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Speaker 3: The news going it is, And wow, am I surrounded
Speaker 3: by a lot of news. Not that today is any
Speaker 3: different than the other day. Happy uh Friday Eve. Brian
Speaker 3: Thomas here inviting phone calls. There has always five one three,
Speaker 3: seven hundred eighty two to three talk or found five
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Speaker 3: with fifty five krcy morgans you one hour from now
Speaker 3: six oh five with Jack Windsor, editor in chief of
Speaker 3: the IOH Press Network and host of The Windsor Report.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be talking with Jack about medicaid fraud here
Speaker 3: in the state of Ohio. He's been following that issue
Speaker 3: very closely in his capacity as an investigative reporter for
Speaker 3: the Windsor Report. It's got a lot of information on it,
Speaker 3: and none of it is pretty I think we will
Speaker 3: be given a pretty clear picture of gross incompetence here
Speaker 3: in the state of OKAIOA when it comes to the waste,
Speaker 3: fraud and abuse going on to medicaid to the tune
Speaker 3: of about six billion dollars. Yeah, on that topic as well,
Speaker 3: coming in at seven thirty for a full hour. Ohio
Speaker 3: State Representative District forty five's Jennifer Gross. She's on the
Speaker 3: Medicaid board, so she probably has some answers to the
Speaker 3: questions and issues raised by Jack Windsor in the prior
Speaker 3: segment and one of the few Republicans that didn't vote
Speaker 3: for the budget. And of course it being Thursday, I
Speaker 3: heard media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. We had a topic
Speaker 3: list that could last us an hour and a half
Speaker 3: with Jay today. So that's as I view that as
Speaker 3: a wonderful thing. I really enjoy our exchange every Thursday.
Speaker 3: Five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty eight hundred eight
Speaker 3: two three talk you care to call? Real quick word?
Speaker 3: Thank you to everyone that made it to Mattrie yesterday
Speaker 3: at Summit Park. What a cool location, free flictening to Matrie.
Speaker 3: It's a brand new facility, It's huge, and the beer
Speaker 3: is great. I knew the beer would be great because
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Mattree anyway, but wow, great surroundings,
Speaker 3: plenty of room, the food was great, the festivities, the fellowship,
Speaker 3: everything was fun. If you were there, I hope you
Speaker 3: had a good time, at least as good a time
Speaker 3: as I did. I try to make the rounds and
Speaker 3: interact with everybody. I'm not quite sure I was able
Speaker 3: to talk to everybody, but I try. And it was
Speaker 3: great seeing some new folks there. Every listener months we
Speaker 3: get some folks who've never been and always enjoy when
Speaker 3: when new people stop by. So great seeing everyone, and
Speaker 3: it's three in a row for me with cribbage Mike,
Speaker 3: I beat him yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh that was fun.
Speaker 3: And thank you to his grandson who roots for me,
Speaker 3: although he did look a little bored. Garbage of Mike.
Speaker 3: If you're out there, I really enjoyed. It's the great
Speaker 3: seeing you and your better half as well as your grandson. Anyhow,
Speaker 3: all the things going on in the world, you got
Speaker 3: the battle between now Elon Musky and Donald Trump. Donald
Speaker 3: Trump not happy with Elon Musk, who's against the Big
Speaker 3: beautiful Bill because it spends two damn months. Donald Trump
Speaker 3: wants to eliminate the debt ceiling completely, scrap it. I'm
Speaker 3: not thrilled with that push. Personally. We spend too much,
Speaker 3: and at least it access some sort of check on
Speaker 3: government spending, not an effective one. I might add, but
Speaker 3: our elected officials don't like to vote to increase the
Speaker 3: dead ceiling because it puts them on paper, makes them
Speaker 3: they have to stare at themselves in the mirror every
Speaker 3: morning and say, yeah, we spend too much, and now
Speaker 3: we don't even have a dead ceiling to sort of
Speaker 3: prevent us from spending beyond our means. I wanted to
Speaker 3: start here in the state of Ohio with property taxes.
Speaker 3: Props to Paula Christian over DoD CPO for reporting on
Speaker 3: an issue that's going to impact every homeowner out there.
Speaker 3: You'all happy with the most recent tax increase, property tax
Speaker 3: increase that we went through. A lot of people got
Speaker 3: what thirty percent increase, many people ten, making homes even
Speaker 3: very make some photos unaffordable for like seniors for example,
Speaker 3: who are on fixedups. You end up getting like an
Speaker 3: eight thousand dollars property tax, Like wha, what in the
Speaker 3: hell where did that come from? And you got to
Speaker 3: find the means and resources to pay it? And guess
Speaker 3: what bad news is coming our way? Property taxes across
Speaker 3: all all operative word in the sentence, all Ohio counties
Speaker 3: could increase as much as twenty five percent over the
Speaker 3: next few years. That is, Oh, I know, Joe, thank
Speaker 3: you for the appropriately time sound effect. That is, unless
Speaker 3: date lawmakers approved dramatic reform by late June. That the
Speaker 3: warning from Matt Dolan or Matt Nolan rather apologies Matt
Speaker 3: Matt Nolan, president of the County Auditors Association also Warren
Speaker 3: County Auditor, quoted as saying, you have to call your
Speaker 3: legislators and frankly, it has to happen now. The more
Speaker 3: you can reach out to them and say this is
Speaker 3: my number one issue. This is going to shift my
Speaker 3: vote if you don't do something on this that has
Speaker 3: an impact. And you know he's right about that. Every
Speaker 3: politician I talk to there's very little outreach from the
Speaker 3: electorate out there. I mean, they're your people, They're supposed
Speaker 3: to represent your interests, and very few people will take
Speaker 3: the time to reach out to them by way of
Speaker 3: sending a letter, sending an email, picking up the phone
Speaker 3: and call in the office and expressing your frustration over
Speaker 3: any given issue. But the more that happens, you get
Speaker 3: a week when a whole bunch of people call in
Speaker 3: on the same topic demanding the same thing, they tend
Speaker 3: to sit up and take notice. Wow, We normally only
Speaker 3: get a couple of calls a week. How is it
Speaker 3: that we ended up getting inundated with phone calls on this?
Speaker 3: So do it. It does have an impact. Uh, Corn
Speaker 3: and Nolan, You're going to see what you saw in
Speaker 3: your last year in Hamilton County happen again. You're going
Speaker 3: to see a twenty five to thirty percent value increase
Speaker 3: wherever you live. Claremont, Butler, Warren, You're going to see
Speaker 3: that level of value increase, and if you're going to
Speaker 3: see your taxes go up by a similar amount. And
Speaker 3: almost every school district in that area is going to
Speaker 3: be at the twenty mill floor, so they're going to
Speaker 3: experience the largest property tax increase they've ever experienced. Yeah,
Speaker 3: my sentiments exactly.
Speaker 1: Joe.
Speaker 3: He tested at the Ohio Senate Finance Committee last week,
Speaker 3: urging lawmakers to expand the homestead exemption program, cap how
Speaker 3: much school districts can get from property taxes, and stop
Speaker 3: a non business tax credit reward for out of state
Speaker 3: companies that buy up properties to rent out. I will
Speaker 3: call them absentee landlord words. Now, the last round of
Speaker 3: massive increases created this grassroots group that's out collecting signatures
Speaker 3: to put a constitutional amendment on November ballots who eliminate
Speaker 3: property taxes altogether, raising a whole lot of questions about
Speaker 3: how things would be funded, something that Pierce Township Trustee
Speaker 3: Alan Freeman noted in being interviewed by CPO on this.
Speaker 3: I mean he said that property tax is how we
Speaker 3: fund police, fire road repairs, any number of township services.
Speaker 3: If you get rid of property taxes completely, they're not
Speaker 3: going to be able to respond to a nine to
Speaker 3: one one call. Would it be that dire or could
Speaker 3: they come up with a different funding mechanism. I'm not
Speaker 3: putting the blame at Alan Freeman's lap, but he's pointing
Speaker 3: out something that is a practical reality. Nolan said, it
Speaker 3: used to be the values went up and rates came down,
Speaker 3: and your taxes really didn't go up that much. That's
Speaker 3: all changed. Now you're seeing values go up double digits,
Speaker 3: almost twenty percent. This cycling. To be honest, I don't
Speaker 3: see that changing anytime soon. Hamilton County is going to
Speaker 3: go through a reevaluation next year. We'll go through one,
Speaker 3: and I think it's going to be very similar numbers
Speaker 3: twenty five thirty percent value increases and twenty percent tax
Speaker 3: increases and we can't sustain that. I think the we
Speaker 3: he's referring to is the homeowner concerned about homeowners being
Speaker 3: so overburdened with high property taxes which do fund school districts,
Speaker 3: primarily that they'll reject new levees for police and fire services,
Speaker 3: which is already happening. They point out in the article
Speaker 3: about Pierce Township overwhelmingly shot down the police levee in May.
