do business here. So
when we get businesses coming back because there's no property tax,
that means no property tax for the land that they buy,
but also no property tax on the services the utilities
that they have to purchase. And then people will come
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back because there's jobs here and there's no property taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
This is a this is an issue that's been a
problem here over the last you know, almost eight years
now that continues to sort of raise its ugly head.
You know, I understand that that folks are concerned. I mean,
it was COVID, it was the cost of living, it
was the taxes, it was everything going up.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And I can it.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You can just imagine how that plays out over time
in a race here that we've seen already. Kind of interesting.
You've got an independent I'm using the air quotes for
Mike Dougan, who's really a Democrat who just shed the
labels that you can throw it.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
And real quick, justin while you're since you mentioned his name,
I'm going to bring this up. This here, this this
report right here, and you can see all of the listings.
And this is double sided.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay, that's a big thick report there.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
These These are the foreclosures in Wayne County since May.
These are how these are foreclosures and mister Dugan's Detroit
eighty nine of these pages are Detroit. Mister Dugan's Detroit
eighty nine pages double sided foreclosures in Detroit, one hundred
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and one total in Wayne County since May. I'm sorry,
from January to May. You don't think property taxes are
killing Detroit. He's the mayor, he wants to be governor.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It is, you know, I think it is a question
that's that's worthy of asking, how's Detroit really doing? I
mean that's a that's a question, and I think folks
would would wonder. I made sure it's going well for
certain folks who got deals done there and and whatnot
for for some of the quote unquote fat cats, you know,
but what's it like on the ground for the average person.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
And that's a exactly what people are saying is that
Detroit is becoming an elitist, an elitist area. The low
and the middle income people are being booted out. I
think they added something called a blight tax. And here's
the problem justin where is the incentive for anyone to
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make their house look nice, Because as soon as you do,
the assessors at your door, they reassess your house, they
bump up your value, and now you're paying higher property
taxes because you made improvements to your house. That makes
no sense to me. Some people can't afford that. They
can't afford the necessary improvements. They can't afford a new
(31:40):
roof because they're paying property tax. Those property tax dollars
could help pay that roof. And while you're putting that
roof on, you're hiring people, so you're giving someone a job.
You're generating state income tax, you're generating sales tax. You're
putting someone to work to do an improvement on your
house to make it instead of paying property tax, and
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that property tax will go up as soon as you
put a new roof on.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Here's another question from the chat, and I think it's
a good one. Carlin. Can you tell her we know
a little bit about you because you've been on talking
about acts my tax for so long, but can you
tell us a little bit about your experience in business, law, enforcement, etc.
And how that might play out here if you were
to become governor.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
You know, Justin and I have been Basically. I worked
at Herman Miller right out of high school in data
entry and then cost accounting and inventory accounts payable, so
it's always been about numbers. My husband and I started
a small bit resident I have my residential Builder's license,
so I've been building houses for over forty years. I
(32:51):
have my real estate license. I develop property, you know,
so we take property and build it, make it into
you know, suitable for building houses on. I had my
securities license, which meant that I could do stock trading
for people in financial planning, that kind of thing. So
(33:11):
a securities license again, more budget, more budgets. Right. I
now own a little restaurant in Rockford or just outside
of Rockford, so I'm in the restaurant business. And I
have a little retail antique shop, so I'm in the
retail business. I was a totally uniformed, fully uniformed volunteer
(33:31):
deputy with Kent County Sheriff's Department. You know, that was
a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful experience and I still have friends
from those days. I grew up on a farm, so
you know when you look at things that I've done,
growing up on a farm, working at a you know,
working at a business in their accounting departments, building houses,
(33:56):
real estates, selling property, law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That you know this.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The realist, you know, the restaurant business, the retail business.
I have a wide variety of knowledge. I know a
little bit about a lot of things, and I think
that is important for someone who's going to run a business.
And the state is a business. It's like why Donald
(34:25):
Trump does well. Right, he's a businessman first. He's a
politician somewhere down the road, but he's a businessman first.
And you understand the fact that if something's not working,
you don't keep dumping more money into it. You change.
