October 20, 2025 • 11 mins
From Zohran Mamdani’s push for higher taxes to the billion dollar “mental health” boondoggles that never deliver, Buck breaks down how the bureaucracy feeds itself while New Yorkers get slimed. He also takes aim at JB Pritzker’s absurd swipe at Stephen Miller and explains why the left keeps doubling down on bad ideas that drive productive people out of blue states.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
COMMI Mom, Donnie wants more of New Yorker's money. That's
not a surprise. He sat down with Martha McCollum of
Fox News, went through a whole range of issues. And
you might say, Oh, Buck, I don't live in New York,
why should I care? Well, this is the new left
on display, and the new left runs a Democrat Party,
(00:41):
and they're increasingly going to be I think because of
the power of these Democrat enclaves to advance people who
are not even pretending to reach out to the other side.
You're gonna see more of this. You're going to see
a surge toward the AOC wing of the Democrat Party
(01:04):
for a lot of younger people. And this is I think,
very troubling. But it also, if nothing else, shows us
what we're up against, as in, what does the other
side really want? So here he is saying that New
Yorkers who pay after California, New York City residents and
I used to be one pay the highest taxes in
the country after California, which it's amazing that California is
(01:27):
even higher, but it is. If you live in New
York City, you're paying half your income in the top
tax rate, half of your income to the City of
New York or rather, I'm sorry to all taxes, including
the City.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Of New York.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
New York City is like three or four percent something
like that, and then the state tax is like ten percent,
and then federal of course tops out at thirty seven
or thirty nine, whatever it is. So you're paying half.
Zorammdani says that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I've said that we should increase personal in complex. Fifty
is fair. And my point is this more than half
of your income. That's if you're making a million dollars
in New York City or more than that, you can
afford to pay two percent more. And the reasons you
can afford to do so is because that money will
be used to better your quality of life as well.
Because when I speak to the wealthiest New Yorkers, I
hear concerns about the cleanliness of the city, the quality
(02:17):
of life in the city, questions of public safety. This
money is the money that will be used to liver
on those things, so that we can ensure that we
have a return on investment for all of the money
that we are raising and spending right here across the
five borough.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know, we should all just recognize they're never going
to learn the lesson. They're never going to say. You know,
we've taxed and taxed and taxed, and somehow the problem
never gets better. Somehow things do not improve, even when
we take more money from people who are working for
it and productive and give it to those And remember
(02:50):
it's not even a direct redistribution of wealth. There's always
the indirect bureaucracy blob that sits in the middle. And
like the green Slimer from Ghostbusters with just taking all
the food, remember that the great scene and Ghostbusters in
the hotel where Slimer's got all the hot dogs and everything,
(03:12):
he's just chowing down on. That is the bureaucracy, whether
it's city, state, or federal, just just chowing down on
your tax dollars. And what do you get out of it.
You get slimed, You get slimed, and this never changes.
He does not get better. And the idea that somehow
the city would improve if only people paid a little more, No,
(03:35):
you're going to have more flight from New York City
by high earners. Not as much as you saw during COVID,
but you're going to have more people who say enough
is enough. And that's going to put even more pressure
on the tax base because people have options, thankfully because
of states like Nashville, I'm sorry, Tennessee and Florida and
(03:56):
Texas and Nevada and New Hampshire where there all of
which have I think Alaska also there have zero state
income tax. I think Washington State actually maybe's in there
two zero state income tax. And this means that places
like New York, if they just keep squeezing and squeezing,
they're going to have a tougher and tougher problem meeting
(04:20):
the outlandish budgetary obligations that they have. But here you go.
You got Mom Donnie saying, you know what, I'm going
to address crime, for example, by addressing the mental health
crisis three times.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you look at the New York Times, they did
an investigation on a thousand different incidents of violent crime
in the city tied to mental health episodes. They found
that so many of those same New Yorkers were failed
by the interactions they had with the city when they
went for help for mental health systems, and that failure
is a blight. It is a stain on our city,
(04:52):
and it's a failure that I'm looking to fix by
actually transforming this with the only comprehensive plan for public
safety of any of the candidates. Because what we are
going to do is put out a plan and a
proposal that we have shared with the New Yorkers to
create the Department of Community Safety that would bring together
all of these pre existing silos that address mental health crisis,
that address homelessness into one department, provide it with the
(05:14):
funding necessary, and actually addressed where did these people go?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Though?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
This goes in the category of a nice idea, but
if it were something that was even vaguely possible, I
would want to hear more about it. I remember when Deblasio,
the former terrible mayor also really a COMI just not
as out loud and proud about it. When Deblasio had
(05:40):
his wife doing a lot of stuff for mental health
in New York eight hundred million dollars. I interviewed her
about this when I used to be on the Hill
TV show and no one could figure out what happened
to the eight hundred million dollars that Deblasio's wife Charlaine
had taken of city funds. No one really seemed to know.
