Jon Justice Show: Tuesday Feb 4th Hrs 1-3 Twin Cities News talk

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Do you want people at home and getting a paycheck
and not providing services to you?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
The answer is no.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
I was a representative of Ilhan Omar talking about the
boycotting DFL Mafia House members yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:21):

Speaker 2 (00:27):
The answer is no. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
That was her complaining about the USAID and the gutting
of this federal program and the waste, fraud, and abuse
that's been exposed in a program that I honestly wasn't
even aware of until yesterday. I am a firm believer

(00:50):
that everything happens for a reason, and what we are
seeing right now and what the Trump administration is doing
continues to bolster and reinforce my view that. I'm glad
that Biden won in twenty twenty. I'm glad that the
left win after Trump the way that they did. I'm

(01:14):
glad that when Biden and Kamala Harris won in twenty twenty,
they decided to go all in on that, which was not.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
The reason why they were elected in the first place.
Because what we're witnessing right now is historical.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
You're in the middle of a moment in time and
a newly installed the presidency for his second term with
the four year gap, that is doing what I voted for,
what you more than likely voted for. They're making moves
up ending what's been done over the past four years

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and getting the country pointed back in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
They are because the left is freaking out over every
single move now that's being made. It was quiet for
the first week, but now that we're heading into yeah,
further weeks into this presidency, and they simply cannot keep up.

(02:22):
And they haven't learned. The left hasn't learned a single lesson.
They're doing exactly the same thing that they did going
back to win Trump won the first time. But now
they've dug their heels in so deeply and they're they're
in so much disarray. They do not know how to
respond to what's happening. The best thing the Democrats can

(02:43):
do right now is to just shut.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Up, just take it.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
But they're not because they haven't learned a single thing,
and this administration doesn't give a rip. They do not
care about any of the criticism. It is truly amazing
to watch, which It's Tuesday morning here on Twin City's
news Talking Am eleven thirty one oh three five FM.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
My name is John Justice.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I'm glad you're with the show this morning, broadcasting from
the six five to one carpet home of the Next
Day install Studios. Got a lot to cover on the
show today. We'll get into the tariffs and I said
it yesterday waiting to see how this plays out, and
it's playing out quite nicely so far. We'll dive into

(03:27):
the USAID and freak out a lot of audio to
share regarding that I have new fraud. This is on
top of the other new fraud that came after the
new fraud before that here in the state of Minnesota,
a brand new one now. And there's an interesting dynamic
in play with what the Trump administration is doing, what

(03:49):
the DOGE is doing in attempting to at a rather
swift pace, remove the waste fraud in the view within
our federal government. It's going to be a lengthy task,
but we're heading the right direction. But what you're seeing
right now is your legacy media, your local media understanding

(04:12):
that this is part of the conversation right now is
removing this fraud, exposing this fraud, letting the people know
about it. I'll give you a sort of a sidebar
example of what I'm talking about. So, we had the
horrific air tragedy that took place in Washington, DC, right

(04:33):
major news, first commercial airline disaster, and I don't know
what was it, like fifteen somebody years or something like this.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
And locally.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
There was a Delta flight in the air for about
an hour, had to turnaround and be diverted and come back.
The flats got stuck in the takeoff position. It's not
that big of a deal. You need a longer runway,
got to burn off fuel and you can go and land. Well,
local media picked up on this story. It really wasn't
all that unique. I talked about the week before. Last

(05:04):
week before this incident happened, there was another circumstance where
a flight had gotten into the air, they didn't have
limited control and the autopilot wasn't working, and they did
it do the same thing. They had to circle, burn
off fuel, income and land. But the media didn't report
on it then Now they do.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Why Well, because.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
People are interested in air travel and concerned over air travel.
So we get a local story where typically we wouldn't
over a flight being diverted. Truth of the matter is
flights are diverted and returned back to MSP all the time.
I hear about it from my son. And what you're
seeing now is that the media is going, Okay, we're
talking about waste frauden abuse is top of mind for everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Let's start covering more.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Of this and that waste fraud and abuse continues to
be exposed. It's almost on a weekly basis now under
this corrupt governor Tim Walls administration and the DFL mafia
of which he presides over. So we'll talk about that
coming up at seven o'clock this morning. Also the latest

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in the House and the State Senate. Oh, by the way,
so i'll give you a bit of a preview on this.
So in the Senate, prior to the special election, they
were divided like the houses.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Allegedly going to be in the future. We'll get back
to that.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Right right now is sixty seven sixty six in the House,
but it was thirty three thirty three because there was
a vacant seat and a special election was necessary because
there was an unfortunate passing of one of the DFL senators.
So the DFL entered into a bipartisan power sharing agreement.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right, sounds familiar.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
They agreed, we're going to share power given the dynamics
at play. Both sides agreed, this is how we're going
to conduct this legislative session in the Senate.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Oh and guess what happened. The moment that.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
That special election Dfler got seated the DFL, the Senate
immediately moved to go and terminate their bipartisan power sharing agreement.
And as an example, Senator Judy Ceberger talking about the
termination of the Senate resolution.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Listen, listen to listen to this.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
She's discussing terminating the bipartisan agreement that both parties agreed to.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Here's what she had to say, Can you need to
work in a bipartisan fashion? My loyalty is to my districts,
not the DFL. My loyalty is to my districts, not
the DFL.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
And yet she voted to end the bipartisan agreement. They're
so corrupt.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I'm wondering right now.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
This is a question I posed on X Like, is
Governor Tim Walls in the DFL the most corrupt state
Democrat party in the country. I'm beginning to think that
that is the case, so we'll get into that in
the seven o'clock hour. Also, our tax guru, Dan Pilla,
he'll be joining us at seven thirty in his tax season.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
You haven't done your taxes already? I did.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I got shellacked. Holy cow, they had way too much money.
Should have called Dan ahead of time. He'll be answering
your questions though, when he joins us in studio coming
up at seven thirty. Also later on this hour, President
Donald Trump may be making good on dismantling the Department
of Education.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
And one other thing I'll be doing very early in
the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, DC.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
And sending all education and education working needs back to
the States. We want them to run the education of
our children because they'll do a much better job of it, and.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
It looks like he's heading that direction.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I'll have information to share with you before the top
of the seven o'clock hour, and I want to hear
from you six five one nine eight nine five eight
five five. That is the phone number you can email
me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com. Remember to set your
presets on the newly updated iHeartRadio app and we'll get
to your talkbacks next here on Twin Cities News Talk

(09:11):
from the sixty five to one carpet home of the
Next Day Install Studios. John Justice here on Twin Cities
News Talk. I am eleven thirty and one oh three
five fram and of course I want to hear from
you and the iHeartRadio app this morning with your talkbacks.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
John.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
Good morning, Rick and Virginia. Are you really shocked and
surprise at the state Democrat Senate renig on the power sharing?
John a live sheet, steal and manipulate every time? Every
day Obama led about Obamacare, Joe Biden led about everything,
and they have at a corrupt not fake news, but corrupt.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
Press in their back pocket.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
If the press ever told the truth and told the
way it really was, the Democrats could never see another
day of power.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Ever, No, I'm not surprised at all, and I completely
I completely agree with you. Doesn't shock me in the least,
but it shouldn't surprise anybody. And the Senate Republicans here
in the state knew that this was going to happen.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
But it proves what we've been saying all.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Along and what Rick and Virginia was just mentioning just
how corrupt. The Marxist Democrats are as we are now
today on day twenty two of the boycott.

Speaker 9 (10:23):
I was wrong.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yesterday I was a day ahead. Yesterday was twenty one,
Today is twenty two. I thought I was wrong, but
I wasn't sure. I don't do math well, which is
why I'm a talk show host here on Twin Cities
News Talk and I hadn't promoted this yet, and we'll
give you the details coming up at seven o'clock. But
the House GOP members are going to be moving forward

(10:47):
in launching recalls against those DFL mafia House members for
not showing up to work, and local media is talking
about it. I have some audio to share from Representative
Harry Niska. He was on the show last week. He
talked to Fox nine. I had some clips from the
State Senate when that bipartisan sharing agreement was dissolved, and

(11:10):
we'll get to that a little bit later on this
morning show.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
What Donald Trump is trying to do is save this
nation and bring it back to the greatness that it was,
because that's why all these immigrants that the left is
worried about are coming here for to make their lives better.
But if they don't have a country to go to
which the previous administration was trying to destroy. What are
they going to come here for? Once Donald Trump is

(11:35):
done at a national level, then all the attention will be
on Minnesota and all the front health eruption is going
to be exposed. So you better get your house in
order because the wave is coming.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, listen.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I wonder too when it comes to representatives like ilhan Omar.

Speaker 1 (11:49):

Speaker 3 (11:55):
The answer is no, No, I don't, which is why
the DFL Mafia house member need to go and get
back to work.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
I do want to.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Dovetail off of what you mentioned in your talkback. I'm
talking about the previous administration was trying to destroy the country.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
It depends on your viewpoint on that.

Speaker 11 (12:15):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I don't think they were trying to destroy the country.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
They were conducting and have been conducting massive psyops to
fundamentally change this country. Now we see it as destruction
because it would be the destruction of what this country
was founded upon and what makes it great. The Democrats
saw it is fundamentally transforming, which got full steam, which

(12:38):
got rolling and when full steam ahead for as long
as it could when former President Barack Obama took office,
and actually have some.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Obama audio I'm gonna be sharing a little bit later
on the show.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
But listen, as I mentioned yesterday, and it turned out
to be true, you did not get an honest assessment
of Trump's tariff plans. He spoke with those worlds leaders
yesterday ahead of the midnight implementation. And I know we
still have some shenanigans going on with China's reported in
the top of the hour news, but Mexico and Canada

(13:11):
both caved. Trump is breaking with the status quo and
enacting change. And we'll talk about the possibility of eliminating
the federal income tax, which could put thousands of your
hard earned money back into your bank accounts. And we'll
get into that with Dan Pilla, our tax guruin them
about an hour from now. President Donald Trump again yesterday

(13:35):
held off on his tariff threats with Canada.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
And Mexico for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
After the two US neighbors agreed to boost security forces.
Trump said Canada will implement their one point three billion
dollar border plan as per Prime Minister Trudeau, We'll be
enforcing the border with new choppers, technology, personnel, and enhance
coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop

(14:00):
the flow of fetanyl. And listen, we haven't talked about
this much on the show, but the Canadian border was
actually becoming a bigger concern than what was taking place
in the southern border because Trudeau was doing the same
thing that Mexico was doing, but was being much more
blatant about encouraging people to come into the country from
Canada into the United States illegally. Nearly ten thousand frontline

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personnel are and we'll be working on protecting the border.
In addition, Canada is making new commitments to appoint a
fetanyl czar. We will list cartels as terrorists to ensure
twenty four to seven eyes on the border, launch a
Canadian US joined to strike force to combat organized crime,
fetanyl and money laundering. Some ten thousand troops are going

(14:43):
to be sent to the southern border as well. In
the agreement with Mexico, I've signed the new Intelligence Directive
and organized crime and feentanyl and we will be backing
it with two hundred million dollars.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
And there are.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Already some anecdotal signs that enforcement on our southern border
is increasing, watching some military flights that typically do not
take place over Mexican airspace that started yesterday, and our
Secretary of Defense beat Hegseth is heading to the border
this week as well. Now again, those talks about the

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tariffs began yesterday, Trump spoke with Trudeau at least twice,
and Mexico agreeing to send up to ten thousand troops
to police its border with the US. You see, the
thing of it is the US had all the leverage,
and this is where you were lied to.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
The media's assessment.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
The freak out over all of this, the articles that
were written so much wasted time and energy rather than
just sitting back and waiting for a moment to see
how this was going to play out. Because the US
had all the leverage and dealing with these trade deficits
that we have with Canada and Mexico. The United States
sins about a third of its exports to its northern

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and southern neighbors. Canada Mexico sent about eighty percent of
their exports to the US. International trade also comprises much
larger portions of Canada and Mexico's economies than the United States.
If just the US tariffs on Canada and Mexico were implemented,
some economists were saying that consumers would have suffered an

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extra half point of inflation over the next year. In contrast,
though Canada and Mexico would suffer an extra one point
seven and two point three points inflation, respectively. The tariffs
could also devastate some of their largest industries, such as
vehicle manufacturing, oil and gas. Because the extent of which

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both country countries rely on American markets, The illicit movement
of drugs and the people into the US from Canada
has been surging, as I mentioned in recent years. Over
the weekend, Trump and Vance added onto the list of
grievances with Canada as its failure to me NATO obligations
on military spending and restrictions on imports from the US,

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as well as other issues.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You see, you have the leaders of these.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Countries doing what they do, talking tough to their constituents,
the people in their country, but when it comes to
actually implementing these ideas, Trump's not holding back.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
There's a clip going around.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
I saved Kara, who's producing this morning, the task of
having to bleep.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
It because he did expletives.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
But it was like from some thirteen years ago where
Trump had talked about levying twenty five percent taxes on
other countries for this very thing. These are ideas that
he's had for a long time. The Mexican president called
the White House's accusation relating to collaborating with drug cartels slander.

