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Time's always Hapy, Tohit Donovan and Neil from the Americans for
Prosperity on the program especially, We've got big things coming up. Donovan,
Welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show. Brian,
always good to be with. You need to get these
Trump tax cuts in place permanently, and I always have
to observe why they put an end to them when
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they enact them just blows my mind. Just anyway, here
we are with them expiring, and everybody's going to get hit.
It's not just tax cuts for the rich, as the
left keeps saying. This is really going to hit the
middle class very hard.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah. You know, Americans under the four years of Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris with Bidenomics, saw their cost of
living increased dramatically, Folks paying twelve to fifteen thousand dollars
more than under the prior administration. And you know, so
inflation's hitting folks hard. But if Congress fills to act
their tax bills are going to go up. On average,
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every America will pay fifteen hundred dollars more. Should the
Trump tax cuts of twenty seventeen be allowed to expire
at the end of this year, and so there, you know,
it's a one two punch Brian from the inflationary you know,
so called Hitden tax of out of control government spending,
and then a very real visible tax when you file
your tax bill between now in April fifteenth, should these
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expire on your tax bill? So it'll get you from
both sides. If Congress doesn't act.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Soon, well, by doing it through reconciliation, which seems to
be the direction they're going to go, they don't need
a sixty vote majority in the Senate. They can do
it with a simple majority. I've seen different proposals going
out there. There's one, you know, comprehensive all under one
resolution proposal, and then there's the two step solution. I
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think Donald Trump's in favor of the former. Do you
Is that your understanding as well? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I think that's something that broke in the last twenty
four to forty eight hours is you know, the President
has said, let's go for the big, beautiful bill, and
that's the you know, that's the beauty of the executive
They can set that agenda and Donald Trump is more
than happy, as you know we all know, to set
his Vision seventh agenda and drive towards it. And I
think that you know, it makes a lot of sense. Congress.
You've got a lot more numbers in Congress. It's a
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lot more work that Speaker Johnson's got to do to
keep that conference together.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
He'll do it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
But if we can get all this done together, it's
what the American people want, and tax cuts are among
the most important, at least and most importantly retaining the
tax cuts that we have had since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
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the conger or with the representative of the prior segment.
I'll bring you back. We'll talk a few more details
on that, and also get a little more information on
the upcoming event where I know you're buying dinner for
folks to talk about this. So pause, will bring Donovan
and Neil for Americans for Prosperity back, and I will
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Station SIF five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas, W. Donovan
and Neil for Americans for Prosperity talking about extending the
Donald Trump tax cuts, the tax cuts and jobs at
TCJA and DONOVD. What about all the screams in whaling
and nashing teeth. People say, oh my god, we need
to get more taxes into the government because they overspend,
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and you know, the deficits getting bigger and bigger. That's
called a problem, but it also ignores the reality that
by lowering taxes, more tax revenue ends up flowing into
government because we engage in more economic activity with the
money we get to keep.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That's absolutely right, That's that's what happened when we did.
