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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Where is my automobile at like Big Legs?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Bang talks about some.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Of the violence that's been going on around the country dealerships.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Some say they should be labeled domestic terraces.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I will do that. I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm going to stop them.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
We catch anybody doing it because they're harming a great
American company.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
You do it to Tesla, and you do it to
any company, We're going to catch you, and you're going
to go through hell.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes, I stop.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
And you also overnight have this post claiming that protests
at Tesla dealerships are illegal. He said today he would
label violence against dealerships domestic terrorism. So just to be clear,
you protest a private company, you are labeled by this
administration and domestic terrorists.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Baby yes, stop, Baby.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Friendly agreed because as a Republican strategist, you wouldn't have
advised him to go in front of the White House
and drive a Tesla.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
White Wild because of course I would have.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
You know why, because if I were advising Republican president,
I would say, let's support American companies that have thousands
of American warfare.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Dom stop.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
The visual of him driving a six did Joe?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Okay, we're talking about billion.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Billion Americans in the federal government making cuts and and
making business deals and then benefiting himself.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
A terrible look for Donald Democrats so excited to tear
down an American company, for companies the way they are
right now, it's.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Stop.

Speaker 7 (02:47):
There has there have been acts of extreme terrorism carried
out against the Tesla Corporation, and there have been acts
of terrorism, vandal menacing, intimidation, assault against Tesla owners. And

(03:10):
this sort of nonsense has to stop. You know how
it stops. Rack your brain and see if you remember
the name Michael Fay. Do you remember that name, Jim,
Do you remember the name Michael Fay?

Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Very good? Yeah. Singapore. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
I wonder how many other people got that. In nineteen
ninety four, Michael Fay, an American who at the time
was She's born in seventy five, so he'd have been
nineteen eighteen or nineteen. He was engaged in vandalism of

(03:52):
automobiles in Singapore. And as the kids say, Singapore don't play.
So Singapore a nation that had an incredible, incredible growth
and development since about nineteen sixty. You know, there is
the transformation of China, and you know, the great leap

(04:16):
forward and the mass starvation and then the move in
the seventies to begin to open up and all the
transformation of China gets a lot of ink. But what
nobody pays attention to is Singapore. Now, what Singapore did

(04:40):
is I will quote what John Lefay wrote on Twitter,
having lived there himself for some period of time, he
had a comment about this. Well, let me go back
to Michael Fay. Michael Fay was this little hunk American

(05:01):
who vandalized these cars, and in nineteen ninety four they
caught him. He doesn't deny he did it, so it's
not a question of mistaken identity or you know, political persecution.
He was sentenced to be caned six times for violation
of the Vandalism Act. Well, it wasn't that he was
being caned more than a Singaporean would be. It wasn't

(05:27):
that he was a political prisoner. It wasn't that they
were trying to do some hostage or you know, prisoner
exchange and they picked on him. No, No, it was
he committed a crime in Singapore and they were applying
the laws to him, and so as a result, Americans

(05:49):
went crazy. They didn't they didn't want him to be punished.
Do the crime do the time you're in Singapore, you
shouldn't get special protections because and here's the difference, Singapore
gives a damn about safety and security, about law and order.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
So this Lee qn you.

Speaker 7 (06:16):
The leader Melissa Chen, who is an influencer of personality,
a commentator, she posted a picture that said, you want
to stop all the spray painting and burning of Tesla
cars and trucks going on in America, you already know
the solution, and she had the former leader of Singapore's picture,

(06:37):
a stern picture and John lefav who's a clever fellow
that I follow with the background in finance and commentary.
Pretty sharp guy. He wrote, living in Singapore was cool,
but after a while it felt like being stuck in
sim City or at the Epcot Center. Too sterile, too obedient,
and not enough grit. So I wouldn't want America to

(06:58):
be Singapore, but we would certainly benefit from certain aspects
of Lee Kun lequan use vision, especially when it comes
to addressing unlawfulness. In nineteen sixty, Singapore was an impoverished
swamp with no natural resources. Today it's one of the
richest places on Earth. And while its transition has been astounding,

(07:23):
the underlying principle behind its success are pretty simple. Meritocracy, exceptionalism, incorruptibility,
efficient government, low taxes, a pragmatic human capital approach to immigration,
business friendly regulations, law and order. You know, I'm a