(17:52):
If the US government and its agencies wanted to address
the serious consumption of fentanol in their country, they can
combat the sale of narcotics on the streets and their
main cities. Which is a rather interesting comment because the
most of those main cities, unfortunately, are run by Democrats,
and the crime problem in the fentanyl would actually fall
on them. So I actually agree with the Mexican president
on this, and again they caved. They talked tough to

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their citizens, but the US had all the leverage, and
the left and the Democrats buffoonery over Trump's elected authority continues.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Shows you how far out.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Of step these American Democrat Marxist actually are, which brings
me coming up next to Trump merging the USAID with
the State Department. Again, truth be told, I had no
idea what this agency was until yesterday.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Now we know a lot about it.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
We also know what percentage of it is comprises the
federal budget. And if and I'll share this with you
in just a moment, but if the usad AID only
comprises this much of the federal budget and we found
this much fraud and waste in this program, just imagine

(19:09):
what's going on in the rest of the budget. We'll
get to your talkbacks coming up on Twin Cities News Talk.
Email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com as we continue
to broadcast from the sixty five to one carpet home
of the Next Day Install Studios station.

Speaker 12 (19:26):
So Donald Trump is now talking to El Salvador about
outsourcing our prison system by at least the most serious crimes.
And wow, we're going to a penal colony kind of
set up for our prisoners.

Speaker 13 (19:41):
This is interesting.

Speaker 9 (19:42):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, they're not messing around there. Absolutely, this administration is
not messing around. There was a mandate by the voters
that they're making good on that mandate and moving at
a faster pace than I even anticipated. It's pretty incredible
to watch. And right now the Democrats simply can't keep up.

(20:04):
They were quiet for that first week and a half,
eerily so to where I mistakenly assumed, my bad because
I'm more of an optimist, that maybe, just maybe the
left was wising up, that maybe the Democrats were realizing
that going the full opposition route on all of this

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was not a way to bring back supporter of their party.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, they proved me wrong, which is fine by me.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Continue, continue to push the agenda, continue to try to
conduct the ssyops that you did over the course of
the past four years. And I happen to use this
term on the show before, but that's really what's been
taking place. I'll explain here in just a moment. But
the Democrat Marxist across the board, and it was happening
within this USAID, It's been happening within our public school system.

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They really have been conducting these syops on the American people,
trying to trying to make everybody believe that the country
was really this alternate version that they proposed, and they
were using your taxpayer dollars to try to go and

(21:17):
present the evidence that that was taking place. And you're
still seeing it happen now on a daily basis with
the DFL here in Minnesota, as they continue to lie
and manipulate and spread misinformation over what is taking place
during this legislative session.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
You can always touch the effectiveness of how well Elon
and Trump are working together by the response of those
that are opposing everything that they're doing, especially this USAID.
All the Democrats and even a few Rhinos that are angry,
upset and curious about it. I think they're here's a

(22:00):
jail time coming for some of these folks there, boys
and girls. Funck alot.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, yeah, you had ilhan Omar complain into the high
Heavens about the cutting of the funding over this us AID,
and I can't help but wonder at the back of
her mind she's one she's curious and concerned that there
may actually finally be a federal investigation into her marrying
her brother for immigration status, because there certainly is plenty
of evidence for that.

Speaker 14 (22:26):
Hey, John, right on as always. Did you see the
footage of Schumer holding up the line the corona and
the avocado. Could you imagine if a Republican did that,
it'd be cries of racism upwards and downwards. I think
to your point, just look at how CNN versus like an.

Speaker 9 (22:45):
Alpha News reported the tariffs.

Speaker 14 (22:46):
Alpha News says, hey, Canada and Mexico gave in which
they did. CNN will say, hey, Trump put a pause
on it.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
No, Trump agreed, yeah too, Thank you for the talkback
that Schumer clip.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
So here here's Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm looking at Klay Travis had actually posted this. One
reason Democrats can't handle the Trump administration so far is
because the Trump team is moving at the speed of
business and the Democrats are moving at the speed of government.
It's an amazing point. Here's what Chuck Schumer had to say.
Slow to react to what's been transpirted.

Speaker 15 (23:24):
Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday. Yeah, okay, it's going
to affect beer.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
He's holding up Corona extra.

Speaker 15 (23:32):
Most of it corona here comes from Mexico.

Speaker 9 (23:35):
It's going to.

Speaker 15 (23:36):
Affect your guac because what is guacamole made of avocados
both from Mexico.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Actually, that's not even true if the terrafs had gone through,
because there's no way the prices would have gone up
that quick to affect the big game coming up this Sunday.
But Clay's point is spot on. This is how corporations
and businesses operate. They don't have time to mess around.
The profit margins are too thin. They have to go

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and make and take drastic measures in order to stay
afloat because they're not in the business of losing money.
They actually respect the money that they bring in, and
they want to keep their.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Employees, you know employed.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
See, when it comes to the government, they have no
respect over your money. So they can do what they've
been doing, especially relating to this USAID.

Speaker 16 (24:27):
John, John, John, it's not us AID to just say USAID, Okay.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
So here's the thing on that, because I thought that,
but everybody is saying USAID. And I actually went to
several clips to see what other people were pronouncing it,
because you would think it was just USAID, But no,
everybody says USAID. So again, it's a program I was

(24:53):
unfamiliar with until this whole thing broke loose this week.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
So so here's the deal on this.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
So Trump administration merging USAID with the State Department. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is taking over as the acting
head of USAID. Hey, and maybe now with Marco Rubio
taking it over, we can just call it USAID. No, See,
USAID sounds like too much like USA got to really
pronounce the d Democrat lawmakers, of course, as we've been

(25:26):
talking about, criticize the move as illegal and harmful to
national security and global influence. We're talking about a program
that is zero point seven percent of the federal budget,
and they found that it was filled with fraud and waste.
Musk heading an unofficial cost cutting agency, so he plans

(25:47):
to shut down USAID, leading to security officials to being
placed on leave and the agency's website going dark. I'm
working off of the news story as created by the
website that gathers all the different news items and then
kind of combines it Musk's initiative. Doge has faced legal

(26:08):
challenges and criticisms for his actions against usai D.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, that website doesn't really like Republicans all that much.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
So.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Speaking to reporters while traveling in El Salvador, Rubio confirmed
that he has been named the acting director of us
ai D, talking about big changes on the horizon. That's
not the right clip, all right, I gotta go back
and find the right one. That's the h I'll find
the Marco Rubio clip here in just a moment, Democrats

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and former diplomats are sounding the alarm over the efforts
to raise in USAID, claiming the agency delivers life saving
aid and bolsters America's global standing. However, the Trump administration
notes that USAID has operated with little oversight for far
too long, and then it often goes against US interests.

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A report from the Hill notes that it remains uncertain
whether the move will face any legal challenges. Again, Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer late last week's than any effort
to dissolve the USAID would be illegal and against our
national interests. Although we haven't seen any moves so far
relating to that, President Trump told reporters Sunday, the USAID

(27:22):
has been run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out,
and we've made the decision. The President previously assigned an
executive order freezing foreign assistance. USAID's website did go offline.
Hundreds of contractors have been laid off, as certain as
uncertainty looms over the agency's future. Here's more from Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 15 (27:45):
Also, know this is just the beginning. If DOJ attacks
USAID today, then you can be sure they'll move on
to another target tomorrow. Who knows, maybe it'll be the
Postal Service, or the IRS, or even the Social Security
administer they could be next, or maybe our national security agencies.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Don't tease me.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Robbie Starbuck posted this regarding USAID.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
He says, I.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Can't possibly explain the scale at which Democrats used are
taxpayer dollars to enrich their friends who donated to them.
But let me highlight three USAID expenses.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Five hundred and twenty million.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Dollars was spent on ESG consultants, one point two billion
given to undisclosed recipients undisclosed recipients. One point two billion,
three hundred and seventy five million for DEI grants alone.
Do you think there's even one conservative right wing ESG

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or DEI firm getting contracts? All the agencies and governments
sent billion to their friends at ESG and DEI firms.
They turn around and donate to Democrats who help them
get their funding, or they fund more extreme left wing
activist organizations that the Democrats don't want to get caught

(29:15):
directly funding.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
I mean, you can call it money laundering, because that's
kind of what it is.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
It could be the largest money laundering scheme in history,
and it speaks volumes just how much the left yesterday
was crying to the high heavens over the canceling of
USAID funding. Let's get to some of your thoughts from

(29:44):
the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 17 (29:45):
Good morning, John, Pat from Egan. This is exactly what
I voted for when I voted for Trump, and it's
even exceeding my wireless expectations. And the more I watch
the happyrm. The Democrats did what they did in twenty
twenty and he will be probably the most transformative president

(30:07):
since Reagan. In fact, I don't even want him on
Mountain Rushmore. I want him on a mountain a great day.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
We can put Trump on the side of a devil's
tower for you close encounter fans.

Speaker 18 (30:23):
Happy to staye John, knock it out of the park.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Do my best.

Speaker 18 (30:27):
It takes more to be an American citizen than just
being born here. Those people you call Marxist Democrat American,
all they are is just Champagne Marxists, and they practice
the grift. They only have nodding knowledge and understanding of

(30:47):
what they profess.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Thank you for the comment. And I found the clip
of Marco Rubio that I was looking for.

Speaker 19 (30:53):
I'm going to do with.

Speaker 20 (30:56):
Look.

Speaker 21 (30:56):
I mean, my frustration with USA goes back to my
time in Congress, completely unresponsive agency. It's supposed to respond
to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses
to do so. So the functions of the USAID, there
are a lot of functions of USAID that are going
to continue, that are going to be part of American
foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American

(31:17):
foreign policy.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I said very clearly.

Speaker 21 (31:19):
When we when during my confirmation hearing that every dollar
we spend in every program we fund that will be
aligned with the national interest of the United States, and
USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and
deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the
national interests.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
He's a taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 21 (31:37):
And so I'm very troubled by these reports that they've
been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple
questions about what does this program do, who gets the money,
who are our contractors, who's funded, And that sort of
level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort
of mature, serious review that I think foreign at large
should have. We're spending taxpayer money here. These are not

(31:59):
the donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars. And we owe
the American people assured the assurances that every dollar we
are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers
our national interests. And so far a lot of the
people that work at USAID have just simply refuse to cooperate.
Are you currently in charge of USAID here, I'm the
acting director of USAID. I've delegated that authority to someone,

(32:21):
but I stay in touch with him. And again, our
goal was to go in and align our foreign aid
to the national interest. But if you go to mission
after mission and embassy after embassy around the world, you
will often find that in many cases, the USAADID is
involved in programs that run counter to what we're trying
to do in our national strategy. With that country or

(32:42):
without region, that cannot continue. USAID is not an independent,
non governmental entity. It is an entity that spends taxpayer
dollars and it needs to spend it, as the statute says,
in alignment with the policy directives that they get from
the Secretary of State, the National Security Council, and the President.
And it's been twenty or three years where people have
tried to reform it and it refused us to reform.

(33:03):
It refused us to cooperate. When we went to Congress.
We couldn't even get answers to basic questions about programence.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
That will not continue. That's not going to continue. Yeah,
they're not messing around.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
The time of childish games, ridiculous political theater style, over substance,
dangerous psyops.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
It's over.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
And I love those closing comments there from Marco Rubio saying, listen,
we've tried to get answers for this program zero point
seven percent of the budget, the federal budget, and yet
the outrage yesterday from the left just dominated across the board.
Amy Klobashar, Tim Jong Walls, ilhan Omar, all of them.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Just flipping out.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
In the twenty twenty four election cycle, USAID staff made
a total of four hundred and six thousand, seven hundred
and ninety dollars in political contributions. This is according to
data collected by Open Secrets. More than half of that
two hundred and forty one thousand, seventy nine dollars went

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to former Vice President Kamala Harris. Only a quarter of
a percent nine hundred and ninety nine dollars went to Trump.
In all, three hundred and seventy seven thousand, or ninety
seven percent went to Democrats. Well, just twelve thousand, seven
hundred and four dollars went to Republicans. Open Secrets tracked

(34:35):
all the political donations of USAID employees to packs and
candidates over two hundred dollars via the Federal Election Commission.
The numbers highlight the political bias. Trump and his team
have said that they would root out from USAID, saying
the agency and it's fifty billion dollars annual budget were

(34:58):
run by rad left lunatics who went crazy during the
Biden administration, and we're giving money to people that shouldn't
be getting it. And how does Governor Tim Walls respond
to all of this?

