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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Because if you do.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Trust, there's no reason you can't keep that thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Five thousand What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thousand?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thirty five thousand, all of it?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
All right, everybody better start making sense.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
If you want to keep all that money, give it
to your wife.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The IRS allows a one title only gift to your
spouse for up to sixty thousand dollars tax free, tax free.
Hi rs can't touch one second. I want to kill man.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Is a born kill.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm d enough up the way the big man, big.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
City, the little man, all data.
Speaker 7 (00:44):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The amount of taxing government takes is over forty percent.
You know when the funding.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Father's got sick and tied to the British tax and
to say he had a tax and about twenty five percent.
This I ain't won from now all out dehing.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
So we raised that name from your rib Take me
on your bail and list you could ride me all.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
Yeah, dude, are we have people that are dying, they're
paying tax and they don't have the money to pay
the tax.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You know, in the old.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Days, eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we had so much money
they had to set up committees, blue ribbon committees, how
to spend our wealth. We had no idea how to
spend it with so much money, so we went to
the income tax system and the rest is sort of history.
But no, there is a way, I mean, if we
if what I'm planning comes out, it's a great question.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
By the way, everyone could have known it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 9 (01:50):
You know, everyone could have tained the American dream if
it wasn't for the high courts that the burden of
high taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Chucker, I ain't want.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Come out the whole people.
Speaker 10 (02:07):
Know.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
But you can't wear no shot straight down your whole
damn you can be one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Of the great frustrations with the tax these massive tax
that we pay, taxes that we pay, is what it
goes toward. It goes towards fraudulent spending, us AI, d
n PR, PBS, funneling money to people because we can't
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say no, because powerful people want it to happen so
that they can own people that they give money to,
or funneling is. So it's sort of like they start
with this massive pot of money and then they all go,
all right, how can we keep this for ourselves? And
they call their brother, their sister, their life, their child,
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adult child, and say start a business in this name
and file under this program and I'll approve it. And
there is so much of that. I give an example.
Here's Lori Chavez de Raymer, she's the Labor Secretariat at
the Cabinet meeting a few days ago. She's talking about
unemployment insurance fraud. We all know it's there and we're
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paying for it. That's what your income taxes are going
toward accountability matters.
Speaker 11 (03:29):
That's what we're recognizing with our partners at the Department
of Labor for Government Efficiency. Just a few weeks ago,
we realize there's about four point four billion dollars in
COVID funds that were not used, that the state coffers
were just holding on to. Out of that, we've returned
one point four billion back to the state treasury, so
essentially to the American people, and we'll go back and
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call the rest of those billions of dollars back and
on the heels of that. Last night, late last night,
we're understanding unemployment insurance fraud. That trust needs to be
whole for the American people when we need it, we need.
Speaker 12 (04:04):
It for who deserves it.
Speaker 11 (04:06):
That's not what we're seeing in the numbers that we
saw last night again exposed by our partners at DOZE
at the Department of Labor. Since twenty twenty, over four
hundred million dollars of payments have gone out already. And
when you hear these numbers, apparently in the United States,
we have over almost twenty five thousand people who are
over one hundred and fifteen years old who are collecting
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fifty nine million dollars that we have sent out to people.
Speaker 12 (04:34):
Talk about fraudulent behavior.
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Mister President, Twenty eight thousand people between one and five
years old have collected fraudulent payments. At the tune of
two hundred and fifty four million.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
Dollars has gone out.
Speaker 11 (04:47):
And lastly, ten thousand people who have not been born
yet fifteen years into the future sixty nine million.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
Dollars and they haven't even been born yet.
Speaker 11 (04:57):
In one case, they will be born one hundred and
twenty nine years from now. The United States government sent
them forty one thousand dollars and they're not born yet,
so under the Department of Labor, those are the things
that we're uncovering. I couldn't be more honored to tell
the American people that we're bringing back their dollars and
we're saving them and returning them to the United States Treasury. Also,
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jobs numbers last Friday, two hundred and twenty eight thousand
new jobs were reported.
Speaker 12 (05:23):
That is good for the American people.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
That is my primary job is to grow that workforce
under your leadership. So we've kicked off the America at
Work tour and we'll be visiting all.
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Fifty states and I'll be working.
Speaker 11 (05:34):
With my colleagues here to do just that. So thank you,
mister President. We're going to grow this Econ company.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We're going to from countries that are scared of having
tariffs imposed or going to build operations here, and they're
going to need to hire people to staff those operations,
and you're going to see Americans going to work at
well paying jobs. Commerce from Tim Burshett on CNN with
Jake Tapper explaining why this and all these problems are
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so bad. It's because Congress is in bed with with lobbyists,
in some cases literally.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Party has not been in favor of tariffs.
Speaker 13 (06:13):
That's that's correct, But I think you're seeing a shift
in that. But we have a short memory of tariffs.
If you remember, I'm a motorcycle guy. Harley Davidson was
about to go under and President Ronald Reagan Bodley stepped
up and said, thousand cc motorcycles and above that. The
Japanese are dumping on the American market cheaper than they
can produce.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We're gonna we're gonna stop that by putting.
Speaker 14 (06:34):
A that's targeted that's a targeted tariff.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, but China, but it's past that.
Speaker 13 (06:39):
And if you think Congress is going to go along
with any of that, because Congress is in bed.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
With K Street lobbyists, let's just be honest.
Speaker 13 (06:45):
Sure they're they're literally literally literally and that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They are Yeah Sunday morning.
Speaker 13 (06:52):
Yeah, Well, sorry, all the good folks there at Since
we're on the subject of the waste that you're paying
to fund.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Sea. CEO of Open the Books John Hart told
the Doze Subcommittee that federal agencies have spent four point
six million dollars sorry, four point six billion dollars on
furniture since twenty twenty one, despite the fact that those
employees were working from home. And the reason is it's
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not about the furniture. It's about who got the contract
to sell it, and that's who they're paying, which is
friends and family.
Speaker 15 (07:29):
Since physical year twenty twenty one, executive agencies have spent
more than four point six billion dollars on furniture alone.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That amount could.
