Talkline | August 1

WV Revenue Secretary Eric Nelson has updated revenue numbers. Rob Larew, President of the National Farmers Union, supports a bill promoting farm to school. Chris Stirewalt stops by. Dave & TJ discuss the sales tax holiday and politics. Plus, Steam Release!!

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, Welcome inside the Encoba Insurance Studios. Coming up,
Chris Stirewalt returns a lot of questions to ask him,
as we usually do. Plus Senator Justice introducing a bill
to enhance local food security. July revenue numbers are in.
They're so fresh, I haven't even seen them yet. It's

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Speaker 1 (01:23):
Good morning. We're in the Encoba Insurance Studios. Dave Wilson
and Morgantown inside the Dale Miller Building. Deep inside the
Dale Miller Building. TJ Meadows is in Charleston at the
Radio Ranch. Coming up today mentioned Staribult will be by.
We'll talk about Senator Justice's Food Security Act. We'll talk

(01:44):
about that coming up bottom of the hour. Also playing
politics with the sales tax holiday and our soft society.
We'll get into all those topics, all ahead of Steam
release at eleven thirty three this morning. Say good morning
to mister TJ. Meadows. Hello TJ.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Look, I know people say we're you know, nostalgic, and
it wasn't really as tough as we think it was
back in the day. But I think Rod is right.
I think we're soft. We'll get into it, but I
think we're soft.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Uh yeah, yeah, there's the short answer there. We'll get
into that second hour. Second hour of the program. Also,
we'll make time for your calls, text and tweets as
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or four Talk three or four the text line. Sophia

(02:36):
handling the audio today and Jake on the video. July
General revenue Fund collections for the state of West Virginia.
We're nearly twenty two point three million dollars above the
monthly estimate and head of the prior year's receipts. Well,
that seems like good news. Joining us so much. A
news talk line this morning is West Virginia Revenue Secretary

(02:56):
Eric Nelson. Eric, good morning, thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Well, thank you, Dave, good morning.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
So how did we do in July?

Speaker 5 (03:05):
How did we do?

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Well, you mentioned July was up twenty two million, and
the total collections were roughly three hundred and eighty eight million,
and you also mentioned the comparison to the prior year,
which we were up almost sixteen percent over the prior year.
The top items that contributed to our surplus during July,

(03:30):
personal income taxes collections were roughly one hundred and forty
eight million, roughly up eight million above estimate. And then
your consumer sales tax brought in roughly one hundred and
thirty six million, and it was slightly below estimate. But
those two line items together are account for roughly seventy

(03:54):
three percent of our total revenue. Our twenty two million
was led by the higher increase in personal income tax
collections as well as corporate income tax collections. But I
can say across the board, all areas were up, with
the exception of consumer sales tax, which was slightly below estimate,

(04:18):
and every category was up over the prior July year.
And one thing I probably will will note that when
we talk about consumer sales tax being down slightly during
the month of July, we have a lot of activity
that occurs in June, which is the fiscal year end
of the state. In July is our first month of

(04:41):
the new fiscal year. But if we look at the
combination of those two months, sales tax collections were up
almost four percent over the prior year, and that exceeds
your inflation. But very happy with July and happy to
answer any question, and also can talk about we closed

(05:03):
out our year end books as well, effective yesterday.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Eric, a lot of green on the board, A lot
of green on the board, and green is great, as
you know, go back though about that close out. How
did we end up in fiscal twenty five. What are
the results there?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, so, as we talked last month and reported our
total year end collections were roughly five point five billion
versus a five point two six billion estimates, so roughly
two hundred and fifty four million. But we finished up

(05:40):
fiscal year twenty five at three hundred and thirty eight
million of a surplus, so two hundred and fifty four
of that was revenue estimates over revenue collections over estimates,
there were roughly forty nine million dollars in prior year pluses.

(06:01):
And then the final big number is there were thirty
four million dollars and what we call expirations the state
during the month of August or during the month of July,
we close out our books on the expense side. In essence,
thirty four million dollars was we had expenditures thirty four

(06:23):
million dollars less than what was projected, one of the
highest numbers we've had in the last ten years. And
I think you can attribute that to the governor's push
during the year to all cabinet secretaries and others to
be very efficient in their spends. And the success of
that is the additional savings for the state and our

(06:45):
citizens of thirty four million dollars TJF I may you
know that is a lot of money in the surplus.
But the other side of that, in the back or
in the budget that was signed, our first one hundred
million dollars is appropriator going straight to roads for maintenance

(07:07):
and other needs. And then we have other needs as
it relates to pre funding our Hope scholarships going forward.
We have some really significant i think cost exposures going
forward in the Hope, so we're looking to pre fund

(07:28):
that to the tune of about one hundred and fifty
million dollars. And then there were some other one time
expenditure needs to cover ongoing operations and that'll be covered
out of our surplus, personally.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Pre funding Hope, fixing roads, this bridge we have in Charleston.
I'm not mad at you for that. I think that's
a good use of money. That's my two cents there, David.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yes, well, I was just going to point out I
was trying to keep track of all that. But Eric,
the message I got from that was it's not as
though the state has a pile of extra cash lying around.
That money is spoken for, for lack of a better.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Description, Yeah, Dave, it is. And you know there's uh
prudent financial management going on. It's from the top down.
You know, Governor Morrisey early in the budget process this
past year, you know, ask all cabinet secretaries to you know,
truly look at their their budgets. And the cautionary tale

(08:26):
of you know, we do we do have various swings
in revenue, but it's the unknowns on the expense side
that we've got to be very concerned about. You know,
our healthcare costs continue to go up, and and of
course the big one that everybody talks about is pe
i A. So we're extremely prudent and that's led by

(08:47):
top down and Governor Morrisey's charged to all of us
to be very prudent and conservative. So yeah, we're happy
where we are. But maybe the third fourth month in
a row, you'll always hear a little cautionary tale.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Eric, forgive me. I don't have the formula in front
of me, and if you don't either, that's fine. This
is off the cuff. Is this going to do anything
with the triggers for the pit with this kind of
surplus relative of the other variables that are in that formula?
Any estimates or any thoughts there yet?