You have to be able to change and go down
a different path and stuff like that. We have so
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many things here in Michigan that are good that we
should be one of the wealthiest states in the nation,
which mister Trump recognizes because he said, we need to
make Michigan the manufacturing capital of the world, or at
least of the United States. And we can do that,
but not with property tax not with property taxes the
(35:06):
way they are today. It'll well, I don't see that
ever happening.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Carlo Wagner.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Ax My Tax is the name of the website xax
m I tax dot org. Carlo is now running for
governor as well. Carlo, where's the best place for folks?
We just got about ten seconds here for them to
find you if they want to find out more online.
Definitely have you back on in the future.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Yeah, you know, of course, the ax my tax. Excuse me,
I am getting my I'm getting a website built created
right now for my gubernatorial race, so we will have
that soon. I don't have it right now, so I
can't give it to you, but as soon as I
get it, I can always text it to you, justin
and let you know what it is. It was a
(35:50):
last It was a last minute decision. It was something
that I had thought about because I'm so frustrated what
I saw happening in Lance specifically and in our state,
and going around and talking to people across the state
of Michigan, listening to what their concerns were really and
really being you know, can I address those concerns? Like
(36:13):
I said, I think half of it can be solved
by eliminating property tax. But the fact is we were
not getting people in Lancing to listen to us and
that they represent us. There are representatives, but it seems
they have an agenda different than ours as it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Carl More with you hang on the line. We'll we'll
have Carla back on soon, folks, so you can hear
more back after this thing on.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stream us on your smart folks.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on news Radio Wood
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Monday, August eleventh.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story
Michigan Senator Democrat Alista slock In moving farther to the left.
She says socialist New York City mayor candidate Zorhan mom
Donnie is a new generation of leadership. Slockin then sort
of downplays her original remark, telling NBC News.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, I've said very openly that I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I never would be called an expert on New York
City politics. But the two messages were like a blinking
red light. How can you miss them? People are still
extremely focused on the cost of living and how they
can't get ahead, still the motivating issue, and then number two,
they want that new generation of leadership. In other news,
a new study finds Governor Whitmer's Healthy Climate plan will
(37:37):
cost three hundred and eighty six billion dollars over the
next twenty five years. On average, taxpayers will be spending
about two hundred and twenty eight dollars a month on
utility bills. And former Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate dropping
out of the US Senate race. He says he's going
in a different direction of service. For these stories and more,
visit the Midwesterner At the Midwesterner.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Dot news press conference, the DC Crime and Chaos, clean
Up and crack Down President Trump are about to go
live at ten this morning. We'll have the latest for you.
We can probably stream that in the behind the scenes
live stream. We got news coming up and more. By
the way, you miss any moment from today, you can
(38:20):
get it all in the stack where we post all
of the stories and more with all of the information,
lots of it that we didn't even get a chance
to get to today at Justin Barclay dot com. Back
with you tomorrow, wishing you the best, making a great day.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
God bless us.
It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on Wood Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in. What a week all ready?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Well, we're just getting started, but we've got one lined
up for you, a big meeting with Putin in America
of all places. We'll tell you where and what's going
down to President Trump set for that meeting later this week.
And a massive announcement coming this morning, the crackdown on
(00:31):
crime and chaos in DC and the President speaking shortly.
Plus is Alligator Alcatraz shutting down? We've got that story
and the latest to jump in the race for governor
here in Michigan coming up. Yeah, the stories of matter
most should be talking about these round of water cool
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folks putin coming to America. Trump says he's invited Vladimir
Putin to Alaska. Uh, this said, this is this will
be a big This is like the first one. First
(01:48):
time we've seen this happen in a long time. President
Trump says he'll meet with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
These weigh whether to invite Volodo Zelensky. You got to
say it right, you know, to join as they have
(02:09):
a possible conversation on what it might look like to
get peace there between Russia and the Ukraine. Yeah, a
lots of big stories coming out. This one, I gotta
tell you more of a clickbait story than anything else.
Is Alligator Alcatraz shutting down? In fact, the answer is no,
(02:30):
not really any time. So what they are doing is
halting some of the construction temporarily at least. And this
is one of these wacky federal judges who's in charge
of this.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think it's an Obama endpoint appointee. Is what I remember.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Seeing part of the conversation Judge pat pausing that cane
construction for two weeks, that what they really want to
have here is some sort of environmental study. This is what,
By the way, this is what Americans have had enough of.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
This is why we voted for Trump.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It's always stuff like this when the administrative state, or
you call it the deep state, the bureaucracy, red tape,
wants to get in the way when folks are actually
trying to get a few things done. Here, By the way,
it's not going to stop him, he says, wait a minute.