Speaker 15 (07:37):
Buy nine point two million American families a modest five
hundred dollars kitchen table. During the peak years of the
COVID emergency, from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, agencies
spent three point three billion on furniture. Even as work
migrated to zoom. The SEC managed to spend seven hundred
thousand dollars furnishing a single conference room in New York,
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and social distancing guidelines failed to keep even the Centers
for Disease Control from buying solar powered picnic tables with
charging ports that, by the Rowan rules, should have sat unoccupied,
and it added burden for taxpayers is that many spaces
are long term disrepair. As we mentioned before, federal buildings
teak three hundred and seventy billion dollars with pixis Michael
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Barry's show.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There is a stupid show on Amazon Prime right now
called White Lotus. It's in season three and it's really dumb.
And my wife begged me to watch it with her
because she thought I might like it. And I want
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to make it clear for the record that I hate it.
It's awful, it's terrible. I don't like it, but for
her sake, and only for her sake, I pretend to
like it. I don't know how many of you do this,
but my wife and I have very different tastes. She's
not a big TV watcher. Growing up in India, they
didn't have a TV in their home. Her her father
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was a man of letters. Her grandmother was a university president.
They were they wrote, and they read a lot, and
when they socialized it was to get together to talk
about books and ideas, and that was very much her upbringing.
She's still a voracious reader. The idea of plugging into
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a digital form was to her not sufficiently engaging. Well,
that's what I grew up on. My mother was a
big reader, and so I learned to read, and I
learned to love to read, and I still do. But
I also have my side where I plunk down on
the beanbag and watched my cartoons and all the way
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up right, some invest parts of my life watching cartoons.
I'll be here to tell you the TV show it's
apparently all the rage now. The reason I agreed to
watch it with her is when we can find something
we can watch together, like a Landman or Justified or whatever.
It's just good quality time to spend together, you know,
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other than dinner or me sitting out watching her garden.
It's a good way because I will sit and watch
music documentaries and political documentaries for hours on end, but
she's not part of that. And in order to do
things that she is part of, I will watch a show.
If there's a it's actually really good writing. There's there's
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a weird incest thing. I'm not ruining anything for you
because you're gonna figure it out about five minutes in.
That creeps me out, and that's they don't need to
do that, and it's about enough for me not to
watch it at all. But she wants to watch this,
and we're enjoying watching this, and it's actually pretty darn
good writing. So far, I'm not very far into I'm
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just two episodes into season three. Income tax is a
the only way that we pay taxes. The government has
a lot of ways to tax us. The following message
was paid for by the Internal Revenue Service with funds
provided by you. Good day, folks, and good news.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
If you're getting sick of having all that extra money
in your bank account, the government has your back because
it's tax time again and the government has so many fresh,
exciting ways to tax us. We all know about income tax,
sales tax, and property tax, but here are some other, fun,
lesser known, creative ways that the government has come up
with to make sure you're never inconvenienced with having too
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much money.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like the alcohol tax, because we.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Know you're not responsible enough to think for yourself, so
we're going to punish you when you consume a product
that we don't agree with.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Or the carbon tax.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
The carbon tax is a fee you pay to reduce
global warming.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Does any of the body actually go towards stopping global warming?
Speaker 16 (11:57):
Not?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Really? Next up is the fat tax.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Much like the alcohol tax, this is a fee you
pay for trying to be happy for five or ten
minutes while you eat a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Don't forget the financial transaction tax.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
This is a tax you pay for moving the money
you've already earned from one place to another. Want to
transfer your assets into or out of a stock or
mutual fund, Better.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Pay up the fuel tax.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
After already paying sales tax on gas and the carbon
tax on carbon emissions, you also have to pay a
fuel tax.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
That makes sense. The luxury tax.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
This is a tax you pay for purchasing things that
are slightly nicer than the things people normally buy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The soda tax. Did you choose to.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Drink a beverage deemed unhealthy by the government, Well, then
you'll have to pay us for slowly killing yourself.
Speaker 17 (12:46):
I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish
it with love, grow trees, so.
Speaker 12 (12:58):
Turtle to teach.
Speaker 18 (13:02):
They were conditioning us to accept being taxed at an
early age. The government funded schoolhouse Rock with Taxman Max.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Welcome to the variety, Sit and relax. I'm that song
and dance phenomenon. Let me sing for your boom. I
thing for your billing.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The son of domnall you in.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm tech taxes. That's a million melody symbol and truth.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I'll let it you know.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
The idea of who educates the children, what pop culture
they consume what happens in the schools, in movies and books.
Those who wish to grab power, those who wish to dominate,
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and that's not limited to the Nazis. You know, the
real reason that people reduce everything to the Nazis is
they've not studied history. It's the only group of people
they know that are bad people. They don't really know
anything about the Nazis. That's why they call everybody Nazis.
There is a theory known as Godwin's law, and Godwin's
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law states that as an online discussion or argument really continues,
the probability of a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis
approaches one, and a probability of one means certainty. It
means that the longer an argument continues, one or the
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other person is compelled to call the other person Hitler
or Nazis. I hear from people all the time, very
frustrated that someone they're arguing with online, which is a
fool's er.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Why do that?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Why it always starts with I just get on there.
I just like to taunt people. I like to get
on there and tonem and eventually there's somebody who taunts
better than you. Do, and now you're losing. Never argue
with the fool. They're typically more experienced at it, and
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they enjoy it. Liberals love making you angry. You love
creating wealth and prosperity. They don't. Liberals suffer from mental
health disorders. Once you understand that and that you are
arguing with crazy people, that's not an insult, that's a fact.
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But it always revolves around being called Hitler. They don't
even know who Hitler was. Michael Perry contact day every
year we dig out and dust off. After more than
over forty years now, let's say forty, yeah, almost fifty years.
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Is Ronald Reagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
discussing tax reform and inflation. It's a little longer clip
than we would normally play, but I think it's that good.
You know, Reagan was dismissed as a dumb dumb at
the time. They talked about Reagan as if he was
what Joe Biden actually was, a dummy. He wasn't. Reagan
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understood economics. He understood the nature of man, which despite
all the vernacular and jargon and industry terms and acronyms,
when you understand the nature of man. You understand the
nature of government and where it all goes wrong. Reagan
had a keen understanding of that from life. He also read,
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He asked questions, he engaged. He was actually a very
very thoughtful leader. Anyway, this is from Reagan on the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
When you and I were boys back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States, and
most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden
in the so called business taxes. You know, the politician
that stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business, and everybody yells are ready. They haven't
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figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tax. There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
That each one of us is.