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, good question, TJ. And thank you for asking. As
a matter of fact, probably in two weeks you'll have
an official release as it relates to the trigger. There
will not be a trigger this coming year. And I
don't have that formula right in front of me, but
it basically takes the prior year's general revenue box out

(09:43):
the severance tax, and to the extent that that number
exceeds an inflationary adjusted base number, then it could trigger
a future decrease in personal income taxes that will not
be hit, so we will remain at current levels on
the personal income tax, which you know, on the top side,

(10:06):
I think our top rate is roughly four point eight percent,
extremely competitive and significantly below you know, the six and
a half that it was just a few years ago.
And the effort to continue that push is you know,
the charge that I think our governor and his team

(10:26):
wants to push forward.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Eric Nelson is joining US West Virginia Revenue Secretary. July
revenue numbers are in and officially closing the book. So
on fiscal year twenty five, what indicators are you going
to be keeping a close eye on as we get
into the middle portion here the first quarter the next
fiscal year.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yeah, Dave, I think it's across the board. We always
look first and foremost withholdings on our personal income tax.
Those come in every two weeks and our pit is
up and we continue to see that or hope that.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
The other big swing at times is the severance tax.
And one thing to back up into the July numbers,
if I may severance, when you all really look at
the numbers, only showed a couple of million dollars in collections.
But we net the number. We report as a netted number,
and there are a number of exclusions or payments that

(11:27):
are made out of that severance tax.

Speaker 7 (11:29):
But p I T.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Severance and consumer sales tax. We want to make sure
that our collections are truly stand ahead of the inflation rate,
and to date they are.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
If we're having success bending the cost curve and generating
these surve pluses, well, curious, is there more room in
your opinion to further bend that cost curve? Can we
become more efficient?

Speaker 5 (11:54):
The governor has put that word in front of all
of us and to the extent that we are charged
throughout state government to become much more efficient. That is
goal number one, and it should be goal the goal
for everybody. So yes, always, you know TJ. I think

(12:15):
it's his role with why are we doing things? Can
we do it better? Can we be more efficient? That?
That's our daily charge and we'll we'll we'll continue along
those lines and we'll find that as we move forward.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Revenue Secretary Eric Nelson. Eric, we'll talk to you next month.
See how we're doing.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Hey, thank you, Dave TJ.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Have a great weekend, you too, you as well.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Coming up other side of the break, playing politics with
the sales tax holiday. All right, we'll dive into it.
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
Three or four Talk three or four is the text
line eight hundred and seven sixty five Talk the number.
We'll get to some of your calls text tweets coming
up in just a bit. Today marks the first day
of the annual sales tax holiday in West Virginia. From
today through Monday, no sales tax. Generally speaking back to

(14:38):
school type items, close electronics, school supplies, et cetera, et cetera,
are sales tax free over the next couple of days. Well,
if you've been hanging around in the fantasy land that
is social media, you may have noticed that there's been
some back and forth going on on who should be
getting the credit. Well, mister Meadows, you have a commentary

(15:01):
at wv mentioned news dot com this morning as the
politicians go back and forth on well quite frankly, I'm
not sure what they're trying to prove, but they're going
back and forth here playing politics with who should be
getting the credit for the sales tax holiday weekend?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
And look, multiple things can be true at the same time. So, yes,
Delegate Hollis or excuse me not Hollis Lewis, he was
just in here. Forgive me Hollis, and forgive me Sean
Delegate Sean Hornbuckle, House Minority Later, Yes, Seawan tried to
get this into legislation a long time. He finally got
it amended into a bill. I think it was House

(15:37):
Bill two oh six back in twenty nineteen. Yes, Democrats
voted against that, but because they didn't like the other
provisions that were in this bill. Yes, this has been
going on for a long time since twenty nineteen. I
think people are aware of it. Did we really need
a press event at a mall in Bridgeports one yesterday

(15:59):
in Beckley to get the word out on this and
let West Virginians know it's going on if we want
them to utilize it. I don't think so. You can
do a TV radio interview, you can do a social
media video. You can do a traditional advertising campaign or
all by the way, Dave, anything that brings people into
a store. I bet a retailer is more than happy
to start advertising in store and doing things to let

(16:20):
the folks know there's going to be a sales tax holiday.
So you know what would have been refreshing. Let's just
all get up together. If we have to have the presser,
let the governor be there, make sure Hornbuckle is by
his side. Let's do this bipartisan thing. Everybody wins on this.
This one doesn't have to be political in my humble opinion.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know, let me preface this with this has no
reflection on your commentary.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
I don't care who proposed the amendment. I don't care
when it first came up, if it was two thousand
and three or two thousand and four, if it was
this governor, that I don't care. You know what people
care about the fact that they can go to the
stores this weekend and buy school clothes for their hooligans
sales tax free. That's great, that's great. That's all they

(17:10):
care about. Get off of social media, everybody, everybody lean
in real close. Wise words with Dave get off social media.
It's not real life. You don't have to engage with
everybody and everything. Nobody cares. If Shawn Hornbuckle offered that amendment,
nobody cares. Nobody cares. If you want to have a pressor,

(17:30):
I'm fine with that. If you want to get on
social media and say, look, hey, you know that was
my amendment, that's fine. I have this theory, and Hoppey
added to my anecdotal evidence for this theory tj Okay
that the vast majority of people just want to get up,
they want to go to work, they want to take
care of their family, they want to go to a ballgame,
they want to have three good meals and go to

(17:52):
bed at the end of the day. They're not spending
a lot of time going do you know, do you
know who we should really thank for that sales tax holiday?
They're not? And when what do you talk about when
they were out When he was out on that bike ride,
people weren't talking about the great controversies of the day
or the great political issues of the day. We're entringed

(18:13):
in this type of stuff. People just want to do
their They want to do their thing, and if they
can kind a break on sales tax. They'll go to
the stores this weekend. They'll buy trapper keepers and blue
jeans and tennis shoes and all sorts of colorful pencils
for the upcoming school year.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
The trapper keeper of the reference. But you're exactly right,
and no offense taken by the way. I basically said
the same thing at the end of the commentary. West
Virginians care about saving some money here, and business owners
care about people in their stores, because David, it's hard
to make payroll these days, and it's getting harder and
harder every day. And no one three years from now

(18:49):
is probably going to be in a voting booth if
we still pulled the curtain. We don't do that where
I go. You just got the little partitions. No one's
going to think, Man, yeah, that sales tax high got
my vote. I don't think that one's coming down. And look,
partisan politics is not bad in and of itself on
major issues. Partisan politics can sometimes force debate on issues