(07:47):
libertarian at heart, and so I struggle with some of
the aspects of law and order. But you see what
has happened in this country, which is the collapse of
law and order, whether it's Black Lives Matter or Antifa
or you know, blowing up Tesla's. There has to be

(08:09):
a snapback. There have to be people arrested and punished
and deported. We have to restore order in this country.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Period. Briskets and Barry. Letting it all hang out, going
against the grain is what we do on.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
The Michael Berry Show. If you're thinking to yourself, wait
a second, that doesn't sound like Jon Jet, then you
don't know what song Joan Jet was covering. Ask your
parents and they'll tell you, Oh, that's Tommy James and
the Chandelle's. It's about nineteen sixty eight. That's a song

(08:48):
right there by the way. You want to know some
other good covers of that song, Joon Jett did a
good one, Cher actually did a good one her politics aside,
and Prince did a pretty darn good cover. We don't
talk enough about Tommy James and the Shondelle's.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
We're not gonna do it here.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
But if you think about Money Mooney and how big
Money Mooney was, which, of course, as you know, was remade.
I mean it's a pretty good sign that your music
is remade by people to kind of to launch their careers.
But anyway, after Money Mooney they take a whole new
direction with Crimson Clover and it's a great song. And

(09:33):
if you're too young to know about Tommy James and Shondelle's,
ask your parents or your grandparents, and I'll guarantee you
that they made out in the very big back seat
of I don't know, a sixty nine Coop or a
mock five was it? The mock five was the Mustang,
the big Mustang with that big back seat. It's hard

(09:55):
for young people to understand how important a back seat
was in the sixties, seventies, eighties because that's not something
you know, these teslas, they don't really even have a backseat.
And anyway, more on that in a moment. So Ramon
Robles is suspended for this week with pay, and he's

(10:18):
not taking it well, sending us pictures of him and
his wife and his kids out in the snow in Alberta, Canada.
Why he went to Canada. We don't know if they're
even going to let him come back, although I can't
imagine they'd want to keep him. But Jim and I
it created an occasion where Jim Mudd and I we're
having a conversation about Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, is

(10:41):
the most thoughtful commerce secretary we've had in a very
long time. In fact, I don't know, I can't think
of a Commerce secretary we've had who was better able
to explain economic policies than him. I mean, you had
Bob Mossbacker, who I think is a great feelmaker. You
had Ron Brown, he checked the box, as you know

(11:04):
in the Clinton presidency, as you know, the token guy
you had to have. And of course he's most famous
for dining and dining in a car crash. But Howard
Lutnick is an inspired choice at Commerce Secretary. I'm going
to play for you a clip of Lutnik talking about
you know, one of the things you have to you

(11:27):
have to appreciate about Trump and this is an entrepreneurial approach.
We're not used to having entrepreneurs in our government, and
entrepreneurs see opportunity where other people don't. And entrepreneurs have
certain personality types or have certain personality traits that we

(11:50):
have never seen in government before in our lifetimes. And
by the way, Ronald Reagan wasn't an entrepreneur.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
George H. W.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
Bush not an entrepreneur, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, these guys
were not entrepreneurs, not one of them. Ford Nixon, LBJ. Eisenhower.
These are guys who paint within the lines. They don't
look for new and innovative ways to solve a problem.

(12:20):
They don't look An entrepreneur starts with the problem, what
problem do people face? And then looks to craft a solution. Now,
a very unique entrepreneur with Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs
had the approach that I'm going to solve a problem

(12:41):
that people don't even know they have yet. And the
fellow was so good at it that when he solved
the problem.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
You didn't know you had.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
You now had the problem, and you couldn't live without it.
So when he created a phone that was also Internet capable,
that also had all your music, that also had a
camera in it, you didn't know you had to have it.
Now you can't live without it. That's pretty impressive. But

(13:11):
so what Trump has figured out here, how long is
that clip? Jim two seventeen? All right, we'll get to
it in the next segment because I don't want to
have to cut it short. So what Trump has figured
out is, we've got two challenges. We've got to fund
our government. So you have to decide how much money

(13:32):
are you going to spend on your government, and then
you have to decide how are you going to find
that money. So this was the basis of zero based budgeting.
It was a big deal twenty five years ago, and
the idea was and every year at budget time, whether
it was city, county, state, federal, and many companies operate