Speaker 3: I understand what they're saying, he said. They're saying, I've
Speaker 3: been taxed enough. I can't afford to do any more.
Speaker 3: But I don't know how to put I put a
Speaker 3: police force out without that levee, said the trustee. Freeman
Speaker 3: any pointed up township is going to put that levee
Speaker 3: back in the ballot in November.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to. There's no choice.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The sentence version of the budget that was released this
Speaker 3: or this past Tuesday, does have some proposals aimed at
Speaker 3: property tax relief, but both Nolan and Freeman said it's
Speaker 3: just not enough, calling them good minor steps. He said,
Speaker 3: I hope the Conference Committee looks at real relief for
Speaker 3: tax payers. What's including the Senate budget gives no real
Speaker 3: immediate relief to anyone. It only kicks the can a
Speaker 3: little down the road for future increases. So gird your loins, folks.
Speaker 3: I don't know I have any tea leaf readers out
Speaker 3: in my listening audience that want to opine as to
Speaker 3: whether or not the Senate might.
Speaker 1: Provide real relief.
Speaker 3: Whether that's going to go through, But in the meantime,
Speaker 3: you might want to start stockpiling some additional money to
Speaker 3: cover the additional presumably twenty percent increase you're going to
Speaker 3: see in your property tax coming up soon. Geez, it
Speaker 3: is unsustainable. But you know what, moving away from property taxes,
Speaker 3: I think we'd get taxed enough. Maybe we've got a
Speaker 3: spending problem, and I don't know. We found out they
Speaker 3: had four point seven billion dollars in unclaimed fund in
Speaker 3: the state of Ohio, from which they pulled six hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars to give to the Cleveland Browns Complex. Is
Speaker 3: there any way that can apply the rest of the
Speaker 3: four point seven balance to maybe providing us some relief
Speaker 3: from our property taxes. I don't know how that would work,
Speaker 3: the devils and the details, But as of right now,
Speaker 3: all I can say is brace yourself five sixteen fifty
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Speaker 3: talk about coming up. I love to hear from you.
Speaker 3: If you've got a the meantime hang out of you
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Speaker 3: you guess say occasionally get it right. It seems like
Speaker 3: a cosmic crapshoot, whether you can rely on it or not. Anyway,
Speaker 3: two kind of related stories. First to go to Arizona,
Speaker 3: where a Democratic Governor, Katie Hobbes veto to bill that
Speaker 3: would prevent China from buying up land next to strategic
Speaker 3: sites like military bases.
Speaker 1: Sent up.
Speaker 3: Minority leader there Denay Shamp said the politically motivated veto
Speaker 3: utterly insane, and calling the governor an obstructionist against safeguarding
Speaker 3: our citizens from threats. Governor Hobbs, for her part, said
Speaker 3: the Senate Bill eleven oh nine was ineffective at counter
Speaker 3: espionage and did not directly protect American military assets. Everybody's
Speaker 3: got some concern. It's Manna's all kinds of bills out there.
Speaker 3: According to the Chinese focused nonprofit, twenty seven states currently
Speaker 3: considering eighty four bills aimed at restricting foreign property ownership
Speaker 3: in some way. Congress also considering seven separate bills addressing
Speaker 3: the same issue. Twenty two states have already passed bills
Speaker 3: restricting foreign property ownership, seventeen to which were passed in
Speaker 3: just county year twenty twenty four. So this is just
Speaker 3: one among many people have concerns about that CEO and
Speaker 3: founder of a state armor action. A guy named Michael
Speaker 3: Lucci quoted is saying Governor Hobbs veto this bill, hangs
Speaker 3: and open for the CCP sign under Arizona's front door,
Speaker 3: allowing communists China to buy up land near critical assets
Speaker 3: like Luke Air Force Base, Palo Verdi Nuclear Power plant
Speaker 3: in Taiwan, semi conductors, growing fabrication footprint, he said, Allowing
Speaker 3: communists China to buy up land your critical assets as
Speaker 3: a national security risk plane in simplel Governor Hobbs is
Speaker 3: substantly and completely wrong when she says this bill is
Speaker 3: ineffective at counter espionage and does not directly protect our
Speaker 3: military basis. And of course everyone I'm imagining is thinking
Speaker 3: immediately of Ukraine's recent drone attacks, moving drones in close
Speaker 3: proximity to the air bases where this Russian aircraft were
Speaker 3: located made it easy for them to actually hit their targets,
Speaker 3: giving Russia literally no time at all to shoot down
Speaker 3: the drones. Look, it's right there. That's a concern. I
Speaker 3: think it's a legitimate one. And in not related news,
Speaker 3: but sort of kind of related news, this was scary.
Speaker 3: Two Chinese nationals charge was smuggling a pathogen into the
Speaker 3: United States. Cash Mattel said, this case is a sobering
Speaker 3: reminder that the CCP is working around the clock to
Speaker 3: open to deploy operatives and research to infiltrate American institutions
Speaker 3: and target our food supply, which could have grave consequences,
Speaker 3: putting American lives and our economy at serious risk. Charges
Speaker 3: foul against Jian Yung Queen and Lou Jiang Xiangyong close enough.
Speaker 3: According to the complaint. Lee researcher currently in China, applied
Speaker 3: for a B two VSA in March last year, brought
Speaker 3: the pathogen a fungus known as Fusarium garminarium into the
Speaker 3: United States. Gordon Patel this pathogen is an agro terrorism agent,
Speaker 3: his words, and the fungus can cause head blight, a
Speaker 3: disease that can devastate wheat, barley, maize, rice and cause
Speaker 3: health problems in humans and livestock. The other guy charged John,
Speaker 3: a postdoctoral research fellow at the Molecular Plant Microbe Interaction
Speaker 3: Laboratory at the University of Mission, offered her a fellowship
Speaker 3: position in twenty three. According to complaint, she also applied
Speaker 3: for a visa a Jay one visa. FBI agents found
Speaker 3: an electronic document in John's cell phone describing her membership
Speaker 3: and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party to charge with
Speaker 3: visa fraud, conspiracy, making false statements, and smuggling goods into
Speaker 3: the United States corner cash retellent statement. Smuggling a known
Speaker 3: agro terrorism agent into the United States is not just
Speaker 3: a violation of law, it's a direct threat to national security.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Senator Ashley Moody, member the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
Speaker 3: and Government Affairs, sits on the House Appropriations Committee, said
Speaker 3: this case highlights the need to pass their legislation. It's
Speaker 3: a CENTERPILD ten eighty six and House Resolution twenty one
Speaker 3: to forty seven, the stop CCP Visa's Act body on AX.
Speaker 3: This is insane. These ccpeeling foreign nationals are weaponizing student
Speaker 3: visas in attempt to poison our country again again, all
Speaker 3: in caps with dual exclamation points. It's time to pass
Speaker 3: the Stop Ccpvisa Act is now. That legislation would amend
Speaker 3: the Immigration of Nationality Act to banned the admission of
Speaker 3: Chinese nationals as non immigrant students. And of course that
Speaker 3: comes along the heels of Donald Trump banning travel to
Speaker 3: the United States from several countries in order to stop
Speaker 3: foreign dangerous foreign actors from showing up. Why those countries
Speaker 3: either refuse to cooperate with US in terms of identifying
Speaker 3: the individuals or have no mechanism to identify them background checks, etc.
Speaker 3: They also are high risk terrorism countries Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Lilia, Yamen,
Speaker 3: all deemed very high risk, also of Venezuela, Cuban lawos
Speaker 3: partial restrictions and referred to as common sense. Press Secretary
Speaker 3: Abigail Jackson saying these are re restrictions, common sense and
Speaker 3: targeted at countries that, in her words, lack proper vetting,
Speaker 3: exhibit high visa overstay rates, or fail to share identity
Speaker 3: and threat information. At least someone's aware of a problem.
Speaker 3: In trying to do something about it, five twenty six.
Speaker 3: Right now fifty five ks of the talk station. Oh, Scott,
Speaker 3: I do see that you are on the call screen.
Speaker 3: If you don't mind holding, I will take your call
Speaker 3: right after the quick break here.
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Speaker 3: Procation, it is five twenty nine and a happy Friday
Speaker 3: eve to you.
Speaker 1: Eightwo to three talk.