(19:11):
and educate both sides and get narratives out there. The
founders knew that they didn't they didn't like parties, but
they didn't mind partisan politics. So partisan politics has its
place in fueling certain policy debates. This no, no, not what.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
It really does it makes you look petty. It makes
you look petty when you put out if you've got
to put out a press release, if you're on social
media going back and forth having your own little argument there,
it just makes you look petty. Do you need a.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Presser on this though? Do you need a world tour?
I mean, not can pick on the governor, but do
you need a warld on tour?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
You want to old a presser to you know, to
get the word out. Okay, I mean, he's gonna be
my hometown today, by the way, stop at the station. Governor.
Uh there, there's my little bit of advice. While you're
in town. Go get you some pizza, get some you know.
I thought's okay, you're the governor, you get to do
those things.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
But if he'd had a Democrat with him, would we
be having this conversation? That was another point in my commentary.
That's a democrat. What democrat would have jumped on the
governor for this? If Sean Hornbuckle's and see he's the
one getting the credit here on the dem side. If
Hornbuckle would have been standing by his side, what Democrat
would have been making hay on this Pushkin wouldn't have

(20:24):
posted on it. I think John Williams I quoted him
in the piece, he probably wouldn't have said anything. I
don't know that any Democrat, and I'm not picking on
the Democrats before someone starts. I just don't know that
anyone would have said anything if Sean Hornbuckle would have
been by the governor's side. So play smart politics. Don't
let them take shots at you. Don't open the opportunity.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's a fair point. Text or into the batphone says
hear me out here. Tax free Pepperoni rules. Yeah, now
they're a bad There's something we could all get behind,
bipartisan support. You know what, I'm gonna pose that to
my delegate later today. I'm wanna write them a letter.
I want to write them a letter, put a stamp

(21:06):
on it, and send it in the mail. All right,
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five to five the phone number. Speaking of Pepperoni rules
sort of. Senator Justice was part of introducing a bill
about enhancing food security. We'll talk about that coming up
with Rob LaRue, the president of the National Farmers Union.

(21:28):
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Speaker 1 (25:09):
Three or four talk three or four is the tax line?
Texter says, I thought there was already no tax on food.
I did a quick search. So if you go to
the grocery store, that is in the case, if you
go to the grocery store and you're buying you food
and ingredients, there is no tax. However, there are some exceptions.

(25:30):
There are still sales tax on prepared food, soft drinks, candy,
dietary supplements, food sold through vending machines. Huh, food sold
in a heated state, food sold with eating utensils provided
by the seller. So I think just trying to use
deductive reasoning and logic TJ. Pepperoni rolls would fall under

(25:51):
prepared food, right, it's made, it's already prepared. So I
think there would be a tax on that.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
You go to a bakery, buy a pepperoni roll, you're
gonna payacks. That's what you call a value added value
added tax. I guess maybe not really, that's not really
what a value added tax is, but yeah, kind of,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
All right, So anyway, I hope that answers your question
or confuses you thoroughly. Either way. Senator Justice and Senator
Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, have introduced the
Strengthening Local Food Security Act. It aims to enhance food
security by supporting local food systems. Specifically, it would enable
states and tribal governments to purchase local food from small,

(26:32):
mid sized, beginning, veteran, and underserved producers and distribute it
to schools and community organizations. The bill includes provisions for
technical assistance to producers and aims to strengthen farm to
food bank supply chains. Joining us on Metronews talk Line
this morning, Rob LaRue, president of the National Farmers Union,
which supports the legislation, Rob, good morning, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 15 (26:56):
Good to be back with you guys, and I my
note on getting hungry with all the talk about Roni
gro you know that is.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
A food's a dangerous topic to bring up this time
of morning because lunchtime is just around the corner. It's
been a while since that breakfast too, Rob, So we're
waiting at a dangerous territory.

Speaker 15 (27:13):
Yeah, that's true enough, but we're really excited to talk
about this bill that Senator Justice, along with citer Reed introduced.
It is really good news for West Virginia, and I
would argue not just for the farmers within the state,
but good news for school systems for those who are

(27:36):
just in need of local, good quality food. West Virginia
for a long time has been a leader in trying
to make sure that farmers can connect to their school
systems and sell into them and sell into food banks
and other institutions. Unfortunately, earlier this year we had a
lot of money through USDA that was revoked, and so

(27:57):
West Virginia, along with the number of other states, they struggled.
So seeing Center Judica step up here introducing this bill,
we now have to get this bill passed. But he's
definitely showing leadership that is the kind that we need
to see in a state like West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Rob, give us the nuts and bolts a bit. How
would this You mentioned farmers selling into schools specifically, what
do we need to do here to make that a reality?

Speaker 15 (28:23):
Yeah, well, the connection really is working in the case
of West Virginia through the state Department of Agriculture through
this bill. Any money that would come through that would
go through an agreement with the Department of Agriculture and
Agriculture Commissioner Legan Hart in West Virginia then would work
with farmers and producers to connect them into their food systems.

(28:45):
So down in Monroe County and Greenberg County, which is
my part of the state, we have farmers who are
selling popcorn into area school systems, those selling blueberries, We
have sweet corn going in. So for West Virginia, the
type of agriculture that we have, if you're raising beef
and you have Hamburger, school systems otherwise have to go

(29:09):
through the big guys, right the ciscos and other complicated
systems and really have no access to local West Virginia
grown food. And so this process will just make it
easier for those of us that are growing food in
the state of West Virginia, to make connections to our
neighbors and two folks in the area to make sure

(29:29):
that that food feeds us first, and then certainly we
can have other markets.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Rob LaRue is joining us president of the National Farmers Union. So, Rob,
how does this benefit, say, the local small farmer in
West Virginia.

Speaker 15 (29:44):
Oh, the biggest problem and challenge that we all have
as farmers is making sure that we can tap into
markets and that we have certainty around those markets. And
if you're growing a product like blueberries or of any
kind of fruits and vegetables, you need to make sure
that that's not going to go to waste. And so

(30:05):
what this program, the beauty of this program is making
sure that you have whether it's a school or a
food bank, or perhaps a hospital or another kind of
medical institution that needs a lot of food, we can
make those connections between the growers and those that need it.
That means money that stays back into our local countings

(30:29):
and it's spent within the regional area. So it benefits
local economies, it benefits those that are in need of
the food, and ultimately certainly helps the farmers themselves.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I want to be dangerous here and try to tie
a couple of things together. Robert F. Kennedy put out
a tweet yesterday saying, today August the first West Virginia
becomes the first state to ban seven synthetic food dies
in school mills. He goes on, He goes on, I
would think a program like this that has food coming
straight from the farm that's fresh, with aid in that

(31:04):
or they somehow tie together, is my thinking?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Am I off there?