I mean it was spent, but on what what was
(06:01):
the benefit of this? Mental health is a very complicated thing,
especially at the mass level, as in millions of people
the mental health crisis. Unless Mom Donnie's plan is to
take people who are obviously mentally ill and remove them
from the streets, nothing will get better, nothing will improve
(06:28):
when it comes to the city of New York and
it's mental health, It's just not going to happen. Now,
why doesn't he know this? Well, he lives in the
world of fantasy land. Unfortunately, in a city like New York,
we're only twenty percent of the voters are going to vote.
You can get lunatics to be your base and win,
(06:52):
and that is what is going to happen in New York.
It is troubling. I can't think of another not for
profit that does as much work, day in and day
out to save the lives of babies as Preborn does.
Think about what happened for Victoria at one of their clinics.
You would in scared and confuse to a planned parenthood
clinic first, she was handed the abortion pill, and she
(07:13):
knew immediately that wasn't the right decision for her. So
her continuing search led her to a preborn clinic where truth, clarity,
and God broke through. A loving staff member gave her
immediate care and helped her save not just her baby's life,
but her own. Victoria got truthful answers about matters related
to her unborn child at that preborn clinic. When a
(07:34):
mother hears that, when she has that connection to the
baby in the womb, lives are saved, and it begins
with that free ultrasound they give her. At preborn clinics,
for just twenty eight dollars, you can sponsor an ultrasound.
This is your chance to make a difference. Please answer
the call. Pick up the phone dial pound two fifty
and say the keyword baby. That's pound two five zero
(07:54):
say baby. Or online you can donate at preborn dot com,
slash buck, preborn dot com, slash b u c K
sponsored by Prebordling. And then.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
JB.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Pritzker decided to go after Stephen Miller, and this was
not going to go well for mister Pritzker.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Think about Steven Miller, I mean Stephen Miller clearly is
the one pushing the tactics at DHS, at CBP at ice.
He's clearly the person that is aiming to have Donald
Trump become an authoritarian leader. And I wish that, you know,
(08:33):
people could you know, at least recognize that Stephen Miller's
bad for the country and he is abusing the fact
that Donald Trump has diminished capacity.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You know, Stephen Miller is doing a phenomenal job, a
phenomenal job in this White House. Honestly, one of my
top draft picks for this White House team, Steven Miller.
And the fact that JB. Pritzker, a NEPO baby, thinks
that he is in a different weight class than Steven
Miller is just wrong. Okay, Steven Miller can throw down
(09:08):
with even the heaviest heavyweights, as he has done so
many times. And this idea that the authoritarianism of Trump
goes through Stephen Miller, this is just Pritzker trying to
feed his radical left base some nonsense that they can
send their teeth into. But to me, it's just it's
(09:29):
crazy talk. And Steven Miller responded with this, well.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I mean, he's a fool, and he's a moron. But
also most importantly, Sean, he hates America. And let's just
be honest about it. You can't love your country and
then fight President Trump to keep murderers murdering. Just think
about that for a second. President Trump is saying, let
us work with you, with the FBI, with ICE, with ATF,
(09:56):
with the EA, with the National Guard to stop the
murdering in your city. And Pritzker is saying he wants
to protect the murderers, the people that are shooting dozens
and dozens of peace people every single week. Chicago is
more dangerous than Bagdad. It's more dangerous than Mexico City.
(10:16):
So Shaman Prisker and God blessed President Trump for fighting
for the citizens of this country.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Sean, Well, Steven Miller's not taking any of that nonsense.
And that's going to be the show for today, everybody.
We've got a quick one more coming up next week,
Shield time. I want to tell you about an exciting
new project that I'm working on. In just the last
few weeks, thousands of everyday Americans have joined me and
my research partners in an exciting new venture to tap
(10:41):
into the wealth of this robust stock market. So one
of a kind opportunity, something that I'm calling the Manhattan
Project too. I've combined the information that I have access
to as a government insider, somebody who understands how that
machinery works, with the contacts on Wall Street, and also
of course titans of industry, plus a crack research team
(11:02):
when it comes to what's going on in the markets
and stocks. This isn't just something for the elite hedge
funds and billionaires out there. This is about leveling the
playing field so everyday folks like you can get some
great ideas for the markets and benefit from them. Join
this movement today. Get eighty two percent off Go to
Insider twenty twenty five dot com. That's Insider twenty twenty
(11:24):
five dot com paid for by Paradigm Press.