Speaker 3: I had a couple of callers online. I promised Scott
Speaker 3: he'd be first. Scott, thanks for calling and holding over
Speaker 3: the break. It's good to hear from you today.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Brian. We were down to listeners lunch
Speaker 6: yesterday and had a great time. Like my wife and
Speaker 6: I is like our third one we've been to. We're
Speaker 6: from up north.
Speaker 1: Around Greenville, Ohio.
Speaker 6: But we were blessed just to be able to sit
Speaker 6: and have lunch with Mississippi James and his wife.
Speaker 1: He's a good guyn't Yeah.
Speaker 7: He is.
Speaker 6: We just enjoyed our time, you know, all day long
Speaker 6: with him, and he just wanted to give him a
Speaker 6: shout out, and it was just nice to meet someone
Speaker 6: like him. You hear him on the phone every day
Speaker 6: almost it seems like and then you get to meet
Speaker 6: him and it was nice. We had a really nice time.
Speaker 3: See you made a friend, isn't that great? That's why
Speaker 3: I love listening lunches. And there are tables of people
Speaker 3: there and you probably could spot a big table with
Speaker 3: the city and you know, they all sit together and
Speaker 3: they've been doing that for years, and it just warms
Speaker 3: my heart to know and that I was able through
Speaker 3: these lunches to facilitate the formation of friendship. So it's
Speaker 3: just it's awesome and I'm glad you're able to talk.
Speaker 6: The Times sub Marine and Mike again too. That was
Speaker 6: you were just getting ready to You were just getting
Speaker 6: ready to play cribbage with him.
Speaker 1: And I beat him. Yeah, that's three in a row,
Speaker 1: Scott in a row, Three in a row about a roll.
Speaker 6: Well, just want to shout out. So we had a
Speaker 6: great time. Hey, I'll get off there.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, next man, maybe I'll see it another
Speaker 3: one down the road. We're waiting for confirmation. I did
Speaker 3: not have and I still don't have absolute confirmation, but
Speaker 3: as of right now, all signs are indicating we are
Speaker 3: going to be at Wandering Monsters Brewery and they have
Speaker 3: a nice menu there as well. But I'll confirm it
Speaker 3: and let everybody know as we get a little bit closer,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have it not on the second of
Speaker 3: July because of the Independence Day holiday two days later.
Speaker 3: We're going to kick it to the following Wednesday. And
Speaker 3: I'll be sure and emphasize that regularly as we get
Speaker 3: closer to the next listener launch. Great hearing from me, man,
Speaker 3: I'm glad you're able to make it. Tom Good morning,
Speaker 3: welcome to the fifty five KC Morning Show.
Speaker 8: My friend, Yeah, good good morning, and my lovely bride
Speaker 8: is up this morning, and you kicked the hornets mass
Speaker 8: with this whole property tax U. Oh yeah, she sees
Speaker 8: all sees all work. This is this is one of
Speaker 8: her You know, everybody's got two or three subjects that
Speaker 8: you know what. Don't bring this up around so and so,
Speaker 8: because if you do, you're not going to hear the
Speaker 8: end of it. That one of those from my wife
Speaker 8: is the property tax issue. And you know it bugs
Speaker 8: me too, but I'll I'll blurt down a couple of
Speaker 8: exploders and move on. But oh, this this just launches
Speaker 8: her into a tire rade, and rightfully so, because I mean,
Speaker 8: this is absolutely ridiculous. How they can just randomly whatever
Speaker 8: they feel like it raise the value of your property.
Speaker 8: I mean, you think, think about that. These these people
Speaker 8: are just going to arbitrarily raise how valuable your property
Speaker 8: is so that the tax they put on it is more.
Speaker 8: I just I find that to be stunning.
Speaker 3: Frankly, Now, I will tell you Tom that you know
Speaker 3: I because like, for example, Dusty Rhodes, who used to
Speaker 3: be already he was at lunch yesterday and I'm thinking
Speaker 3: of him as I say this, and I know he's retired,
Speaker 3: but he would argue that, no, it's based upon the
Speaker 3: market valuation. And like the next door neighbors sold their
Speaker 3: house and they sold it for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars more than they bought it for, and they
Speaker 3: use that to compare the value of your house. Same size,
Speaker 3: same shape, same number of square feet. They look at
Speaker 3: geographic sales and they determine property values and then come
Speaker 3: up with what they believe to be the appropriate valuation
Speaker 3: of your property. Even though you've been there for like
Speaker 3: two decades or three decades, as the case may be,
Speaker 3: and it's never been sold, they can still determine what
Speaker 3: it's worth and so that's how they come up with
Speaker 3: a valuation. It's not a perfect formula, and that's why
Speaker 3: they have an appeal process. You can go in and
Speaker 3: find your own comps and valuations and tell them that
Speaker 3: they were wrong. But right, it's not our It's not
Speaker 3: completely arbitrary, I guess, is the point I'm trying to make.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, well still, it's that's not enough knowing that
Speaker 8: our property value is going up. That's not enough. They
Speaker 8: got to also jack up the rate. So yeah, we're
Speaker 8: getting We're getting hosed every which way, and I don't know,
Speaker 8: I frankly get fluckered sometimes what can we do about it?
Speaker 8: I mean it because I was talking to General off airs, like,
Speaker 8: what happens to these people when they get elected to office?
Speaker 8: All of a sudden, they change, they change their mindset
Speaker 8: of how they're going to do things, and they completely
Speaker 8: forget about your representing a group of people. You're supposed
Speaker 8: to be representing their best interest, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 8: as soon as you take office, that goes out the window.
Speaker 8: That's what it seems like, and that's absolutely ridiculous, and
Speaker 8: that goes we're both sides of the eyes. But obviously
Speaker 8: especially in the left, So don't vote Democrats. Have a
Speaker 8: great day.
Speaker 3: Thanks Tom. Yeah, I was immediately thinking of since a
Speaker 3: City Council and the Hyde Park Square deal, and then
Speaker 3: I also I am thinking of the so called Big
Speaker 3: Beautiful Bill, which doesn't go far enough to cut government spending.
Speaker 3: The Republicans are the ones that created this. Democrats are
Speaker 3: one hundred percent lockstep against it, and Elon Musk was
Speaker 3: making a decent point, this doesn't cut enough. Now some
Speaker 3: people are saying that he's against it because it takes
Speaker 3: away the EV credit or whatever, and I'm not quite
Speaker 3: sure that that's one hundred percent of what it is,
Speaker 3: considering the work he was doing over the Department of
Speaker 3: Governmental Efficiency. But I suppose in the final analysis, if
Speaker 3: you can to raise the debt ceiling four or five
Speaker 3: trillion dollars, or as Donald Trump is calling for it now,
Speaker 3: scrapping it completely, you are giving up a fundamental principle
Speaker 3: of what used to be Republican philosophy and platform reduced
Speaker 3: government spending. If they would follow through with any commitment
Speaker 3: they've ever made to the American people over the years,
Speaker 3: at least I wish they would do that.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 3: No, we're gonna stop. We're not gonna spend as much.
Speaker 3: Never seems to happen, doesn't, So we find ourselves thirty
Speaker 3: six coming up on thirty seven trillion dollars in the hole. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: pleaded guilty to one count of first degree murder, three
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Speaker 3: sexual bouty for the horrific twenty twenty four slang of
Speaker 3: a woman named Danishka Molina Sabaja Mahia. This plea deal
Speaker 3: ensured that he would not face trial and the possibility
Speaker 3: of the death penalty. Knox Kinty Criminal Judge Hector Sanchez
Speaker 3: then ordered him serve the sentence of life without possibility
Speaker 3: of parole in the state correctional facility. According to report
Speaker 3: from the News, the woman Mahea April third, twenty four
Speaker 3: report of the Knoxville Police Department that Osborne had sexually
Speaker 3: assaulted her. She told police that a few days earlier,
Speaker 3: she was at his house where she fell asleep after
Speaker 3: drinking alcohol and smoking weed. Waking up partially undressed. Other
Speaker 3: details indicated she had been assaulted. I will not mention them.
Speaker 3: Went to the hospital. DNA evidence reportedly confirmed that, yes, indeed,
Speaker 3: Osborne had raped her. The night after reporting the rape,
Speaker 3: Osborne and two others broke into her home, where they
Speaker 3: first forced her in. Two others, a woman who was
Speaker 3: nine months pregnant, and her boyfriend, both twenty three years old,
Speaker 3: into the basement. Osborne initially tried to force me he
Speaker 3: had to execute the boyfriend, but she refused. Then he
Speaker 3: forced her at gunpoint to snort a bag of drugs
Speaker 3: until she passed out. Prosecutors said that after she had
Speaker 3: passed out, Osborne forced what they described as a cocktail
Speaker 3: of more drugs into the unconscious woman's mouth, fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine,
Speaker 3: and heroin, simultaneously using his cell phone to film the ordeal.