Speaker 15 (31:09):
Oh? You know, I think you're onto something here, and
that is the fact that if you know where your
food is coming from and you have that local connection,
you also know that there's a realness to the food,
if you will. I mean when I am sitting down
for a meal and I know where my tamburgers come from,

(31:32):
I know where my vegetables have come from. There's a
safety kind of inherent in that, and a good feeling
along with that that we're helping keeping that money locally.
You know, most of this food is maybe minimally processed
in some cases, but really it's about making that connection

(31:52):
as close as possible from those that are growing the
food and producing it to the folks that need it.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Rob Laruez joining us resident of the National Farmer's Union, Rob,
why are we not doing this already?

Speaker 15 (32:07):
You know we were, and West Virginia, I have to say,
is as we have members all across the country, West
Virginia for quite a while has been a leader in
this and even when this funding earlier this year disappeared
out of USDA, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture was
looking for funding from every source and trying to work
with producers who were caught, you know, with berries ripening,

(32:31):
with things getting ready in the fields, and no markets
because they've been pulled out from underneath them, and so
you know, it's really frustrating that we had that disruption,
and we still need to get this bill across the
finish line. But the fact that we have something pretty
rare in watching and across the country right now, but
by partisan bill and a lot of support behind it.

(32:54):
We hope when Congress considers a farm bill a little
bit later this year that this build by center justice
will be part of that so that we can resume
making these connections and even building and growing on the connections.
West Virginia is a state that has so many great
small and medium sized farms out there, farms that are

(33:15):
really diversified and growing a lot of different things. And
this is a perfect fit for a state like West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Why wouldn't there be an opponent on this? You mentioned
it's bipartisan. I'm not sure why anyone would have a
problem with something like this.

Speaker 15 (33:29):
Well, I guess if you're a fisco, if you're a
big company that prefers to have a streamlined process, and
you make sure that you know you can simplify the
supply chains if you will, But that's not what is
in the best interest of our small communities. I would
say it's about building those local supply chains, and this

(33:51):
is one step in that.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
So that sounds like propriism to me a little bit.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Now.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
I think we're talking protection, you know.

Speaker 15 (34:00):
I whether you call it protectionism or whether you talk
at a kind of consolidation and monopoly power taken over
in these places. I think at the end of the day,
communities know best what's in their best interest, and programs
like this helps make that possible.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
It just makes too much I was reading through this
this morning and thinking, Rob, this makes way too much sense,
and I'll pick on just use Montague County here where
we're sitting, well, it makes too much sense to say, well,
we want fresh, say, fruits and vegetables, fresh produce for
our school lunches. To contract with the local farm in

(34:37):
you know, western Montingae County or maybe even a Preston
County where you would get fresh fruits and vegetables for school,
fresh fresh dairy, whatever the case may be. Maybe I
don't know, maybe I'm not thinking it all the way through, Rob,
It just it seems to make too much sense to
me at this point. So you got me on board
at least right now.

Speaker 15 (34:58):
Well, and that's the big hope right now is that
because we do think it is common sense, We do
think that this, you know, is in the best interest
of those communities out there, and so you know, the
goal right now is to continue to build support to
kind of carry this momentum forward and ultimately get it
signed into law so that USA and internet into contracts

(35:22):
with folks like the West Virginity Department of Agriculture to
start making this these connections even stronger than ever before.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Rob LaRue, president of the National Farmers Union. It is
called the Local Food Security Act. Senator Justice and Senator
Jack Reid from Rhode Island have introduced that in Washington,
d C. Rob, we appreciate it and we'll see where
it goes.

Speaker 15 (35:46):
All righty, I'm going to go find a pepperoni role now.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
I good lovely eight hundred seven to sixty five talks
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The text line texter had a question about the sales
tax holiday. Does it apply to all online sales? According
to the West Virginia Tax Divisions, website qualified items sold
to consumers in West Virginia by mail, telephone, email, or

(36:10):
internet shall qualify for the sales tax exemption if the
consumer orders and pays for the item and the retailer
accepts the order during the exemption period for immediate shipment,
even if the delivery is made after the time period.
So if yes, if you order something today through Monday,
you will get your sales tax exemption for it. There

(36:32):
you go. Now, if you ordered it three days ago
and it shows up during the weekend, too bad. But yes,
yes it does apply to online sales, is the short answer.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
So go ahead and cancel the order now, seriously, go
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Three or four Talk three or four is the text line.
Text says Dave's text free weekend shopping list, trapper keeper,
mechanical pencil, ten digit solar calculator, Lee jeans, and a
pair of kids sneakers. Happy shopping, says the Texter.

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And speed roll your jeens?

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Five star was popular when I was in school. Do
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Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (39:01):
So the trapper Keeper, not the traditional trapper keeper, but
the was it like a three ring binder, but it zipped,
you know what I'm talking about. And you had a
place for all your pins and pencils, although the Texter
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Didn't really care. Lee jeans, Yeah you got to have.

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You got to have those new blue jeans as you
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from yesterday.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Don't have to read it anyway. Wait, you're telling me
the iconic pepperoni role is taxed. This is a state
treasure and should be shared without tax. The legislature definitely
needs to fix this. I'm telling you, I think we
can get some bipartisan get a bipartisan bill going.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
Or maybe constitutional issues with that, then why not tax
a cheeseburger? That would beat the debate.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
That would be the debate, wouldn't it. There would be
a partisan divide pepperonial oles versus cheeseburgers.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Uh three oh four talk three four, Davin TJ. I'll
get back to that one. This bill levels the playing
field for all producers. I like the bill. I like
the bill we were just talking about. Again, I haven't
done a huge deep dive on it. I just like
things TEJ. That make a lot of common sense. If

(40:25):
you have local producers producing healthy food, produce vegetables right here.
I would even go as far as to say, beef poultry,
if you can contract with them, why not do that
rather than get whatever processed and frozen shipped in on
a semi truck on It makes a lot of sense.

(40:46):
There might be some hurdles there to overcome, but I'd
be willing to give it a shot.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Here's where it's gonna get stalled. Those that don't like it.
I don't know who they would be, but those who
don't like it are gonna say there's no quality control.
How do you have safety tests? How do you know
there weren't any you know, chemicals that were used that
are bad. That's where this thing is going to run
a foul and find Probably it's it's harshest critics, but

(41:13):
ultimately I like it. It's free market, and if other
producers don't care for it, well they can come up
with a way to compete against those farmers that are
putting it into the marketplace. It's all about competition. I
think it makes a ton of sense.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Three or four talk three oh four. Do cargo pants qualify? Yes?
I believe cargo pants do qualify for the tax exemption?
Should they question? Mark Texas says, I think proof that
Hoppy actually rode that many miles every day? Did he
say he biked seventy miles one day? Yes, yes he did,

(41:52):
and there are pictures at a company His commentary over
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at them.