Speaker 2 (35:10):
He posts on X.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
President to Elon Musk, thinking that's an own thinking that
it's an interesting job. In the wake of all of this,
I hope that talkback was correct, before saying that as
we moved through what's happening at the federal level, we
begin to expose the corruption and the fraud that we've

(35:35):
been talking about on an almost daily basis. Now as
new fraud seems to be discovered in as much as
we're doing the show Monday through Friday.

Speaker 22 (35:47):
Hey, John, Yeah, please keep calling at us AID because
they want you to think that it's AID going elsewhere,
but really is just a CAI front. So yeah, it's
nothing to do with AID, just a misnomer, and that's
what they want you to think.

Speaker 23 (36:03):
This is exactly the problem in any government. Once you
have a program funded, once you have a program that exists,
an apartment that exists, it's nearly impossible to get rid
of it, which is why Obamacare was so scary. So
Trump's doing exactly what he needs to do, and that
is closing or acting programs or departments in their entirety.

(36:28):
So it's the only way we're going to make any progress.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Listen, here's the White House Press Secretary yesterday outside of
a press conference, Caroline Lovitt, laying out some of the
spending that was occurring under USAID.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
And here's the.

Speaker 24 (36:45):
Reason why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look,
because if you look at the waste and abuse that
has run through USAID over the past several years, these
are some of the insane priorities that that organization has
been spending money on. One point five million dollars to
a ban DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for a
production of a Dei musical in Ireland, forty seven thousand

(37:09):
for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for
a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you,
but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars
going towards this crap, and I know the American people
don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been
tasked by President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste,
and abuse out of our federal government without Helisen.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Here, there's a reason why all this was happening.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
You know, for four years I covered the ridiculous spending
by the left over completely unnecessary items that accomplish nothing,
just like what Caroline Levitt was laying out, except to
attempt to provide examples of what the Democrat Marxists want

(37:55):
you to believe this country is in supportive. You fund
the items like Caroline Levitt laid out, in order to
create this circular logic that falsely manufactures support. Zero mandate
for the Biden administration to go all in on Marxism

(38:16):
when he was elected in twenty twenty, and they did.
The majority of the USAID funding was to artificially make
it seem like this was a supported agenda. And you
know what, Americans didn't take the bait. It's why our
children were put at risk, women were being erased and

(38:37):
put at risk over radical gender ideology. It's why DEEI
was allowed to destroy meritocracy in jobs, business, and entertainment.
And it's why the Democrat Marxists are pushing back and
crying foul because their game is ending right now.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
That's why they were going.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
They were out there funding all this garbage to make
it seem like, look, everybody supports this.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Look oko how much stuff is out there.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Why do you think they fought so hard in the
schools to keep the pornographic material available for underage students
in our schools because using the shielding of the media,
they wanted to give off this perception that this is
what the majority of individuals wanted. And again, the country

(39:27):
didn't take the bait. Sixty five one nine eight nine
five eight five five. That's the phone number. Drop me
an email justice at iHeartRadio dot com. White House has
begun drafting executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education,
and we're going to dive into the latest of what's
taking place not only in the House as the DFL

(39:49):
mafia constitutional hostage crisis continues, but also was taking place
in the Senate as well. We'll get to your comments
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(40:10):
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(40:33):
he was coupling that with tariffs, saying one would replace
the other, but considering that the leverage Trump was using
relating to tariffs is working with Canada and Mexico caving yesterday,
it seems like that's less likely to take place, but
remains to be seen whether or not Trump will continue
to move forward and what that would actually entail of

(40:55):
eliminating the federal income tax, which I am all for.
I would like more of my hard earned money back
in my pocket.

Speaker 20 (41:00):
Please, hey morn John, the USAID and with the Trump
administration cancer or not canceling, but suspending all payments and
programs to find out where the money's going to me.
It's interesting that all these career politicians and the politicians
that are crying and whining and moaning and even the media,
but government is corrupt. But in the back of my mind,

(41:23):
I'm going these politicians, now I know where they get
a lot of the fund because it's funneled back into
their campaigns.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Thank you for the talk back.

Speaker 9 (41:33):
I have no idea what that audio is.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
So Senator John Kennedy talking about USAID and those corrupt politicians,
had this to say.

Speaker 25 (41:45):
To my friends who are upset, I would say, with respect.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
You know, call somebody who cares.

Speaker 13 (41:53):
They better get used to this.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
It's USAID today, it's going to be Department of Education
and more.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Trump of Fish are reportedly circulating a draft executive order
to launch the process of dismantling the Department of Education.
The draft order would be a step toward fulfilling a
key campaign promise that Trump made to return the education
policy back to the States. It would also call on
Congress to pass legislation striking the department from a federal statute.

(42:22):
Trump may sign the order soon, according to ABC News,
no data has been determined yet. If signed, the order
would likely be carried out by Trump's nominee to head
the Department of Education, Linda McMahon. Some officials in the
Trump administration are pushing for the President to hold off
on signing the order until after McMahon's confirmation. That's been

(42:43):
held up. It's not been scheduled yet. Some employees of
the Department of Education have already been put on leave
from the agency as a result of Trump's executive order
cutting DEI initiatives out of the government. Dozens of employees
in the Department's Diversity, Equity and Inclusionssibility office were barred
from the agency under guidance from the White House Office

(43:05):
of Personnel and Management. And listen, DEI was a part
of this, the psyops that I was talking about. It
exists to perpetuate this false narrative of white supremacy, and
it does. It destroys meritocracy, and in and of itself
is racist.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
And the Department of Education has for far.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Too long been used in the Democrat Marxist campaigns to
try to go and wage this alternate worldview. Psiop, why
do you think again, books explicit were being allowed in schools.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
There was such a pushback on.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
It, lies about book banning from Governor Tim Walls and
other leftists around the country. All of the propaganda that
has shown in schools, it was all to perpetuate this
alternate universe the Democrats want you to believe that you're
living in. That's why one of my favorite films is
The Matrix, because right now you're coming out of the Matrix.

(44:09):
For so many people, the Democrats were desperate to put
you in it to convince you that.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
This is really what the world is.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Fluid lifestyles, godless beliefs, the GOP or Nazis, Trump is Hitler.
Children can decide what genders they are. I mean, the
list goes on and on and on, and thank the
Good Lord Almighty that again.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
The American public rejected it.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
And listen, this goes back one more clip for you
here regarding USAID and we'll move over to what's taking
place here during the legislative session.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
But this goes back.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
To again the money that gets spent and just wasted
an Obama era re renewable energy pet project that had
billions of dollars sunk into it is now expected to
close after eleven years of failure.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
This is that solar farm out.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
On the West coast in the desert that I've seen
drove past it many times. It was a huge scam
from the beginning, not to mention the fact that birds
would just spontaneously.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Combust if they got too close to it. Listen to this,
This would become the biggest solar plant in the world,
not in China, not in India, but in California.

Speaker 25 (45:35):
The Ivanpah solar plant went live eleven years ago. It
was supposed to produce clean power for at least thirty years.
Instead of solar panels, it uses giant mirrors to concentrate
the sun's energy on these towers, which boil water, generating
steam creating electricity.

Speaker 26 (45:53):
It's going to put about one thousand people to work
filing a state of the art facility.

Speaker 25 (45:58):
As part of his climate agenda, as Obama gave ivanpap
one point six billion dollars in federal loans, a five
hundred and thirty five million dollars grant, a thirty percent
tax credit worth about six hundred million, and an accelerated
depreciation schedule that allowed investors to write off their capital
investment in just five years.

Speaker 9 (46:19):
The fact of the matter is American taxpayers wind up
holding the bill, whether it's a Celinda, whether it's this
project care.

Speaker 25 (46:27):
In addition to taxpayer losses, California's rate payers were forced
to buy ivan paw power at five times at the
market rate to help meet the state's renewable energy mandate.

Speaker 18 (46:38):
These are expensive subsidies and they not only are they
do they cost the taxers, but they just distort the market.

Speaker 25 (46:45):
Other site, Ivanpau's impact on wildlife, killing thousands of birds
who fly anywhere near the plant's intense heat, as shown
in this government video.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
When they see the birds actually going up in flame.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
They created a name for that. They call them screamers.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Just billions wasted, and make no mistake, there were plenty
of individuals cry and foul when this was implemented, saying
this is not gonna work, this is a waste of money.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
But it didn't matter.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Thankfully, we've got grown ups businessmen who actually respect your
money that are serving in this administration. Unfortunately, the syop
continues here at the local level. Minnesota House Democrats extend
their boycott into a fourth week at the capitol. Happened yesterday,
Parties battling over who should control the House and for

(47:40):
how long today is Day twenty two. House leaders did
meet for the first time in a week on Monday morning,
but by the afternoon the rhetoric remained the same. Let
me play for you a clip from Lisa Damoth during
the media availability yesterday.

Speaker 19 (47:57):
Hey, thanks for being back.

Speaker 16 (47:58):
We're on day twenty one again, and of Democrats not
showing up here in the state of Minnesota, and if
it's getting a little bit long for you to be
reporting on kind of the same thing. This is horrible
for the people of Minnesota. When you look at three
different fraud cases that came out just last week. When
you look at our test scores fourth and eighth graders

(48:22):
that are doing even worse in reading that nothing has changed.

Speaker 9 (48:28):
When you look at the fact that we have.

Speaker 16 (48:30):
Avian flu and producers, turkey producers, chicken producers, the poultry
producers in the state are struggling. When you look at
the absolute needs that are right here, and to know
that this what we are seeing because Democrats will not
show up for work, you know that this constitutional crisis
is completely Democrat controlled and created, and the fact that

(48:53):
we are in day twenty one and they are not
willing to be here is a disservice to every Minnesota
here in the state right now.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
I have more to share from Lisa Damoth here in
just a moment. She's spot on, by the way, But
this is the siop that I'm talking about. You have
DFL leader Melissa Hortman out there saying, you know, it's
gone from a boycott tool to a lockout. We're being
locked out. It's a straight up lie. No one's being
locked out. They can go to work today. And with

(49:22):
the amount of fraud that's being exposed, Lisa Damuth is
actually behind there's a brand new.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
New story relating to fraud.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Minnesota Star Tribune as Bill gloon Wright to center the
American Experiment committed an act of journalism and reporting a
program involving the Housing Stabilization Services HSS overseen by the
Department of Human Services. The Housing Stabilization Services is a
new Minnesota medical assistance benefit to help people with disabilities,

(49:53):
including mental health, substance use disorder, and seniors find and
keep housing. Like many DHS programs. HSS doesn't help people directly. Instead,
oh it provides cash to nonprofits and for profit companies
to provide services on behalf of DHS. Unfortunately, the Housing

(50:15):
Stabilization Services is now following the same pattern as the
other new or expanded benefit programs doing nothing with my
fingers like feeding our future and.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Autism clinics.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Dogged with complaints of wait times and potential fraud. Will
bring you more details of yet another fraud scandal brewing
in state government. More comments from Lisa Damoth as well,
and the GOP is going to begin statewide recall efforts
against the no show DFL legislatures, another example of the

(50:49):
GOP doing everything legally in their power to hold those
DFL mafia house members accountable. We'll get to all that
and our tax guru, Dan Pilla, joining me in studio
coming up at seven point thirty here on twin City's News.

Speaker 13 (51:04):
Talk, twins Day's Noon Talk.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
From the sixty five to one carpet home of the
Next Day Install Studios, John Justice, Dan Pilla, tax Guru
joining us and just a few minutes answering your tax questions.
We'll talk a little tariffs.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
I don't think he's a fan.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
I'm not necessarily a fan either, but they certainly do
work when it comes to negotiating and the possibility of
eliminating the federal income tax. As President Donald Trump has
teased us with power struggles, political power struggles shift at
Minnesota Capital, working off a story here from Fox nine,
Representative vill han Omar weigh in on the DFL House

(52:05):
mafia not showing up for work.