Speaker 3: Osborne's alleged co conspirator's twenty one year old Marquis Ellison,
Speaker 3: thirty two year old Edward Wilson awaiting prosecution on first
Speaker 3: degree murder and other charges. Prosecutors said that after Osborne
Speaker 3: first forced her to snort the drugs, the three men
Speaker 3: were making jokes about how long it was taking her
Speaker 3: for her to die, before Osborne reportedly placed a bag
Speaker 3: over her head and struck her in the face several times.
Speaker 3: After ensuring that she was dead, the trio shot the
Speaker 3: couple that was with her. Both amazingly survived and were able, to,
Speaker 3: of course, testify to the crimes to investigators. During the
Speaker 3: home invasion, one of Osborne's alleged co conspirators actually shot
Speaker 3: Osborne in the leg instant karma to a small degree.
Speaker 3: He went to the local hospital for treatment, and when
Speaker 3: question told authorities that mahe had overdosed and he was
Speaker 3: trying to render aid when an unknown as Salem broke
Speaker 3: into her home and shot him. Then they stole her car,
Speaker 3: which they later set on fire near Knoxville College. After
Speaker 3: Osborne's arrest, investigators seized the cell phone and found images
Speaker 3: and videos of Mehia's murder and of Osborne groping and
Speaker 3: raping her several days earlier. I think it's a well
Speaker 3: deserved war.
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Speaker 3: am very happy Thursday to you. After the top of
Speaker 3: the our news, get some time with Jack Windsor. He
Speaker 3: is the host of the Windsor Report and has been
Speaker 3: following as an investigative reporter the whole situation with medicaid
Speaker 3: in the state of Ohio. And yes, there's billions and
Speaker 3: billions of fraud in the medicaid program. Jack after the
Speaker 3: news on the phone right now, Jay Jay, Welcome to
Speaker 3: the Morning Show. Good to hear from you this morning.
Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Brian. Hey, I want to do I've
Speaker 11: got a little bit of your conversation with Tom, and
Speaker 11: I want to build on it about the process by
Speaker 11: which your property tax is assessed. I live in a
Speaker 11: call to Sack about eight houses.
Speaker 8: I bought the.
Speaker 11: Smallest house, least expensive house, and a pretty nice call
Speaker 11: to Sack. And I am sure I've seen the houses
Speaker 11: sell for about three four hundred thousand dollars more than
Speaker 11: mine is worth. I'm sure that's a solid number. I
Speaker 11: took a look at my property taxes and those of
Speaker 11: my neighbors, and I saw that I was second highest
Speaker 11: charged in that call to Sack. So I got a
Speaker 11: hold of a tax guy, put together an assessment, said, look, I'll.
Speaker 4: Pay the average.
Speaker 11: Just charge me the average. But my house is the smallest,
Speaker 11: least fancy house in this call to Sack full of
Speaker 11: very nice houses. It came out and took a look
Speaker 11: and went we went through the appell process and he said, well,
Speaker 11: the reason your taps are so much higher because it's
Speaker 11: a single story home. I said, explain that to me.
Speaker 11: I said, what's the rationale? With that, he said, well,
Speaker 11: I put a one point five factor on a second story.
Speaker 11: I said, then you're making my case.
Speaker 4: I said, so.
Speaker 11: Every square foot on the second floor is one point
Speaker 11: five cents to a dollar in the first He says, yes.
Speaker 11: I said that a second story would be much more
Speaker 11: expensive than a first story using basic map. He says, no,
Speaker 11: it's the point. It's point five. I said.
Speaker 8: He said, no, it's half.
Speaker 11: I said, well, then that would be point five factory.
Speaker 11: So now I see that this thing is firaling bad.
Speaker 11: I said, can you just give me the equation that
Speaker 11: you use it, because I'm kind of a faction and
Speaker 11: data guy. He said, well, he says, I use my opinion,
Speaker 11: which is the same as facts and data.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 11: And I told him no, your facts and data are
Speaker 11: are are light years away from opinion. In facts and
Speaker 11: data are light years apart. Can you not give me
Speaker 11: the formula? Well, my opinion is the formula. He went
Speaker 11: back and thought about it, and shockingly, I've got a
Speaker 11: response in the mail that says was carefully considered. Your
Speaker 11: proposal to pay the mean of all those bigger houses.
Speaker 4: In your neighborhood rejected.
Speaker 11: We'd rather go with our opinion, and that's up in Springboro, Ohio,
Speaker 11: between Springborough and Waynesville, just in case anybody's listening in
Speaker 11: that area. That's how your taxes are being assessed.
Speaker 3: Oh that's bat crap, insane, And I think that flies
Speaker 3: in the face of the way they're supposed to conduct
Speaker 3: the assessments, which is comparable homes in the general area,
Speaker 3: and if yours is some smaller square feet, they should
Speaker 3: be comparing years to the sales of homes of comparable
Speaker 3: size in your community, not the ones on the street,
Speaker 3: which obviously are all much larger and therefore presumably more valuable.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 11: So, dunda, this is me being a public service announcement.
Speaker 11: They do not have a standard formula.
Speaker 8: I'm convinced.
Speaker 11: Did they use some comparable to my house?
Speaker 8: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Probably, but but.
Speaker 11: Compared to what other houses are on the street. There
Speaker 11: was a there's a lot of twists and turns, And
Speaker 11: whenever he told me his opinion or facts and data,
Speaker 11: that's what told me. There is no map behind us,
Speaker 11: there is no standard process. I think it depends which
Speaker 11: guy you have and who shows up and what he
Speaker 11: feels like that day.
Speaker 3: See, I'm out of my element to know about the
Speaker 3: like if there is a lit not that you want
Speaker 3: to go to court, but if there's some sort of
Speaker 3: litigation where you can you know you've been denied the
Speaker 3: reduction in property tax value. They obviously are pulling figures
Speaker 3: from their sphincter as opposed to relying on documented calm.
Speaker 3: So I thought they were supposed to pull out the
Speaker 3: comparable properties that they use to assess your home, Like
Speaker 3: here's the stack of the ten houses we looked at
Speaker 3: that sold within the last year or so. Uh, and
Speaker 3: this is what we valued it on and use it
Speaker 3: with supportive, objective data like that as opposed to again,
Speaker 3: some guy's random opinion. It just sounds fundamentally unfair.
Speaker 1: And so I just there was a board hearing.
Speaker 11: He said, if you would like to come down to
Speaker 11: the board hearing and schedule that, And I don't know
Speaker 11: if there was a fee. I think there was to
Speaker 11: do it. And but you know, honestly, I declined after
Speaker 11: thinking if he's if this is the guy that they hired,
Speaker 11: he's hired by the board in fact, and opinions are bad,
Speaker 11: our opinions are okay and not frowned upon. I honestly
Speaker 11: felt at that point this is so damn broken this,
Speaker 11: This won't even this is going to waste my time
Speaker 11: and money to go down there and argue it. So
Speaker 11: perhaps shame on me for not following it through. But
Speaker 11: the process was said, damn busted, Brian. I felt like,
Speaker 11: this is this is a complete waste of time. This
Speaker 11: is this would be like one and standing in front
Speaker 11: of a board of second graders with the second second
Speaker 11: grade math. They're trying to convince them the factor in data.
Speaker 11: If this guy has the job, how good can it be?
Speaker 3: Well, honestly, you know, I I if you know as
Speaker 3: your a journey, I would have recommended you gone through
Speaker 3: the entire process, even if you're going to be out
Speaker 3: some money. It would have a record documented. You have
Speaker 3: other people looking and listening at what you were told.
Speaker 3: That guy would probably be there, and I can't find
Speaker 3: I can't imagine anyone finding that to be an appropriate
Speaker 3: mechanism to evaluate the value of a property. One dude
Speaker 3: with the random opinion about the value of the home.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be again based upon that's to my knowledge,
Speaker 3: some objective criteria like comparable sales in the general neighborhood.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, Man Bill here you go.
Speaker 1: Jay.
Speaker 3: Apparently, within the next year or so, according to Matt Dowan,
Speaker 3: the County Associate Autitors Association, your property tax bill is
Speaker 3: going to go up another twenty percent. Maybe you'll have
Speaker 3: another shot at contesting it. And I would recommend seeing
Speaker 3: it through the whole process to find out where it goes.
Speaker 3: And you could probably get some local reporter to listen
Speaker 3: in on that and report it widely to the general
Speaker 3: public that they're pulling figures from their butt. That might
Speaker 3: make the news, and you might get some satisfaction or relief,
Speaker 3: maybe even just by threatening that. Five fifty seven fifty
Speaker 3: five krcit the Talk Station. I know Jay's want of
Speaker 3: Faja's favorite topic is medicaid waste and abuse here in Ohio.