(13:52):
on this basis. You would this year's budget, you would
get what you got last year plus a little bit more.
And zero based budgeting said, you're baking in bad decisions
if you give the drilling committee a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Then they're going to spend a million dollars. And this
was the rush of December.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
Ask an office depot employee, Ask ask anybody in the
in the paper supply of business or the office supply business,
what would happen in December? People come rushing in and
buying stuff. Computer companies, You'd sell a lot of You'd
sell a lot of computers at the end of the
year because they had to use up all their money. Well,
this is an inefficient way to run things. Maybe they

(14:38):
shouldn't have been given a million bucks. Maybe that department
should have only had eight hundred thousand. So zero based
budgeting was based on the idea, let's go back to zero,
and now I want you to justify what you get
and not based on that's what you've always had, that's
the way we've always done. It is a terrible way
to decide how we're going to do it going forward.
So what Trump is doing doing is shattering every pillar

(15:04):
that underpins our government and questioning and let.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Me taste them.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
An inquisitive mind, an open mind, a willingness to fail.
You know, people in government and people who never attempt
anything love to tear down the person who fails. That's
what you've watched with with Elon Musk with the spaceship crashes. Well,
guess what, NASA had a lot of crashes and you

(15:31):
didn't ridicule them, and they spent one hundred times what
Elon did. And he's accomplished things they've never accomplished. So
and he's also accompished a lot of other other things.
So there is this idea in Trump's mind. And this
is why bringing in outside people with different backgrounds, whether
it's cash Betel at the FBI or hag Seth at Defense.

(15:55):
This idea that who says we have to tax people
on the basis of an income tax, who says that
year old tears.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Start here, that our country is failing you today, invest
in Kleenex, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
And this is the Michael Arry Show. So let's shatter
every notion we have of how to run our federal
government for a moment. That in and of itself is
a radical act. The idea that you could think anew
about something, It's just fascinating. It's absolutely fascinating, and it

(16:37):
is the sign of a highly developed mind to be
willing to put aside everything you've ever known.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
I think we.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Began the income tax in about nineteen thirteen, it's around
that time, so one hundred and ten years, give or take,
we've even had an income tax. How on earth did
we operate up to the beginning of World War One

(17:08):
without you having to give a substantial portion of your
earnings to the federal government. And guess what happened once
they had this dedicated revenue source, which is confiscating your money,
they had more money than it took to run the government.

(17:29):
So they just started expanding. And how did they do that, Well,
they started telling people the government could solve this problem
for you and this problem, and the good people didn't
recognize there's a cost to government solving all my problems.
And by the way, government can't solve your problems. It'd

(17:51):
be far more efficient for you to keep your money
and solve your problems yourself. The people who need the
government to solve their problems, or the people who don't
manage their money well, or who don't work, or who
have vices that take all their money, or who are
like children and want the government to be their parent,

(18:12):
these are the wards of the state. These are the
types of people who embrace socialism. So Trump, to his credit, says,
wait a second, what if instead of funding our government
off the backs of labor. Because the largest revenue source
to the federal government in this country is that when

(18:34):
you do work for someone else and you exchange your
labor and they pay you for that, you perform tasks
and they give you currency for that. Every single time
that happens, the federal government steps in between the two
of you and says, wait a.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Minute, give me my tathe.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Like the mafia, they take a portion. They didn't deliver
your labor to the employer, and they didn't help the
employer pay you for that labor, but they feel the
need to step in and take part of that. Well,
that's that's what folks have grown accustomed to. Milton Friedman,

(19:19):
great economist, early in his career advising the government was
part of the dedicated withdrawal of your taxes before you
ever see your check. So if you make fifty thousand
dollars or you make forty eight thousand dollars, you don't
see four thousand dollars on each monthly check, or two

(19:39):
thousand on your bi weekly or one thousand on your weekly.
You don't see that. You see far less than that,
and you grow accustomed to your take home pay. So
the portion that the government is taking from you, confiscating
from you before you ever see it, it becomes in
the back of your mind something that never belonged to

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you in the first place. And we've grown so accustomed
to that that it doesn't even bother us. In the
same way that if you live in a neighborhood with
their gunshots every night, it doesn't even wake you up anymore,
or sirens or any number of other things. It becomes
light white noise to you. Well, you become numb to