Speaker 1 (52:07):

Speaker 6 (52:14):
The answer is no.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I'm sorry she was talking about USAID, but she might
as well have been talking about the House DFL mafia.
Lisa Damuth talking yesterday, as we're on day yesterday, twenty
one of the boycott of the DFL, let me play
some more of that exchange with local media.

Speaker 16 (52:37):
It is incredibly disappointing.

Speaker 15 (52:39):
Yesterday was Groundhog Day.

Speaker 19 (52:41):
With Groundhog Day day two, we're still waiting to see
whether the Democrats have seen their shadow and are going
to carry through on their threat to deprived Minnesota of
a House of Representatives for another six weeks. We're hopeful
that they will finally hear enough from their constituents and
show up for work about the problems. Like Speaker Dame
With was talking about, we are ready here to get

(53:03):
to work for the people in Minnesota. We just snamed
Democrats to show off for work.

Speaker 12 (53:06):
Negotiations go this morning.

Speaker 16 (53:08):
So we went ahead and we met the people that
you see around me, including Leader Niska. But we have
Representative Torklsen, Representative Robbins, Representative Scott. That is our negotiating
team that we brought forward. As you saw things kind
of play out in the media last weekend, there were
no meetings that were scheduled or missed by myself. There
was nothing scheduled until this morning, and so we came

(53:32):
together as a team. I know the Democrats chose to
bring a team with conversations were there, but just because
you rearranged the same points that are expired three weeks
ago before session ever started, and call that a new offer,
that is not a new offer. So we are willing
to continue meeting if there's something substantial. We are supposed
to be meeting after this. But as you saw, we

(53:53):
met this morning. We know that Democrats had a caucus
off site at one o'clock today, but not one of
them could show up on the House floor and do
the work. They could not show up at work to
do what they were supposed to actually be doing for
Minnesotan's We will be meeting again about four point thirty
this afternoon. Hopefully we will have more to share with
you about what is included there, if it is in

(54:14):
good faith, hopefully even by tomorrow. I know we have
a press conference at one o'clock tomorrow. We didn't do
our press conference at two o'clock, hoping that that would
be helpful and moving things forward. But we're willing to
talk to you at one o'clock tomorrow unless things resolve tonight,
and I am still hopeful about that.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Democrats need to show up.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
For work, and apparently nothing got resolved, as I'll talk
about here in just a moment. The Minnesota GOP is
beginning statewide recall efforts against the no show DFL legislators,
working off of a press release from yesterday and another
interesting comment from Speaker Designate Lisa Hortman, because in the
DFL's attempts to continue to mislead and lie and create

(54:57):
their false sy op narrative in the public, DFL leader
Melissa Hortman was out there saying you know we had
a meeting and she didn't show up for the meeting.
I mean, it's rich for Melissa Hortman to complain about
Lisa damonth not showing up at the Capitol. Be that
as it may. I mean, it just tells you how
arrogant they are. But as Lisa Damuth laid out in
that clip, that wasn't the case. There was nothing scheduled,

(55:20):
and they don't have to meet with them, they don't
have to have a power sharing agreement. The DFL cheated
and there should be some level of accountability for that.
You cheat, you lose the power, the organizational power. That's
what happens. But this is the si op that I

(55:42):
continue to talk about. Let's get to some of your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Good morning, John, Dave, San Luis Park.

Speaker 26 (55:52):
Do you have any hopes that the low information mind
up Democrat voters.

Speaker 9 (55:57):
We'll see what's going.

Speaker 14 (55:58):
On in our they all the fraud, all the sitting
at home instead of going to work.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Well, it's starting to get some coverage.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Here's a clip of Harry Niska talking to Fox nine
last night.

Speaker 27 (56:11):
We're on week three of a Democrat shutdown of our
Minnesota state House because Democrats don't like the way that
votes might turn out if they do come down to
the Capitol. That's not the way our system is supposed
to work. And the people who are trying to shut
down our legislature don't get to say, well, we don't
think you should hire those lawyers to try to get
the legislature back working again. Minnesotans expect that when people

(56:33):
show when people have a job to do, when they're
getting paid to do it, that they show.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Up for work.

Speaker 9 (56:38):
That's what people should be.

Speaker 27 (56:40):
That's what I'm hearing from people that they're concerned about
Minnesota Democrats not showing up for work. It's time for
them to show up.

Speaker 28 (56:47):
I hate to play the what ifs, but what if
you know, again, in a perfect scenario, this would all
be resolved by nine to fifteen tomorrow morning. But if
it doesn't, I mean, how long could this potentially go on?

Speaker 27 (56:58):
Well, the question that's a question that I think I
think you should be asking Democrats because they're the ones
who are showing up for work. They're the ones who
are threatening to stay out potentially for another six weeks.
That's their threat, is that they're going to stay out
until March seventeenth. Again, the end of session is May.
We have a budget that we have to solve. We
have a lot of problems. We have a huge problem
with fraud and state government. We have affordability problems, we

(57:19):
have public safety problems, we have education problems. We have
to think about how we make our state have a
business environment that's going to capture the economic opportunities of
the future. And instead of getting to deal with any
of those problems, we're waiting for Democrats to just show
up to work to argue about these issues at the

(57:39):
capital to vote. That's our job to get together to
work on these issues at the capital. It started on
January fourteenth, that was the first day of the law.
Told us that we were supposed to be at work.
Democrats didn't show up.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
They're now.

Speaker 27 (57:54):
They've not shown up for work for three weeks. It's
time for them to show up for.

Speaker 28 (57:57):
Work and we will ask them that we have represented
most of the Heartman next coming on at nine to
forty five, so people can.

Speaker 14 (58:02):
My biggest sticking point on this thing in the Republicans,
I think going about it the most legal ways they can.

Speaker 13 (58:08):
But the most sticking.

Speaker 25 (58:09):
Point I have is this is not a single dfler
has been officially sworn in their little secret seremony.

Speaker 9 (58:17):
We we just skated right over that.

Speaker 19 (58:19):
That.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Well, here's here's the thing that's an irrelevant point now
based off of the fact that the Minnesota State Supreme
Court ruled that sixty eight was needed for a quorum.
So essentially that means that the legislative session never technically
got underway and the GOP aren't even sworn in either. Listen,
this is the campaign of chaos that the DFL has created.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
This is how corrupt they are.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
And we'll have Dan Pilla join us in just a moment,
but let me let me wrap this up because I
want to talk about the Senate for just a second. So,
there was a power sharing agreement that the DFL and
the Senate Republicans agreed to in the wake of the
passing of the DFL senator and a special election that
need to be conducted, and in good faith, they decided

(59:06):
to share power for the legislative session.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
The moment so that election.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Occurred, the dfler Dolan won resoundingly, and the moment that
he was sworn in, the DFL went and wiped out
voted to remove that power sharing agreement, and let me
present to you this argument real quick. So the argument
that the DFL now is just they're not talking about

(59:33):
it anymore, but this is still what they're.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Hanging all of this on. There not showing up to
go to work.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
It's because we had that special election in Fort eb
where Curtis Johnson cheated. We still don't have a date
for that election yet. Probably is going to take place
sometime in March, which is what they're waiting for. So
right now it's sixty seven sixty six, and the DFL
is demanding that the GOP enter into a power sharing
agreement it now to keep the GOP from having organizational

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power and picking a speaker for the next two years.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
You could listen.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
That argument is so ridiculous that I'm going to make
another one for the Senate side of things. It would
be the equivalent of a GOP state senator arguing that
because the alleged Minnesota DFLL and Senator Nicole Mitchell admitted
to her crime, even though she has to go to trial,

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that she shouldn't be serving in the Senate and it
should be thirty three thirty three. I mean, that's what
happened the alleged Minnesota DFLL and Nicole Mitchell. When she
was caught, she didn't say that she wasn't caught doing
what she was doing. She all but admitted what she

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was doing and breaking into her mother in law's home.
So if you want to play this game, then the
Senate GOP could make a similar argument, well, you know,
really it's thirty three to thirty three because she shouldn't
be here. It's a ridiculous argument, make no mistake, it's
a really dumb argument.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Doesn't really carry any weight.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Neither does what the DFL on the House side is
doing saying that it's a foregone conclusion that fortyb is
going to go to their candidate and therefore they should
now have to share power. And again, the moment that
DFL special election winner was seated, the DFL in the
Senate moved to eliminate that power sharing agreement. As a

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matter of fact, here is State Senator Andrew Matthews talking
about that very thing. One thing that's been interesting in
the three weeks under this power sharing so far is
that Republicans have been going around trying to work on
getting bipartisan votes for Republican bills that we needed to
move out of the committee. I've not yet had one
single Democrat come to me with the Democrat bill asking

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for consideration and bipartisan votes. It appears that perhaps they
were just biding their time until a day like today
when the agreement was going to be terminated and their
bills could go through without the need of seeking bipartisan votes.
And the three bills that we had, we actually had
prior commitments of bipartisan votes until we got to the

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day of the hearing and saw that that work was
getting undermined behind the scenes, where they were requesting members
to hold off on their votes to keep them in committee,
follow through with promises of voting for legislation to move forward.
And so honestly, the power sharing agreement that we had,
while a splashy nice thing to show to Minnesotan's wasn't

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actually put in practice because I think one side knew
that they're just needing to bide their time for a
few weeks, and so it would have been nice to
have seen what this power sharing agreement would actually do
if both sides had to actually get members votes from
both sides of the committee. That's sadly not the case.

Speaker 9 (01:03:00):
Today.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Yeah, because the DFL is filled full with a bunch
of corrupt liars. Dan Pilla, our tax guru, will join
me in studio next answer your questions relating to tax season.
We'll get his thoughts on the potential of eliminating the
federal income tax. We'll talk a little tariffs. Get your

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questions in via the talkback on the iHeartRadio app. You're
sure to take advantage of those presets as well, and
keep it right here on Twin City's News Talk Am
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. Twin Cities
News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three five FM.

(01:03:43):
From the sixty five to one carpet home of the
Next Day Install Studios, John Justice, we have our tax guru,
Dan Pilla in studio answering whenever tax questions, tax related
questions you might have. We'll talk to him in just
a moment. I want to go to the iHeartRadio app,
but briefly comment that rolled in based off the previous conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
John brother to love the show.

Speaker 29 (01:04:05):
I think one of the most interesting stories yesterday was
Senator Judy Seiberger DFLLER from South Metro. She got up
on the floor and talked about all the bipartisan support,
all the bipartisan efforts she's putting towards working with the
Republicans on the floor. The reason she's doing that is
because she won by three hundred votes and now she
has two Republican lawmakers in the House that are not Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
So I actually I played that clip at the start
of the show this morning, and it was juxtaposed against
her voting to end the bipartisan agreement in the Senate.
After the special election, DFL candidate was sworn in.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Good morning, Dan Pilla, Good morning John.

Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I'm loving all the winning? Are you loving all the winning?

Speaker 9 (01:04:48):
The winning is great.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Everything that's been taking place, Like at the federal level,
we talked a lot about usaid, I mean it kind
of falls into your wheelhouse, Like do you get excited
to see the uprooting of all this cup funding? Like
more so than I when we talk about it on
a dailybel Well.

Speaker 26 (01:05:04):
The funding is a pleasure to see that get flushed.
Because they've been talking about this in Washington, John, for
just about as long as I've been paying attention. You know,
we went through this with the Grace Commission, We went
through this with with Penny kask I don't know if
you remember that big dust up that happened in the
nineteen nineties uder the Clinton administration, our own Tim Penny,

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a US representative from southern Minnesota, and John Kasik.

Speaker 9 (01:05:30):
They were all on board with.

Speaker 26 (01:05:32):
This cutting three or four percent of federal spending because
of the waste, fraud and duplication and so on, and
it went nowhere and we got the same kind of
pushback then that we're getting now. If you've got a
group of legislators at the federal level, Thec's congressman that
can't find a way to cut one penny out of
every dollar of federal spending, there's something fundamentally wrong with

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the mindset.