Speaker 19 (41:59):
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Speaker 1 (41:59):
I haven't seen any like biometric data that was saved
from the trip, but I think the pictures are enough validation.
And he was walking still a little. He was still
a little. I don't think he's quite made a full
recovery yet.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
To you, J that's a toll on the body if
you think about it. And good for him. I mean,
he trained, he did everything he needed to do. Wouldn't
find me doing that. I'll just be very candid. I
mean that's really amazing if you think about it. The
stress and then not to have the conveniences of modern life.
He's talking about he's camping out in the field somewhere.

(42:35):
I'm not doing that. That's not my idea of fun.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
You do you walk eighteen or do you get the cart?

Speaker 4 (42:41):
I do both. It depends on what's going on, Like
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In the fall, I'll walk, ok. Yeah.

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Speaker 4 (48:17):
Morning, where I'm happy to report State Attorney General JB.
McCuskey sends me a text saying, quote, I stand ready
to defend the constitutionality of tax free pepperoni roles. Got
it there? All right?

Speaker 1 (48:31):
That's the next big divisive issue when we get to
Charleston back in January, tax free pepperoni roles. Chris TIREWALTZ,
I have no good transition here. Chris Tirewalt's the politic
politics editor for The Hill and News Nation, host of
The Hill Sunday on News Nation, Senior fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute, of course, best selling author as well.

(48:51):
Morning Chris, Hi, guys, tax free pepperoni roles? Do you
want to weigh in on this controversial subject that we
accidentally traded into.

Speaker 22 (49:00):
Is it because they're they're food and they're not being taxed,
or is it because they're prepared food they're going to
create an exemption for them.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
You know, we were just tossing our Well, okay, here's
the genesis of all this. That probably doesn't interest you
at all, but here we go. So it's sales tax weekend,
back to school sales tax weekend. There's this whole squabble
over who should get credit and a Textbobi. Actually we
talked about that earlier before this. It's true.

Speaker 22 (49:25):
I was there when it happened. Go ahead, explain no,
Bob Wise and Bob Kiss came up with it. I
remember it was a big deal, or it was said
to be a big deal. It's not that big a
deal because do you know what politicians love, Oh, they
love they love. They love to take with one hand
and then give you back a little morsel of it

(49:45):
with the other and tell you that they are there,
you're a great benefactor. Right, So they take a third
or or forty percent of your stuff and they're like,
but we'll let you have this morsel, aren't we nice
to give it to you? And the sales tax, the
back to school sales tax holiday was as Democrats were

(50:06):
looking for a way to say, hey, we're not just
the party of taxing people. The back to school sales
tax holiday aligned because it was for schools and the
Democratic Party's major constituency. Of course, in West Virginia, school
teachers and people who worked for the school system. There
was their bread and butter. That's who they were working for.
And so it was about schools and it was about

(50:27):
this stuff, and it was a sales tax holiday. I
remember I had to write about it.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Clogging and a tax free weekend. I'm sold.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
So there you go. Anyway, that all culminated with a
Texter saying he had a bipartisan idea tax free pepperoni roles.
That's how we ended up bringing this up to you
in this.

Speaker 22 (50:45):
We well West Virginia. So West Virginia doesn't tax groceries
anymore though, right correct?

Speaker 1 (50:50):
But if haired food, which I don't, I don't know
that it qualifies tax free.

Speaker 22 (50:56):
Here's a here's a crazy idea, crazy thought. What if
you had a fair and rational tax system that, instead
of carving out favors for special interests and that did
things for people that were politically valuable. What if you
just had a fair system that taxed as little as

(51:17):
possible in the fairest way possible, in the least regress well, yeah,
I mean, by the way, the number of states that
have flat taxes continues to grow, right, and it's red state.
And if you include the states that have zero as
having a flat tax, now it's like more than a
third of all states.

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Have flat taxes. Ohio, you're doing it.

Speaker 22 (51:39):
Yeah, it's just not. The funny thing about a flat
tax is that forty years ago when Ronald Reagan and
other people were talking about it was a crazy idea,
and then over time people are like, oh, it would
be a lot simpler. And you know, Europeans have a
vat of value added tax, same concept, which is a

(52:01):
consumption tax, which there are values that But it is
said correctly that complexity is a subsidy. So if you
make your tax code as complicated as possible, well, if
you bought that notebook on Thursday, you do pay taxes

(52:22):
on it. But if you buy it on Friday, was
the pepperoni role purchased in a gas station or was
the pepperoni role purchased in a grocery store? If then,
and you have an army of people who are who
are keeping score on this. You have politicians who want
the credit, you have the bureaucrats who have to keep
score on this. You have the people who are selling
the products who have to do their own math. You

(52:43):
have the consumers who have to do it. All of
that complexity is a subsidy for who. It's a subsidy
for rich people who know how to work the system.
When you talk about taxes, the more complicated you make
your tax code, the harder you make it for ordinary people,
for working people, for busy people to do it, and
the better it is for people who hire accountants and

(53:04):
tax lawyers and do all of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
I say, my wife's an accountant. I'm going to get
it when I get home. But that's who beneficial like
the accountant.

Speaker 22 (53:11):
I have an accountant. I have an accountant. You have
accountants where I'm The term is not tax of aasion,
it's tax avoidance, right, you don't. People don't want to
pay any more taxes than they're supposed to. My point
in all of this is, however long, West Virginia's tax
code is full of rotten stuff from one hundred and

(53:33):
fifty years of people carving out favors or trying to
punish different groups. The fact that the Republicans have been
in charge in West Virginia for a decade now and
they haven't cleaned up the tax code. Is shame on them, right,
That's a real shame on them, because West Virginia's tax
code should be as clean as a hound's tooth given

(53:54):
the size of the majorities they have. But here's the thing,
it doesn't matter what party somebody is in. That comp
flexity and that power and the power to reward friends
and punish foes and try to engineer the economy knows
no party. It is a bipartisan impulse that people have
because they want to get credit for it. Because if
you fix it once and go to a flat tax

(54:15):
rate and get it down as low as you can
and set it there, then what are you gonna What
are you gonna run on next time? What favor will
you promise to give next time? If you just cleaned
it up? So okay, we're gonna jump in. Let's jump in.
This one gets me going. I want your thought on this.
I wrote about it this week.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Every year in West Virginia we raise personal income taxes
because we don't adjust the brackets, we have bracket creep.
Each and every year we have a tax increase in
this state, and I seem to be the only one
that cares I'm a right or wrong.

Speaker 22 (54:43):
Well, but again, the people who are getting dinged on that?
Which which are those people?