In fact, hold my diet coke. Just I feel like
(03:26):
he's in the oval right now hitting the button. Somebody's
racing in with one. He's ready for a big news conference,
one coming today in fact, all about cleaning up the
crime and chaos in DC. Trump posting on true Social
We're having a news conference in the White House. I'm
(03:49):
going to make our capital safer. A lot of folks
looking forward to this story, including people that live in Washington,
d C. Look, I don't know if you've been there
anytime so recently, but I have, and I will tell
you it's kind of hit or miss in a lot
of these places. You saw the young man that worked
for Doge Gott and had to get in between the
(04:12):
carjacker and the victim not too long ago, a couple
of days back, in fact, he was assaulted. He's beat
up pretty badly, and it's just nasty to see. Not
only did he have you know, bruises, cuts and things
like that, but he also had some sort of a concussion.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But he's already searched.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Trump's already searched a few federal agents FBI and whatnot
into NTO DC ahead of this announcement. In folks, I'm
telling you it'll happen around ten this morning, and well,
you know, if they're on time, we'll have the Latest
coming at you. So stand by for that and and
(04:53):
more and we'll fill you in on everything.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Also coming up today, we're gonna hear from the latest
to drop their hat in for the governor's race as
a Republican here in the state of Michigan. Carlo Wagner,
who is a front of the the push to get
rid of property taxes here at Michigan. The ax My
Tax crew has decided to throw her hat in the ring,
(05:20):
and as she describes, it's really a way to get
more eyes on the move to get rid of property town.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
What she in fact wants to do, why she's running,
and more coming out.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Called Justin Now at six one six seven seven four
twenty four twenty four at six one six seven seven
for twenty four to twenty four West Michigan Live with
Justin Barclay on news radio Wood thirteen hundred and one
oh six nine f M.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So here's more from Trump's truth social post. We're having
a news conference in the White House. I'm going to
make our capital safer and more beautiful than it ever
was before. The homeless haves to move out immediately. Will
give you places to stay, but far from the capital.
The criminals, you don't have to move out. We're going
to put you in jail. So he's telling you in
(06:07):
one bre I've almost move out. It's time to go.
Criminals is saying, yeah, you don't have to go anywhere.
We're just going to lock you up where you belong.
He says, it's all going to happen very fast. Just
like the border. We went from millions pouring into zero
in the last few months. This will be easier, be prepared.
(06:28):
There will be no more. Mister nice guy. We want
our capital back. Thank you for your attention to this matter,
which has become a sort of a trademark for him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Anyway, that
news conference coming up at what ten today. I don't
(06:51):
think I've ever felt I will tell you there was
one time it was kind of strange. Okay, I guess
this is Was it twenty three, two twenty four? There
was a moment when I think it was twenty four,
early twenty four.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it maybe the March, March.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Or twenty I don't remember the year, but it was
Biden's I think it was his last State of the Union.
And I went to broadcast. Congressman Molnar invited me as
his guest, and so I got to sit in the audience,
and boy, that was a that was an experience altogether
in itself. But I went to broadcasting. We were broadcasting
(07:33):
from the Heritage Foundation. They have studios in their building. Well,
I mean, I'm on the air at this point. I
had to be there very early, five thirty or so
in the morning to get ready for the show that
I was doing in Detroit at the time. And I
got dropped off by the uber and the people at
(07:54):
the Heritage Foundation weren't there at the door yet, and
I'm in the middle of this real kind of sketchy
looking neighborhood at five point thirty in the morning, just
me and my bag, and I was sitting there like wow.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So there's like.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
This construction going on at the Heritage found this you
can imagine. They have scaffolding, they have like barrels, and
they have like things that are up around the front
of the building. And I saw some people walking by
and they looked normal, but there were lots of people
who didn't. So what I decided to do is go
like sort of hide behind the construction stuff so that nope,
(08:32):
you know, if anybody was walking.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Around, they weren't gonna see me.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I wasn't gonna like stand out like a sore thumb
while I waited for somebody to come unlock the doors
and let me in.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It was. It was a really weird moment. I don't.