Speaker 16 (17:38):
So a lot of the economists have suggested, and I
don't know it'll ever come to be in this country,
that they're if they closed all of the loopholes, and
for corporations and maybe tax loopholes, and even on their
rich certain loopholes, and made a percentage income and made
a flat fee without all of the deductions, that the
government might raise as much money as they do.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Now, Oh sure, really the loopholes.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
This has been overdone by the politicians too, the bulk
of the money that is taken. But what are called
loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people
didn't have them, they couldn't pay their income tax, interest
on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their car,
their property taxes on their home if they have one,
and so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
These are in politicians as loopholes.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it so simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You owe every year. That's for sure it used to be.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Please get loose setified about.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It all, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
We live in the only country in the world where
it takes more brains to figure out your income tax
than it does earn the income.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
They'd be right.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and as economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Our biggest problem is that we have built.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
A permanent structure of government, feral, state and local, the
permanent employees, and they've come to the place that they
actually determined policy in this country more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Than does the Congress of the United States.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
There are fourteen and a half million public employees in
the United States. That's quite a voting block. And the
bureaus and agencies not in Washington. I heard you talking
earlier about some of the research programs. What would you
say if I told you about one a study in
which this was called the Demography of Happiness. And in
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this study, the government found out that young people are
happier in old people. They found out that people that
earn more or happier than people that earn less. And
they found out that well people are happier than six people.
That's GOODE was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars
to find out it's better to.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Be rich, young, and healthy than old.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Boards A poll was.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Taken recently that found out that only forty six percent
of the people in the pool could name their United
States congressman. But what was worse, eighty six percent of
those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They just knew that he represented the day.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
But he was a congressman. But what's he doing while
he's up there? And the same is true at the
local levels of government and all the rest. But so
you're saying people really have to take an active interest.
You have to have citizen action groups locally and.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Let them know it especial. Now, the special interest groups are.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
As everyone thought, big powerful business interests are something that
are going to persuade government to do things. As a
matter of fact, I don't know anyone with less influence
today in government than business. They're just a convenient whipping boy.
But it's the groups that have got a particular acts
to grind. You can't have a power plant because it
might interfere with the seagulls.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think I'm an environmentalist and I do.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Not agree with those people way over in the edge
who paved the whole country over in the name of progress.
But also I don't like those on the other extreme.
The will let you build a house unless it looks
like a bird nest. Well, someplace in the middle, we
got to allow people are ecology too well, this kind
of group, and they want their particular program. Hundreds of
dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile
putting gadgets on it to clear up the air. We're
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the only country in the world that's set out to
do it that way. When budget deficits are what's causing inflation,
I don't see that there's any room to be on
either side of that argument.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
No, how do you do that?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, it's not how do you balance the budget? Well,
balancing the budget.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Is like protecting it's more than you take in, right,
it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You have to learn to say no, there's got to.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Be another way. What's the second option? Well, no, there's some.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Ways that this could be brought about. First of all,
limitation here here's another one.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Why shouldn't we have, in addition to a simplified income text,
why shouldn't we also have a law that says that
anytime a legislator or a congressman introduces a spending program,
he has to introduce with it a tax program to
pay for it, and let the people find out. There
was a woman that from a financial firm that was
back at the President's Economic Council, and her words weren't
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quoted everybody else's words gotten the paper, all the.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Heller's and the gall breaths, and all the so called economists.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
And I have a degree in economics, so I can
say this, I think an economist to someone who has
a five data kapake in one end of his watchchain.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And no watch on the other.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program the government can give, And the people in
the polls are after read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
an one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program and say, now, isn't that
a nice program? Do you want it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Give me the one hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
And she said, see what the poll says then, And
how many people hang on with one hundred dollars instead
of the program. In other words, that it's rather hidden
than someone doesn't know exactly where it's gonna come. They
all start all the government programs start a dollar down
and we'll catch you later.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And they multiply all of those things that you were.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
The Office of Management and Budget in Washington that's responsible
for the budget putting the budget together, cannot even tell
you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus and departments there
are in the federal government. But all of them can
pass regulations, and those regulations have the force of law.
And the difference is when you break the law, you're
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innocent until proven guilty. When you break a regulation, the
fellow the charges you with breaking the regulation, you're guilty,
and if you want to take him to court and
prove you're innocent, that's up to you. And all of
these are things that, yes, we can trim the budget.
There's enough fat in the federal.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Government that if you rendered it, you could wash the world.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Maybe it's time for realignment between people who might defind
them those are the wrong parties. Maybe there's some people
still voting. I was a Democrat most of my life.
I became a Republican only not too many years ago.
And I had the pleasure of telling some of those
people that are saying the Republican Party ought to broaden
this base the other day that when I switched parties,
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I didn't do it because the two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did it because they were different. And I think
that the two parties ought to stand up as to
what they represent.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
They remain scared the death of you, and they remain
scared to death of Trump. Michael Berry show, You're not
going anywhere even if Trump does. You're not.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
So.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
As we always do on April fifteenth, we focus on taxes,
particularly the income tax. Being tax Day, you can file
an extension if you have not. If you are unable
to finish your taxes today, the extension you do not
have to take to the entirety of the extension. You
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can file an extension and fire your taxes in a
few days. If you're close but can't quite get it
done tonight, I will encourage you. If you own a
mid size company or more and you are not aggressively
looking at tax strategies, then you are not availing yourself
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of every tool in the toolbox to make your business
more likely to succeed. I use a company called Duroche
in Houston, which is a CPA firm that they don't
just filere your taxes. They look at strategic ways to
make good decisions, to comply with tax laws, stay out
of trouble, but also maximize the benefit good business decisions.
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That's why they view themselves more as strategists than just CPAs.
And as always, you're welcome to email me and ask
me for referrals on anything if you have a problem
with a a tax problem with the IRS and they
claim you owe money. I have a firm I've used
for well, I don't know fifteen years. They've been a
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show sponsor. They're based out of Houston, but they have
a national practice. They're called Top Tax Defenders dot com.