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
COMMI Mom, Donnie wants more of New Yorker's money. That's
not a surprise. He sat down with Martha McCollum of
Fox News, went through a whole range of issues. And
you might say, Oh, Buck, I don't live in New York,
why should I care? Well, this is the new left
on display, and the new left runs a Democrat Party,
(00:41):
and they're increasingly going to be I think because of
the power of these Democrat enclaves to advance people who
are not even pretending to reach out to the other side.
You're gonna see more of this. You're going to see
a surge toward the AOC wing of the Democrat Party
(01:04):
for a lot of younger people. And this is I think,
very troubling. But it also, if nothing else, shows us
what we're up against, as in, what does the other
side really want? So here he is saying that New
Yorkers who pay after California, New York City residents and
I used to be one pay the highest taxes in
the country after California, which it's amazing that California is
(01:27):
even higher, but it is. If you live in New
York City, you're paying half your income in the top
tax rate, half of your income to the City of
New York or rather, I'm sorry to all taxes, including
the City.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Of New York.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
New York City is like three or four percent something
like that, and then the state tax is like ten percent,
and then federal of course tops out at thirty seven
or thirty nine, whatever it is. So you're paying half.
Zorammdani says that's not enough.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I've said that we should increase personal in complex. Fifty
is fair. And my point is this more than half
of your income. That's if you're making a million dollars
in New York City or more than that, you can
afford to pay two percent more. And the reasons you
can afford to do so is because that money will
be used to better your quality of life as well.
Because when I speak to the wealthiest New Yorkers, I
hear concerns about the cleanliness of the city, the quality
(02:17):
of life in the city, questions of public safety. This
money is the money that will be used to liver
on those things, so that we can ensure that we
have a return on investment for all of the money
that we are raising and spending right here across the
five borough.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
You know, we should all just recognize they're never going
to learn the lesson. They're never going to say. You know,
we've taxed and taxed and taxed, and somehow the problem
never gets better. Somehow things do not improve, even when
we take more money from people who are working for
it and productive and give it to those And remember
(02:50):
it's not even a direct redistribution of wealth. There's always
the indirect bureaucracy blob that sits in the middle. And
like the green Slimer from Ghostbusters with just taking all
the food, remember that the great scene and Ghostbusters in
the hotel where Slimer's got all the hot dogs and everything,
(03:12):
he's just chowing down on. That is the bureaucracy, whether
it's city, state, or federal, just just chowing down on
your tax dollars. And what do you get out of it.
You get slimed, You get slimed, and this never changes.
He does not get better. And the idea that somehow
the city would improve if only people paid a little more, No,
(03:35):
you're going to have more flight from New York City
by high earners. Not as much as you saw during COVID,
but you're going to have more people who say enough
is enough. And that's going to put even more pressure
on the tax base because people have options, thankfully because
of states like Nashville, I'm sorry, Tennessee and Florida and
(03:56):
Texas and Nevada and New Hampshire where there all of
which have I think Alaska also there have zero state
income tax. I think Washington State actually maybe's in there
two zero state income tax. And this means that places
like New York, if they just keep squeezing and squeezing,
they're going to have a tougher and tougher problem meeting
(04:20):
the outlandish budgetary obligations that they have. But here you go.
You got Mom Donnie saying, you know what, I'm going
to address crime, for example, by addressing the mental health
crisis three times.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
If you look at the New York Times, they did
an investigation on a thousand different incidents of violent crime
in the city tied to mental health episodes. They found
that so many of those same New Yorkers were failed
by the interactions they had with the city when they
went for help for mental health systems, and that failure
is a blight. It is a stain on our city,
(04:52):
and it's a failure that I'm looking to fix by
actually transforming this with the only comprehensive plan for public
safety of any of the candidates. Because what we are
going to do is put out a plan and a
proposal that we have shared with the New Yorkers to
create the Department of Community Safety that would bring together
all of these pre existing silos that address mental health crisis,
that address homelessness into one department, provide it with the
(05:14):
funding necessary, and actually addressed where did these people go?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Though?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
This goes in the category of a nice idea, but
if it were something that was even vaguely possible, I
would want to hear more about it. I remember when Deblasio,
the former terrible mayor also really a COMI just not
as out loud and proud about it. When Deblasio had
(05:40):
his wife doing a lot of stuff for mental health
in New York eight hundred million dollars. I interviewed her
about this when I used to be on the Hill
TV show and no one could figure out what happened
to the eight hundred million dollars that Deblasio's wife Charlaine
had taken of city funds. No one really seemed to know.