Speaker 3: And Jack Windsor, editor in chief of the Ohio Press
Speaker 3: Network and host of The Windsor Report. We'll join the
Speaker 3: program after the top of the our news to talk
Speaker 3: about that.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the Talk Station. If you're into truth,
Speaker 1: Hey's Brian Thomas.
Speaker 3: Please to welcome to the fifty five KRC Morning Show
Speaker 3: Jack Windsor, who's editor in chief the Ohio Press Network,
Speaker 3: host of The Windsor Report, and a bit of an
Speaker 3: investigative reporter, and he's going to join me to offer
Speaker 3: and you his expertise on medicaid fraud as well as
Speaker 3: the Ohio budget. Let's dive on into medicaid fraud. Apparently
Speaker 3: there is a ton of it going on here in
Speaker 3: the state of Ohio, to the tune of billions of dollars.
Speaker 3: I mean, we talk about budgeting and short, oh we
Speaker 3: don't have enough funds to do this except for giving
Speaker 3: six hundred million dollars to the Browns. But we don't
Speaker 3: have somebody for this project or that project. But if
Speaker 3: they would just crack down on fraud, waste, and abuse,
Speaker 3: it would free up literally billions of dollars. What is
Speaker 3: the current figure they estimate right now? Jack Windsor, welcome
Speaker 3: to the show.
Speaker 7: Well, Brian, first of all, thank you for having me.
Speaker 7: It's an honor to be here. And State Representative Mike
Speaker 7: Devilla started a probe into Ohio's medicaid system and what
Speaker 7: he found within one beneficiary population segment known as the
Speaker 7: aged blind and disabled. If you were to extrapolate that
Speaker 7: number out to the whole system, we're talking upwards of
Speaker 7: six billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars Brian, six billion dollars with a bee.
Speaker 7: Yep, billion with a bee. And here's how he did it.
Speaker 7: If you don't mind, I'll dive into that real quick, please.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He started this probe back in April, and what he
Speaker 7: said was give me records from twenty twenty three. And
Speaker 7: when I asked him about that, he said, because twenty
Speaker 7: twenty three's calendar year, all of that information should be finalized, audited.
Speaker 7: I didn't want to look at twenty twenty four because
Speaker 7: we're so early yet in twenty twenty five. I didn't
Speaker 7: want any excuses. I wanted to know a full year
Speaker 7: where everything should be there for us. So he started auditing,
Speaker 7: and he talked with the Hot Department of Medicaid and
Speaker 7: of course their third party vendors. One of their third
Speaker 7: party vendors as a company and many of us has
Speaker 7: probably heard of, called Lexus and Nexus. He found that
Speaker 7: in twenty twenty three, they reported that twenty nine percent
Speaker 7: of that ABD that Aged blind and Disabled Medicaid beneficiary group,
Speaker 7: those folks may have been ineligible and you go, okay,
Speaker 7: well what does that mean. That means that they had
Speaker 7: assets well above the threshold that would qualify them for Medicaid.
Speaker 7: And I always remind people there's Medicare and Medicaid. Medicaid
Speaker 7: is for people who, in my mind, we think don't
Speaker 7: have a lot of assets, don't have a lot of resources,
Speaker 7: and they need some assistance. And we're not just talking
Speaker 7: a little bit, Brian. There were over four thousand people
Speaker 7: who had assets between one hundred thousand and nine hundred thousand.
Speaker 7: There were twelve people that had assets over a million
Speaker 7: dollars on Ohio's Medicaid payment system, and that really was
Speaker 7: what Devilla's appetite, and he said, Okay, we've really got
Speaker 7: to start diving into this. He published the first story
Speaker 7: at the Ohio Press Network. You can read it at
Speaker 7: the Ohiopressnetwork dot com, and you're going to get the
Speaker 7: first look here, Brian, because we're going to publish story
Speaker 7: number two probably later today or tomorrow. But Ohio Department
Speaker 7: of Medicaid responded to Davilla, and I'm sorry to give
Speaker 7: you the spoiler alert. It's a lot of bureaucratic gobbledygook
Speaker 7: that they've provided him, so his investigation continues.
Speaker 3: I am shocked that you would get gobblygoog in response
Speaker 3: to the hard number of reports that he uncovered.
Speaker 1: And that was just a sliver, Yeah, a.
Speaker 3: Sliver of the entire medicaid population from one year, a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. So and I guarantee you, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure you feel the same way, Jack Windsor that
Speaker 3: probably things have only gotten worse, but they certainly haven't
Speaker 3: gotten better since County.
Speaker 1: You're twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: Well, a couple of things have happened in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: If you remember, we were just coming out of COVID,
Speaker 7: so there were people on the rolls in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: They estimated about three and a half million O highlands.
Speaker 7: Think about that, three and a half million highlands. We're
Speaker 7: receiving medicaid payments, our populations probably just north of eleven
Speaker 7: points or maybe close to eleven point seven million people,
Speaker 7: So three and a half million people, that's a pretty
Speaker 7: sizable number. Now, my understanding is that that that number
Speaker 7: has been pared down a little bit because of the
Speaker 7: pandemic era qualifications, so on and so forth. But here's
Speaker 7: the troubling part when we looked at the lexus Nexus
Speaker 7: number one hundred and six thousand, five hundred and forty
Speaker 7: nine people. That was the number. And by the way,
Speaker 7: lexus Nexus only audited about fifty eight percent of the
Speaker 7: entire beneficiary population of that ADM segment, so it's just
Speaker 7: one segment of that one hundred and six thousand Brian.
Speaker 7: What we found in the follow up letter, this is
Speaker 7: what we'll publish today or tomorrow, is that of those
Speaker 7: one hundred and six thousand people flagged, only six thousand,
Speaker 7: twenty three were disenrolled. So you go, okay, there are
Speaker 7: one hundred thousand people that were flagged for having assets
Speaker 7: well above the threshold. What in hades happened to them?
Speaker 7: And the answer de Villa keeps getting from the Oha
Speaker 7: Department of Medicaid is twofold. I don't know if you've
Speaker 7: ever seen that mame of like four or five spider
Speaker 7: men standing around. They're all pointing at each other. You
Speaker 7: did it, you did it, you did it. It's kind
Speaker 7: of like that. The director at the state level says, well,
Speaker 7: we don't have those numbers. We can't provide that data
Speaker 7: specifically because the Department of Job and Family services. At
Speaker 7: the county level they take care of all of that,
Speaker 7: and all by the way, the federal Social Security Administration
Speaker 7: they audit the rest of it. Now, Devilla did some
Speaker 7: digging and he found that Social Security Administration, according to
Speaker 7: numbers that he received, only audits about eighteen percent of
Speaker 7: their population. So when you start crunching those numbers together,
Speaker 7: you go, man, I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 7: be six billion in waste, fraud and abuse money going
Speaker 7: out the door, but it's billions of dollars that are
Speaker 7: being paid without proper oversight. And when you're talking about
Speaker 7: taxpayer dollars, you're probably like me, Brian, I want to
Speaker 7: make sure that if my money's going out the door,
Speaker 7: that it's going to people. And I think we all
Speaker 7: agree on this. The people who need it should get it.
Speaker 7: There are people who don't need it or getting it.
Speaker 7: That's a big problem.
Speaker 1: Well, it's part of the big beautiful bill requiring folks
Speaker 1: who are able bodied and not really truly qualifying for
Speaker 1: a program it's supposed to help the disabled and and
Speaker 1: and needy elderly folks. They're they're glombing under the system
Speaker 1: without having to participate. I mean, I.
Speaker 3: Don't understand how we've gotten to this place. Honestly, sir,
Speaker 3: I really don't. But going back to Lexus and Nexus,
Speaker 3: they're able to know, they know how much money people have,
Speaker 3: they're they're able to crunch those numbers. So when Lexus Nexus,
Speaker 3: who you described as a third party vendor, they are
Speaker 3: a vendor for the State of Ohio. This isn't some
Speaker 3: random outsourced, you know, think tank entity that did some
Speaker 3: separate number crunching. This is something the State of Ohio
Speaker 3: relies upon. Correct it is.
Speaker 7: And let me tell you what's really weird about this.