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
It's the mindset.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
Yeah, I want to mention really quick because I brought
this up earlier. I didn't get to the core of
what was taking place. We've been talking about all of
these new reports of fraud within our own government programs
here in Minnesota. It seems as if we get one
like every other day, if more frequently than that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
The latest one comes from the Housing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Stabilization services overseen by the Department of Human Services, So
it's following a similar pattern as what we've seen with
feeding our future in the autism clinics. The HSS doesn't
help people directly. It provides cash to nonprofits or for
profit companies to provide services on behalf of DHS. So
longtime nonprofit providers working in the field find the new

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benefit program impossible to navigate or access, but hundreds of
new providers pop up overnight. They snag the lion's share
of the available money. The Star Tribune headline sums the
whole thing up, saying the housing program is dogged with
complaints of weight times and potential fraud. Housing Stabilizations Services

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was supposed to help Minnesotas find housing and keep it,
but the fast growing Medicaid benefit has had a difficult rollout.
How come this doesn't or is it and we're not
seeing it? How come this isn't getting exposed like at
the federal level relating to taxes and what is being reported.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Is it just a lack of oversight, that's a question.

Speaker 26 (01:07:19):
Yeah, it's exactly right. It's a lack of oversight. And
this john is a symptom of what happens when you
put government in charge of social services. There is no
way that particularly the federal government should never be in
charge of so for the social services that first of all,
there's no constitutional support for the idea. But set that
aside for a second. You've got too many nameless and

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faceless bureaucrats, too far away from the problem to have
any meaningful oversight of what's going on. And then when
I say oversight, i'm talking about in both directions, oversight
of the spending and oversight.

Speaker 9 (01:07:53):
Of the people that you're trying to help.

Speaker 26 (01:07:54):
And by oversight I mean a personal connection, face to
face connection with the people you're trying to help. When
you were talking about social programs, they have to be
pushed down to the lowest level of government, all right.
When they're pushed down to the lowest level of government,
you've got oversight by people who.

Speaker 9 (01:08:09):
Are on the scene.

Speaker 26 (01:08:10):
They know how to spend the money, and they come
face to face with the people that need to help.
And so this is where you get the best benefit
for taxpayer money in the use of social services. The
further away from the problem you get, the greater the
lack of oversight, and the more there is waste fraud duplication,
and well waste fraud duplication.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
That's it for anybody that wants to find out more
of what you do, Dan Pilla or tax Guru.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Where can they find you online?

Speaker 26 (01:08:38):
Yeah, go to tax help online dot com. That's all
one word, tax help online dot com. If you buy
any book off my website at any price point, you
get a free consultation, fifteen minute consultation directly with me,
right over the phone.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
So before we get into I want to pick your
brain a little bit about what's been taking place, especially
with Trump and his We have the issue on the tariffs.
Canada and Mexico have fuld at least for now thirty
day pause on those tariffs. I believe that China was
moving forward with a ten percent tariff on their end.
He's also talked about eliminating the federal income tax. Before

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we do that, though, let's bring it here closer to
home for those who aren't like me and immediately go
and get their taxes done, which is the majority of people.
We were talking off the air about how I took
my taxes this year and I just go.

Speaker 26 (01:09:24):
There's a broddled There's a ten step program for that, John,
and the first step is to admit you have a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
I do have a problem. I hate having stuff on
my plane.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
I want to get it done, and you typically it
was because I get really excited about getting money back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
From the customer.

Speaker 9 (01:09:38):
We got free money from the government.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
And now because my son is twenty two and I
can no longer claim him, that doesn't happen anymore. So
how do I make up the difference on that? Or
what do other people need to note this year here
in the state of Minnesota when they're filing their taxes,
any changes or anything they need to be made.

Speaker 26 (01:09:54):
Well, there isn't anything different this year than there was
last year. We're still operating at the federal level under
the Tax Cuttom Jobs Act. That that is the law
through twenty twenty five unless Congress does something about it,
either either extending it or tweaking it in some way.
If they don't touch it, it's going to expire December
thirty one, twenty twenty five. I don't know if you

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and I talked about this in the past, but this
is the first order of business as far as I'm concerned,
that the United States Congress has to address when it
comes to tax law changes. All Right, we've got to
deal with the tax cuts and jobs Act. In fact,
I was pleased Trump's Trump's now now confirmed Treasury Secretary
Scott dissent. One of the things that he stated during

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his confirmation hearings is that he's going to make it
his business to push the renewal of the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act. And that has to happen because people
don't realize, John, that if that law expires, if Congress
does nothing, then there's going to be an across the
board tax increase for all middle income Americans, I mean
all of them, particularly small businesses because of the benefits

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that will expire under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
that we're that were so favorable to small businesses. So
that has to be extended. And these other discussions that
we see about, you know, whether to not tax solid security,
and not text tips and and not text overtime, these
various things. Okay, fine, that's that's some that's nice discussion.
But the fact of the matter is they got to

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deal with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acted.

Speaker 25 (01:11:23):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Let's get to so Trump threatening these tariffs. There was
a clip that was on earthed from some thirteen years ago.
Again he dropped some curse words, and so I kept
a producer Karen from having to go and edit that
this morning. But he mentioned going back, you know, thirteen years,
you know, a twenty five percent tax on countries, especially
those that we have deficits with, and he was moving

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forward with China, Canada, and Mexico. Now Canada and Mexico
caved in. They're going to get the bord of security
that they want. Trump likes what he sees, so he's
holding off on those tariffs for now. He has talked
about using tariffs as the potential to bring in revenue
and replace the federal income tax. So it's a couple
of moving parts here. First off, correct me if I'm wrong,

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But you weren't the biggest fan of tariffs last time.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
I think we talked about those.

Speaker 26 (01:12:10):
Correct, Yeah, you're right, I'm not the biggest fan of tariffs.
And there's a couple of reasons for it. And it
turns out that President Trump is not pushing the tariffs either.
And this is just my perception now, right, all right,
he didn't call me on the phone and explain this
to me.

Speaker 9 (01:12:23):
Right, let's be clear about this. This is my perception.

Speaker 26 (01:12:26):
He wasn't using the threat of tariffs so much as
a means of raising revenue. Although that's what he was
talking about. He was using him as a negotiation strategy
to get to get Mexico to defend it, so to
defend our border, right, use its forces to defend our
border from the from the drugs that were coming in,
and so on. The fact of the matter is, John,

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tariffs are a very inefficient way. Inefficient might not be
the right word. They're just an ineffective way to raise revenue,
particularly when you've got federal spending in the United States
right now, we're about six and a half six point
seven trillion dollars of spending. When the tariffs were responsible
for collecting the vast majority of the federal spending, this

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would have been at the turn of the twentieth century,
right between eighteen roughly eighteen ninety and nineteen nineteen twenty
call it. Of course, nineteen thirteen started the income tax,
so that changed the dynamic a little bit.

Speaker 9 (01:13:22):
But even back.

Speaker 26 (01:13:23):
Then, John, it was only raising seventy percent of the
revenue approximately right. The other thirty percent came from other taxes,
and there was only half a billion dollars five hundred
about five hundred billion dollars worth of a five hundred
million I'm sorry, five hundred million dollars of federal spending
at the time. So it is a completely different dynamic today,

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so remarkably different compared to one hundred twenty thirty years ago.
We just cannot expect the needs of the federal government
with the way they are expressed now, to be satisfied
with tariffs.

Speaker 9 (01:13:58):
It's not going to work.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
I think he's using it as a negotiation tactic, and
I also think that he would fully go through with
the tariffs if they didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:14:08):
Thank you. WHOA, there's no doubt you'll go through with this. Yeah,
there's no question, and they know that. And look at that.

Speaker 26 (01:14:14):
He's right about this, and that is the United States
represents the largest, most lucrative consumer market on the planet.
There's no doubt about that. And these countries want access
to our markets. There should be a cost for that,
There's no question about that as well. Now the question
is what should that cost be. Should the cost be tariffs,

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which really ultimately are paid by the American consumer, or
should it be in terms of the things that he's expressed,
protect our borders, stop shipping your criminals to our country,
et cetera, et cetera. That to me, That to me
is the price of poker. As far as I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Concerned talking with our tax guru, Dan Pilla. If you
have any questions for Dan, you can leave us a
talk back on the iHeartRadio app. You can also email
me just Is at iHeartRadio dot com.

Speaker 8 (01:15:02):
I wonder if the tax guy knows if we will
ever receive reparations for all this fraud, waste and abuse
we've been paying for for years. Don't for that stuff.

Speaker 26 (01:15:13):
Damn it. Well, that's a nice idea. Don't hold your breath. Yeah,
I'll I'll tell you. The reparation I would like is
is just let's let's let's cut the amount of federal
spending by half by half, and then we can and
then we can talk about that, then we can talk
about really getting serious about budget cuts from there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
If Trump had moved forward, let's just hypothetically speaking, let's
say that Canada and Mexico don't make good on their
promises in thirty days, and Trump moves forward on his
tariff threat, but he also works to go and eliminate
the federal income tax. And I want to get a
little bit more into that is as well, because there's
a couple of components and questions that I have for you.
But let's say that that word to happen is that

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is that viable putting more of our heart and mind
back into our bank accounts by limiting the federal income
tax to offset what we would be paying because of
the increase in tariffs to these countries.

Speaker 9 (01:16:07):
Well, there's no question about it.

Speaker 26 (01:16:08):
If you if you reduce taxes over here, you've got
more money available over there to pay for whatever it
is you're going to pay for it.

Speaker 9 (01:16:17):
But it's not even This is the thing when you
when you look.

Speaker 26 (01:16:20):
At the federal First of all, let's talk about the
revenue that's collected by the federal government, roughly five and
a half trillion dollars, right Roughly, they're spending about six
and a half trillion, So right, there is problem number one.
But we're talking about replacing five and a half trillion
dollars worth.

Speaker 9 (01:16:36):
Of revenue, all right. About about sixty.

Speaker 26 (01:16:38):
Percent of that money comes from the federal income teach,
the personal income tax, all right. Then another twenty plus
percent of it comes from the Social Security tax, and
then the rest of it is coming from unemployment taxes
and from corporate income taxes and so on. Less than
a half a percent, John, call it one percent of

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total federal revenue today is raised by tariffs.

Speaker 9 (01:17:03):
Right.

Speaker 26 (01:17:03):
It's an insignificant component of the federal revenue. So there
is no way that cutting out sixty percent of the
revenue stream you're going to replace that with a one percent, right,
I mean, how are you going to raise tariffs enough
to cover that to cover that deficit?

Speaker 9 (01:17:20):
It's just it's not feasible.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
I guess my question is moving forward, and this is
probably beyond you know, the scope of what we're talking
about now, but these countries are conceding, you know, giving
in to Trump's demands and wanting to see security on
these particular issues, it still doesn't solve the problem of
the deficits that we have, you know, with these countries
at least not laid out in what Trump is proposing

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that they're going to do in order for him not
to move forward with tariffs. So that's still something that's
going to have to be addressed at some point.

Speaker 26 (01:17:50):
Well it is I and I believe the answer to
that is you take the boot off the neck of
American product production, right, and that comes in two forms.
Number one is the cost of producing in terms of
the federal the corporate and personal income tax that these
businesses face. Number one, but the cost of regulation. The
cost of regulations in the United States is massive, which

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is one of the key reasons why US businesses off
offshore their production to other countries, because they don't have
the regulation to deal with. If we cut down the
regulation on production and regulation concerning employment, right, what you tax,
you get less of. So when you put these additional
burdens on employment, you get less employment, you get less production.

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If we eliminate that or at least cut it significantly meaningfully,
then you are going to see businesses. Businesses come back
into the United States produced in the United States because
of the stable economy and relatively stable, comparatively stable political
environment that we have in the United States. People would
rather do business in the United States because of the

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stable educated workforce, because of the stable money system and
the stable governments we have.

Speaker 9 (01:19:00):
All Right, they'd rather do.

Speaker 26 (01:19:01):
Business here, and so we've got to create an environment
where they want to do business here, where they're able
the better word is where they're able to do business
here and do so productively. When that happens, then you're
going to see these balance of trades, the balances of
trade that we have that are auto whack in a
lot of places, you're going to see that change.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Talking with our tax guru, Dan Pill, let's get more
of your comments and questions for our guest this morning
on Twinsday's news Talk.

Speaker 26 (01:19:27):
I just turned the radio on, but it sounds like
you have a sane Tim Woltz on your hand, a
sane Tim will I don't know if I should be
insulted by that or not.

Speaker 20 (01:19:37):
What is that?

Speaker 9 (01:19:37):
What does that even mean? There is no that's an oxymore.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Yeah, exactly, that's what that's exactly what that is.

Speaker 9 (01:19:45):
Question for the tax guru.

