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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Associated Press I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Reuters reported on April tenth that Swiss drugmaker Novartes as
announced they will be spending twenty three billion dollars to
build and expand to sorry ten facilities in the United States.
They are a company who were at the top of
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the chart of who would be hurt most by President
Trump's tariffs. Novartis has been sending products into the United
States at a rather.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hefty rate.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No Artists manufactures close apene uh diclopinac carba, mesipin, valsartan,
I'm matt tineb cyclost foreign electrosol, what grow a, Oh
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my goodness, the things you say methyl vinedate.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh you know where you're right. Ramon said, give you
the give you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The the common that's the name of the drug itself.
I'm sorry, so it does clos arl volterine, uh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Uh tegritol dial.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I might get some of these wrong, folks, don't I
don't know a lot of these drugs gleevec or gilvac,
neoral sando, mune famera, riddling, which apparently they stopped making
riddling in twenty twenty, Lamasil and others. So look, I
hate big farm as much as the next guy. But
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if products are going to be sold or one of
them made in this country, and so does President Trump,
and they're going, all right, we have do we have to?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I got an email from a fellow said, no.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Coverage of Swiss pharmaceutical company and it's twenty six billion
dollar US investment due to Trump investment Trump tariff's See
attached article by nov Arties, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, of
their planned twenty six billion dollar investment. The article says
twenty three but still a lot in the US specifically
related to Trump's tariff policy. As stated by the Swiss,
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not a word on any of our TV or radio
news channels see wit Swiss website. And I did see
the Swiss, and I did see the article, and it
is true. I think you're going to see over the
coming months a number of announcements. Now i'd like to
see the rubber hit the road. I'd like to see
ground broken. I'd like to see these things happen sooner
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rather than later. Why don't we still have momentum? And
I think there are people who will make promises they
never keep with the intention of simply continuing the access
to the American market. But I think what you're what
you're witnessing is that these companies cannot survive without the
American marketplace as buyers of their products.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Before we get started, today is tax Day.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I thought you might find it interesting, if not troubling,
that Puerto Rico attracts people and the United States is
in on this. If you go down to Puerto Rico
for six months plus one day, you don't really pay
any taxes, and that's great for the people for But
listen to this. John Stossel did a great piece on
this and on this troubling.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Would you like to pay zero federal income tax? There
is a way to do that legally.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm moving to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's why YouTube star logan Paul has moved his show
from California.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I feel like people are wondering why Puerto Rico taxes one.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's one vertical, Yeah, it's one.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's a big one.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Six percent of a big one, which ironically is the
same amount of money you keep every year.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Ninety six percent.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That's how much of your earnings you now get to keep.
If you move to Puerto Rico, you pay no federal
income tax and must give just four percent of your
income to Puerto Rico. Also, it's like the only place
you can live is zero percent capital gains.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
No capital gains tax. I did it for the obvious.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Benefit of being able to keep most of what I own.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
The tax breaks started after this Puerto Rican governor shrank
the bureaucracy.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You let seventeen thousand workers go. If you can't pay
their salaries, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He limits at the tax break to people who move
here and stay for at least six months a year.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Last year, applications for these tax breaks nearly tripled.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think it's horrifying.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Some people don't want those newcomers coming in.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It's an example of the continued colonization of the people
of Fortificats.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But what AOC calls colonization, I'd call new opportunities.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
One report showed that the tax beneficiaries created north of
forty thousand jobs.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It's too bad that Puerto Rico didn't do this decades ago.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
They wouldn't be in the economic trouble they are today.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
A lot of people are moving down here.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Social worker Melissa da Silva moved here from Rhode Island.
Now she runs her therapy and coaching business remotely from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
What's your life like there?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Like living it in paradise? Every single day? I wake
up and I have the ocean in front of me.
I go out my back door, the rainforest is, you know,
off in a distance.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
It's just a magical place to live.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Alsome.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I'm saving quite a bit, twenty five percent of my
whole income.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
It hasn't gotten much city in the mainland, and yet
it's huge.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
People just don't really talk about it too much.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Why not.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
There's this fear of all of the people from the
state side they're going to come down and you know,
take over everything, which is understandable. I mean from learning
about the history of Puerto Rico. The Standiards came over
and decided it's going to be their island and decimated
all the native people who lived here. And then the
States comes down and they decide it's going to be
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their island, and again, you know, the rights are taken
away from the people.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That's the reason why some activists oppose this tax break.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
We don't want.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
They're like invading our lamb.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
They're invading our land.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
And you know what, honestly, there are some people that
are doing that. I see people who come down and
they just stay there six months and they're like, we're
out of here. But there are people, you know, they
want to give back to the island as well.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
If you don't pay taxes, aren't you hurting Puerto Rico?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Well, I do pay taxes. I provide other things to
the community as well.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
She sells digital art and gives part of her earnings
to a Puerto Rican charity.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's some who are opening up schools.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I live my life in service god blest Puerto Rico
billionaire Brock Peers moved here and now helps run the
charity Toys for Tots. He also bought this hotel and
is renovating another, which had been abandoned after Hurricane Maria.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
It's expected to create three hundred jobs.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Others are building hurricane resistant farms and.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Tech companies that happened.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Still, some people always see such investment as a problem,
as if someone making money means others must lose.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
But that's not how the world works.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
When markets are free, new wealth gets created and most
people win.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It is not acceptable.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
AOC seems to think there are only winners or losers, subjects,
or rulers.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
So we are essentially importing a.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Ruling I like to Silva's answer to that, a new
ruling class.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
The saying is like all ships rise with a tide,
let's all grow with this.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Puerto Rico tried dig government, strict regulations, handouts.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Even a government controlled power company. This is our invitation high.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Bed tax breaks, Ramone, the King of Ding, and this
other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
About one hundred and ten years ago, the income tax began.