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Those are?

Speaker 22 (54:49):
Those are the will you tell me a husband of
an accountant.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
Well, everybody's getting dinged because inflation affects everybody. So eventually
a bunch of people end up in the top bracket
as low as we are. I mean, it's it's kind
of nuts. I mean, we went what twenty twenty five
years without adjusting the brackets. It's crazy.

Speaker 22 (55:07):
So the people in the top racket, your wife's clients, right,
They're saying, okay, what can we write.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
By trade.

Speaker 22 (55:17):
Someone less good but also excellent as your wife. They're saying, okay, now,
if we buy fifty Pepperoni rolls and give them to
the church, then we can get an extra nine dollars
data data. So they're looking for all the ways to
minimize who does that tax punish that punishes the people
on fixed on we're all on fixed incomes, but on
the people in the middle of brackets who find themselves

(55:39):
with a little more income here and they get bumped
up into the next one, and the government is taking
the same amount but the spending power of their dollar
is going down. That's who it again. When you have
a complicated, unfair tax system, the people who get socked
are not not the poorest and not the richest. It's

(56:02):
the people in those middle quintiles who are going to
get ground up.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Chris tyre Well joining us Cero. I mentioned news talk
line this morning. Boy, I didn't know we were going
to go down this road. I'm glad. You're glad we
brought up, you know, tax free Pepperoni rolls, and here
we end up with no cheese.

Speaker 22 (56:17):
You may not have the tax exemption if you put
cheese in your Pepperoni roll. I don't know how they
do it in Clarksburg, but I assume it is wrong.
There should not be cheese in a Pepperoni roll. A
pepperoni roll is It's not that it's dairy free. There's
milk in the or milk powder in the in the
role itself. But don't put cheese in your pepperoni roll.

(56:38):
That's just a poorly made cowzone a pepperoni roll. And
I don't care whether you're a stick pepperoni person or
a slice pepperoni person. I like the slice because it
produces more delicious orange grease that crusts on the bottom.
But once you put cheese in it, now you've just
made a failed cowzone. You have not made a better
pepperoni roll.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
You come from an area where they don't even cook
the cheese on pizza.

Speaker 22 (56:59):
Oh well, well rip real de Carlo's right, Ri ip
Patsy's pizza. I don't think there is even a viable
wheeling style Ohio Valley style pizza available in the real
West Virginia anymore. It's a sadness. It's a real sadness
because they're melting their cheese. And once you've melted the

(57:19):
cheese on a rectangular pizza, now you have Detroit style again.
It's like the pepperoni roll. Now you have poorly made
Detroit style as opposed to the distinctive cold. The cheese
has to be cold, it has to be salty. That's
what it's about.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
That's a northern Ohio Valley thing. I'm from the midd
O High Valley and I'd never seen anything like that until.

Speaker 22 (57:40):
I don't know what you people eat in the middle Ohio.
I have no idea what kind of brown bean situation
is going on there, But I know it ain't pizza.
I know that I'm not going there for the pizza.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Chris Darwell join us here at Metro News talk Line.
Bernie Sanders announced he is coming to West Virginia next week.
He's going to stop in Wheeling, Charleston, and Leonore of
all places. Okay, why why would you come here if
you're Bernie Sanders.

Speaker 22 (58:06):
Well, I don't know. I guess you'd say why not.
I mean, you're maybe there are state legislative seats. Maybe
there's maybe, I mean, I don't know. Maybe Bernie Sanders
is doing a fifty state tour. Maybe he's going to
go which, by the way, is smart for Democrats or
democratic socialists to say, we've been to all fifty states.

(58:27):
We've talked to these people, and you know, for for
JFK and for Lyndon Johnson, talking about the poverty of
Appalachia sells in other places. Right, if you come to
Appalachia and you chronicled if you find the poorest places,
Wheeling is not. I mean, there's some places in Wheeling

(58:47):
that are not doing so great. But if you find
poor places and you can talk about it, then you
can use that that. It's not like Bernie, It's not
like Democrats are going to win West Virginia anytime soon.
But you can go other places and say, I saw
how poor the people are in Appalachia. I mean, look, jd.
Vance is Vice president. For goodness sake.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Can you hang a dear leader mentality on Trump if
you're if you're Bernie Sanders and say, these people have
been brainwashed by Trump. Look how bad they have It
is that part of.

Speaker 22 (59:16):
The no what I think what you would say is
not you wouldn't do that. You would say, well, here,
here's what one one ought to say. I don't know
what he will say, but what one ought to say
is that the Democratic Party has overlooked and ignored very
often the concerns of regular folks in flyover country and

(59:40):
that it has been very bad for Democrats. And this
is something Joe Manchin has talked about at length. But
it's very bad for Democrats to get in the business
of writing off whole swaths of the country. And if
I were, if I were telling Democrats what to say,
and I would say, do what Andy Basheer has done
in Kentucky. Listen more than you talk, and be able

(01:00:03):
and willing to acknowledge the fact that your party has
very often been dismissive and written off the concerns of
people who live in places like West Virginia. If you
look at the policies that are popular among West Virginians,
West Virginia is not a conservative state. West Virginia is
a Republican state. But West Virginians love free money. We're

(01:00:26):
just talking about what the tax code looks like. West
Virginia likes government spending. West Virginia is not a place
that is inhospitable to big government ideas by any stretch
of the imagination. And Democrats gave up on those voters,
and they gave up on those voters substantially because they
bought the lie that happened in two in the wake

(01:00:48):
of the two thousand election. It's God's God, guns and
gays that social issues will forever keep the white working
class away from the Democratic Party. And I just don't
think that's true. I think that the ground underneath the
social issues have changed their man atically. Number one, gay marriages,
that's not going anywhere. I think the ground under those
issues has changed. Number one, and number two, I think

(01:01:11):
Democrats believed a lie, which was that they were on
their way to being the majority, the permanent majority party
in a majority non white country. And it was a
lot harder and a lot more complicated than that. And
I think going and listening and paying attention and saying
that you care. As if we're talking about Joe Manchin Democrats,
what would he say, They don't know how much? You

(01:01:32):
would say, they don't care how much you know until
they know how much you care.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Christ I Well joining us here, of course, he is
the politics editor for The Hill and News Nation, host
of The Hill Sunday on News Nation on Sunday Mornings.
You wrote about that though in your column earlier this
week over at the Hill dot com, how the divide
between Republicans Democrats. All of the numbers with the Pew
research data that's come out, It was a lot of numbers,

(01:02:00):
and I just I read through the whole thing and went, huh,
that sounds about right. Democrat came way.