(20:22):
the idea of your money being confiscated by the government.
So President Trump has said, wait a minute. Our most
powerful economic asset is the marketplace of America. This is
very important. This is the most important thing you're going
to hear me say today. Trump understands something that no

(20:43):
other president has been willing to express. Our most powerful
economic asset is our consumer marketplace. The entire world wants
to sell products into this marketplace. Trump understands this, and
Trump says, wait a minute. If you want to sell

(21:04):
to my people, it's going to cost you. So what
he's talking about is a membership fee, same way you
might pay a membership fee at Sam's, the offshoot of Walmart.
Same way you might pay a membership fee to get
to play golf at the country club or any number.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Of other buyers clubs, or whatever else.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
So here is Howard Luttnik, who I can't begin to
tell you what music to my ears it is to
hear a commerce secretary that's able to speak in intellectual
economic terms. So give this a listen.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
It sounds like you're saying, trust us, and are you
worried that at some point Americans are going to feel
like there's a bunch of billionaires in Washington who are
playing Russian Roulette with our retirement.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
Two trillion dollar deficits don't bother you at all?

Speaker 3 (22:00):
How could you ask me while we're.

Speaker 5 (22:02):
Running a two trillion dollar deficit and not care you're
destroying the people who have run this country before, are
destroying the future for my children and my children's children.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I can't have.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
A fifty seventy five We have a thirty six trillion
dollar deficit, and then we used to run deficits of
four hundred billion, now two trillion. Everybody who cares. I'll
tell you what. Who cares? Donald Trump cares. And when
we balance the budget, you know what that means. That
means our deficits stop, interest rates come smashing down. His

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goal is to have external revenue. You know, the way
I think about it. We all are so used to
paying taxes. We're so used to it. We have like
Stockholm syndrome.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Don't stop the internal revenue service. God forbid. How about this?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
The rest of the world leans on our economy, breathes
off our economy. Not only is our economy twenty nine
trillion dollarge GDP, but we consume twenty trillion dollars a year.
We are the buyer of everybody's stuff. We buy everybody's stuff.
So who is more important the people who sell stuff

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or the people who buy stuff?

Speaker 3 (23:16):
So we are the buyer of.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Everybody's commodities, products, goods, and services.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Everything comes from us. Right.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Let them pay a membership fee.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
We all understand that model.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Let them pay How about we, you and I and
every single person we know pay less? How about no
tax on tips, how about no tax on overtime? How
about no social security? How about all those things? These
are the kind of thoughts that will change America. I
know what his goal is, no tax for anybody who
makes less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's his goal. That's what I'm working for.

Speaker 7 (23:58):
These are radical, cool notions. Why shouldn't we have these conversations.
Why shouldn't we challenge these things? Why shouldn't every American
be rejoicing at the idea? Not just folks who make
under one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Folks who make

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more than that should be happy because guess what that means.
Your neighbors who don't make as much as you would
have an easier time. That means more of your own
money for yourself to spend as you wish, however you want.
What a glorious I mean, this should be the most
exciting thing in government we've heard in a decade, a
five decades. This is the Michael barrishell on our flagship

(24:45):
station in Houston, KTRH News Radio seven forty KRH will
there will always be a story just before that weekend saying,
you know, this weekend is tax free weekend, and a
lot of folks, especially working class folks, are counting their pennies,
will wait until that weekend to buy anything they're buying for.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Their kid for their back to school supplies.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Teachers who often buy supplies themselves for their classroom, and
some of them because they're saints. These that do this
will buy extra supplies for the kids in their class
whose parents can't or won't buy them supplies. Let us
never forget there are wonderful teachers out there. Don't let

(25:36):
Randy Winingarten ruin it for you make you think that
all teachers are evil, or all cops are evil, or
all Republicans are evil or whatever else. So that tax
free weekend becomes a huge deal because it's money that
is saved. You know, government stealing your money confiscating what

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you have is not a faye at a company. It
doesn't have to happen. And what Trump is doing is
challenging the notion that we have to take people's money
that they earn.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Why would we do this? It's evil. Every American should
say no.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
People don't cheat on their taxes because they're evil people.
They cheat on their taxes because they're trying to keep
their money and they're willing to risk the punishment and
a lot of people do get punished on this for
not complying with the laws. But I don't think people
think the laws are good, and it's unhealthy when a

(26:45):
government does not govern by the consent of the government.
You look at all the different tax breaks that get
offered up and Trump's very good at it.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
No taxes on tips.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
This is extremely popular because people that make their living
off of tips are typically people in a certain subset
of society who live check to check, are more importantly.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Shift to shift. You got the two.