We didn't have one before that. To build up to
World War One, build up to being a world power
did not require that the government eat the core of
the apple we produce, leaving us with very little. That
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tax was promoted as only being on the rich. Don't
worry about this new tax. It's only for the very
very wealthy, which is how they pass everything off. See,
we're going to attack the very wealthy and take what
they have. That's good, right. You hate there very wealthy,
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don't you, because you're not the very wealth Yes, take
what they got. I don't care what you.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Use it on.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Just take what they got, because I don't got it,
and they got it, so you get it. Why would
you want the government to take from a citizen. How's
that help you? But jealousy.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, it's a powerful thing, and the people who run
government understand that. In fact, that's how all the great
revolutions begin. That's how the Russian Revolution began. They told
the poor people, the serfs, we're going to take from
the rich people. Now get your pitch fork and help
us take from the rich people. The minute they took
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from the rich people, kill them, took power. They then
killed the very people who had helped them acquire power.
That's similar in so many cases. But people without have
the mistaken belief that they can somehow acquire wealth by
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someone else losing theirs.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
During the campaign, which was just a few months ago,
President Trump stopped at a barbershop to speak to the
people there and he was asked about abolishing the income tax.
Don't underestimate how important this was to his appeal. Such
a radical notion, and I do believe, I do believe
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that he intends to do that. Whether he's able to
do it, I do believe that he intends to. I
think he understands forget Mount Rushmore create his own if
you could get rid of the income tax, and you
could with tariffs and reduce spending.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
But here's what he said, Well, all this extra revenue
we're going to be bringing into the country. So do
you believe at some point in time we could find
a way once the country's back on its feet and
getting enough revenue and paid off our debt. Do you
think it's possible to find a way to eliminate federal taxes?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But there is a way. How do you feel about
you know, in the old days when.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
We were smart, when we were a smart country in
the eighteen nineties, and all this is when the country
was relatively the richest it ever was.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It had old terrafts, it didn't have an income tax.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yes, okay, now we have income taxes, and we have
people that are dying. They're paying tax and they don't
have the money.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To pay the tax.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Now, in the old 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.
Then we went to the income tax system and the
rest is sort of history.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But no, there is a way.
Speaker 11 (11:59):
I mean, if what I'm planning comes out is a
great question. By the way, everyone could have tended them
a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know, everyone could attained.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
The American dream if it wasn't for the High Court.
That the burden of high taxes, and we tax at
every step of the.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Way when we make it. And regulations and regulations.
Speaker 11 (12:19):
So I cut more regulations in four years than any
other president by four times.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary. So what people are missing about
Trump's tariffs is that revenue could be used to provide
Trump's tax agenda. There is a purpose to this. It
would replace the income tax.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And for someone who says that this money coming in.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is really a tax on consumers, what do you say,
I say a couple of things.
Speaker 12 (12:51):
One, we're seeing the CEO Walmart is pushing back on
his Chinese suppliers and he is telling them they have
to eat all the carrot increases.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
They're the largest retailer in America.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
I think forty million Americans go into Walmart every week.
We saw in Trump one point zero prices didn't go up.
And if we have that happening. At the same time,
we are able to use that income to provide President
Trump's tax agenda, no tax and tips, no tax on
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on Social Security, the excuse me, no tax in overtime,
and making auto interest deductible for American cars. That's a
home run for working class Americans.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And then we'll take this one to the break. Ron Paul.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Flashback, the brilliant Ron Paul who called for the abolition
of the FBI and the CIA and saying that the
income tax should be abolished. We should all give credit
to the godfather of all these ideas Trump has today.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And that was the great run Pole. The income tax
is unnecessary.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
Again, something happened in the twentieth century where the American
people decided that there would be There's something happened where
we have changed our attitude about what we want from
our government. We've ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state
that we cannot afford, and we've also became an American
empire where we have troops around the world and we
pay for the defense of Japan and Germany and everybody else.
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But at the same time, you had to have two
ways of financing this one we decided we'd have an
income tax that we would start subtlely and small, that
would escalate to the point that it really is the
biggest rip off in the country, along with a federal
reserve system that allows us to monetize.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the deterioration of this society.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That we love.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater. The amount of tax the government
takes is over forty percent. You know, when the funding
fathers got sick and tired of the British taxes, they
had a taxable twenty five percent. The American people are
rather complacent to put up with this, and so we
are a bit we have enslaved ourselves. Not only do
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are we enslaved through the tax system, but we're enslaved
because we keep all the records.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We don't keep the right records.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
Can you imagine this tax simplification bill that just came out,
and if we don't learn those forms and do it right,
we have a gun pointed at our head by the
irs and say you're going to be put in prison
if you don't wanted to fill.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Out those forms.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
How many times that they have to go through the
W four form, I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
We have to keep the information, then we have to
turn it over the government. We then set ourselves up
for self incrimination. Then we are guilty until proven innocent.
They say you owe such and such amount, we are
guilty and proven innocent, and then we will go to
jail and they confiscate money.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
From our banks.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
You got a little bit wrong.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Pull.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
The IRS can come and confiscate our money very easily
if they send us a bill and we don't pay it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If they send you a bill at the.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
End of the year and say you did not pay
ten thousand dollars on taxes, you jolly well better prove
that you don't know it.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
It's up to you to.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Hire your try and hire your accountants and spend a
lifetime or many years of agony to prove yourself innocent
with your records that you turn over to them. But
back to the general principle, taxation is bad knowing because
the IRS.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I think, is such a vicious organization.