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I don't think I would tell you that I ever
felt unsafe at any time necessarily.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But I don't know. I will tell you this.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I think it's like any other liberal, like very left
heat kind of run city. It same would be with
the really right or even Grand Rapids. Unfortunately, downtown at
night at the wrong time and the wrong place you're
going to run into, You're going to run into, Sobelty
could anyway some problems and the situation you want to
(09:15):
be it you don't want to be planning. I look,
I bring my family down to the city here sparingly.
I certainly wouldn't do it at certain times, you know,
at night and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And I look, I know I'm not the only one.
I hate to.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Say that in a city where when I first moved here,
you know, like twenty years ago, whenever I first set
foot in Grand Rapids, i'd never been here before. One
of the things I thought when I when I hit
Monroe Center and I got out of my course, how
clean the streets were of Oh man, this like Disney
World clean and over the years not so much. I mean,
(09:53):
you'd walk down Monroe Center where there's a hotel next
to where our building is U it was it was
it was the doors or the former I think was
the Fox Jewelry store, I think is what it was.
But they were all closed up, you know, boarded up.
But people would go. And when I say people, you know,
certain folks the housing challenged. I don't know what the
(10:19):
word of the day is to call. But folks who
were drunk and high or whatever, they would go. And
they would use that corner not just to sleep in,
but they would also use it to go to the
bathrooms in a hot on a hot summer day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You walk past that and boy, it was bacon. You
walk right past it. It was.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
They have the same problems in places like San Francisco.
It's even worse there because you have to step over
human discard material. I'd think of the best way. Because
for some of you sipping your coffee right now, trying
to think of the best way, I can say that
(11:00):
without turning your stomach as you're reaching for your bangle.
But that's what you had to do, is step over that,
or you have to step over syringes and even worse
in places like that, And unfortunately a lot of these
places end up in these situations because out of a
toxic compassion. In other words, they're so afraid of actually
(11:21):
helping the people that they need to help, giving them
the boundaries and telling them look consequences. Just like my kids, like,
we can't allow certain things. You know, when they're throwing
the fit. Nine times out of ten, my girls, it's
they're tired or they're hungry. Now, I know this isn't
the same thing, but you know what I mean, I
have to show them there are consequences to your actions.
(11:42):
And I know you're tired, you're hungry, and this is
what's driving this. But we can't do these things the
same way in situations with the crime the way people
are doing what they're doing, and nine times out of
ten because they never got the boundaries, they never got
the idea that there were consequences. And if we can't
learn those lessons, boy, it's it's time to take action
(12:04):
and make sure we lock them up. But people would say,
don't lock them up, that's the compassionate thing to do.
Compassionate to Who is that compassionate to the people that
are victims of these crimes? Is it compassionate to the
lady that was hijacked. Is a compassionate to the doge member,
mister balls, mister big balls, was it compassionate to him
(12:28):
that these people are running the streets. So today at ten,
we're gonna find out exactly because that's the era we're in, folks,
We're gonna find out exactly what is in store. The
find out era fooled around long enough. Trump is setting
the record straight coming out. You can join in the
program at any time two six, one, six, seven, seven,
(12:48):
four twenty four. Give you a chance to do that.
I got some news clips from over the weekend. You've
got it here. We'll get into some of the doozies
and Carlo Wagner My tax is on the way nine
thirty five today, don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
We're back after this.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Straight It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on News
Radio one thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a
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Speaker 4 (13:16):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Monday, August eleventh.
I'm Robin Poffman. We begin with a Midwesterner dot News
original story. A news study finds Governor Whipper's healthy climate
plan will cost three hundred and eighty six billion dollars
over the next twenty five years. On average, taxpayers will
be spending about two hundred and twenty eight dollars a
(13:38):
month on utility bills. Former Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate
drops out of the US Senate race. He says he's
going in a different direction of service. And President Trump
schedule to meet on Friday with Russian President Putin in Alaska.