You can email me. I can literally put you in
touch with the owner. We've had folks that IRS said
you owe us hundreds of thousands of dollars and a
they didn't or be in some cases they did, but
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there were a lot of what they quote unquote owed
was fines and tax was fines and penalties that the
IRS was willing if they would come in and say, okay,
we made a mistake, as the taxpayer, I made a mistake?
Can we waive that? The truth of the matter is
you don't want to fight the irs alone because they
have all the power. They do this all day, every day,
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and they don't have any reason to be nice to you.
But if you get someone to protest on your behalf.
My folks are top tax defenders or other folks. I
like my folks a lot because I've used them a
long time, and I'm always happy if any listener wants
to email me and say, use the word sponsor in
the subject line, Hey, Michael, who is the sponsor? You
use that it helps you fight the irs? Who is
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your accountant? For that matter? People email me all the
time and ask me for everything else. Who's your cardiologist,
who's your skin doctor?
Speaker 18 (27:20):
Who's And even if I don't have a show sponsor
per se in that category, I do my best to
track down and find somebody for them.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Service providers are not commodities. You think about the difference
between the best quarterback in the league and the worst
quarterback in the league. You think about the best coach,
and you think about the worst. It matters. Not everybody
is equal in the delivery of services. You want to
get good people. You don't want to go to a
(27:50):
bad doctor that says, oh, you just got a lump
on your head, Take two aspirin, call me in the morning,
head on home, when in fact it's a cancer that,
if treated, your life could be saved. So it does
matter what you do. Since we're on the subject of taxes,
comedian Tim Slagell has an ingenious way to teach his
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kids about taxes.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Folks, if you have kids, you got to teach those
kids about taxes. The best time you can do this
is right around the corner, coming up Halloween. See, because
they're going to put in about eight full hours of
power trick or treating.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They're could be bringing home a nice big bag of
what should be take home candy.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
This Halloween.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
Just greet that little tike at the door. See that's
a nice big bag of candy you got there. Harry Potter.
First of all, now you see, just because you made
this much, we have to take.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Away this much income to.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Then to ensure you'll have candy in your old age,
I pay the Social Security tax.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Quit crying.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You're gonna see it in fifty sixty years, I tell you, well,
just put that right up here. We won't touch it
till then I got a level with you, man. Your
Grandpa's gonna eat all that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I saw this a while back while I was sitting
out on the back porch. This is a guy who
posts under the name anti Communist on X about how
taxes work.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
You're gonna take forty percent of my paycheck in taxes,
most definitely, and then after you tax my chick, you're
gonna tax me on anything I spend with the money
left from my chick that you already taxt. Oh you
getting it now, you disclose, You disclose to getting ready
to chaste the American dream.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
So let me get the trade. You're gonna tax my
whole cheap, give me what's lyft. Then I'm gonna spin
that all. Shoot you. I can't play this out. I
wanted to close with Paul Harvey on how our government
and high taxes are our enemy. It's one of my
favorite bits. We used it this morning, but I always
make sure to play it on both shows every year
at on tax Day because I think it's just fantastic.
(30:26):
Let's close strong with that.
Speaker 18 (30:28):
At Running Need, the Magna carter was handed to King
John on the end of a sword, denying to royalty
the right of unlimited taxation. And you know it was
for us, the American people, to become the first and
recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Nyes,
we did, whether men are some sounding constitutional amendment to
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sixteenth which says that Congress will have the power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived.
And we forgot to put any limit on the extent
to which we could.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Tax our shows.
Speaker 18 (31:01):
Conceivably we could be taxed out of all private property.
We could be taxing upet but one hundred percent. We
could awaken one morning and find that the government owns
the farm, and the house, and the car, and has a.
Speaker 12 (31:11):
Mortgage on the church.
Speaker 18 (31:12):
Legally, historically, whenever any nation has taxed its people more
than twenty five percent of their national income, the initiative
was destroyed and that nation was headed for economic eclipse.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
History says, we'll roll forward.
Speaker 18 (31:28):
On momentum for a little while, but we'd better get
some more gas in the tank pretty quick. See ours
is not the first by a Georgia good government to
arise on the world stage. There have been several Rome, Spain,
and Greece and China, and each enjoyed about one hundred
and fifty years at its zenith, that's just about our
time in the New World. And then each decayed away.
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Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else's
marching legions. Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously.
Speaker 19 (32:04):
You know, one of the most cruel paradoxes of history
is this. Because each was a good government, it bore
bountiful fruit. When it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat.
And when they got fat, they got lazy.
Speaker 18 (32:16):
When they got lazy, they began to want to absolve
themselves of personal responsibility and turn over the government to
do for them things which traditionally they had been doing
for themselves. At first, there appears to be nothing wrong
asking government to perform some extra service for you. But
if you ask government for extra services, government, in order
to perform its increasing function, has to.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Get bigger, right.
Speaker 18 (32:40):
And as government gets bigger, in order to support its
increasing size, it has to watch tax the individual more,
so the individual gets littler, and to collect the increased
taxes required more tax collectors.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
So the government gets bigger.
Speaker 18 (32:53):
In order to pay the additional tax collectors, it has
to tax the individual more. So the government gets bigger,
and the individual gets littler, and the government gets the
individual gets littler. Until the government is all power, the
individual is hardly anything at all.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The government is all power
Speaker 2 (33:08):
For all the people are cadu Elvis has, thank you,
and good night.
That time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Because if you do.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Trust, there's no reason you can't keep that thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Five thousand What did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Thousand?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Thirty five thousand, all of it?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
All right, everybody better start making sense.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
If you want to keep all that money, give it
to your wife.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The IRS allows a one title only gift to your
spouse for up to sixty thousand dollars tax free, tax free.
Hi rs can't touch one second. I want to kill man.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Is a born kill.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm d enough up the way the big man, big.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
City, the little man, all data.
Speaker 7 (00:44):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
The amount of taxing government takes is over forty percent.
You know when the funding.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Father's got sick and tied to the British tax and
to say he had a tax and about twenty five percent.
This I ain't won from now all out dehing.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
So we raised that name from your rib Take me
on your bail and list you could ride me all.
Speaker 8 (01:21):
Yeah, dude, are we have people that are dying, they're
paying tax and they don't have the money to pay
the tax.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You know, in the old.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Days, eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we had so much money
they had to set up committees, blue ribbon committees, how
to spend our wealth. We had no idea how to
spend it with so much money, so we went to
the income tax system and the rest is sort of history.