Speaker 22 (01:02:06):
Yeah, the Democrat Democratic Party has regained its lead as
the plurality party in the country. There were new Gallup
numbers that came out just after I wrote that. Thanks Gallup.
But it reinforced what Pugh says, which is Democrats have
bounced back substantially from twenty twenty four. It is real
that Democrats have come home to some degree after the

(01:02:28):
frustrations and disappointments of twenty twenty four, but their problems
with young men are profound. Right, The shift among Democrats
against Democrats with young men is profound. And here's the
problem with that. If people do become more Republican as
they get older, because historically that's what happens. You're a progressive,

(01:02:52):
flower child whatever when you're in your early twenties and
you're the issue set that you care about lines up
with Democrats. You care about social issues, and you're permissive
and progressive, and you're all that stuff. And then you
have kids and you get older and you care more
about taxes and public safety and all that stuff. And
as your issue set and your address realigns, then you
become more republican. If that's what happens to these young men,

(01:03:16):
if they stay Republican and become and the share of
them who are republican only grows, there's no Democratic coalition
of the future in which seventy percent or more of
men are Republican because the prime voting age, we're all
in the prime voting age, right, that's your forty to sixty.

(01:03:37):
That's where it's at. If seventy percent of dudes are
Republican in the largest, most forceful demographic, that's like twenty
five percent of the electorate. Democrats are cooked and they
have to find a way to reverse that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
In that plurality versus the context of shaping who candidate
for president will be the next go around? Talk about
Andy Basheer. Is Basher sexy enough? Can he fit into that?
Can he make it work? Because I don't think it's
Gavin Newsom, I know it's not.

Speaker 22 (01:04:09):
How sexy do you find Andy ber what's he wearing
right now? Tooche golf golf shirt?

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Having worked in eastern Kentucky for a long time, I think,
and the way he's navigated that Republican legislature. I mean
we just talked about they're doing the flat tax over there. Look,
Andy Basheer, he makes it work in Kentucky. I don't
know if he can do it on a national stage,
but he makes it work in Kentucky.

Speaker 22 (01:04:34):
If the Democratic Party nationally were able to nominate Andy
Basheer for president, they wouldn't even need to nominate Andy
Basheer for president, because they'd be so moderate that it'd
be cool in the gang, right if either of these
parties could find a way to get their bases to
go along with broadly popular candidates that in that governing

(01:04:55):
third of persuadable voters in the middle, that they could
really reach out to those folks.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
Why you, it'd be a.

Speaker 22 (01:05:02):
Run for the roses with no competition, because right now
we have a problem of two parties that are beholden
to wack a doodle bases that care about stuff that
mainstream voters aren't that interested in, and that we have
capture by these primary electorates. So yeah, Andy Bisheer could
definitely win a national election in a general sure against

(01:05:23):
you know who, JD. Vans. Yeah. I don't know exactly
how it would go, but he could. Certainly it wouldn't
be any kind of a blowout. But I just don't
think the Democratic Party is ideologically capable of nominating and
true moderate.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Chris Starwalt, politics editor for The Hill and News Nation,
host of The Hill Sunday on News Nation, and senior
fellow at American Enterprise Institute. Appreciate it, Chris.

Speaker 22 (01:05:45):
Glad to have you backs Fellow's Happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Happy Friday coming up, we'll talk about being soft. We'll
do that next. Looking for a big.

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Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Steamer Lea's coming up. Just a couple of minutes from now,
you've probably had the conversation with your friends, your buddies,
your peers. Society is just getting way too soft these days.
Oh Rich Rodriguez weigh in on the set of the subject.

Speaker 24 (01:07:26):
We're softer.

Speaker 25 (01:07:29):
As a society, we're softer as athletes.

Speaker 19 (01:07:35):
We're uh.

Speaker 25 (01:07:36):
But that you know, I don't really necessarily blame anybody
because everything they've going around is like, you know, how.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Do we.

Speaker 25 (01:07:45):
Make it easier for him? E anyone can make it
ease instead of making things harder for him, So they
learn how to, you know, to go through hard times.

Speaker 24 (01:07:54):
So that's what hard edge is.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Hard edge.

Speaker 25 (01:07:56):
It's not a magical word. You're gonna wake up and
have it. You're gonna have an There's not one of
you guys sitting in here whatever has not had some
adversity or will have some adversity in your life. And
so you you know, hopefully you have the mental hard
edge toughness to get through what you do or have
people around you do that. You know, I'm I think

(01:08:17):
that's part of my responsibility to teach our guys this.
And they got a long, successful life ahead of them.
But not all is going to be strawberries and sunshine
and roses and flowers.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
You know, he goes on from there. He talks about
having to work in the garden, and as he got older,
it's dj amazingly enough, the garden kept getting bigger and bigger,
and how much he hated pulling weed. He would make
up sports to go play just so he didn't have
to go pull weeds in the garden. But the coach
goes on from there. Quite frankly, I agree, he's right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Yeah, I'm a firm believer you cannot succeed unless you
first learned to fail.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Look, there's an old saying in sports, the best coaches
will make practice hard, make it so difficult, because that
makes the game so much easier, And that applies to
life as well. Steamerly's coming up next, Talk Linel met News,
the Voice of West Virginia. It is eleven thirty time
to get a news update. Let's check in with the
Metro News radio network. Find out what's happening across the

(01:09:16):
great state of West Virginia.

Speaker 18 (01:09:17):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. Finalists for a
prestigious teaching award are now out.

Speaker 26 (01:09:23):
BI finalists have been named for the twenty twenty six
West Virginia Teacher of the Year award. The State Department
of Education recognized Tiffany Barnes, a special education teacher at
Wheeling Middle School, Brook Davis, an English teacher at Buffalo
High in Putnam County, Amber Hibbard, an eighth grade math
teacher at Caponbridge Middle School in Hampshire County, Renee Powell,
a fourth grade teacher at big Elm Elementary School in

(01:09:44):
Harrison County, and Nicole Pratt, a second grade teacher at
East Lynne Elementary School in Wayne County. The winner of
the Teacher of the Year and Service Personnel of the
Year awards will be announced at the State Culture Center
in Charleston on September ninth. I'm Aaron Parker wv Metronews
dot com.

Speaker 18 (01:10:00):
Raining Teacher of the Year. Going to have a story
for his students when school starts back up in a
few days. Seth Skiles of PoCA was vacationing in Hawaii
earlier this week when the island and the entire West
Coast came under a tsunami warnings. Giles says he was
out and about when it came in and it was
a different kind of experience.