Speaker 13 (16:14):
But because taxes is confiscation of wealth, because it isn't
part of the American tradition. It wasn't what the founding
fathers intended, it isn't what we had through the nineteenth century,
and it's totally unnecessary in a libertarian society.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
One I remember Scott.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Can Man.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And that right there is the stone. This whole assent, Oh.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Brah, watching her best friend and go to space.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The light instructor said that I am her best success story.
Why because she's never had somebody go through the course who's.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Terrified of flying.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Everybody who's gone through the course is somebody that there
has been a lifeling dream they wanted to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So she said, I'm her best successor.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Very very fine grain. Didn't you get quoting powder.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I tell you something.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Right now, you are officially an astronaut. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I feel super connected to love. I'm so proud of
me right now. You never know how much love is
inside of.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You, rocket Shad.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's all about.
Speaker 15 (17:40):
Like how much love you have to give and how
loved you are until the day you launch.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
As I loved that the month of April, You're like,
I'm going to space and I'm launching my tour. It's
really incredible. Now I know I'm asking this question for
your fans. Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 13 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
And not only that, I have got to reveal my
setlist for the tour on a butterfly.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I'm just flying in space.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I don't know anyone's ever been space, anyone's.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Ever done that before, So I'll just do There's a
lot of things that you've done.
Speaker 14 (18:14):
First, you are now officially an astronautic. Let me just
tell you on behalf of everyone here a blue Origin.
I'll webcast and everyone all of these individuals that put
this incredible thing on congratulations.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I went on ride alongs with police officers. Does that
make me a cop? I went today to a day
of the fire Academy. We wore the uniform and you
sweated and the fire come, you know, came flying over
the top of you down these hallways. That make me
a firefighter? If you sat next to somebody on a plane,
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does that make you a pilot? All of this is
just this playing as astronauts. It demeans the accomplishment of
the great men and a few women who went into
space and braved the dangers and a fair number of
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people die. From the beginnings was Mercury Gemini, there was
you know, I got to be careful because we broadcast
from Houston, and part of Houston is Clear Lake, and
just outside the city limits there are a series of
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little towns that are really just an attempt to be
out of the city of Houston, so you don't have
to be part of the welfare state and crime little community.
But the residents were for many years part of the
space program. Houston is known as space city for good reason.
And there are a number of people in war, especially
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when NASA was going and blowing, that were part of
this amazing thing to go to space, and those people
undertook great risk of their lives and they worked very
hard to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this, and
now they're playing this game. Oh, Katie Perry, you're an astronaut,
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Neil oh, gil can You're an astronaut? Is Oprah proud?
Speaker 16 (20:28):
I met?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oprah's very proud. You get to be an astronaut? And
you get to be an astronaut and.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You it's all so, it's all. It's the everybody gets
a trophy mentality.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's the idea that all you need to do to
be a member of our armed forces is really really
want to you're a boy who wants to be a girl,
just call yourself a girl. The truth be damned. Everybody
gets a trophy, everybody wins. You dumb everything down, and
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you leave as disgusted and frustrated those who are the
best in class. And what you see in this case
is a race to the bottom. You see a culture
in decline. You see the sorts of people who are
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bringing quote unquote news, bringing stories of failure as success.
What is this whole body positive movement but an attempt
to say your fat ass is not gross any longer.
You're beautiful, you're wonderful. Here spill over into the seat
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of the guide next to you. Don't strive to be
more healthy, don't strive to weigh less. Be as fat
and gross as you possibly can, and we'll even watch you.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Eat job of the hut.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, the whole body positivity movement is a way of saying,
don't do things to make you feel better, look better,
be better, be healthier. No, no, no, embrace very bad habits.
And before you tell me, but Michael, they may have
a grand problem. That's like pointing out that some of
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the illegal aliens aren't being trafficked or doing the trafficking,
or carrying fentanyl or killing people. You may be right,
but I'm comfortable going ahead and deporting all of them,
and you should be too. Don't make excuses for this
nonsense because the body positive movement does not come from
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a good place. None of these things come from a
good place, and none of these things end up in
a good place. If you're the coach who comes in
and institutes ice cream parties instead of two if you say, guys,
you don't have to hit the weight room, because that's
hard work. Everybody should get to play on every play
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in every game, and we're just gonna make it work
without any of the sacrifices that traditionally accompany a championship team.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You would be a.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Loser of a team, you'd be a loser of an individual,
and we would be a loser of a nation.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
We're not gonna let that happen.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What can that allow me to introduce myself. My name
is Mitch Michael Ferry.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Now, we did a poll without doing any research, of
the five most famous tax cheats, it being tax Day,
that we could think of off the top of our heads,
and we ranked them from fifth to first. Our fifth
was Joe Francis. You may not know the name, but
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if you remember the Girls Going Wild videos, that was him.
He was indicted on charges of deducting more than twenty
million dollars in false business expenses back in two thousand
and two.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Two thousand and three, he.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Pled guilty to misdemeanor council false return in bribery, accepted
a plea deal including eleven months in prison, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in restitution to the irs, served
time for other more disturbing charges, false imprisonment, assault after
slamming a woman into a wall. A real stand up
guy here, he is calling the jurors retarded.
Speaker 15 (24:33):
Just because a jury is mentally retarded and jealous of
who I am. You know that jury. You should be
put in jail. You stupid idiots. That's all I have
to say. You stupid, stupid idiots, you stupid jury. You
should be put in jail or lineup and shot. You're idiots.
It's sad.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I mean, that's what they should give the death penalty to.