But no, there is a way, I mean, if we
if what I'm planning comes out, it's a great question.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
By the way, everyone could have known it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They're a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 9 (01:50):
You know, everyone could have tained the American dream if
it wasn't for the high courts that the burden of
high taxes.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Chucker, I ain't want.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Come out the whole people.
Speaker 10 (02:07):
Know.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
But you can't wear no shot straight down your whole
damn you can be one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Of the great frustrations with the tax these massive tax
that we pay, taxes that we pay, is what it
goes toward. It goes towards fraudulent spending, us AI, d
n PR, PBS, funneling money to people because we can't
(02:39):
say no, because powerful people want it to happen so
that they can own people that they give money to,
or funneling is. So it's sort of like they start
with this massive pot of money and then they all go,
all right, how can we keep this for ourselves? And
they call their brother, their sister, their life, their child,
(03:02):
adult child, and say start a business in this name
and file under this program and I'll approve it. And
there is so much of that. I give an example.
Here's Lori Chavez de Raymer, she's the Labor Secretariat at
the Cabinet meeting a few days ago. She's talking about
unemployment insurance fraud. We all know it's there and we're
(03:24):
paying for it. That's what your income taxes are going
toward accountability matters.
Speaker 11 (03:29):
That's what we're recognizing with our partners at the Department
of Labor for Government Efficiency. Just a few weeks ago,
we realize there's about four point four billion dollars in
COVID funds that were not used, that the state coffers
were just holding on to. Out of that, we've returned
one point four billion back to the state treasury, so
essentially to the American people, and we'll go back and
(03:51):
call the rest of those billions of dollars back and
on the heels of that. Last night, late last night,
we're understanding unemployment insurance fraud. That trust needs to be
whole for the American people when we need it, we need.
Speaker 12 (04:04):
It for who deserves it.
Speaker 11 (04:06):
That's not what we're seeing in the numbers that we
saw last night again exposed by our partners at DOZE
at the Department of Labor. Since twenty twenty, over four
hundred million dollars of payments have gone out already. And
when you hear these numbers, apparently in the United States,
we have over almost twenty five thousand people who are
over one hundred and fifteen years old who are collecting
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fifty nine million dollars that we have sent out to people.
Speaker 12 (04:34):
Talk about fraudulent behavior.
Speaker 11 (04:36):
Mister President, Twenty eight thousand people between one and five
years old have collected fraudulent payments. At the tune of
two hundred and fifty four million.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
Dollars has gone out.
Speaker 11 (04:47):
And lastly, ten thousand people who have not been born
yet fifteen years into the future sixty nine million.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
Dollars and they haven't even been born yet.
Speaker 11 (04:57):
In one case, they will be born one hundred and
twenty nine years from now. The United States government sent
them forty one thousand dollars and they're not born yet,
so under the Department of Labor, those are the things
that we're uncovering. I couldn't be more honored to tell
the American people that we're bringing back their dollars and
we're saving them and returning them to the United States Treasury. Also,
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jobs numbers last Friday, two hundred and twenty eight thousand
new jobs were reported.
Speaker 12 (05:23):
That is good for the American people.
Speaker 11 (05:24):
That is my primary job is to grow that workforce
under your leadership. So we've kicked off the America at
Work tour and we'll be visiting all.
Speaker 12 (05:32):
Fifty states and I'll be working.
Speaker 11 (05:34):
With my colleagues here to do just that. So thank you,
mister President. We're going to grow this Econ company.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
We're going to from countries that are scared of having
tariffs imposed or going to build operations here, and they're
going to need to hire people to staff those operations,
and you're going to see Americans going to work at
well paying jobs. Commerce from Tim Burshett on CNN with
Jake Tapper explaining why this and all these problems are
(06:02):
so bad. It's because Congress is in bed with with lobbyists,
in some cases literally.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Party has not been in favor of tariffs.
Speaker 13 (06:13):
That's that's correct, But I think you're seeing a shift
in that. But we have a short memory of tariffs.
If you remember, I'm a motorcycle guy. Harley Davidson was
about to go under and President Ronald Reagan Bodley stepped
up and said, thousand cc motorcycles and above that. The
Japanese are dumping on the American market cheaper than they
can produce.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We're gonna we're gonna stop that by putting.
Speaker 14 (06:34):
A that's targeted that's a targeted tariff.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, but China, but it's past that.
Speaker 13 (06:39):
And if you think Congress is going to go along
with any of that, because Congress is in bed.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
With K Street lobbyists, let's just be honest.
Speaker 13 (06:45):
Sure they're they're literally literally literally and that's why.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They are Yeah Sunday morning.
Speaker 13 (06:52):
Yeah, Well, sorry, all the good folks there at Since
we're on the subject of the waste that you're paying
to fund.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
The Sea. CEO of Open the Books John Hart told
the Doze Subcommittee that federal agencies have spent four point
six million dollars sorry, four point six billion dollars on
furniture since twenty twenty one, despite the fact that those
employees were working from home. And the reason is it's
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not about the furniture. It's about who got the contract
to sell it, and that's who they're paying, which is
friends and family.
Speaker 15 (07:29):
Since physical year twenty twenty one, executive agencies have spent
more than four point six billion dollars on furniture alone.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That amount could.
Speaker 15 (07:37):
Buy nine point two million American families a modest five
hundred dollars kitchen table. During the peak years of the
COVID emergency, from twenty twenty to twenty twenty two, agencies
spent three point three billion on furniture. Even as work
migrated to zoom. The SEC managed to spend seven hundred
thousand dollars furnishing a single conference room in New York,
(08:00):
and social distancing guidelines failed to keep even the Centers
for Disease Control from buying solar powered picnic tables with
charging ports that, by the Rowan rules, should have sat unoccupied,
and it added burden for taxpayers is that many spaces
are long term disrepair. As we mentioned before, federal buildings
teak three hundred and seventy billion dollars with pixis Michael
(08:20):
Barry's show.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
There is a stupid show on Amazon Prime right now
called White Lotus. It's in season three and it's really dumb.
And my wife begged me to watch it with her
because she thought I might like it. And I want
(08:46):
to make it clear for the record that I hate it.