Speaker 7 (27:18):
Dollars and one cent for so many years minimum wage
for employees that that got that get tips, and that
became a standard for a long time. I mean I
worked for two toh one an hour when I was
making tips waiting tables thirty years ago, even more than
thirty years ago, thirty thirty six years ago. And the

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way these people live, this is your service economy. The
way these people live is the paycheck becomes what you know,
maybe your gas money and if you're lucky, your rent,
although not not enough. And that was at two dollars,
and that's where you know the tips would the taxes
would be taken out of so the actual check from

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the restaurant or the bar or any number of other
things would be very little, if anything, and then the
cash would be what you live off of.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
In the cash was the tip.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
So to say no tax on tips would be putting
back into people's pockets that money that they already earned
but had to give up. Well, then the government got
very aggressive. We're going to tax your tips, not just
your income. And if you don't report your tips what

(28:35):
we think your tip ought to be, because we think
you're under reporting, and we want more government, for.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
More welfare and wars.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
And we'll just assume you made X amount and you'll
pay tips on that even if you, honest to goodness didn't,
which put a big burden on.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
People that make tips.

Speaker 7 (28:53):
And people that make tips are different than people who
punch a at a chemical plant. People that make tips
tend to be younger, oh not always the case. They
tend to be less willing to follow a structure. They

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tend to be less structured in their personal lives. Some
of them are a struggling artist who you know waiting tables.
To quote Steve Mashami, is the one job that every
single mom in America can do with no degree, no restrictions,
no startup time. If you learn the skill of bartending,

(29:38):
which I would encourage anyone and everyone to learn, you'll
have a job, whether it's an extra job or a
full time job, for the.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Rest of your life.

Speaker 7 (29:48):
For the rest of your you will always have a
job by the same token if you are if you
have a teaching certification, it takes a lot longer to
get that. In the bar tending, you'll always have a job,
maybe not the money you want to make. But the
no tax on tips became became a lightning rod in
this campaign. And we would hear stories of people who

(30:13):
supported Trump out at a meal and they would say,
you know, this is a twenty four year old young
lady waiting on us. She's probably likely to vote for
Kamala Harris. Let me put a nice little tip and
tell her no tax on tips with Trump. And that
had an effect. And I think Trump meant it, and

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I think he intends to make it happen. Then you've
got no tax, no tax on overtime. So Jim Mudd,
who's sitting in for a moment this week, Jim's always
our creative director, but this week he's our creative director.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
And he's king of ding and doing a fine job.

Speaker 7 (30:51):
May I say Jim Jim's wife, And you're not going
to believe this because she married a fellow named Jim Mud.
At birth, her parents named her Dusty, So her full
name is Dusty Mud. Now, if that's not the coolest
name you've heard about in a while, I don't know
what is. She should be the lead singer of a band.

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So Dusty Mud works sixty or seventy hours a week.
That's a workhorse. Well guess what the no tax on
overtime would make such a dramatic difference that Jim.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Would be able to buy a private jet.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
No, I'm just kidding, but no tax or yeah, no
tax on overtime.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Do you know what that would do to people?

Speaker 7 (31:42):
Nobody works overtime because they're bored. Nobody thinks to themselves.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
You know.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
I just find that when I get off from work,
I have no real purpose in my life. Because if
you get overtime, you're not the CEO, you're not the entrepreneur.
If you get over time, you're pulling a paycheck, right,
And people take overtime because they desperately need more money, right,

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So they're trading their time and their talent for more money,
often for their kids, for medical bills, for their sickly spouse.
If you say to them that portion we're going to
let you keep, you are going to allow people to

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create wealth.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
In the economic terms. I don't mean they're going to
be rich overnight.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
You are going to accelerate quality of life improvements. You're
also going to encourage people to work more hours and
be more productive.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
This, folks, I can't begin to tell you how exciting
this is to me. It's almost a religious experience.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
The fact that Trump is really legitimately authentically fighting for
these sorts of changes he should be. There should be
a ground well of support for the ground swell of
support for this