Speaker 15 (24:57):
Stupid jury's because I'm not that person. It's awful just
to gettvict people because you're jealous of them as retarded.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Quite the charmer.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
At number four, we have Leona Helmsley, known as the
Queen of mean.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Trump loves her. They're old friends.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He actually really likes her, and I think feels that
she got a bad deal. Her husband, Harry, and her
were indicted back in nineteen eighty eight on one hundred
and eighty eight counts of tax fraud. Harry was one
of the world's wealthiest billionaire real estate moguls. They were
alleged to have paid for personal expenses out of their
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business accounts, like renovations to their Connecticut mansion. And yes,
I say Connecticut, a former housekeeper claimed. Leona said only
little people pay taxes. She was guilty of the crime
of being arrogant. If you want to know, here was
CNN telling the story.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
She had built up a successful real estate career in
her own right, but when she married Harry, they were
one of the most powerful and wealthy couples in the world.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
He's a great Roman, sir, and he's brilliant, and he's
good looking, and he's rich.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I've got everything right.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Leona and Harry Helmsley were most well known for their hotels,
and for Leona's inclusion and advertisements is the self appointed
hotel Queen. The author of a book on the Helmsley
says the couple had it all.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It was a very successful marriage and as a team
they worked well.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
But things went downhill. The Helmsleys were indicted for not
paying their taxes, and while Harry did not have to
face charges because of his health, Leona did, I am not.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Going to jail.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I've done nothing wrong. I have done nothing wrong. I'm innocent.
My only crime is that I'm Leona Helmsley.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Newspaper headlines blaired that she once told a maid only
the little people pay taxes, something she always denied.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
She said, we.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Paid three hundred and forty four million dollars in taxes.
Of course I didn't say it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
The US Supreme Court turned down an appeal for Helmsley,
and after a federal judge ordered her to serve a
four year prison sentence, Leona Helmsley collapsed and was rushed
to the hospital where she was treated for a heart
to regularity and hypertension.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Only a month later she was off to jail.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
The author of the Helmsley book believes that Leona forgot
about the priorities of life. We're not here just to
make money, and we're not here just to accumulate power.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And coming in at number three on the five most
famous tax chief cases, the Star of White Men Can't Jump,
The Blade trilogy, and Major League Wesley Snipes, who served
three years in prison and was fined nine and a
half million dollars for failing to file tax returns from
nineteen ninety nine through two thousand and one. He was
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acquitted of a more serious felony tax fraud and conspiracy charge.
He argued he was a non resident alien and that
the IRS was an illegitimate agency, but the jury didn't
buy it. After release, he was played on house arrest
the Associated Press with that story.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
So he Snipes gets three years behind bars. He was
sentenced Thursday on misdemeanor tax charges.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
But this is a man of integrity.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Snipes's lawyers offered dozens of letters from family and friends
attesting to his good character and asking for leniency. Oh
what I did is I just answered the question straight
up and down.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
The brought.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Fellow actors Willie Harrelson and Denzel Washington also wrote letters
on his behalf. The judge, though, said Snipes showed a
history of contempt for tax laws and granted prosecutors the
maximum three year sentence they had requested. Jess government alleges
Snipes Ow's nearly three million dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 16 (28:43):
For over eight years, he engaged in numerous steps of
tax defiance conduct everything from submitting bogus bills of exchange
to the government to accusing the government that the actual
tax prosecutors are at risk if they go after him,
to filing frivolous documents.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
For years on he claimed he didn't have to pay taxes,
still arguing the government has no right to collect. He
was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony,
tax fraud and conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And number two on our list.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
In nineteen ninety irs hit Willie was seventeen million dollars
in unpaid taxes. Assets were seized, but not before his
daughter hand delivered his famous guitar trigger to him In Hawaii,
Willie struck a deal for six million dollars which included
him recording an album titled the Irs booll by my Memories?
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I passed that sprinkle with the blues, A few ol
dreams inside I can't use Who buy My Memories? Things
that used to be?
Speaker 17 (30:00):
There were the smiles before the tears with a smile,
A little some better years? Who by my memories?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
How things that used to be?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
What I remember? How things were? My moories?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All lead heard the seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes
was covered with an asset seizure, but dedicated fans purchased
a lot of those items and.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Gave them back to Willie.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That was also true of John Connelly when he when
he was hit with a tax fraud case many years earlier.
The nineteen ninety case would be settled in nineteen ninety
three after Willie struck a deal for six million dollars
which included him recording an album titled the IRS Tapes,
Who Buy My Memory? Bringing us to the number one
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most famous tax cheat case, and that was gangster in
mob Boss Al capoone, likely the most notorious tax evator
in all of history because we love to tell the story.
They didn't catch him for being a gangster. They caught
him for not paying taxes. He famously said, the government
can't collect legal taxes on illegal money. How are y'all
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going to tax.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Me on things that I gained illegally?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Nineteen twenty five to twenty seven he's convicted on five
counts of tax evasion twenty eight to twenty nine. Willful
failure to to file sent us to eleven years in
prison in eighty thousand dollars fine. Talk about excitement at
the county jail, It mainly come to pass.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And here's the proof. With Drau Fons Capo alien has
been dral Brown alias.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
The Big Shock has met the enemy and he is
there and is lead to the Dearburn Street station with
a NS guard that had DoD matter to a selfad.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It won't be long now before the world's most notorious.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Gangster will be only an offensive memory.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And if he behaves himself while he's a guest of
Uncle Sam in Atlanta, he'll be out again in only
seven and a half years.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And so up until nineteen forty, mister Caport will.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Be mister forty thousand and eight eighty six.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Now for the change, they're taking him for a ride.
Let that be a good lesson to you. Always be
sure and pay your income tax.
It's that time time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Varry Show is on the air. Associated Press I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Reuters reported on April tenth that Swiss drugmaker Novartes as
announced they will be spending twenty three billion dollars to
build and expand to sorry ten facilities in the United States.