It's awful, it's terrible. I don't like it, but for
her sake, and only for her sake, I pretend to
like it. I don't know how many of you do this,
but my wife and I have very different tastes. She's
not a big TV watcher. Growing up in India, they
didn't have a TV in their home. Her her father
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was a man of letters. Her grandmother was a university president.
They were they wrote, and they read a lot, and
when they socialized it was to get together to talk
about books and ideas, and that was very much her upbringing.
She's still a voracious reader. The idea of plugging into
(09:32):
a digital form was to her not sufficiently engaging. Well,
that's what I grew up on. My mother was a
big reader, and so I learned to read, and I
learned to love to read, and I still do. But
I also have my side where I plunk down on
the beanbag and watched my cartoons and all the way
(09:53):
up right, some invest parts of my life watching cartoons.
I'll be here to tell you the TV show it's
apparently all the rage now. The reason I agreed to
watch it with her is when we can find something
we can watch together, like a Landman or Justified or whatever.
It's just good quality time to spend together, you know,
(10:13):
other than dinner or me sitting out watching her garden.
It's a good way because I will sit and watch
music documentaries and political documentaries for hours on end, but
she's not part of that. And in order to do
things that she is part of, I will watch a show.
If there's a it's actually really good writing. There's there's
(10:34):
a weird incest thing. I'm not ruining anything for you
because you're gonna figure it out about five minutes in.
That creeps me out, and that's they don't need to
do that, and it's about enough for me not to
watch it at all. But she wants to watch this,
and we're enjoying watching this, and it's actually pretty darn
good writing. So far, I'm not very far into I'm
(10:56):
just two episodes into season three. Income tax is a
the only way that we pay taxes. The government has
a lot of ways to tax us. The following message
was paid for by the Internal Revenue Service with funds
provided by you. Good day, folks, and good news.
Speaker 10 (11:16):
If you're getting sick of having all that extra money
in your bank account, the government has your back because
it's tax time again and the government has so many fresh,
exciting ways to tax us. We all know about income tax,
sales tax, and property tax, but here are some other, fun,
lesser known, creative ways that the government has come up
with to make sure you're never inconvenienced with having too
(11:38):
much money.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like the alcohol tax, because we.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Know you're not responsible enough to think for yourself, so
we're going to punish you when you consume a product
that we don't agree with.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Or the carbon tax.
Speaker 10 (11:50):
The carbon tax is a fee you pay to reduce
global warming.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Does any of the body actually go towards stopping global warming?
Speaker 16 (11:57):
Not?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Really? Next up is the fat tax.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Much like the alcohol tax, this is a fee you
pay for trying to be happy for five or ten
minutes while you eat a hamburger.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Don't forget the financial transaction tax.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
This is a tax you pay for moving the money
you've already earned from one place to another. Want to
transfer your assets into or out of a stock or
mutual fund, Better.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Pay up the fuel tax.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
After already paying sales tax on gas and the carbon
tax on carbon emissions, you also have to pay a
fuel tax.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
That makes sense. The luxury tax.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
This is a tax you pay for purchasing things that
are slightly nicer than the things people normally buy.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
The soda tax. Did you choose to.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Drink a beverage deemed unhealthy by the government, Well, then
you'll have to pay us for slowly killing yourself.
Speaker 17 (12:46):
I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish
it with love, grow trees, so.
Speaker 12 (12:58):
Turtle to teach.
Speaker 18 (13:02):
They were conditioning us to accept being taxed at an
early age. The government funded schoolhouse Rock with Taxman Max.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Welcome to the variety, Sit and relax. I'm that song
and dance phenomenon. Let me sing for your boom. I
thing for your billing.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
The son of domnall you in.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm tech taxes. That's a million melody symbol and truth.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I'll let it you know.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
The idea of who educates the children, what pop culture
they consume what happens in the schools, in movies and books.
Those who wish to grab power, those who wish to dominate,
(13:56):
and that's not limited to the Nazis. You know, the
real reason that people reduce everything to the Nazis is
they've not studied history. It's the only group of people
they know that are bad people. They don't really know
anything about the Nazis. That's why they call everybody Nazis.
There is a theory known as Godwin's law, and Godwin's
(14:20):
law states that as an online discussion or argument really continues,
the probability of a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis
approaches one, and a probability of one means certainty. It
means that the longer an argument continues, one or the
(14:45):
other person is compelled to call the other person Hitler
or Nazis. I hear from people all the time, very
frustrated that someone they're arguing with online, which is a
fool's er.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Why do that?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Why it always starts with I just get on there.
I just like to taunt people. I like to get
on there and tonem and eventually there's somebody who taunts
better than you. Do, and now you're losing. Never argue
with the fool. They're typically more experienced at it, and
(15:23):
they enjoy it. Liberals love making you angry. You love
creating wealth and prosperity. They don't. Liberals suffer from mental
health disorders. Once you understand that and that you are
arguing with crazy people, that's not an insult, that's a fact.
(15:45):
But it always revolves around being called Hitler. They don't
even know who Hitler was. Michael Perry contact day every
year we dig out and dust off. After more than
over forty years now, let's say forty, yeah, almost fifty years.
(16:08):
Is Ronald Reagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
discussing tax reform and inflation. It's a little longer clip
than we would normally play, but I think it's that good.
You know, Reagan was dismissed as a dumb dumb at
the time. They talked about Reagan as if he was
what Joe Biden actually was, a dummy. He wasn't. Reagan
(16:30):
understood economics. He understood the nature of man, which despite
all the vernacular and jargon and industry terms and acronyms,
when you understand the nature of man. You understand the
nature of government and where it all goes wrong. Reagan
had a keen understanding of that from life. He also read,
(16:53):
He asked questions, he engaged. He was actually a very
very thoughtful leader. Anyway, this is from Reagan on the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
When you and I were boys back in the Midwest.
Government's federal, state, and local. We're only taking about fifteen
cents out of every dollar earned. Today, they're taking almost
half of every dollar earned in the United States, and
most people don't realize it because the taxes are hidden
in the so called business taxes. You know, the politician
that stands up and yells, oh, let's save the little man.
Let's tax business, and everybody yells are ready. They haven't
(17:23):
figured out that every tax on business is just a
part of the cost of production, and the customer winds
up paying it when he buys the product. It's a
hidden sales tax. There's one hundred and sixteen of them
in the suit of clothes.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
That each one of us is.