Speaker 20 (01:19:47):
So we if they do get rid of the federal
income tax, that affects accountants across the nation, which that
means it is their livelihood. So is there going to
be pushed back from the accountants Association to block measures
that Trump cannot get rid of or should not get
rid of the federal income tax because accountants and we

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all protect our own revenue, are in our own livelihood.

Speaker 26 (01:20:14):
Well, yeah, that's a good question, and it's and it's
often an objection that's raised First of all, the accounting
lobby is not not exactly the autoworkers lobby, right, It
just doesn't have the same power.

Speaker 9 (01:20:26):
Number one.

Speaker 26 (01:20:27):
Number two, accountants do a lot of things besides prepared
tax returns, and accountants are needed in business, whether there's
an income tax or not. And so accountants are always
going to have a place in modern American society, whether
we have a personal income tax or not. And so
and so I don't see that as an objection really
of any significance.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
We'll talk more.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
Got a lot of questions that are rolling in now
from the iHeart Radio App as we broadcast from the
sixty five to one carpet home of the Next Day
Install Studios. Tax Guru Dan Pilla is with us. If
you have any questions, get those in. Can also email
me Justice as I at iHeartRadio dot com. If you
missed any portion of today's show. By the way, be
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Financial Group. On Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty
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five to one carpet home of the Next Day Install Studios,
John Justice here and studio with me this morning. Is
Dan Pilla our tax Guru, a title that I bestowed
upon him, he did not give to himself. Where can
people go and find you online?

Speaker 26 (01:21:50):
Tax helponline dot com? That's all one word, tax help
online dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
I want to go here just briefly.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
We're gonna get to got a lot of comments that
have rolled in and question as well, if Trump were
to ditch the federal income taxes looking out, working off
of an article here from Yahoo, if you need to
collaborate with Congress. Of course, American workers might initially see
larger paychecks, but they say the shift could lead to

(01:22:20):
higher inflation offset wage increases. One CEO at Optic Tax
says the increase indisposable income would have the effect of
stimulating economy, but at the expense of likely increasing inflation.
What I wanted to bring into this though, First off,
I wanted to get your thoughts on that quote. But

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you know, there's a psychological component to this as well,
and if you are received, if the federal income tax
is eliminated. You know, you know, that's your hard earned
money that you're getting back, as opposed to getting a
handout that you don't respect nearly as much. So I
personally push back on that a little bit simply because
I think there's a mentality shift that would take place

(01:23:03):
of limitating the federal income tax, in which people wouldn't
just go and needlessly spend this money that they're receiving
because they know they earned it, and so they want
to they want to use it wisely, just.

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Like they do the dollars we already receive.

Speaker 26 (01:23:17):
Well, I think there's some truth to that, but the
bigger picture John is from a monitoris standpoint, you don't
create inflation by keeping your own money right and spending
it in the marketplace. That's not what creates inflation. What
creates inflation is an increase in purchasing power where there's
no relative increase in productivity.

Speaker 9 (01:23:34):
And so just simply.

Speaker 26 (01:23:35):
Allowing people to keep their own money is not an
increase in purchasing power because the remember, the government's taking
it away from people, and then they're spending it out
over here on things that people otherwise wouldn't spend the
money on necessarily like the USAID.

Speaker 9 (01:23:50):
Well, there's a.

Speaker 26 (01:23:51):
Perfect example, and that course that money is shipped off overseas.
So the other thing that happens when you eliminate the
income tax, and this is a very important factor that
people don't discuss, and that is you have a substantial
reduction in the cost of compliance that these companies out
here in America face. Right, all the producers in the
United States of America have substantial compliance costs that are

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built into the cost of every product they produce.

Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
When you eliminate those compliance.

Speaker 26 (01:24:17):
Costs, the cost of regulations, the cost of income tax compliance,
and so on. When you eliminate those, then the cost
of every product and service in the market products in
particular in the marketplace can drop by as much as
fifteen to twenty twenty five percent, depending on.

Speaker 9 (01:24:32):
What study you look at.

Speaker 26 (01:24:33):
So we have a substantial decrease in the cost of production,
which of course is going to lead to a decrease
in the cost of products out there in the marketplace.
And people say, oh, Dan, companies aren't going to reduce
their prices.

Speaker 9 (01:24:45):
Well, of course they are.

Speaker 26 (01:24:45):
John, because companies are in a dog fight for market share, right,
of course they're going to if they can reduce their prices,
their end user price and maintain their margins, that's exactly
what they're going to do.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
I say, we eliminate this federal income tax, and then
we stop making it a requirement for business for companies
to provide your health insurance and then be able to
go and shop for health insurance the same way we
do auto insurance. At least that's my that's my dream.

Speaker 9 (01:25:12):
Well, and and and that and that's an important thing.

Speaker 26 (01:25:14):
And you know, the fact of the matter is the
reason companies provide health insurance. The reason is this started
is because of one of one of the one of
the uh one of the wage control things that was
put in during the during the Second World War provided
that that you know, companies could not increase the wages

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of their workers. And so what companies started doing is
providing these healthcare benefits that they could provide without necessarily
increasing that thing with your fingers you're talking about without
increasing wages.

Speaker 30 (01:25:47):
Right.

Speaker 26 (01:25:47):
And plus it's a double dip for the for the
for the company in that they get the deduction for
for providing the medical insurance and the employee doesn't have
to claim it as income.

Speaker 9 (01:26:01):
Flat tax.

Speaker 31 (01:26:03):
Everyone pays ten percent right now, about fifty percent or
sixty percent of people don't even pay taxes a flat
tax on your income period.

Speaker 26 (01:26:13):
That should do it.

Speaker 13 (01:26:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Let me let me I want to get your thoughts
on that, but let me just add a component. It
may or may not fit, but I feel like it
fits without the tariffs. If Trump were to move with
the federal income tax elimination, would you be in supportive
of the supportive of that. So flat tax is what
he's saying, but also without tariffs eliminating the federal income tax.

Speaker 26 (01:26:34):
Well, I'm all in favor of eliminating the federal income tax,
lock stock and barrel. And that's the problem with a
flat tax. A flat tax does not solve the problems
of tax administration that we have with this current tax system.

Speaker 9 (01:26:46):
All right.

Speaker 26 (01:26:47):
So a lot of people say, well, flat tax is
going to eliminate the IR. No, it's not going to
eliminate the irs that the IRIS has already focused most
of its enforcement work on the income side of the ledger.
The flat tax return is still a tax return. It's
still has to report income, it still has to report
income accurately. When the IRS audits tax returns. The vast
majority of the focus of those audits is on the

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income side of the ledger, not the deductions. And the
reason for that is about seventy percent of every tax
return filed is a tax return that claims a standard deduction.
There are no deductions to audit on those tax returns.
So what is the IRS audit? They audit the income,
all right, And the biggest area of income focus with

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these audits is the employee is the earned income tax credit, right,
This is low income people that are claiming a tax
credit that's tied to income. And that's what the IRS
is is auditing more than anything else. So audits don't
go away. Collection doesn't go away. You still have the
responsibility to file a tax return. Employers still have the

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responsibility for withholding and paying over the the tax to
the IRS. They still have the responsibility to file the
nineties ones, W twos W three's all the rest of
that nonsense. None of that stuff goes away under a
flat tax. Under a national retail sales tax, which is
what I propose, all of that stuff would go away,
all of it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
We're talking with our tax to guru, not to a
saying Governor Tim Walls Dan pill is in studio with
me this morning.

Speaker 32 (01:28:18):
Great morning to you guys.

Speaker 13 (01:28:19):
John.

Speaker 32 (01:28:19):
I'm not inclined to argue with the.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Tax guru, because they're gurus. But I'm just telling as
use of the word in the Tariff.

Speaker 32 (01:28:27):
Act of the early nineteen hundreds when he says only
seventy percent of revenue came from tariffs. That's compared to
what percentage before those tariffs were enacted in the in.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Going back to the McKinley days.

Speaker 32 (01:28:38):
But seventy percent of income is a big chunk unless
that change was nominal.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
I'm just curious as to that.

Speaker 26 (01:28:44):
Well, it's a good point you make. I mean, what
is seventy percent? What is seventy percent reflect in terms
of revenue? And I said in the in nineteen hundred,
just as an example, there was only only five hundred
and seventeen million dollars worth a total worth of total
revenue collected by the United States government. All right, five

(01:29:05):
hundred and seventeen million dollars. That's that's the amount of money.
We're not even talking about that that money with us
with the usaid program, right, we're talking about fifty billion dollars. So,
I mean, the numbers are just so odd of whack
today compared to one hundred and twenty hundred and fifty
years ago that it just is not realistic to think
that we can replace that revenue with tariffs.

Speaker 9 (01:29:29):
Is this making sense, John?

Speaker 13 (01:29:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (01:29:31):
Wait, nobody talks about unfunded pension liabilities in this country,
both at the federal, state, and local levels as well
as companies. That's a ticking time bomb. And how do
you see that playing out in the current environment? Along
with how do we create new revenue streams for America

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through exported minerals and oil.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
Our task is going to solve all the problem.

Speaker 26 (01:29:57):
Yeah, let me get my pen out here, Donbeck with
unfunded lives, Okay, let's not talk about unfunded. Unfunded pension
liabilities are a huge problem. You know, we've got an
on budget deficit at the federal level right now, what
about thirty four trillion dollars plus.

Speaker 9 (01:30:12):
Or minus right the national debt?

Speaker 26 (01:30:14):
That doesn't count the unfunded social security liabilities. The biggest
unfunded pension liabilities in the United States are social security
promises to people that are made out out decades from now,
and how where is the money going to come from
to fund that. All right, this is a big problem,
There's no question about it. We've got to look at

(01:30:36):
Social Security. And people start screaming about Social Security. Social
Security is everybody's favorite subsidy.

Speaker 9 (01:30:42):
John. Nobody wants to give up the Social Security.

Speaker 26 (01:30:44):
And for good reason, because people paid taxes their whole lives,
right their whole working life, forty forty five fifty years
of working. All of my money I paid into Social
Security dot GOM it that's my money, and I want it. Well, okay,
I understand the sentiment. But the fact of the matter
is future taxpayers that are going to pay it. Because
you don't have a bank account in Washington with your

(01:31:04):
name on it that holds your Social Security deposits that
you're drawing back as you retire. You're collecting other people's
Social Security tax money as you go, and there has
got to we've got to look at that because it
is a serious problem.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
You know, it's interesting when you look at what they
did with and what they're doing with a USAID. And
I didn't realize this until I started the show this morning.
I saw the data point that it only accounts for
zero point seven percent of the of the federal budget, right,
and and you saw the opposition come out against that,
and also how much money that's still entailed of it

(01:31:41):
being zero point seven percent of the budget. But it
also raises the question of the herculean task ahead of
the Trump administration to actually rain in the federal spending,
because I don't think most people truly understand the scope
of how much money we are spending and what we're
now seeing how much of it is being wasted.

Speaker 26 (01:32:02):
The numbers don't mean anything to anybody. You say a
trillion dollars, you see a billion dollars. What does a
billion dollars mean? Nobody knows John that they have no concept.
The average American typical person has no concept of how
much money we're talking about. And I would I would,
I would proffer this, If we can't get our arms
around fifty billion dollars worth of spending that doesn't benefit

(01:32:23):
a single American, by the way, doesn't benefit a single American,
how can we possibly get our arms around the Social
Security program, which is which is you know, forty million
people a year getting Social Security benefits?

Speaker 9 (01:32:35):
Right? How are we going to get arms around that?
It's never going to happen let's.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
Sneak in just a few more for Dan Pillow this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:32:42):
Yeah, quick question for Dan.

Speaker 17 (01:32:44):
I know foreign businesses used to get way better tax
situations than the domestic businesses. Is that still still an
issue that needs to be equalized.

Speaker 26 (01:32:53):
Well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure I understand what
the question is. I mean, the fact of the matter
is that any foreign company that produces income in the
United States of America has to file a has to
pay US taxes.

Speaker 9 (01:33:07):
There's just no question about that. Any business.

Speaker 26 (01:33:10):
Just to reiterate, any business that's producing income in America
pays American taxes.

Speaker 6 (01:33:16):
Maybe this is a dumb question, but if we go
to a national sales tax, will that encourage people to
use cash for transactions and businesses to not report all sales.