Speaker 7: So Lexus Nexus is actually, I guess, a subcontractor of
Speaker 7: another third party that the state partners with. Nonetheless, at
Speaker 7: the end of the day, our tax dollars are paying
Speaker 7: Lexus Nexus for their service, right. And so when I
Speaker 7: read the Department of Medicaid's letter two things, the director
Speaker 7: Corcoran said, well, Lexis Nexus kind of has this wrong
Speaker 7: and shame on them. And I'm thinking, they're your partner,
Speaker 7: You're paying them, what are you talking about, right? And
Speaker 7: they identified twenty nine percent is the number that I
Speaker 7: keep going back to, and they flagged those people to
Speaker 7: be removed. I guess my question to the Ohio Department
Speaker 7: of Medicaid would be and I don't think that they've
Speaker 7: answered it directly in any of their responses. If you're
Speaker 7: paying Lexus Nexus to flag people that are ineligible, why
Speaker 7: in haites are you not removing them?
Speaker 1: That was the follow up question.
Speaker 7: Yeah, why are we paying a company that'd be for
Speaker 7: service that we're we're not following up on and we're
Speaker 7: not putting into practice. The things that they're telling us
Speaker 7: might be problematic.
Speaker 1: Well crazy.
Speaker 3: If you disenroll them, you send them a letter say
Speaker 3: we've identified that you have far too much income to
Speaker 3: qualify for Medicaid. You are hereby disenrolled or otherwise disqualified
Speaker 3: from the program. They would have an opportunity to then.
Speaker 1: Go whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3: I don't know where you got your numbers, but I
Speaker 3: don't have that kind of money and make an argument
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 7: Right, that's right. Well, two other stunning things I want
Speaker 7: to make sure I unpack here. Based on my preliminary investigation.
Speaker 7: Lexis Nexus isn't just small potatoes. This is a company.
Speaker 7: This is stunning to me, and this might be another
Speaker 7: story down the road. They have eighty they have access
Speaker 7: Brian to eighty eight percent of all banking account information
Speaker 7: in the country. That means if you have a name
Speaker 7: and a social Security number, they're going to find your
Speaker 7: bank account. And so it's not as if, like I said,
Speaker 7: they're small potatoes and you know, they're just some podunk,
Speaker 7: duct tape and bubblegum company in the back room. I mean,
Speaker 7: these folks know what they're doing when they're searching for assets.
Speaker 7: Here's the other problem. The Oha Department of Medicaid says, well,
Speaker 7: Lexis Nexus isn't really used to qualify or disqualify people
Speaker 7: because when they're identifying assets, it could include cars and
Speaker 7: homes and trust funds, and some of those things are excluded.
Speaker 7: And again based on my preliminary investigation, Brian, that's wrong.
Speaker 7: Lexus and Nexus identifies cash assets. So when we say
Speaker 7: that somebody there are four thousand people that have somewhere
Speaker 7: between one hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand dollars in assets,
Speaker 7: we're talking cash. We identify twelve people who are millionaires.
Speaker 7: We're talking cash. So that to me is the blood
Speaker 7: on the hands of ODM that we're going to have
Speaker 7: to dig into and get clarity.
Speaker 3: On ODM which is passing the BUCKS saying it's not
Speaker 3: their obligation to remove unqualified people from the Medicaid roles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, and so Devilla has said, look, I'm
Speaker 7: going to write legislation to compel you to follow. I'm
Speaker 7: going to open investigations because the General Assembly has oversight
Speaker 7: authority to bring them in and question them in subpoena records.
Speaker 7: But I think what's really going to happen because of
Speaker 7: the way that they've talked to him and Lexus and Nexus,
Speaker 7: he's probably going to hope that it heads role. I
Speaker 7: think that we probably need to gut that department and
Speaker 7: get new leadership that takes seriously the oversight of our
Speaker 7: of our tax money.
Speaker 3: It's phenomenal to me, and you know, it's just illustrative
Speaker 3: of the broader problem with the government generally speaking. They're
Speaker 3: not in business. They don't need to earn the money
Speaker 3: they take. They just take it from us, and then
Speaker 3: they have no incentive to really follow the money trail
Speaker 3: or keep track of our money. There's no fiduciary obligation
Speaker 3: by elected officials or people working behind the scenes over
Speaker 3: at ODM.
Speaker 7: That's right, and I think there are about seven hundred employees,
Speaker 7: Brian and I think probably the third follow up report
Speaker 7: we do, we're gonna let everybody to know how much
Speaker 7: money they make. I think people are going to be
Speaker 7: appalled at the money that these folks make. If you're
Speaker 7: doing your job, that's one thing. But if you have
Speaker 7: potentially even if it's two billion, because that's what Lexisnexus
Speaker 7: said just in that one segment in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 7: we've identified two point two billion, and you extrapolate that
Speaker 7: over everything at six billion, you have seven hundred people
Speaker 7: that can't audit six billion dollars worth of cash payments.
Speaker 7: You're doing it wrong.
Speaker 3: Yes, you are six thousand stacks of a million dollars
Speaker 3: we're talking about here. It's just the amount of money
Speaker 3: is amazing. And all right, Well, this story is going
Speaker 3: to continue, and it's got legs for sure, and I
Speaker 3: sure hope that they're successful in writing this ship and
Speaker 3: for the sake of the American tax payer. Let's pivot
Speaker 3: over to the IHIO budget. I know the Sentence proposal
Speaker 3: came out with a two point seventy five percent flat
Speaker 3: tax and a new way of giving money to the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns in the form of just handing over money
Speaker 3: out of this this fund that they've collected from dormant
Speaker 3: bank accounts and uncollected assets, and like they got four
Speaker 3: they've been sitting on four point seven billion dollars. Now
Speaker 3: I don't know how they didn't use that money for
Speaker 3: other purposes, but amazingly they can pull six hundred million
Speaker 3: dollars out of it and handed to the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 3: for this project. The whole concept of doing that is
Speaker 3: it just insults me, Jack, Honestly, it really does. I
Speaker 3: could say, how come the Bengals don't get any, but
Speaker 3: I don't want any tax money going to the Cincin
Speaker 3: any Bengals either. I mean, these are well healed, wealthy
Speaker 3: development groups and owners. They if they want a six
Speaker 3: hundred or multi one point two or two points, I
Speaker 3: don't know how big this project is, but they want
Speaker 3: it build it yourself. You know, if it's going to
Speaker 3: generate that much tax revenue that you can get the
Speaker 3: taxpayers of Ohio to shovel some money in because they
Speaker 3: think it's going to generate enough revenue to pay it back,
Speaker 3: then fine, you do it, and you take the revenue.
Speaker 3: And I know that's just one component of the budget,
Speaker 3: but that's the one that's gotten under my skin. It's
Speaker 3: more importantly, maybe we focus on the flat tax, which
Speaker 3: is going in the right direction.
Speaker 1: VV.
Speaker 3: Ramas Swimming, who I Ramaswamming, who I believe will be
Speaker 3: our next governor. He's in favor of getting it down
Speaker 3: to zero, so or at least moving in that direction.
Speaker 7: Jack, Yes, two point seventy five percent flat tax is
Speaker 7: what we will see. And I think it's going to
Speaker 7: be the second part of the biennium, which I think
Speaker 7: just means twenty twenty seven. So we're going to ratchet
Speaker 7: down one bracket and then we're going to get to
Speaker 7: that two point seventy five percent flat tax. Now, everyone
Speaker 7: that I talk to, the economists, the people who crunch
Speaker 7: the numbers, say that's very attractive for industry, for businesses
Speaker 7: to relocate here, because it's attractive for workers. If you say, hey,
Speaker 7: it's Ohio has a flat tax. They have a very fair,
Speaker 7: very simple income tax structure. That's alluring and so that's
Speaker 7: good news to me. What I want to find out, Brian.
Speaker 7: And by the way, you have the best in Donovan
Speaker 7: O'Neil with Americans for prosperity. They're all over this. So
Speaker 7: Donovan's a great dude, and I'm sure they have some
Speaker 7: insight on this. I need to find out today if
Speaker 7: there are people who don't pay income tax up to
Speaker 7: a certain threshold, right, and so then is that two
Speaker 7: point seventy five percent for everybody or is there still
Speaker 7: that standard whatever it is, If you're below twenty six
Speaker 7: thousand dollars in income, you don't pay taxes. Nonetheless, two
Speaker 7: point seventy five percent flat tax is pretty attractive. Now
Speaker 7: here's the other component that I think is really important.
Speaker 7: You'll get it right, Many in the mainstream press won't.
Speaker 7: We're actually spending war on education because if you read
Speaker 7: many of the mainstream newspapers over the past month, they said,
Speaker 7: oh my gosh, they're cutting in the education budget, and
Speaker 7: that's government speak. They wanted eight hundred million dollars in increases.