The goal of the meeting to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You're losing thousands of people a week, Russians and Ukrainians,
mostly soldiers, but you know, missiles are lobbed into cities
and towns, Kiev, lots of places. You've been reading the
same stories that I've been reading, and uh, we gotta
get it solved.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
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Midwesterner dot news.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Appreciate you guys, Thank you so much for your support
and the folks that are hanging out with us in
the chat. It's one of the fun things about this program.
We get to hear from folks in the chat. You'll
be able to join in the conversation. As matter of fact,
you have a question for Carla Wagner, who is running
for governor, you have a question for her coming up,
(15:24):
you'll be able to ask it about nine thirty five
This morning, nine thirty five got a couple of Michigan issues.
And I don't know if you heard this in the
Enjoyer portion of the program on Friday, but we talked
about the insurance when the insurance rates going up, and
(15:45):
our good friends bringing the conversation to you on the
Midwesterner today as well. This is a whole nother piece
in fact, I've got a friend who I might pull
in here in the next.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Day or two to talk about insurance rates.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
He's a patriot, he's a good guy, and I just
I want to see if we can get answers, because
you know, I'm gonna have to shop around, and I
know he's got different ways that we can. We can
do that because of how much they're talking about the
insurance rates going and it's not just not just your
home and your car, but it's all all across the board.
(16:22):
How about this headline today? A new analysis Governor Whitmer's
Michigan Healthy Climate Plan says that your energy rates could
go through the roof.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Even more so.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He's got a three hundred and eighty six billion dollars
plan over the next twenty five years, which translates to
an average two hundred and twenty eight dollars eighty three
cents a month on utility bills for Michigan households.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Mine's been that or much higher this summer. I don't
know about you.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The Mackinaw Center is following this modeling it out. Whitmer's
team disputing it, saying the clean up energy laws will
lower typical household costs, well, not when you pair it.
I don't think, first of all, wind solar and unicorn farts.
Not when you pair it along with all the energy
they're going to be using with AI and the data
(17:15):
centers and manufacturing and everything else. Oh dare you the
wind solar anoying? The green pipe dream just doesn't stack up.
That's a problem. And energy cost is not just about
hitting you in your pocket, which it does and I
feel it, But you know what else, it's about the
(17:37):
manufacturers who want to come and maybe build here. They
can't do it if the energy costs are way too high.
They just go across the border to places like Indiana, Ohio,
maybe even Illinois. So it's a major issue. And as
I stated from day one, we have President Trumpet was
out there right now trying to bring all the manufacturing
(17:57):
back and make America a hub for that again and
to make things and great things here in America again.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I just I, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
How much of it we're gonna miss out on because
of the high cost of energy. So it's another piece.
In fact, we'll bring that up. Carlo Wagner running for governor.
We talked to her. Next we'll get some news and
be back with her. She's got started this ax my
tax get rid of property taxes, will lay it all
(18:34):
on her and get answers for you after.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
This informative Engigee, It's West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay
on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one oh six
nine a f M.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Back at it, Thanks for our good friends at the
Good Feet Store out running around this weekend with the
kids splashing in the pool, trying to soak up as
much as what is left of summer. And man, oh man,
I don't know about you, but it just seems to
me anyway, like it's just flown by and AI kids
(19:12):
ready to go back to school, Like right around the corner,
it's gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Get You're gonna blink. It'll be Christmas. Don't don't say that.
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
But my point is, if you've been missing out on
this summer because you're afraid of foot pain or bat pain,
I know, maybe even leg pain, because I've been there
before me, you don't have to anymore. They're still a
little bit for you to soak up some sunshine and
fresh air. And don't forget when you walk into the
Good Feet Store. Those personalized art supports that did the
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trick for me me. They can fit into your summer
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Dare I say, even in your crocs. I know that's
a sore subject, whether or not crocs should even be.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
A loud or not.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
The Good Feet Store says, it doesn't matter. You can
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Come in and experience the good feet feeling for yourself
today at the Good Feet Store. Well, we've got a
new name, folks, we've got a brand new name, throwing
her hat in the ring, but it's one that you're
familiar with. In fact, we've talked to her number times
on this program, and I know you're going to love
(20:46):
to hear from her again today. Carlo Wagner at ACTS
my tax. That's the initiative that's set forward to get
rid of property taxes here in Michigan, she said last week.