Speaker 26 (01:33:29):
Well, first of all, it doesn't make any difference if
a person uses cash in a transaction, the tax the
transaction is still sales taxable. Whether you use cash or
a debit card or a check or or your crypto account,
it makes no difference. The tax would attach to the transaction.
The fact of the matter is the studies reveal pretty
conclusively that the incidents of fraud in a sales transaction

(01:33:51):
are far less than the incidents of fraud. In an
income tax transaction, you only need one person to cheat
on your tax return, and that's the tax who prepares
the return. But you need two people to collaborate to cheat.
In a sales tax transaction, you need the consumer that's
buying the product, and you need a willing seller that's
willing to engage in the fraud as well. And so

(01:34:13):
it doubles the likelihood that it doubles the number of
people that have to be involved in the fraud, which
substantially reduces the likelihood of fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
Before I let you go, just quick question, what do
you think? You know?

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
The likelihood is the Trump will move forward on eliminating
the federal income tax tariffs ACIDE.

Speaker 9 (01:34:30):
Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen in this Congress.

Speaker 26 (01:34:34):
I think if he gets a wave of additional Republican
support in Congress in the second two years of his term,
I think we'll see it then. Right now, the numbers
are too close in both the House and the Senate
to push the to pull us off.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Tax guru expert Dan Pilla again, Where can people find
you online?

Speaker 26 (01:34:51):
Tax help online dot Com? That's tax help Online dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Thank you so much for all the free advice.

Speaker 9 (01:34:58):
That's my pleasure. Jack Out, I appreciate coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Thank you all right.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Coming up, not a huge surprise, many Americans say Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party does not share its priorities. We'll give
you details on that, and before we wrap up the
show today, I have an audio clip that I found online.
An average citizen in southern California asked a question regarding
illegal immigration and why they're not supportive of it, being

(01:35:23):
that they themselves are Mexican. The response from this woman
is incredible. I'll be sharing it with you again before
we wrap up the show today on Twin Cities News
Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM and.

Speaker 9 (01:35:33):
One O three point five FM.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
From the sixty five to one Carpet home of the
Next Day Install Studios, John Justice on Twin Cities News
Talk AM eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.
On tomorrow's show, Liz Collin from Off the News will
be joining us. Looking forward to that. I was chuckling
and looking at a post on x H. This was

(01:36:00):
in response to a post from leftists of m N
fantastic follow on x but somebody have responded to a
clip from State Senator Aaron may Quaid just ridiculous comments.
I'm not going to get into that, but it's the
post that made me laugh. The struggles of the DFL

(01:36:20):
are now visible worldwide.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
And it's true.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
When your policies aren't sustainable and you are attempting to
lead your party or your ideology based off of false narratives, lives,
alternative world views that are not entrenched in reality, you

(01:36:47):
can only sustain that for so long.

Speaker 9 (01:36:51):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
We're slow to catch up here in Minnesota, but hopefully
we will. We talked about this Quinnipiac poll earlier this week,
but many Americans say they do not believe the Democrat
Party is focus on the economic issues that matter most
to them and instead place too much emphasis on social
issues that they consider less urgent. The results of this

(01:37:11):
poll underscore the challenge facing Democrats is they attempt to
rebuild their party after losing the White House, in control
of both chambers in Congress, and at the moment, it
seems like the leftist simply has not gone and learned
their lessons, and there is news that's seeping out of
what really is transpiring during the legislative session. They played

(01:37:33):
that clip of Harry Niska on Fox News earlier this morning.
Later on this morning, actually at ten o'clock today the
Minnesota State Capital. The Minnesota GOP is going to be
holding a press conference to announce the launch of a
statewide recall effort against all sixty six DFL members in
the Minnesota House of Representatives. Also a new website, Minnesota

(01:37:56):
recall dot com. Comes after three weeks of legislative in
action where DFL lawmakers have failed to attend a single
House session, effectively shutting down the state government while continuing
to collect their taxpayer funded paycheck. We have a looming
budget deficit. We have an education crisis. Thirty nine percent

(01:38:16):
of fourth grade and twenty nine percent of eighth grade
students can't read at a grade level. New reports of
over six hundred and fifty million dollars in fraud. We
just gave you details on the latest one of the
Housing and Stabilization Services. GOP Chairman Alex Pleckish says the
state is in crisis. Minnesotans deserve elected officials who show

(01:38:38):
up and do their jobs. If Democrats refuse to fulfill
their constitutional duties. We will do what is in our
power to find leaders who will. Now whether or not
this tactic works, I don't know. But the DFL, the
Democrat Party, is morally bankrupt and they're corrupt. They do
not serve on behalf of their vote but to their

(01:39:02):
own base desires for power and influence. The culture is
shifting out from under their feet. They've thrown our government
into chaos. They've overseen or rapidly approaching one billion dollars
worth of fraud here in the state as well, that
newly discovered fraud that we were talking about. We're almost
hearing about this on a weekly basis now. The DFL

(01:39:25):
mafia is so afraid for the GOP to take over
their organizational majority power, so much so that they haven't
gone to work for a month. Coming up on Twin
Cities News Talk, we do have a gone Green update.
Apparently Saint Paul is going to go and tackle the
issue of climate change as Trump removes these initiatives. Saint
Paul in and of itself is solely going to go

(01:39:47):
and tackle the issue of global warming and climate change. Listen,
it's part of crafting this false narrative they continue to perpetuate. Also,
we got an immigration update coming up before the top
of the hour and some amazing audio you do not
want to miss. It's all on the way on Twin
Cities News Talk from a six five to one carpet
home with the next day install Studios. You're listening to

(01:40:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
I'm your host, John Justice.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
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Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
In the meantime, let's go ahead and get to this.

Speaker 11 (01:40:58):
It's not easy being green, Nope, having to spend each
day the color of leaves, So.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
I need to go back in time a little bit,
because Trump had made these comments. I believe it was
the week late into the week of his inauguration, talking
about moving forward on green initiatives, and specifically, we're going
to get into what Saint Paul is doing. You see,
Saint Paul is going to singularly tackle the problem of

(01:41:32):
climate change and global warming. First off, let's set the
stage here. Here's what Trump had to say after his
inauguration and one of the items that he would be
doing via the mandate that you voted for.

Speaker 4 (01:41:44):
I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful green new scam.
One of the great scams in history. Actually, isn't it
twelve years up? They gave us twelve years.

Speaker 9 (01:41:54):
To live, right?

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
I think that we passed it right? Was still around?
Can you believe it? You know that really came up
with it is a person that never even took a
course on the environment, was a poor student, not a
good student, didn't understand a lot, and she came up
with this idea and everybody all of a sudden started
going and then mainstream, you know, important Democrat leaders were

(01:42:17):
starting you know, they got.

Speaker 9 (01:42:18):
Sucked into it.

Speaker 4 (01:42:20):
And we've spent trillions of dollars on just like throwing
it out the window. You could throw it out the window,
you would have been better off. I withdrew from the
one side at Paris Climate a Court.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
From the Pioneer Press, from home weatherization to electric vehicle
car sharing. Environmental sustainability has long been a favored catchphrase
that Saint Paul City Hall, where officials are keeping a
keen eye on the new White House efforts to roll
back federally funded initiatives of that very grain.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
I know, it's just it's it's incredibly shocking.

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
You see the headline of the article is Saint Paul
considers impact of Trump's efforts to unravel green initiatives. The
city's growing ev spot electric car charging network is backed
by the US Department of Energy. Well, it was, that
wasn't until the election. Whether or not it remains, we'll
have to wait and see. Now I'm gonna couple this

(01:43:17):
with another story because it shows you just what a
wasteful amount of expenditures it's been in going after this
fighting off of climate change. In global warming, President Donald
Trump called for all federal agencies to at least temporarily

(01:43:38):
pause dispersing funds related to the Infrastructure Investment in Jobs
Act as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, and his
executive order specifically calls for a ninety day review aimed
at terminating the Green New Deal, and good for him.
It's a waste of taxpayer dollars. And even those that
believe that climate change is happening, the more reputable scientists

(01:44:03):
will tell you that there's very little that we as
humans can do. If we're going to do anything, we
need to learn to adapt to climate change. But of
course that's not what happens. This has been a redistribution
of wealth, taking advantage of the ignorance of voters now
for far too long, wasting trillions of dollars on pipe
dream efforts to combat climate change. But don't worry, Saint

(01:44:25):
Paul's going to tackle it all on their own. The
long term impact remains unclear, but officials in Saint Paul
mayor Melvin Carter's off as say they're keeping a close
eye on federal funding commitments already signed. In twenty twenty two,
the city teamed with Minneapolis, Excel Energy, our Car and
other partners to launch Evspot, a network of seventy electric

(01:44:49):
vehicle charging stations across the two cities, an effort heavily
boosted by federal funding. Now neither the Department of Energy
grants for the evspot network stemmed directly from the Inflation
Reduction Act or the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which could provide
some cover for the initiative.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Listen, they're concerned.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
Just like the DFL mafia is, just like the DEI advocates,
that they are going to be losing support in the
court of public opinion. This is what they're worried about.
And more importantly, if they lose that support in the
court of public opinion, it is sort of an added
insult to injury because of the amount of funding they're

(01:45:33):
going to end up losing from the federal government. They
want to continue moving forward on these climate change initiatives,
thinking ignorantly that the City of Saint Paul alone can
go and tackle this particular issue. No, they're just trying
to continue to flow to keep that money flowing in
so they can redistribute it to who they want. But
they're very concerned that in the court of public opinion

(01:45:56):
there's not going to be any appetite for climate change,
especially at the specific state level. They go on to say,
we're continuing to assume the federal government is going to
follow through on commitments they've made and grants that have
already been awarded. This is according to Russ Stark, the
mayor's Chief Resilience officer. Wow, the last name there is

(01:46:17):
pretty cool. That's about all he has going for and
being a chief Resilience Office officer.

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
How much money does that pay?

Speaker 13 (01:46:23):
By the way, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
Gonna imagine a lot, a lot of your money gets
paid for that position. In the Twin Cities, some advocates
have called for efforts like a highway lid over several
blocks of Interstate ninety four to reconnect Saint Paul's historically
black Old Rondeau community, which was bisected by highway construction
back in the nineteen sixties. The Reconnector ronde initiative was

(01:46:48):
recently awarded two million dollars from the federal Infrastructure Bill
for planning studies alone. It's the second time in recent
years they'd receive a grant of that size from the
federal Reconnecting Communities Pilot program. Listen, you'd be better off
just taking that money and giving it to the community
that you allegedly are trying to go and help. And

(01:47:09):
what did that two million dollars get them? Did anybody
account for it? Or is it just a grift? It
just went into the individuals attached to this project bank accounts,
with no accountability attached to it whatsoever. Just gone here.
You go have some fun doing your study. And listen,
this isn't even getting into just how ridiculous it would
be for a highway lid over several blocks, or what

(01:47:31):
some people are saying is getting rid of Interstate ninety
four altogether. It's the most stupid of stupid transit suggestions
right now here in Minnesota. On Friday, organizers of the
Reconnect Rondo initiatives said they're still examining what implications of
Trump's executive orders might be. Well, hopefully you're not going

(01:47:51):
to get any more millions of taxpayer dollars. Others have
argued for filling in the highway transit as I mentioned,
from downtown Minneapolis to downwot Town Saint Paul, and reconnecting
the street grid, which would also likely require federal support. Yeah,
and it would upend commerce transportation. And when it failed

(01:48:12):
and it upended commerce, and it upended transportation, created a
bottleneck on our roadways, cost businesses their livelihood. They'll just
go to the state and to the DFL and say, hey,
we need more money to get this plan going. We're
almost there, we just need more taxpayer dollars to go
and fix this problem. Yeah, and these are the people
that want your dollars to go in combat at the

(01:48:35):
Saint Paul level global warming and climate change. Yes, it's
just that stupid. If you need any more examples of that,
I'll give you this story. While they're worried about the
funding when it comes to climate change, when they want
to either closed down shut down ninety four all together,
or put a lid on it. Street Light outages due
to the copper wire theft and Saint Paul have cost

(01:48:57):
more than two million dollars since twenty twenty four. The
Saint Paul Public Works Director Sean Kersaw confirmed his department
spent about one million more on street light repairs due
to the copper wire theft in twenty twenty four. Then
in twenty twenty three, there were also a few hundred
more outages called into the department year over year. Now,

(01:49:20):
the article says there is a silver lining in the
latest annual data, and that was the rate of increase.
After years where a significant number of thefts doubled down
each year, an increase of a few hundred reports was
much less significant. According to Kershaw, Oh that's great. So
the water is just leaking out of the board out
of the boat slower than it was before, but that