Every time we've cut taxes, the government has found a
way has ended up with more money. Why because a
couple of different things. One, compliance costs go down, right,
and so folks are it's easier for them to actually
pay what they owe the government, and the government gets
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you know, what it deserves. I suppose I still think
it's too much, but they get it, and you know,
so the compliance costs of filing taxes go down. You
also see folks spending that money in other parts of
the economy. Right, So we're not talking about eliminating all
taxes here. We're not even talking about eliminating the federal
income tax, although I'm a fan of that. We're just
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talking about making a little less burden some for folks
so they can choose where to spend their money. Whereas
it than bureaucrats like the folks at USAID are at
rest in peace now being able to spend that money
on wacky projects around the world. It's real simple, it's
real straightforward. It has a tangible impact on the livelihoods
of working class Americans and Ohioans when government lowers those
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taxes and keeps those rates as low as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
All right, Well, going back to I think what we
can describe as our own worst enemy is a lot
of the Republicans aren't in favor of cutting the amount
of spending coming out of federal government. That's why I'm
a little worried about this reconciliation package because you know,
not in my state. If you cut that, then my
state's going to suffer. And it's like, well, sucks to
be you. It's time for some belt tightening, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
No, absolutely, absolutely right, absolutely right, And I think part
of that belt tightening is not feeding the beast anymore money, right,
and getting keeping the tax rates low so that you know,
we can we can then begin to have the conversation,
although that's already happening with things like the DOGE and
what Donald Trump is doing to get the executive branch
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back back in line. But you can't. You shouldn't be
given that beast more money. DC doesn't need more of
our hard earned money. And then we also need to
be having the conversation about what Congress appropriates it's two
sides of the same coin, Brian, equally important. But we
shouldn't we shouldn't let the desire to get the deficit
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down keep us from allowing folks to retain more their
hard earned money by simply keeping the Trump tax cuts permanent.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Right, And if they actually you know, if the tax
cuts went up and that actually really effectively brought more
money into government because the rates hire which we just
talked about, that it doesn't, then they need to stop
spending and cut back the percentage amount of money they
spend so that we can start dealing with the deficit
rather than keep continuing to fund all these programs, which
is what happens every time. You know, it's the only
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thing they tinker with is our tax rates, but they
never tinker with their spending. Do you have any hope
that this reconciliation bill can actually get through?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Donovan?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think it has to get through or Republicans are
going to lose control in Washington, the Democrats will be
back in power. And I think we're in a way,
you know, not only that, right, it's not only just
about the political dynamics in Washington, but it's the future
of our country. The reconciliation package is about retaining the
tax cuts, it's about undoing the disastrous Green Energy New
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Deal policies of the Biden Harris administration. Uh. And it's
about getting this country funding border security for for our
border patrol agents so we can have a secure country.
It's it's it's a lot more than just a reconciliation package.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
This is what.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Folks campaigned on and made promises about to earn votes
back in November. They need to get this done. And
if we don't get it done sometime by the summer,
it's going to be real hard to see it happen
this Congress.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
That is a frightening prospect. Well, the timing couldn't be better.
With with revelations coming from the Department of Governmental Efficiency
about you know, ten million dollars for voluntary circumcisions and Mozambique.
You know, you get enough stories like that circulating and
they actually get traction on the internet and people start
paying attention like wait a second, I'm working for what
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and demand it. Well, they take less money out of
our pockets, so these programs necessarily have to go away,
which shouldn't have been funded in the first place. Now
You've got a big event coming up February twenty six,
next Thursday, at the farm. I understand you're buying dinner.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, Americans for Prosperities buying dinner. I'll be there enjoying
dinner with folks and talking about this topic, talking about
tax cuts and jobs.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I really excited to.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Be there with the folks, George Brenneman and the Restore
Liberty crew talking about that. And I hear it's a
good crowd. You've you've been a speaker there. Do they
get a good turnout?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I haven't been over to the farm on the West
Side for one of these events, so no, it's I'm
about forty five minutes away where I live relative to
the farm, and because I get up at two thirty
in the morning, it really presents a challenge for me
to actually speak at events like this, so I won't
be able to be there. The door do open at
five point thirty, and of course the food is from
the farm. That's the West Side legend, Donovan. Everybody knows
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about the farm and the meeting begins at seven pm,
but they're going to be doing a live recording of
the podcast during the dinner, so you'll be able to
enjoy that and then talk about this with Americans for
Prosperity again, picking up the tab for your wonderful meal.
Appreciate you doing that, Donovan, And I'm sure you get
a lot of people showing up for it, and they'll
get to learn something, and then you'll have a whole
bunch of citizen activists who can start pressuring their elected
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officials to get the job done.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
That's the idea. We'll get them, We'll get a fire up,
we'll connect them with equipment, with the facts and information,
and then we're going to have some called action to
get people doing making that push right there, and then
that evening wonderful.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Just Trecker has got a link on my blog page
fifty five Carcy dot com at the information about the
meeting again the farm. Is it Wednesday or Thursday?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Wednesday?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Wednesday the twenty sixth, I apologize, I think it's a
Thursday over Wednesday evening again. Doors open at five point
thirty Donovan. Good luck with the meeting and keep up
the great work of the Americans for Prosperity. It's always
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