Speaker 16 (17:38):
So a lot of the economists have suggested, and I
don't know it'll ever come to be in this country,
that they're if they closed all of the loopholes, and
for corporations and maybe tax loopholes, and even on their
rich certain loopholes, and made a percentage income and made
a flat fee without all of the deductions, that the
government might raise as much money as they do.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Now, Oh sure, really the loopholes.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
This has been overdone by the politicians too, the bulk
of the money that is taken. But what are called
loopholes are the legitimate deductions with which if the people
didn't have them, they couldn't pay their income tax, interest
on their mortgage, interest on the installments on their car,
their property taxes on their home if they have one,
and so forth.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
These are in politicians as loopholes.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
But we ought to have tax reform, and we ought
to start by making it so simple that you don't
have to hire a lawyer to find out how much.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You owe every year. That's for sure it used to be.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Please get loose setified about.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It all, Johnny.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
We live in the only country in the world where
it takes more brains to figure out your income tax
than it does earn the income.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
They'd be right.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
We've gotten in the habit over the last forty years
of thinking the government has the answers. There's very little
that government can do as efficiently and as economically as
the people can do themselves. And if government would shut
the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd
never miss them.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Our biggest problem is that we have built.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
A permanent structure of government, feral, state and local, the
permanent employees, and they've come to the place that they
actually determined policy in this country more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Than does the Congress of the United States.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
There are fourteen and a half million public employees in
the United States. That's quite a voting block. And the
bureaus and agencies not in Washington. I heard you talking
earlier about some of the research programs. What would you
say if I told you about one a study in
which this was called the Demography of Happiness. And in
(19:31):
this study, the government found out that young people are
happier in old people. They found out that people that
earn more or happier than people that earn less. And
they found out that well people are happier than six people.
That's GOODE was two hundred and forty nine thousand dollars
to find out it's better to.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Be rich, young, and healthy than old.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Boards A poll was.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Taken recently that found out that only forty six percent
of the people in the pool could name their United
States congressman. But what was worse, eighty six percent of
those who could name him couldn't tell you a single
thing that he represented or stood for.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They just knew that he represented the day.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
But he was a congressman. But what's he doing while
he's up there? And the same is true at the
local levels of government and all the rest. But so
you're saying people really have to take an active interest.
You have to have citizen action groups locally and.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Let them know it especial. Now, the special interest groups are.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
As everyone thought, big powerful business interests are something that
are going to persuade government to do things. As a
matter of fact, I don't know anyone with less influence
today in government than business. They're just a convenient whipping boy.
But it's the groups that have got a particular acts
to grind. You can't have a power plant because it
might interfere with the seagulls.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think I'm an environmentalist and I do.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Not agree with those people way over in the edge
who paved the whole country over in the name of progress.
But also I don't like those on the other extreme.
The will let you build a house unless it looks
like a bird nest. Well, someplace in the middle, we
got to allow people are ecology too well, this kind
of group, and they want their particular program. Hundreds of
dollars have been added to the cost of an automobile
putting gadgets on it to clear up the air. We're
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the only country in the world that's set out to
do it that way. When budget deficits are what's causing inflation,
I don't see that there's any room to be on
either side of that argument.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I think the answer to curing inflation is a balanced budget.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
No, how do you do that?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, it's not how do you balance the budget? Well,
balancing the budget.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Is like protecting it's more than you take in, right,
it's like protecting your virtue.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You have to learn to say no, there's got to.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Be another way. What's the second option? Well, no, there's some.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Ways that this could be brought about. First of all,
limitation here here's another one.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Why shouldn't we have, in addition to a simplified income text,
why shouldn't we also have a law that says that
anytime a legislator or a congressman introduces a spending program,
he has to introduce with it a tax program to
pay for it, and let the people find out. There
was a woman that from a financial firm that was
back at the President's Economic Council, and her words weren't
(22:21):
quoted everybody else's words gotten the paper, all the.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Heller's and the gall breaths, and all the so called economists.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
And I have a degree in economics, so I can
say this, I think an economist to someone who has
a five data kapake in one end of his watchchain.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And no watch on the other.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
This woman said that you go to the polls and
you ask the people do they want some social service,
some program the government can give, And the people in
the polls are after read and say that sounds good. Yeah,
But she says that isn't exactly accurate. She says, put
an one hundred dollars bill in each person's hand and
then show them the program and say, now, isn't that
a nice program? Do you want it?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Give me the one hundred dollars?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
And she said, see what the poll says then, And
how many people hang on with one hundred dollars instead
of the program. In other words, that it's rather hidden
than someone doesn't know exactly where it's gonna come. They
all start all the government programs start a dollar down
and we'll catch you later.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
And they multiply all of those things that you were.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
The Office of Management and Budget in Washington that's responsible
for the budget putting the budget together, cannot even tell
you how many boards, commissions, agencies, bureaus and departments there
are in the federal government. But all of them can
pass regulations, and those regulations have the force of law.
And the difference is when you break the law, you're
(23:36):
innocent until proven guilty. When you break a regulation, the
fellow the charges you with breaking the regulation, you're guilty,
and if you want to take him to court and
prove you're innocent, that's up to you. And all of
these are things that, yes, we can trim the budget.
There's enough fat in the federal.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Government that if you rendered it, you could wash the world.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Maybe it's time for realignment between people who might defind
them those are the wrong parties. Maybe there's some people
still voting. I was a Democrat most of my life.
I became a Republican only not too many years ago.
And I had the pleasure of telling some of those
people that are saying the Republican Party ought to broaden
this base the other day that when I switched parties,
(24:19):
I didn't do it because the two parties were alike.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I did it because they were different. And I think
that the two parties ought to stand up as to
what they represent.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
They remain scared the death of you, and they remain
scared to death of Trump. Michael Berry show, You're not
going anywhere even if Trump does. You're not.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
So.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
As we always do on April fifteenth, we focus on taxes,
particularly the income tax. Being tax Day, you can file
an extension if you have not. If you are unable
to finish your taxes today, the extension you do not
have to take to the entirety of the extension. You
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can file an extension and fire your taxes in a
few days. If you're close but can't quite get it
done tonight, I will encourage you. If you own a
mid size company or more and you are not aggressively
looking at tax strategies, then you are not availing yourself
(25:23):
of every tool in the toolbox to make your business
more likely to succeed. I use a company called Duroche
in Houston, which is a CPA firm that they don't
just filere your taxes. They look at strategic ways to
make good decisions, to comply with tax laws, stay out
of trouble, but also maximize the benefit good business decisions.