Speaker 7: They only got two hundred and sixty or two hundred
Speaker 7: and thirty and they call that a cut. Last I checked,
Speaker 7: increasing space two hundred million dollars is actually an increase.
Speaker 7: But they're increasing spending six hundred and thirty three zero
Speaker 7: point nine million dollars over the next two years. But
Speaker 7: it's going to be merit based, so schools that have
Speaker 7: higher performance numbers are going to have access to more
Speaker 7: of that money. And then districts because there's one in
Speaker 7: East Cleveland, for example, that have dropped in enrollment by
Speaker 7: thirty eight percent over the past five years, and Brian,
Speaker 7: they kept getting money, so they had fewer students. They
Speaker 7: kept getting not only money, but more money. Well, that's
Speaker 7: going to change. So if enrollment drops, then the amount
Speaker 7: of money you get drops. And to your point about
Speaker 7: the Cleveland Browns, Sorry if I'm going long here. I
Speaker 7: grew up a Browns fan, which means that, you know,
Speaker 7: I guess in some way I'm a glutton for punishment
Speaker 7: and I'm patient, but I'm with you. I don't think
Speaker 7: sports teams have any business taking tax payer dollars. Although
Speaker 7: I will say this, the last person I talked to
Speaker 7: on this said, we're not increasing taxes, We're not giving
Speaker 7: them direct bonds. We're going to leverage money that's already
Speaker 7: sitting around. They're going to put a bunch of money
Speaker 7: in the pot. That way, if we don't meet our
Speaker 7: return projections, the Browns will actually pony up money. So
Speaker 7: I guess at the end of the day, it might
Speaker 7: be the best way to finagle it. But I'm with you.
Speaker 7: I mean, hey, I own a news outlet independently, and
Speaker 7: I want to look at my senator and go, why
Speaker 7: don't you give me money? I'm doing a public service.
Speaker 7: I just think it's crazy when we start taking tax
Speaker 7: payer dollars and handing it over, handing that money over
Speaker 7: to sports teams.
Speaker 3: Well, and the predicate it was that this whole complex
Speaker 3: is going to generate enough revenue I guess from purchases
Speaker 3: fifteen dollars, beer sales and everything like that to basically
Speaker 3: pay the pay Ohio back and form of tax collection.
Speaker 3: Literally every business out there generates revenue in the form
Speaker 3: of income tax for the state of Ohio. They generate
Speaker 3: revenue with foot traffic. If it's a restaurant, they generate
Speaker 3: sales from the sale of food. Everybody to one of
Speaker 3: my listeners call up the other day and say, where
Speaker 3: does the line form for all the rest of the
Speaker 3: businesses out there to stand and get a high I
Speaker 3: owe taxpayer dollars for their business.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I caught tax cuts, Brian. That's why we've got
Speaker 7: to be one hundred percent bullish on a flat tax.
Speaker 7: And you know, there's going to be a lot to
Speaker 7: I think there's there's gonna be some stuff in there
Speaker 7: about property tax too, and making sure that schools are
Speaker 7: very fair with how they advertise and promote their levies
Speaker 7: and put them on the ballot. So that's good. I
Speaker 7: know that Americans for Prosperity I mentioned Donovan earlier, they've
Speaker 7: been working really hard to untangle the complex tax web
Speaker 7: here in Ohio, so that I am excited about because
Speaker 7: I like keeping more of my own money.
Speaker 1: Ay Man.
Speaker 3: Jack Winsor, editor in chief the Isio Press Network, host
Speaker 3: of The Windsor Report on ninety eight point nine FM, Columbus.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you can stream it. Check him out.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure having you on my show man.
Speaker 3: Maybe we can do it again real soon.
Speaker 7: I'd love it. Brian, God bless you brother.
Speaker 1: Take there have a great week to you.
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Speaker 3: Six thirty one and a happy Friday to you one
Speaker 3: hour for now. Jennifer Gross, representing District forty five House
Speaker 3: Representative Gross in studio to talk about Medicaid. She is
Speaker 3: on the Medicaid board. Maybe she can solve some of
Speaker 3: the problems that we just addressed with Jack Windsor and
Speaker 3: one of the few Ohio Republicans who didn't vote for
Speaker 3: the budget, and since taxes are going to rise again,
Speaker 3: started out the program talking about that that'd be property taxes.
Speaker 3: Gerd you'r luins folks. Maybe we'll get a word or
Speaker 3: two on whether we can get some relief from Columbus
Speaker 3: on our property tax bill and pivoting over to local stories.
Speaker 3: We'll call it a local stories because some people weren't
Speaker 3: awake when I brought this up in the five o'clock hour.
Speaker 3: Property taxes across all Ohio counties apparently could increase by
Speaker 3: as much as twenty five percent over the next couple
Speaker 3: of years unless we get some relief from the lawmakers.
Speaker 3: Interviewed by w CPOs Paula Christian, Matt Nolan, president of
Speaker 3: the County saw Auditors Association of Ohiland, Warren County Auditor, said,
Speaker 3: you have to call your legislators and frankly, this has
Speaker 3: to happen now. The more you can reach out to
Speaker 3: them and say this is my number one issue, this
Speaker 3: is gonna shift my vote if you don't do something
Speaker 3: about this that has an impact quota of saying, you're
Speaker 3: going to see what you saw last year in Hamilton
Speaker 3: County happen again. You're going to see a twenty five
Speaker 3: to thirty percent value increase wherever you live. Claremont Butler Warren,
Speaker 3: You're going to see that level of value increase, and
Speaker 3: you're going to see your taxes go up by a
Speaker 3: similar amount. And most every school district in that area
Speaker 3: is going to be at the twenty mil floor, So
Speaker 3: they're going to experience the largest property tax increase they've
Speaker 3: ever experienced. He testified at the Ohio State Finance Committee
Speaker 3: last week, begging urging lawmakers to expand the homestead exemption program,
Speaker 3: cap how much school districts can get from a property
Speaker 3: tax and stop non business credit that goes to out
Speaker 3: of state companies that buy up properties to rent out.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a petition circulating around after this last
Speaker 3: increase that is seeking to eradicate property taxes completely as
Speaker 3: a constitutional amendment, and that's got some people worried. Interviewed
Speaker 3: also Pierce Township trustee Alan Freeman. I think he's serious
Speaker 3: right about this, But so that property tax is how
Speaker 3: we fund police, fire road repairs in any number of
Speaker 3: township services. If you get rid of property taxes completely,
Speaker 3: then we're not going to be able to respond to
Speaker 3: a nine to one one call. That is, unless we
Speaker 3: get some relief from Columbus that con solve that problem,
Speaker 3: and I'm not quite sure how that relief would be created.
Speaker 3: No one said it used to be the values went
Speaker 3: up and rates came down. Now your taxes don't really
Speaker 3: go up that much. That's all changed. Now you're seeing
Speaker 3: your values go up double digits, almost twenty percent this cycle,
Speaker 3: and to be honest, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Hamilton County is going to go through a reevaluation. Next year.
Speaker 3: We'll go through one, and I think it's going to
Speaker 3: be very similar numbers twenty five thirty percent value increases
Speaker 3: and twenty percent tax increases. And we can't sustain that.
Speaker 3: They starts socking away the money right now, folks, I'm
Speaker 3: not optimistic that Columbus is going to provide us with
Speaker 3: any relief. Metro Board of Trustees got a new fare structure.
Speaker 3: If you're a bus rider, this will impact you. Fair
Speaker 3: increases proximately ten percent across all service types under the
Speaker 3: new structured local fares two dollars and twenty cents Express
Speaker 3: root fares now three bucks. They say it supports Metro's
Speaker 3: continued investment and enhanced service reliability customer experience, while maintaining
Speaker 3: one of the most affordable fair structures in the region.
Speaker 3: They're got a new fare for children too, updating the
Speaker 3: child fare policy children under fifty five inches tall. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be like a King's Island ride, ride for free
Speaker 3: with a fair paying adult to children per adult limit.
Speaker 3: Children over fifty five inches will pay the fare full
Speaker 3: fare support the charge change. Each bus is now going
Speaker 3: to feature a height indicator at the fifty five inch mark.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's going to be like one of
Speaker 3: the characters that they used to have at King's Island, Joe?