I mean it was spent, but on what what was
(06:01):
the benefit of this? Mental health is a very complicated thing,
especially at the mass level, as in millions of people
the mental health crisis. Unless Mom Donnie's plan is to
take people who are obviously mentally ill and remove them
from the streets, nothing will get better, nothing will improve
(06:28):
when it comes to the city of New York and
it's mental health, It's just not going to happen. Now,
why doesn't he know this? Well, he lives in the
world of fantasy land. Unfortunately, in a city like New York,
we're only twenty percent of the voters are going to vote.
You can get lunatics to be your base and win,
(06:52):
and that is what is going to happen in New York.
It is troubling. I can't think of another not for
profit that does as much work, day in and day
out to save the lives of babies as Preborn does.
Think about what happened for Victoria at one of their clinics.
You would in scared and confuse to a planned parenthood
clinic first, she was handed the abortion pill, and she
(07:13):
knew immediately that wasn't the right decision for her. So
her continuing search led her to a preborn clinic where truth, clarity,
and God broke through. A loving staff member gave her
immediate care and helped her save not just her baby's life,
but her own. Victoria got truthful answers about matters related
to her unborn child at that preborn clinic. When a
(07:34):
mother hears that, when she has that connection to the
baby in the womb, lives are saved, and it begins
with that free ultrasound they give her. At preborn clinics,
for just twenty eight dollars, you can sponsor an ultrasound.
This is your chance to make a difference. Please answer
the call. Pick up the phone dial pound two fifty
and say the keyword baby. That's pound two five zero
(07:54):
say baby. Or online you can donate at preborn dot com,
slash buck, preborn dot com, slash b u c K
sponsored by Prebordling. And then.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
JB.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Pritzker decided to go after Stephen Miller, and this was
not going to go well for mister Pritzker.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Think about Steven Miller, I mean Stephen Miller clearly is
the one pushing the tactics at DHS, at CBP at ice.
He's clearly the person that is aiming to have Donald
Trump become an authoritarian leader. And I wish that, you know,
(08:33):
people could you know, at least recognize that Stephen Miller's
bad for the country and he is abusing the fact
that Donald Trump has diminished capacity.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You know, Stephen Miller is doing a phenomenal job, a
phenomenal job in this White House. Honestly, one of my
top draft picks for this White House team, Steven Miller.
And the fact that JB. Pritzker, a NEPO baby, thinks
that he is in a different weight class than Steven
Miller is just wrong. Okay, Steven Miller can throw down
(09:08):
with even the heaviest heavyweights, as he has done so
many times. And this idea that the authoritarianism of Trump
goes through Stephen Miller, this is just Pritzker trying to
feed his radical left base some nonsense that they can
send their teeth into. But to me, it's just it's
(09:29):
crazy talk. And Steven Miller responded with this, well.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I mean, he's a fool, and he's a moron. But
also most importantly, Sean, he hates America. And let's just
be honest about it. You can't love your country and
then fight President Trump to keep murderers murdering. Just think
about that for a second. President Trump is saying, let
us work with you, with the FBI, with ICE, with ATF,
(09:56):
with the EA, with the National Guard to stop the
murdering in your city. And Pritzker is saying he wants
to protect the murderers, the people that are shooting dozens
and dozens of peace people every single week. Chicago is
more dangerous than Bagdad. It's more dangerous than Mexico City.
(10:16):
So Shaman Prisker and God blessed President Trump for fighting
for the citizens of this country.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Sean, Well, Steven Miller's not taking any of that nonsense.
And that's going to be the show for today, everybody.
We've got a quick one more coming up next week,
Shield time. I want to tell you about an exciting
new project that I'm working on. In just the last
few weeks, thousands of everyday Americans have joined me and
my research partners in an exciting new venture to tap
(10:41):
into the wealth of this robust stock market. So one
of a kind opportunity, something that I'm calling the Manhattan
Project too. I've combined the information that I have access
to as a government insider, somebody who understands how that
machinery works, with the contacts on Wall Street, and also
of course titans of industry, plus a crack research team
(11:02):
when it comes to what's going on in the markets
and stocks. This isn't just something for the elite hedge
funds and billionaires out there. This is about leveling the
playing field so everyday folks like you can get some
great ideas for the markets and benefit from them. Join
this movement today. Get eighty two percent off Go to
Insider twenty twenty five dot com. That's Insider twenty twenty
(11:24):
five dot com paid for by Paradigm Press.
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