In fact, I got a text message right after we
talked to Carla last week and I got off the air,
I got a message from her. Carla said, Hey, I'm
(21:08):
throwing my hat in the ring. Carl's here with us
right now. The late is to announce that she's.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Running for governor here in Michigan. Good morning, Carla. How
are you?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Hey, Justin, I'm great, My voice is a little froggy,
but I'll make it through. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, thank you for doing it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
We'll get you to I know lots of folks have
lots of different questions for you, and I'm sure you're
welcome being able to hear from them. Let's start with
this first easiest question. I mean, you've put the initiative
out there to get rid of the property taxes. Ask
my tax. That's sort of taken off. But the question
is why so you hat in the ring here to
run for governor too.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yep, Justin, and I'm going to be really honest with
you and the listeners here, Ask my tax. Property tax
elimination has been very near and dear to my heart
for a long time, for almost five years now, and
we've been working really hard to get the signatures we
need to get this on the ballot. We didn't make
it the first time around. We were short, we were
(22:07):
shorted days. This time we'll have the full one hundred
and eighty days. We have a better army, a little
bit more educated populace. Right But here's what I'm seeing.
This is my fear. There are other gubernatorial candidates right
now that are I think, are figuring out they should
(22:28):
talk about property tax elimination because it's going it's what
the people want. When they go, they do their they
do their meet and greets, that kind of stuff. People
are talking to them about property tax elimination because we've
been talking about it for five years. So they're changing
their messaging a little bit and they're starting to talk
about it. But I don't want it to just be
(22:50):
lip service to get signatures and votes for them. This
is too important to the people of the state of Michigan,
and it's too important to the state itself that we
do something about property taxes. We are making a difference.
We have had let a couple of people in the
(23:11):
legislation in Michigan here that have written bills to reform
property taxes, but they don't get enough support because they're
not listening to us. They're not listening to the people.
I believe that property tax, property taxes are the number
(23:31):
one concern for people in the state of Michigan today.
Finances finances, property tax elimination. You heard the gentleman on
the news program that you had just before me. What
did he say about foreclosures or bankruptcy on collectibles? Right?
Our debt, personal debt is as high as it's ever been.
(23:55):
Property tax elimination can fix that, and it will fix
so many other things along the way. I firmly believe
it is. It will fix fifty percent of what is
wrong with Michigan today if we eliminate property tax.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Why.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, just to piggyback on that. And then Andrew's question,
why are you running? What is this just to bring
more attention? Are you serious about the race for governor?
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Or?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Is it just to bring more attention to the acts
my tax efforts or a bit of both.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
It's both. It's both. We need the added exposure, for sure,
we need the added exposure. But again, my fear is
other people will use it and they're not going to
do anything about it. I am adamant about doing something
about it, and I will do whatever it takes to
get that done, because our state will cease to exist
(24:52):
if we don't do something. And that is why it
has to be such a drastic measure. And it's like
be bold or go home. And I think that's what
it is. And I'm just afraid that some of the
other candidates that are running are not. This is not
their agenda, it is not their passion, and therefore it's
(25:13):
not going to be front and center for them like
it is going to be for me. And that that
is why when I considered everything else that I saw happening,
I said, I have to do this. I have to
run for governor to make sure we get this done.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Carla Wagner acts my tax and now a Republican candidate
for governor, She's filed her paperwork.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What's what's next?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I mean, obviously you continue to have these conversations with people,
You're going to have lots of questions from different people
as you are continuing to kind of crisscross the state. Here,
let's let's let's see if we can get some of
these answers for folks today. In fact, let's see this
is Samantha and Grayville. Is a question for you, what
(26:04):
will you do about external migration from the state. In
other words, the way I understand this is we get
so many people leaving the state. There's a whole other problem.
You talk about how everything costs more. We just heard
the story today that energy costs are going to be
through the roof. The macanaw Sitter estimates an extra two
hundred and twenty eight dollars in eighty three cents a
(26:26):
month on utility bills for Michigan households because of Governor
Whitmer's My Healthy Climate Plan three hundred and eighty six
billion over twenty five years. We talked about how much
insurance rates were going up last week. I mean, it's
just one thing after another piling on all of these
folks here in Michigan.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Sure, so let's talk about the utilities justin because you
mentioned it earlier. And this is to my point, what
people don't realize is consumer's energy. I think consumers energy
the last time I looked, pays about two hundred hundred
million dollars a year in property tax to the state
(27:06):
of Michigan. What happens. How do they make up that
two hundred million dollars They charge it to the consumer.