They are a company who were at the top of
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the chart of who would be hurt most by President
Trump's tariffs. Novartis has been sending products into the United
States at a rather.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Hefty rate.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No Artists manufactures close apene uh diclopinac carba, mesipin, valsartan,
I'm matt tineb cyclost foreign electrosol, what grow a, Oh
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my goodness, the things you say methyl vinedate.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh you know where you're right. Ramon said, give you
the give you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The the common that's the name of the drug itself.
I'm sorry, so it does clos arl volterine, uh.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Uh tegritol dial.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I might get some of these wrong, folks, don't I
don't know a lot of these drugs gleevec or gilvac,
neoral sando, mune famera, riddling, which apparently they stopped making
riddling in twenty twenty, Lamasil and others. So look, I
hate big farm as much as the next guy. But
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if products are going to be sold or one of
them made in this country, and so does President Trump,
and they're going, all right, we have do we have to?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I got an email from a fellow said, no.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Coverage of Swiss pharmaceutical company and it's twenty six billion
dollar US investment due to Trump investment Trump tariff's See
attached article by nov Arties, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, of
their planned twenty six billion dollar investment. The article says
twenty three but still a lot in the US specifically
related to Trump's tariff policy. As stated by the Swiss,
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not a word on any of our TV or radio
news channels see wit Swiss website. And I did see
the Swiss, and I did see the article, and it
is true. I think you're going to see over the
coming months a number of announcements. Now i'd like to
see the rubber hit the road. I'd like to see
ground broken. I'd like to see these things happen sooner
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rather than later. Why don't we still have momentum? And
I think there are people who will make promises they
never keep with the intention of simply continuing the access
to the American market. But I think what you're what
you're witnessing is that these companies cannot survive without the
American marketplace as buyers of their products.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Before we get started, today is tax Day.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And I thought you might find it interesting, if not troubling,
that Puerto Rico attracts people and the United States is
in on this. If you go down to Puerto Rico
for six months plus one day, you don't really pay
any taxes, and that's great for the people for But
listen to this. John Stossel did a great piece on
this and on this troubling.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Would you like to pay zero federal income tax? There
is a way to do that legally.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I'm moving to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's why YouTube star logan Paul has moved his show
from California.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
I feel like people are wondering why Puerto Rico taxes one.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's one vertical, Yeah, it's one.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's a big one.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Six percent of a big one, which ironically is the
same amount of money you keep every year.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Ninety six percent.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That's how much of your earnings you now get to keep.
If you move to Puerto Rico, you pay no federal
income tax and must give just four percent of your
income to Puerto Rico. Also, it's like the only place
you can live is zero percent capital gains.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
No capital gains tax. I did it for the obvious.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Benefit of being able to keep most of what I own.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
The tax breaks started after this Puerto Rican governor shrank
the bureaucracy.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You let seventeen thousand workers go. If you can't pay
their salaries, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (05:00):
He limits at the tax break to people who move
here and stay for at least six months a year.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Last year, applications for these tax breaks nearly tripled.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think it's horrifying.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Some people don't want those newcomers coming in.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It's an example of the continued colonization of the people
of Fortificats.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
But what AOC calls colonization, I'd call new opportunities.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
One report showed that the tax beneficiaries created north of
forty thousand jobs.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It's too bad that Puerto Rico didn't do this decades ago.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
They wouldn't be in the economic trouble they are today.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
A lot of people are moving down here.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Social worker Melissa da Silva moved here from Rhode Island.
Now she runs her therapy and coaching business remotely from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
What's your life like there?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Like living it in paradise? Every single day? I wake
up and I have the ocean in front of me.
I go out my back door, the rainforest is, you know,
off in a distance.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
It's just a magical place to live.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Alsome.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I'm saving quite a bit, twenty five percent of my
whole income.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
It hasn't gotten much city in the mainland, and yet
it's huge.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
People just don't really talk about it too much.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Why not.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
There's this fear of all of the people from the
state side they're going to come down and you know,
take over everything, which is understandable. I mean from learning
about the history of Puerto Rico. The Standiards came over
and decided it's going to be their island and decimated
all the native people who lived here. And then the
States comes down and they decide it's going to be
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their island, and again, you know, the rights are taken
away from the people.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That's the reason why some activists oppose this tax break.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
We don't want.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
They're like invading our lamb.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
They're invading our land.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
And you know what, honestly, there are some people that
are doing that. I see people who come down and
they just stay there six months and they're like, we're
out of here. But there are people, you know, they
want to give back to the island as well.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
If you don't pay taxes, aren't you hurting Puerto Rico?
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Well, I do pay taxes. I provide other things to
the community as well.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
She sells digital art and gives part of her earnings
to a Puerto Rican charity.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's some who are opening up schools.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I live my life in service god blest Puerto Rico
billionaire Brock Peers moved here and now helps run the
charity Toys for Tots. He also bought this hotel and
is renovating another, which had been abandoned after Hurricane Maria.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
It's expected to create three hundred jobs.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Others are building hurricane resistant farms and.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Tech companies that happened.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Still, some people always see such investment as a problem,
as if someone making money means others must lose.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
But that's not how the world works.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
When markets are free, new wealth gets created and most
people win.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It is not acceptable.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
AOC seems to think there are only winners or losers, subjects,
or rulers.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
So we are essentially importing a.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Ruling I like to Silva's answer to that, a new
ruling class.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
The saying is like all ships rise with a tide,
let's all grow with this.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Puerto Rico tried dig government, strict regulations, handouts.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Even a government controlled power company. This is our invitation high.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Bed tax breaks, Ramone, the King of Ding, and this
other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
About one hundred and ten years ago, the income tax began.