Speaker 10 (01:10:15):
Traffic was in gridlock. Everybody was trying to get evacuated
away from the ocean areas. But where I'm staying was
on the ocean area and so needed to get back
to my room and get on a higher floor. So
that was a it was an adventure.

Speaker 18 (01:10:32):
Fortunately, none of the highways in damaging weather came to fruition.
First month of the fiscal year. Revenues are in Department
of Revenue reporting collections in July for West Virginia exceeded
estimate by twenty two point three million dollars. You're listening
to Metronews, the Voice of West Virginia.

Speaker 27 (01:10:46):
Let no one ever say President Trump isn't a friend
of cold Posting. Recently on his truth social account, the
President said, and I quote, after years of being held
captive by environmental extremists, lunatics, radicals, and thought ruggs, allowing
other countries, in particular China to gain tremendous economic advantage
over us by opening up hundreds of coal fired power plants,

(01:11:09):
I am authorizing my administration to immediately begin producing energy
with beautiful, clean coal.

Speaker 24 (01:11:15):
Unquote. President Trump, his energy.

Speaker 27 (01:11:17):
Team, and the EPA are doing everything imaginable to increase
the use of coal to provide reliable and cost effective electricity.

Speaker 24 (01:11:25):
West Virginia's leaders must follow suit.

Speaker 27 (01:11:28):
It's time we change the policies keeping coal from reaching
its potential, and let's follow the President's lead and maximizing
this once in a lifetime opportunity to unleash our coal
resources for the betterment of all West Virginians.

Speaker 24 (01:11:41):
A message from the Friends of Coal.

Speaker 18 (01:11:45):
A Pennsylvania man in critical condition after he was involved
in a hit and run accident. The thirty seven year
old is riding a motorcycle on I SEVENY in Ohio
County when he was struck by a tractor trailer in
the west bound lanes. His bike and he were shoved
into the guardrail with the u s impact. Now the
rig kept on going and now authorities are trying to
figure out who was driving and hope anyone that was

(01:12:06):
in that area that might have information about the truck
will be willing to come forward and share. From the
Metro News anchored ask, I'm Chris Lawrence, we've reached.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
That time of the week where we take the biggest
risk in broadcasting, and we turned the show over to you.
I want you to get up now. I want all
of you to get up out of your chairs.

Speaker 6 (01:12:48):
I want you to get up right now, to go
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Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
It and stick your head out and yell.

Speaker 6 (01:12:56):
I'm as bad as hell and I'm not gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Take this anymore. That's right. Just imagine a bakery producing
pepperoni rolls with cheese in the middle. They've got a
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It's going to look like H and H bagel leading
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(01:13:21):
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of it. Multiple ways you can release your steam, because,
let's face it, the wife, the husband, the boyfriend, the girlfriend,
they don't want to hear your complaining end of the weekend.
The dogs will at least listen to you, but they
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(01:13:43):
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(01:14:04):
do it all right, Let's go to the funds. Let's
start in Huntington. George, you are first up. What's your steam? George?

Speaker 14 (01:14:13):
When you turn to a.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
TV show that's maybe a half.

Speaker 15 (01:14:16):
An hour or an hour long, about maybe one fourth
one third of that.

Speaker 14 (01:14:21):
Time as commercial breaks.

Speaker 22 (01:14:23):
Certainly less than half.

Speaker 15 (01:14:25):
So why is it that every time I first turned
on the TV I always could have.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Had George appreciate the steam. Have a good weekend. Robert
is in Kanah County. Hey, Robert, what's your steam?

Speaker 28 (01:14:38):
Dave?

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
Good morning?

Speaker 28 (01:14:40):
This message is for Shelley Moore capitulation. She's only in
power because of Donald Trump, and she needs to stay
in Washington and get his people that he chose to
work for him can firmed. Now we know she's not MAGA,

(01:15:02):
She's part of the Democratic wing of the Republican Party,
and I would really like for her staff to provide
some video or you know, some audio of her saying
make America grade again, because I'm pretty sure that she's
never said make America great again out of either side
of her mouth.

Speaker 15 (01:15:23):
Have a good weekend you too.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
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Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Please let's hit it. Trump's economy starting to crash. Unemployments
is up four point two percent, stocks down over seven
hundred points, only created fourteen thousand jobs last month. China
not backing down, Canada not backing down on tariff's coffee
up one hundred percent, red meats up over fifty percent,
toys up over seventy five percent, cars up twenty percent.

(01:16:00):
The Republicans call this progress. Texter says. Headlines say Elon
Musk is on track to become the world's first trillionaire.
Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to
be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare. Three oh
four talk three oh four, Hoppy, did you fertilize anyone's

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crops while camping in their cornfields? Sharman or cottonell Texter says,
we just need another a bridge for an individual that
well deserved or excuse me, we just named another bridge
for an individual that well deserved it. However, when one
of our state bridge inspectors fell to his death while
inspecting a major bridge, his legislators would not name a

(01:16:41):
bridge in his honor. This was in spite of a
major effort by his family and the bridge engineering community
for about six bucks an hour. He saved many lives.
He left a wife a small child behind. This text
says feels like the show is just becoming a Republican
talking points show. Texter says Rich Rod is exactly right,

(01:17:04):
and those ticked about him saying that, forget that Nick
Saban has basically said the same exact thing. I'd love
to have some suck it up Buttercup WVU football shirts made. Actually,
Texter says, ask Jeff Jenkins about working the garden pulling weeds.

(01:17:25):
Take that under advisement.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Let's go back to the phones. Let's get Virgil. Hey, Virgil,
what's your steam?

Speaker 6 (01:17:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 29 (01:17:33):
I live off around twenty two in call Yers about
a football field outside of city to THEMS Weir, and
we've got about five potholes up there the size of
car tires. And I've been on there for trying forever
to get them to patch it, and Brook County DO
eight says they cannot patch concrete with asphalt. I called
Ohio and they do. They heat their assphoalt up and

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pound it in. And another complaint they took a traffic
light out down fall him Be and they never replaced it.
They said they're going to put a new stoplight in
and they never replaced it. This is a state. And
then the city wanted to put in new new street
lights and the state said if they did anything alongside

(01:18:16):
the road, they had to pay the whole road, which
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did see a tweet from one of the national writers
who picked up On Rich rodriguez's comments about society being.
Soft so that is starting to pick up some steam
on the social.

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Media, well you, know there are some things the ball
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other people can't say that kind of. STUFF i, mean
the ball coach has a, platform and when they tend
to go into these, AREAS i think one of the
reasons people pick up on it is because they're.

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