That's what people don't. People need to understand this. Any business,
any business out there, property tax that they pay is
passed directly onto the consumer. So when we have rising
(27:29):
property taxes, we have rising costs that we are picking
the tab up. Correct If my property taxes at my
restaurant are increased, the cost of your bacon and eggs
when you come and eat at my restaurant is going
to have to go up. If consumers energy did not
have to pay two hundred million dollars a year in
(27:52):
property taxes, could our services go down? This is one
of the things when you the mass exodus of people
leaving the state is because it is too expensive to
live here property taxes and utilities. It's not only expensive
for people, it's too expensive for businesses. This is why
(28:12):
our current administration is having to pay companies billions of
our tax payer dollars to bribe them to come here,
and then she forgives them property taxes, which to me
is a double negative. We're paying them to come here,
and then we're foregoing tax property taxes for them. But
(28:34):
that's the only way we can get them to come
because it is too expensive to do business here. So
when we get businesses coming back because there's no property tax,
that means no property tax for the land that they buy,
but also no property tax on the services the utilities
that they have to purchase. And then people will come
(28:55):
back because there's jobs here and there's no property taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
This is a this is an issue that's been a
problem here over the last you know, almost eight years
now that continues to sort of raise its ugly head.
You know, I understand that that folks are concerned. I mean,
it was COVID, it was the cost of living, it
was the taxes, it was everything going up.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And I can it.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You can just imagine how that plays out over time
in a race here that we've seen already. Kind of interesting.
You've got an independent I'm using the air quotes for
Mike Dougan, who's really a Democrat who just shed the
labels that you can throw it.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
And real quick, justin while you're since you mentioned his name,
I'm going to bring this up. This here, this this
report right here, and you can see all of the listings.
And this is double sided.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Okay, that's a big thick report there.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
These These are the foreclosures in Wayne County since May.
These are how these are foreclosures and mister Dugan's Detroit
eighty nine of these pages are Detroit. Mister Dugan's Detroit
eighty nine pages double sided foreclosures in Detroit, one hundred
(30:22):
and one total in Wayne County since May. I'm sorry,
from January to May. You don't think property taxes are
killing Detroit. He's the mayor, he wants to be governor.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
It is, you know, I think it is a question
that's that's worthy of asking, how's Detroit really doing? I
mean that's a that's a question, and I think folks
would would wonder. I made sure it's going well for
certain folks who got deals done there and and whatnot
for for some of the quote unquote fat cats, you know,
but what's it like on the ground for the average person.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
And that's a exactly what people are saying is that
Detroit is becoming an elitist, an elitist area. The low
and the middle income people are being booted out. I
think they added something called a blight tax. And here's
the problem justin where is the incentive for anyone to
(31:19):
make their house look nice, Because as soon as you do,
the assessors at your door, they reassess your house, they
bump up your value, and now you're paying higher property
taxes because you made improvements to your house. That makes
no sense to me. Some people can't afford that. They
can't afford the necessary improvements. They can't afford a new
(31:40):
roof because they're paying property tax. Those property tax dollars
could help pay that roof. And while you're putting that
roof on, you're hiring people, so you're giving someone a job.
You're generating state income tax, you're generating sales tax. You're
putting someone to work to do an improvement on your
house to make it instead of paying property tax, and
(32:04):
that property tax will go up as soon as you
put a new roof on.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Here's another question from the chat, and I think it's
a good one. Carlin. Can you tell her we know
a little bit about you because you've been on talking
about acts my tax for so long, but can you
tell us a little bit about your experience in business, law, enforcement, etc.