We didn't have one before that. To build up to
World War One, build up to being a world power
did not require that the government eat the core of
the apple we produce, leaving us with very little. That
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tax was promoted as only being on the rich. Don't
worry about this new tax. It's only for the very
very wealthy, which is how they pass everything off. See,
we're going to attack the very wealthy and take what
they have. That's good, right. You hate there very wealthy,
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don't you, because you're not the very wealth Yes, take
what they got. I don't care what you.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Use it on.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Just take what they got, because I don't got it,
and they got it, so you get it. Why would
you want the government to take from a citizen. How's
that help you? But jealousy.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, it's a powerful thing, and the people who run
government understand that. In fact, that's how all the great
revolutions begin. That's how the Russian Revolution began. They told
the poor people, the serfs, we're going to take from
the rich people. Now get your pitch fork and help
us take from the rich people. The minute they took
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from the rich people, kill them, took power. They then
killed the very people who had helped them acquire power.
That's similar in so many cases. But people without have
the mistaken belief that they can somehow acquire wealth by
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someone else losing theirs.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's not how it works.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
During the campaign, which was just a few months ago,
President Trump stopped at a barbershop to speak to the
people there and he was asked about abolishing the income tax.
Don't underestimate how important this was to his appeal. Such
a radical notion, and I do believe, I do believe
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that he intends to do that. Whether he's able to
do it, I do believe that he intends to. I
think he understands forget Mount Rushmore create his own if
you could get rid of the income tax, and you
could with tariffs and reduce spending.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
But here's what he said, Well, all this extra revenue
we're going to be bringing into the country. So do
you believe at some point in time we could find
a way once the country's back on its feet and
getting enough revenue and paid off our debt. Do you
think it's possible to find a way to eliminate federal taxes?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
But there is a way. How do you feel about
you know, in the old days when.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
We were smart, when we were a smart country in
the eighteen nineties, and all this is when the country
was relatively the richest it ever was.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
It had old terrafts, it didn't have an income tax.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yes, okay, now we have income taxes, and we have
people that are dying. They're paying tax and they don't
have the money.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To pay the tax.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Now, in the old 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.
Then we went to the income tax system and the
rest is sort of history.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But no, there is a way.
Speaker 11 (11:59):
I mean, if what I'm planning comes out is a
great question. By the way, everyone could have tended them
a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You know, everyone could attained.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
The American dream if it wasn't for the High Court.
That the burden of high taxes, and we tax at
every step of the.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Way when we make it. And regulations and regulations.
Speaker 11 (12:19):
So I cut more regulations in four years than any
other president by four times.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary. So what people are missing about
Trump's tariffs is that revenue could be used to provide
Trump's tax agenda. There is a purpose to this. It
would replace the income tax.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
And for someone who says that this money coming in.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Is really a tax on consumers, what do you say,
I say a couple of things.
Speaker 12 (12:51):
One, we're seeing the CEO Walmart is pushing back on
his Chinese suppliers and he is telling them they have
to eat all the carrot increases.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
They're the largest retailer in America.
Speaker 12 (13:05):
I think forty million Americans go into Walmart every week.
We saw in Trump one point zero prices didn't go up.
And if we have that happening. At the same time,
we are able to use that income to provide President
Trump's tax agenda, no tax and tips, no tax on
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on Social Security, the excuse me, no tax in overtime,
and making auto interest deductible for American cars. That's a
home run for working class Americans.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
And then we'll take this one to the break. Ron Paul.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Flashback, the brilliant Ron Paul who called for the abolition
of the FBI and the CIA and saying that the
income tax should be abolished. We should all give credit
to the godfather of all these ideas Trump has today.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
And that was the great run Pole. The income tax
is unnecessary.
Speaker 13 (14:01):
Again, something happened in the twentieth century where the American
people decided that there would be There's something happened where
we have changed our attitude about what we want from
our government. We've ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state
that we cannot afford, and we've also became an American
empire where we have troops around the world and we
pay for the defense of Japan and Germany and everybody else.
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But at the same time, you had to have two
ways of financing this one we decided we'd have an
income tax that we would start subtlely and small, that
would escalate to the point that it really is the
biggest rip off in the country, along with a federal
reserve system that allows us to monetize.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 13 (14:41):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the deterioration of this society.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That we love.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater. The amount of tax the government
takes is over forty percent. You know, when the funding
fathers got sick and tired of the British taxes, they
had a taxable twenty five percent. The American people are
rather complacent to put up with this, and so we
are a bit we have enslaved ourselves. Not only do
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are we enslaved through the tax system, but we're enslaved
because we keep all the records.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
We don't keep the right records.
Speaker 13 (15:13):
Can you imagine this tax simplification bill that just came out,
and if we don't learn those forms and do it right,
we have a gun pointed at our head by the
irs and say you're going to be put in prison
if you don't wanted to fill.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Out those forms.
Speaker 13 (15:23):
How many times that they have to go through the
W four form, I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous.
We have to keep the information, then we have to
turn it over the government. We then set ourselves up
for self incrimination. Then we are guilty until proven innocent.
They say you owe such and such amount, we are
guilty and proven innocent, and then we will go to
jail and they confiscate money.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
From our banks.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
You got a little bit wrong.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
Pull.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
The IRS can come and confiscate our money very easily
if they send us a bill and we don't pay it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
If they send you a bill at the.
Speaker 13 (15:53):
End of the year and say you did not pay
ten thousand dollars on taxes, you jolly well better prove
that you don't know it.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
It's up to you to.
Speaker 13 (15:59):
Hire your try and hire your accountants and spend a
lifetime or many years of agony to prove yourself innocent
with your records that you turn over to them. But
back to the general principle, taxation is bad knowing because
the IRS.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
I think, is such a vicious organization.