(25:48):
That's why they view themselves more as strategists than just CPAs.
And as always, you're welcome to email me and ask
me for referrals on anything if you have a problem
with a a tax problem with the IRS and they
claim you owe money. I have a firm I've used
for well, I don't know fifteen years. They've been a
(26:09):
show sponsor. They're based out of Houston, but they have
a national practice. They're called Top Tax Defenders dot com.
You can email me. I can literally put you in
touch with the owner. We've had folks that IRS said
you owe us hundreds of thousands of dollars and a
they didn't or be in some cases they did, but
(26:30):
there were a lot of what they quote unquote owed
was fines and tax was fines and penalties that the
IRS was willing if they would come in and say, okay,
we made a mistake, as the taxpayer, I made a mistake?
Can we waive that? The truth of the matter is
you don't want to fight the irs alone because they
have all the power. They do this all day, every day,
(26:51):
and they don't have any reason to be nice to you.
But if you get someone to protest on your behalf.
My folks are top tax defenders or other folks. I
like my folks a lot because I've used them a
long time, and I'm always happy if any listener wants
to email me and say, use the word sponsor in
the subject line, Hey, Michael, who is the sponsor? You
use that it helps you fight the irs? Who is
(27:13):
your accountant? For that matter? People email me all the
time and ask me for everything else. Who's your cardiologist,
who's your skin doctor?
Speaker 18 (27:20):
Who's And even if I don't have a show sponsor
per se in that category, I do my best to
track down and find somebody for them.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Service providers are not commodities. You think about the difference
between the best quarterback in the league and the worst
quarterback in the league. You think about the best coach,
and you think about the worst. It matters. Not everybody
is equal in the delivery of services. You want to
get good people. You don't want to go to a
(27:50):
bad doctor that says, oh, you just got a lump
on your head, Take two aspirin, call me in the morning,
head on home, when in fact it's a cancer that,
if treated, your life could be saved. So it does
matter what you do. Since we're on the subject of taxes,
comedian Tim Slagell has an ingenious way to teach his
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kids about taxes.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Folks, if you have kids, you got to teach those
kids about taxes. The best time you can do this
is right around the corner, coming up Halloween. See, because
they're going to put in about eight full hours of
power trick or treating.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
They're could be bringing home a nice big bag of
what should be take home candy.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
This Halloween.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
Just greet that little tike at the door. See that's
a nice big bag of candy you got there. Harry Potter.
First of all, now you see, just because you made
this much, we have to take.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Away this much income to.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Then to ensure you'll have candy in your old age,
I pay the Social Security tax.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Quit crying.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You're gonna see it in fifty sixty years, I tell you, well,
just put that right up here. We won't touch it
till then I got a level with you, man. Your
Grandpa's gonna eat all that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I saw this a while back while I was sitting
out on the back porch. This is a guy who
posts under the name anti Communist on X about how
taxes work.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
You're gonna take forty percent of my paycheck in taxes,
most definitely, and then after you tax my chick, you're
gonna tax me on anything I spend with the money
left from my chick that you already taxt. Oh you
getting it now, you disclose, You disclose to getting ready
to chaste the American dream.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
So let me get the trade. You're gonna tax my
whole cheap, give me what's lyft. Then I'm gonna spin
that all. Shoot you. I can't play this out. I
wanted to close with Paul Harvey on how our government
and high taxes are our enemy. It's one of my
favorite bits. We used it this morning, but I always
make sure to play it on both shows every year
at on tax Day because I think it's just fantastic.
(30:26):
Let's close strong with that.
Speaker 18 (30:28):
At Running Need, the Magna carter was handed to King
John on the end of a sword, denying to royalty
the right of unlimited taxation. And you know it was
for us, the American people, to become the first and
recorded history ever voluntarily to surrender our rights to private property. Nyes,
we did, whether men are some sounding constitutional amendment to
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sixteenth which says that Congress will have the power to
lay and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived.
And we forgot to put any limit on the extent
to which we could.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Tax our shows.
Speaker 18 (31:01):
Conceivably we could be taxed out of all private property.
We could be taxing upet but one hundred percent. We
could awaken one morning and find that the government owns
the farm, and the house, and the car, and has a.
Speaker 12 (31:11):
Mortgage on the church.
Speaker 18 (31:12):
Legally, historically, whenever any nation has taxed its people more
than twenty five percent of their national income, the initiative
was destroyed and that nation was headed for economic eclipse.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
History says, we'll roll forward.
Speaker 18 (31:28):
On momentum for a little while, but we'd better get
some more gas in the tank pretty quick. See ours
is not the first by a Georgia good government to
arise on the world stage. There have been several Rome, Spain,
and Greece and China, and each enjoyed about one hundred
and fifty years at its zenith, that's just about our
time in the New World. And then each decayed away.
(31:53):
Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else's
marching legions. Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously.
Speaker 19 (32:04):
You know, one of the most cruel paradoxes of history
is this. Because each was a good government, it bore
bountiful fruit. When it bore bountiful fruit, the people got fat.
And when they got fat, they got lazy.
Speaker 18 (32:16):
When they got lazy, they began to want to absolve
themselves of personal responsibility and turn over the government to
do for them things which traditionally they had been doing
for themselves. At first, there appears to be nothing wrong
asking government to perform some extra service for you. But
if you ask government for extra services, government, in order
to perform its increasing function, has to.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Get bigger, right.
Speaker 18 (32:40):
And as government gets bigger, in order to support its
increasing size, it has to watch tax the individual more,
so the individual gets littler, and to collect the increased
taxes required more tax collectors.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
So the government gets bigger.
Speaker 18 (32:53):
In order to pay the additional tax collectors, it has
to tax the individual more. So the government gets bigger,
and the individual gets littler, and the government gets the
individual gets littler. Until the government is all power, the
individual is hardly anything at all.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The government is all power
Speaker 2 (33:08):
For all the people are cadu Elvis has, thank you,
and good night.
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