And how that might play out here if you were
to become governor.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
You know, Justin and I have been Basically. I worked
at Herman Miller right out of high school in data
entry and then cost accounting and inventory accounts payable, so
it's always been about numbers. My husband and I started
a small bit resident I have my residential Builder's license,
so I've been building houses for over forty years. I
(32:51):
have my real estate license. I develop property, you know,
so we take property and build it, make it into
you know, suitable for building houses on. I had my
securities license, which meant that I could do stock trading
for people in financial planning, that kind of thing. So
(33:11):
a securities license again, more budget, more budgets. Right. I
now own a little restaurant in Rockford or just outside
of Rockford, so I'm in the restaurant business. And I
have a little retail antique shop, so I'm in the
retail business. I was a totally uniformed, fully uniformed volunteer
(33:31):
deputy with Kent County Sheriff's Department. You know, that was
a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful experience and I still have friends
from those days. I grew up on a farm, so
you know when you look at things that I've done,
growing up on a farm, working at a you know,
working at a business in their accounting departments, building houses,
(33:56):
real estates, selling property, law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That you know this.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
The realist, you know, the restaurant business, the retail business.
I have a wide variety of knowledge. I know a
little bit about a lot of things, and I think
that is important for someone who's going to run a business.
And the state is a business. It's like why Donald
(34:25):
Trump does well. Right, he's a businessman first. He's a
politician somewhere down the road, but he's a businessman first.
And you understand the fact that if something's not working,
you don't keep dumping more money into it. You change.
You have to be able to change and go down
a different path and stuff like that. We have so
(34:46):
many things here in Michigan that are good that we
should be one of the wealthiest states in the nation,
which mister Trump recognizes because he said, we need to
make Michigan the manufacturing capital of the world, or at
least of the United States. And we can do that,
but not with property tax not with property taxes the
(35:06):
way they are today. It'll well, I don't see that
ever happening.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Carlo Wagner.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Ax My Tax is the name of the website xax
m I tax dot org. Carlo is now running for
governor as well. Carlo, where's the best place for folks?
We just got about ten seconds here for them to
find you if they want to find out more online.
Definitely have you back on in the future.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
Yeah, you know, of course, the ax my tax. Excuse me,
I am getting my I'm getting a website built created
right now for my gubernatorial race, so we will have
that soon. I don't have it right now, so I
can't give it to you, but as soon as I
get it, I can always text it to you, justin
and let you know what it is. It was a
(35:50):
last It was a last minute decision. It was something
that I had thought about because I'm so frustrated what
I saw happening in Lance specifically and in our state,
and going around and talking to people across the state
of Michigan, listening to what their concerns were really and
really being you know, can I address those concerns? Like
(36:13):
I said, I think half of it can be solved
by eliminating property tax. But the fact is we were
not getting people in Lancing to listen to us and
that they represent us. There are representatives, but it seems
they have an agenda different than ours as it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Carl More with you hang on the line. We'll we'll
have Carla back on soon, folks, so you can hear
more back after this thing on.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Wherever you are.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stream us on your smart folks.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
West Michigan Live with Justin Barklay on news Radio Wood
thirteen hundred and one oh six nine a f m.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Monday, August eleventh.
I'm Robin Hoffman. It's a Midwesterner. Dot News original story
Michigan Senator Democrat Alista slock In moving farther to the left.
She says socialist New York City mayor candidate Zorhan mom
Donnie is a new generation of leadership. Slockin then sort
of downplays her original remark, telling NBC News.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yeah, I've said very openly that I don't.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
I never would be called an expert on New York
City politics. But the two messages were like a blinking
red light. How can you miss them? People are still
extremely focused on the cost of living and how they
can't get ahead, still the motivating issue, and then number two,
they want that new generation of leadership. In other news,
a new study finds Governor Whitmer's Healthy Climate plan will
(37:37):
cost three hundred and eighty six billion dollars over the
next twenty five years. On average, taxpayers will be spending
about two hundred and twenty eight dollars a month on
utility bills. And former Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate dropping
out of the US Senate race. He says he's going
in a different direction of service. For these stories and more,
visit the Midwesterner At the Midwesterner.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Dot news press conference, the DC Crime and Chaos, clean
Up and crack Down President Trump are about to go
live at ten this morning. We'll have the latest for you.
We can probably stream that in the behind the scenes
live stream. We got news coming up and more. By
the way, you miss any moment from today, you can
(38:20):
get it all in the stack where we post all
of the stories and more with all of the information,
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with you tomorrow, wishing you the best, making a great day.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
God bless us.
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