Speaker 13 (16:14):
But because taxes is confiscation of wealth, because it isn't
part of the American tradition. It wasn't what the founding
fathers intended, it isn't what we had through the nineteenth century,
and it's totally unnecessary in a libertarian society.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
One I remember Scott.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Can Man.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And that right there is the stone. This whole assent, Oh.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Brah, watching her best friend and go to space.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The light instructor said that I am her best success story.
Why because she's never had somebody go through the course who's.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Terrified of flying.
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Everybody who's gone through the course is somebody that there
has been a lifeling dream they wanted to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So she said, I'm her best successor.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Very very fine grain. Didn't you get quoting powder.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I tell you something.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Right now, you are officially an astronaut. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I feel super connected to love. I'm so proud of
me right now. You never know how much love is
inside of.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You, rocket Shad.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's all about.
Speaker 15 (17:40):
Like how much love you have to give and how
loved you are until the day you launch.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
As I loved that the month of April, You're like,
I'm going to space and I'm launching my tour. It's
really incredible. Now I know I'm asking this question for
your fans. Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 13 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
And not only that, I have got to reveal my
setlist for the tour on a butterfly.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I'm just flying in space.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
I don't know anyone's ever been space, anyone's.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Ever done that before, So I'll just do There's a
lot of things that you've done.
Speaker 14 (18:14):
First, you are now officially an astronautic. Let me just
tell you on behalf of everyone here a blue Origin.
I'll webcast and everyone all of these individuals that put
this incredible thing on congratulations.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I went on ride alongs with police officers. Does that
make me a cop? I went today to a day
of the fire Academy. We wore the uniform and you
sweated and the fire come, you know, came flying over
the top of you down these hallways. That make me
a firefighter? If you sat next to somebody on a plane,
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does that make you a pilot? All of this is
just this playing as astronauts. It demeans the accomplishment of
the great men and a few women who went into
space and braved the dangers and a fair number of
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people die. From the beginnings was Mercury Gemini, there was
you know, I got to be careful because we broadcast
from Houston, and part of Houston is Clear Lake, and
just outside the city limits there are a series of
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little towns that are really just an attempt to be
out of the city of Houston, so you don't have
to be part of the welfare state and crime little community.
But the residents were for many years part of the
space program. Houston is known as space city for good reason.
And there are a number of people in war, especially
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when NASA was going and blowing, that were part of
this amazing thing to go to space, and those people
undertook great risk of their lives and they worked very
hard to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this, and
now they're playing this game. Oh, Katie Perry, you're an astronaut,
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Neil oh, gil can You're an astronaut? Is Oprah proud?
Speaker 16 (20:28):
I met?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oprah's very proud. You get to be an astronaut? And
you get to be an astronaut and.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You it's all so, it's all. It's the everybody gets
a trophy mentality.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's the idea that all you need to do to
be a member of our armed forces is really really
want to you're a boy who wants to be a girl,
just call yourself a girl. The truth be damned. Everybody
gets a trophy, everybody wins. You dumb everything down, and
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you leave as disgusted and frustrated those who are the
best in class. And what you see in this case
is a race to the bottom. You see a culture
in decline. You see the sorts of people who are
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bringing quote unquote news, bringing stories of failure as success.
What is this whole body positive movement but an attempt
to say your fat ass is not gross any longer.
You're beautiful, you're wonderful. Here spill over into the seat
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of the guide next to you. Don't strive to be
more healthy, don't strive to weigh less. Be as fat
and gross as you possibly can, and we'll even watch you.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Eat job of the hut.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Well, the whole body positivity movement is a way of saying,
don't do things to make you feel better, look better,
be better, be healthier. No, no, no, embrace very bad habits.
And before you tell me, but Michael, they may have
a grand problem. That's like pointing out that some of
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the illegal aliens aren't being trafficked or doing the trafficking,
or carrying fentanyl or killing people. You may be right,
but I'm comfortable going ahead and deporting all of them,
and you should be too. Don't make excuses for this
nonsense because the body positive movement does not come from
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a good place. None of these things come from a
good place, and none of these things end up in
a good place. If you're the coach who comes in
and institutes ice cream parties instead of two if you say, guys,
you don't have to hit the weight room, because that's
hard work. Everybody should get to play on every play
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in every game, and we're just gonna make it work
without any of the sacrifices that traditionally accompany a championship team.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
You would be a.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Loser of a team, you'd be a loser of an individual,
and we would be a loser of a nation.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
We're not gonna let that happen.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
What can that allow me to introduce myself. My name
is Mitch Michael Ferry.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Now, we did a poll without doing any research, of
the five most famous tax cheats, it being tax Day,
that we could think of off the top of our heads,
and we ranked them from fifth to first. Our fifth
was Joe Francis. You may not know the name, but
(23:59):
if you remember the Girls Going Wild videos, that was him.
He was indicted on charges of deducting more than twenty
million dollars in false business expenses back in two thousand
and two.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Two thousand and three, he.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Pled guilty to misdemeanor council false return in bribery, accepted
a plea deal including eleven months in prison, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars in restitution to the irs, served
time for other more disturbing charges, false imprisonment, assault after
slamming a woman into a wall. A real stand up
guy here, he is calling the jurors retarded.
Speaker 15 (24:33):
Just because a jury is mentally retarded and jealous of
who I am. You know that jury. You should be
put in jail. You stupid idiots. That's all I have
to say. You stupid, stupid idiots, you stupid jury. You
should be put in jail or lineup and shot. You're idiots.
It's sad.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I mean, that's what they should give the death penalty to.