(01:49:43):
boat is still sinking either way. The citywide map provided
by the Saint Paul Public Works showed roughly twenty five
hundred copper wire thefts were reported via the department's main
phone line in twenty twenty four. Didn't the DFL pass
measure about selling this copper that was supposed to go
unpunish anybody that purchased it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Apparently that's not working. But I'm also not surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
To the twenty five hundred copper wire thefts reported in
twenty twenty four. It was an increase of about three
hundred reports from twenty twenty three. Both annual maps only
count reports made over the phone to the department's main line,
leaving out some made online and via mailed et cetera.
Kershaw said, but I'm sure it's well over half of

(01:50:29):
them now. Repairs to the street lights due to the
copper wire theft cost the city of Saint Paul one
point two million dollars in twenty twenty three, and in
twenty twenty four, those repair costs cost two million dollars.
Think about this, You looking at three point two million
dollars over two years, simply completely unnecessary waste. You vilifying,
you demonize law enforcement, You don't give them the support

(01:50:52):
that they need. Crime increases in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
And it's this type of crime that, you know, that
real evolving door of criminality that Hennepin County Attorney Mary
Moriarty likes to do so much because I imagine those that
get busted. I mean, for heck, stealing copper wire has
got to be no big deal to Hennipen County Attorney

(01:51:12):
Mary Moriarty, based off of the other crimes like carjacking
that also see individuals return to the streets. For like,
in the minds of the individuals like her and others
that support her, I mean, do they even look at
this as a crime or do they just see this
as an opportunity. It's like, well, you know what, maybe
we don't want them doing it. But you know, they're
they're really bad shape. They really need help, and they're

(01:51:34):
just trying to you know, they're they're just selling the copper.
They're just stealing it and selling it's they can go
get some snacks because they're really hungry. Kershaw also said
the public works crews have creatively slowed the repeat of
theft from the same from the same lights.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:51:49):
In twenty twenty four, what crews have done is they've
implemented ways to make it much harder to pull that
copper even if they get the base open. The department
also installed ninety new light poles with copper wire access
about ten feet off the ground, as opposed to you know,
ten or eleven inches off the ground that frustrates thieves

(01:52:10):
and is working great. So we're taking a course of
action to stop this waste of taxpayer money by frustrating
the thieves as opposed to being open about supporting law enforcement,
giving them all the tools necessary and encouraging people to
join police forces so they can actually combat and hold
these people accountable, or just holding these individuals accountable if

(01:52:32):
and when they are arrested.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
We're going to frustrate them I'll give them to stop.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
The lights were just one ongoing target, Kershaw at and
emphasizing that landline phones continue to be impacted by a
wire theft as well. Yeah, we talked about that a
couple weeks back. That's why Kershaw said he's looking at
a new state law as a primary strategy in twenty
twenty five, because, if enforced, it should make it much
more difficult to sell copper wire illegally. Yes, because it's

(01:52:58):
done such great things in other sectors where we just
pass laws saying you shouldn't go and do this as
opposed to going and doing the right thing. And that
is again supporting law enforcement.

Speaker 9 (01:53:10):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Several Minnesota schools have issued emails outlining how they'll handle
interactions with law enforcement, including US Immigrations and customs enforcement,
in the wake of President Donald trump sweeping deportation plans.
For example, Osburg will not allow entry to limited access
or non public areas to law enforcement officers for an
administrative warrant. This is according to an internal memo at

(01:53:34):
Augsburg University. It explains that those limited access or non
public areas include faculty offices, classrooms, and laboratories. Listen, a
lot of This is simply is politicized for the sake
of news stories.

Speaker 9 (01:53:51):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
This coverage comes from Alpheus.

Speaker 3 (01:53:52):
The letter goes on to say that the university needs
to comply with law enforcement when it is presented with
the criminal warrant. Faculty and staff should contact the university
administration when a warrant is presented. Administration will determine whether
or not the university must comply with the warrant. Listen,
this is a lot of this is for show because
there's very little risk of what they're concerned of actually

(01:54:13):
happening within our schools. The Left needs to signal their opposition,
and per usual, they're using the schools as ponds to
go and demonstrate that. I don't have any expectation that
we're going to be seeing US Customs and Border Protection
or ICE doing raids of elementary schools or high schools

(01:54:33):
or universities. A lot of times what ends up happening, though,
and I've actually seen circumstances of this is you have
a family that's here illegally, children are enrolled in school,
the parents are busted, and I've seen this happen firsthand.
Before I'm drawing from an actual story. The parents are busted.
They're here illegally, perhaps they were trafficking in stolen's social
security numbers, and the children need to be accessed from

(01:54:57):
the school because their parents have been taken into customs.
That's typically when you would well, that's when you would
see in the past arguments against allowing border patrol coming
to the schools because it sends a chilling effect. Now
they're doing this with regard to the deportations. And speaking
of the deportations, you may have seen this over the

(01:55:19):
past weekend. Not a huge surprise, but a Los Angeles
freeway was blocked by anti deportation protesters in response to
Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. The anti ice protesters blocked
traffic on both sides of the one oh one Freeway
in Los Angeles leading to downtown on a Sunday morning.
Police were deployed, but I guess they were broken up

(01:55:40):
before they went and started making arrests. So I was
surprised that these types of protests didn't start further. They're
not being organized, at least on its face, by the
left and Democrats specifically because they know it's a losing argument.
These are more of their activist group and once groups
that are going and conducting these and once again, it's
amazing to me because you can see during these rallies

(01:56:02):
they never, ever in protest, they never carry American flags.
I've been saying this for over a decade now that
a lot of these pro illegal immigrant illegal alien rallies,
they would actually gain more people to their side if
they carried American flags and saying they wanted to be Americans.
I'm not saying that I would change my opinion on it,
but a lot of people's opinions would change. But they

(01:56:25):
don't talk about American exceptionalism. They don't wave an American
flag saying we want to be a citizen here in
the United States. No, they always wave flags of foreign countries.
I want to share this piece of audio before we
close out the show this morning. This was taken from TikTok.
Just an individual living in southern California asked a question

(01:56:46):
their opinion.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
They are Mexican.

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
They were asked their opinion of living in Los Angeles
and when it comes to the programs that illegal aliens
get there.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
It's a stunning piece of audio. Listen to this.

Speaker 30 (01:56:56):
I would love to wake up every day and my
biggest problem be whatever I want to get upset about
on the Internet and whatever I want to let stir
me up. I see that it says Carmen in Austin,
So I'm guessing that you're in Texas. I'm born and
raised here in California, Okay. Mexican, Mexican American, And because
I was born on this side of the border, I
do not get benefits that illegal immigrants are getting in
the state of California. So again, if you are not

(01:57:19):
in California, you are not in my state. You don't
know what's going on over here. As an illegal immigrant,
we have something that our health insurance system. It's called
medical okay, not medical medical that is government funded free
health insurance. As an illegal immigrant, you immediately qualify for medical.

Speaker 13 (01:57:36):
Okay.

Speaker 30 (01:57:37):
Do you know what it costs to pay for health
insurance for a family of four in the state of California.
Let's compare Mexicans to Mexicans, Apples to apples.

Speaker 11 (01:57:45):
Okay.

Speaker 30 (01:57:46):
My girlfriend, stay at home mom, Mexican, married to a husband,
Mexican raising two children, Mexican family of four. Okay, he
works a modest, average American job. The health insurance for
a family of four, okay, thirteen hundred dollars a month,
whereas an illegal immigrant walks in and gets offered free

(01:58:07):
health insurance. My friends are not. They're not making an
insane amount of money. She's a stay at home mom.
They drive average paid off cars. They rent an average home.
It's nice, but it's nothing lavish. They don't drive a
luxury vehicle. They're not driving Mercedes. I think they have
a Kia, like a family Kia that they share. And

(01:58:28):
so that family that is hard working and again they're
living an average working class life, pays thirteen hundred dollars
a month, but the illegal immigrant that just comes in
gets free healthcare. That is a policy that Trump said
absolutely not.

Speaker 13 (01:58:42):
That is what I voted on.

Speaker 30 (01:58:43):
Another policy that I voted on here in the state
of California, as an illegal immigrant, when you cross that border,
you qualify for a Stay Connected plan Stay Connected as
a phone plan through Verizon for illegal immigrants and displaced
homeless people, where you get free phones, you get a
free iPhone and a free plan so you can stay
connected to your family back in Mexico, I pay two
hundred and thirty dollars a month through Verizon for two

(01:59:05):
iPhones two lines? Why is it because I was born
on this side of the border. As a Mexican American,
I have to pay two hundred and thirty dollars a
month for my phone, but an illegal immigrant gets a
free phone again policy, when you ask what did I
vote on that, I graduated from UCLA, Okay, I have
a bachelor's degree. I paid for that bachelor's degree. As
an illegal immigrant, you qualify for funding, you qualify for

(01:59:28):
first generation and if you're a Dreamer, you qualify a
doctor recipient. You qualify for funding and federal aid. You
qualify for grants that I don't get why. Because I
was born on this side of the border, so the
same education, I worked here, my family worked here. I
put in the time, the hours of the effort, whatever,

(01:59:49):
we are the same. But because you were born on
that side of the border, you don't have to pay.
Why Why It's so when you're coming to me and
you're saying, like, I don't know what police I voted on.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
All I did was vote based off of policy. Do
you think I voted for Trump because I.

Speaker 30 (02:00:04):
Think that he's a great representation of moral fiber. Do
you think that I look at that man, and I go, Wow,
what a pillar of strength.

Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
I wish he was mine.

Speaker 30 (02:00:12):
That man has multiple baby mamas, multiple divorces, and he's
wild when he gets behind a microphone.

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
I don't look at him.

Speaker 30 (02:00:18):
As the epitome of the end all be all. He
is not our savior. But when he came in and
he said, enough is enough. We're putting Americans first. That
is exactly what.

Speaker 14 (02:00:26):
I voted on.

Speaker 30 (02:00:27):
So when you want to advocate and say that you're
for the Mexican people, be for all Hispanics and not
just the ones that were born on that side of
the border, because you don't get to pick and choose
which Mexicans you care about. Because when you say that
you care about the Mexican people and then you only
want to care about those that were born in another country,
then you're living in the wrong place. I care about Americans.
And when you say, again, what are they doing for

(02:00:49):
the Mexican community, like what policies? That's the policy that
I voted on. He was putting Mexican Americans first. It
was no longer this, Oh you came over the border,
Let they give you everything. Do you know what our
Governor Gavin Newsom proposed. He ended up vetoing his bills, so.

Speaker 13 (02:01:04):
He didn't go past.

Speaker 30 (02:01:05):
But you know, California, we hold up to thirty three
percent of the nation's population. That means, for every one
hundred people in the United States that are homeless, thirty
three of them live right here in the great state
of California. And you know what Gavin Newsom did. He
went on national television again.

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
Our great liberal governor went on national.

Speaker 30 (02:01:22):
Television and said, I want to give one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars down payment cash to illegal immigrants so
we can help them purchase homes.

Speaker 10 (02:01:32):
Hey said that on national television.

Speaker 30 (02:01:33):
If you are an a illegal immigrant, every illegal for
illegal immigrant is going to get one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars down payment. Mean, while in California we have
thirty three percent of the nation's homeless population and a
majority of them reside here in LA. So when you're
saying I don't know what I'm voting for, that's an issue. Again,
the bill ended up getting vetoed, it ended up not passing,
but even the how comfortable he felt proposing that to

(02:01:55):
the Californians was crazy to me. So no, it's not
a matter of I'm not racist. It's not a matter
of I hate my people. It's a matter of Americans need
to come first.

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
You know, when we talk about the evils of social
media and it needs to be regulated, then people need
to be aware of just what that dopamine machine does
in your hands. The good aspect of it are average
individuals like that who are reaching people that don't listen
to shows like this, who are educating people on apps

(02:02:28):
like TikTok and Instagram because they're not out there to
the younger people listening to talk radio, they get that
information and they're certainly not getting it from the mainstream media.
So hat tip to that woman, and I hope that
you enjoyed that as much as I did, all right,
and I hope you enjoyed the show today.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
Thank you so much for hanging out again.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
If you missed any portion of today's show, be sure
to get caught up on the podcast via the iHeart
Radio app. Brought to you by the Sandfold Financial Group.
We're back at it tomorrow starting at six am.

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
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