Speaker 15 (24:57):
Stupid jury's because I'm not that person. It's awful just
to gettvict people because you're jealous of them as retarded.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Quite the charmer.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
At number four, we have Leona Helmsley, known as the
Queen of mean.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Trump loves her. They're old friends.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
He actually really likes her, and I think feels that
she got a bad deal. Her husband, Harry, and her
were indicted back in nineteen eighty eight on one hundred
and eighty eight counts of tax fraud. Harry was one
of the world's wealthiest billionaire real estate moguls. They were
alleged to have paid for personal expenses out of their
(25:33):
business accounts, like renovations to their Connecticut mansion. And yes,
I say Connecticut, a former housekeeper claimed. Leona said only
little people pay taxes. She was guilty of the crime
of being arrogant. If you want to know, here was
CNN telling the story.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
She had built up a successful real estate career in
her own right, but when she married Harry, they were
one of the most powerful and wealthy couples in the world.
Speaker 11 (25:58):
He's a great Roman, sir, and he's brilliant, and he's
good looking, and he's rich.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I've got everything right.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Leona and Harry Helmsley were most well known for their hotels,
and for Leona's inclusion and advertisements is the self appointed
hotel Queen. The author of a book on the Helmsley
says the couple had it all.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It was a very successful marriage and as a team
they worked well.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
But things went downhill. The Helmsleys were indicted for not
paying their taxes, and while Harry did not have to
face charges because of his health, Leona did, I am not.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Going to jail.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I've done nothing wrong. I have done nothing wrong. I'm innocent.
My only crime is that I'm Leona Helmsley.
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Newspaper headlines blaired that she once told a maid only
the little people pay taxes, something she always denied.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
She said, we.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Paid three hundred and forty four million dollars in taxes.
Of course I didn't say it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
The US Supreme Court turned down an appeal for Helmsley,
and after a federal judge ordered her to serve a
four year prison sentence, Leona Helmsley collapsed and was rushed
to the hospital where she was treated for a heart
to regularity and hypertension.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Only a month later she was off to jail.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
The author of the Helmsley book believes that Leona forgot
about the priorities of life. We're not here just to
make money, and we're not here just to accumulate power.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And coming in at number three on the five most
famous tax chief cases, the Star of White Men Can't Jump,
The Blade trilogy, and Major League Wesley Snipes, who served
three years in prison and was fined nine and a
half million dollars for failing to file tax returns from
nineteen ninety nine through two thousand and one. He was
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acquitted of a more serious felony tax fraud and conspiracy charge.
He argued he was a non resident alien and that
the IRS was an illegitimate agency, but the jury didn't
buy it. After release, he was played on house arrest
the Associated Press with that story.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
So he Snipes gets three years behind bars. He was
sentenced Thursday on misdemeanor tax charges.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
But this is a man of integrity.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
Snipes's lawyers offered dozens of letters from family and friends
attesting to his good character and asking for leniency. Oh
what I did is I just answered the question straight
up and down.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
The brought.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Fellow actors Willie Harrelson and Denzel Washington also wrote letters
on his behalf. The judge, though, said Snipes showed a
history of contempt for tax laws and granted prosecutors the
maximum three year sentence they had requested. Jess government alleges
Snipes Ow's nearly three million dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 16 (28:43):
For over eight years, he engaged in numerous steps of
tax defiance conduct everything from submitting bogus bills of exchange
to the government to accusing the government that the actual
tax prosecutors are at risk if they go after him,
to filing frivolous documents.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
For years on he claimed he didn't have to pay taxes,
still arguing the government has no right to collect. He
was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony,
tax fraud and conspiracy.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
And number two on our list.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
In nineteen ninety irs hit Willie was seventeen million dollars
in unpaid taxes. Assets were seized, but not before his
daughter hand delivered his famous guitar trigger to him In Hawaii,
Willie struck a deal for six million dollars which included
him recording an album titled the Irs booll by my Memories?
(29:41):
I passed that sprinkle with the blues, A few ol
dreams inside I can't use Who buy My Memories? Things
that used to be?
Speaker 17 (30:00):
There were the smiles before the tears with a smile,
A little some better years? Who by my memories?
Speaker 3 (30:13):
How things that used to be?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
What I remember? How things were? My moories?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All lead heard the seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes
was covered with an asset seizure, but dedicated fans purchased
a lot of those items and.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Gave them back to Willie.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
That was also true of John Connelly when he when
he was hit with a tax fraud case many years earlier.
The nineteen ninety case would be settled in nineteen ninety
three after Willie struck a deal for six million dollars
which included him recording an album titled the IRS Tapes,
Who Buy My Memory? Bringing us to the number one
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most famous tax cheat case, and that was gangster in
mob Boss Al capoone, likely the most notorious tax evator
in all of history because we love to tell the story.
They didn't catch him for being a gangster. They caught
him for not paying taxes. He famously said, the government
can't collect legal taxes on illegal money. How are y'all
(31:27):
going to tax.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Me on things that I gained illegally?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Nineteen twenty five to twenty seven he's convicted on five
counts of tax evasion twenty eight to twenty nine. Willful
failure to to file sent us to eleven years in
prison in eighty thousand dollars fine. Talk about excitement at
the county jail, It mainly come to pass.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And here's the proof. With Drau Fons Capo alien has
been dral Brown alias.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
The Big Shock has met the enemy and he is
there and is lead to the Dearburn Street station with
a NS guard that had DoD matter to a selfad.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
It won't be long now before the world's most notorious.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Gangster will be only an offensive memory.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And if he behaves himself while he's a guest of
Uncle Sam in Atlanta, he'll be out again in only
seven and a half years.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And so up until nineteen forty, mister Caport will.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Be mister forty thousand and eight eighty six.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Now for the change, they're taking him for a ride.
Let that be a good lesson to you. Always be
sure and pay your income tax.
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