Speaker 3: You stand next to it, you think it's going to
Speaker 3: be a fifty five inch tall aftab per of all
Speaker 3: cutout that's a possibility and held out at fifty five inches.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 3: Update based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control
Speaker 3: and the World Health Organization, which report the average height
Speaker 3: of a ten year old child is fifty four point
Speaker 3: five inches regardless of gender. They'n't had to add that
Speaker 3: in there. What about the quick growing kids? Aren't some
Speaker 3: kids out there that grow a lot more quickly than
Speaker 3: others anyway? Also, a tap and save payments a new
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Speaker 3: frequent riders. So new fare structure Corey's online Correy're gonna
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Speaker 3: It's six forty one. I heard me the abas. Next work,
Speaker 3: Jay ratt Love, he'll be on at eight thirty. We'll
Speaker 3: get here from Jennifer Gross will be in studio High
Speaker 3: State Representative Representative Growth Gross seven point thirty two eighty
Speaker 3: thirty one. We'll hear from Jay thereafter. In the meantime,
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Speaker 3: Happy Thursday to you.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Hey, Happy Friday. Is the there Ryan, Thanks.
Speaker 12: For couble re quick on property text? What Jay the
Speaker 12: song got earlier? The auditor value in his property. If
Speaker 12: he goes gets his own appraisal, I go get a
Speaker 12: home equity loan. That's what I did. Found out my
Speaker 12: you was one hundred thousand dollars less than what the
Speaker 12: county said. Yeah, Homeport, that might be one way to
Speaker 12: do it.
Speaker 3: You are absolutely carry, You are absolutely right. That is
Speaker 3: I failed to mention that. It obviously wasn't in the
Speaker 3: forefront of my mind when I was mentioning the comps
Speaker 3: and the other sales in the general neighborhood. So that
Speaker 3: is an excellent idea, and it is something you can
Speaker 3: do to take in when you make your case, appreciate that.
Speaker 12: And then the secondly, I think as far as property tax,
Speaker 12: I think there's it's an American for there property tax
Speaker 12: on the residential property from something you bought, be taxes
Speaker 12: for to it sports a recurring thing. That state can
Speaker 12: take your home that you paid off and lived in
Speaker 12: for years because say a thousand dollars of vote back taxes.
Speaker 12: I think that's an American And I support elimination of
Speaker 12: property tax or residential properties, and I think that somebody
Speaker 12: would present that. I think it'd be a winning, winning bill.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what that ballot petition is being circulated, is
Speaker 3: right now be a constitutional amendment to eliminate property tax
Speaker 3: in the state of Ohio. And I'm sure if one
Speaker 3: of the petition circulators comes to your front door, I imagine
Speaker 3: you probably will sign it. Question is the follow through
Speaker 3: if that were to pass and they did eradicate property
Speaker 3: taxes along the lines of what you want, how do
Speaker 3: we go about reef or funding all of the different
Speaker 3: things that rely like the parks, the schools, the fire department,
Speaker 3: the police. How do we go and restructure their funding mechanism?
Speaker 3: Is it going to be from a state tax. Do
Speaker 3: we increase the income or rather the not the income
Speaker 3: tax are just going to flatten that out? Do we
Speaker 3: increase the sales tax redistributed? Then there's the how does
Speaker 3: it get redistributed? Is it going to be fairness in
Speaker 3: that with each police department fighting over some sort of
Speaker 3: limited bucket of money the devil's and the details on that.
Speaker 3: And then the other argument is counter to what you
Speaker 3: are saying. Yes, it seems fundamentally unfair to tax someone
Speaker 3: to the point where they might lose the house they
Speaker 3: lived in and paid for and own outright for fair
Speaker 3: to pay property taxes, But that homeowner does get the
Speaker 3: benefit of the services that are funded by the property tax.
Speaker 3: For example, if the house caught fire, the fire department
Speaker 3: would show up to put it out. If there's a crime,
Speaker 3: of course you call nine one one in hopefully the
Speaker 3: police will arrive before your dead. I know it's overstatement,
Speaker 3: but you get the idea. So people who live in
Speaker 3: their homes do rely on funded government programs and they
Speaker 3: get the benefit of those, so it's not like they're
Speaker 3: you know that there's no free ride in essence, So
Speaker 3: if someone can figure out a better funding mechanism so
Speaker 3: we don't have to rely on property taxes and the
Speaker 3: seemingly arbitrary manner in which they are calculated. I welcome
Speaker 3: the suggestions because then we can start demanding that our
Speaker 3: elected officials in Columbus get on it and start doing
Speaker 3: something about it. But man, it's a huge red flash.
Speaker 3: After all the pain people went through in Hamilton County
Speaker 3: and the other counties had this thirty percent increase in taxes,
Speaker 3: and mine went up too, and you know it's coming again,
Speaker 3: at least that's what we've been warned. How long can
Speaker 3: this go on? I mean, the only thing that could
Speaker 3: happen that might end up lowering them is if the
Speaker 3: bottom falls out of the real estate market and you're
Speaker 3: now let's say two hundred and fifty thousand dollars home
Speaker 3: ends up having a value of one hundred thousand dollars,
Speaker 3: because well, we are living in a recession or a
Speaker 3: maybe a depression, and I don't think anybody wants to
Speaker 3: go through that in order to get their property taxes down.
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Speaker 3: Six point fifty one. It's coming up on the fifty
Speaker 3: five KRCD talk station. Looking forward to having Representative Jennifer
Speaker 3: Gross and studio to talk about medicaid in Ohio and
Speaker 3: the budget that's going on. We'll get her thoughts and
Speaker 3: comments about what we can do about property taxes anyway.
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Speaker 3: In a recent press conference, Acting ICE Director Toddlines talked
Speaker 3: about this growing danger that his agents facing not just
Speaker 3: from violent criminals, but from radical activists who want to
Speaker 3: expose and intimidate them into silence, maybe even not to
Speaker 3: not do their job. He said a lot of agencies
Speaker 3: were invited to come out two weeks ago in Los
Speaker 3: Angeles where we ran an operation where ICE officers were docksed.
Speaker 3: People are out there taking photos of the names, their
Speaker 3: faces and posting them online with death threats to their
Speaker 3: family and themselves. He pointed out one case, ICE worked
Speaker 3: with the Secret Service to arrest an individual who had
Speaker 3: been actively targeting agents and their families, saying, we arrested
Speaker 3: someone that was going online taking their photos, posting their families,
Speaker 3: their kids, Instagram, their kids facebooks, and targeting in them
Speaker 3: and he pivoted over to outrage. It's expressed by these
Speaker 3: left wing activists that the ICE agents are now covering
Speaker 3: their faces. And I'm sorry if people are offended by
Speaker 3: them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my
Speaker 3: officers and agents go out there and put their lives
Speaker 3: on the line and their families on the line because
Speaker 3: people don't like what immigration enforcement is. He was pressed further,
Speaker 3: he challenged the priorities is is that the issue here
Speaker 3: that were just upset about masks? Or is anyway up
Speaker 3: said about the fact that ICE officers families were labeled
Speaker 3: terrorists they report the story gets even worse, not just
Speaker 3: ICE agents and their families being targeted by left wing activists,
Speaker 3: but now Democrats in Washington are openly threatening to docks
Speaker 3: ICE personnel themselves, aiding and a betting those who want
Speaker 3: to intimidate in danger in silence federal law enforcement. House
Speaker 3: Minority Leader Jakeim Jeffreys quote, every single ICE agent who's
Speaker 3: engaged in this aggressive overreach are and are trying to
Speaker 3: hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful
Speaker 3: in doing that. This is America, this is not the
Speaker 3: Soviet Union. We're not behind the Iron curtain, this is
Speaker 3: not the nineteen thirties, and every single one of them,
Speaker 3: no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes,
Speaker 3: will of course be identified. House Minority Leader, How came Jeffreys,
Speaker 3: why so he's part, I guess of this growing group
Speaker 3: who wants these agents harassed, docksed, and maybe even murdered.
Speaker 1: He didn't have anything to.
Speaker 3: Say about Antifi or the other protesters out there, you know,
Speaker 3: waging war in the streets with their masks on the
Speaker 3: violent pro Palestinian actually pro Hamas folks who are regularly
Speaker 3: showing up fully masked and engaging in violent and angry
Speaker 3: confrontations with Jewish people. Not a word. And as Matt
Speaker 3: Margoli's notes, considering the lead in to his comment Soviet Union,
Speaker 3: we're not the iron curtains in the nineteen thirties. Comparing
Speaker 3: Ice agents federal officers lawfully enforcing an immigration policy to
Speaker 3: Nazis and Soviet secret police isn't just vile, it's calculated
Speaker 3: and dangerous. He's deliberately smearing these agents to justify their
Speaker 3: public targeting and harassment. It's not just reckless, it's an
Speaker 3: open invitation for extremists to hunt down law enforcement officers
Speaker 3: and their families. This isn't leadership, its incitement, and it
Speaker 3: speaks volumes about the radical, unhinged direction of today's Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: Amen Matt.
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Speaker 3: happy Thursday slash Friday Eve to you and I hope
Speaker 3: you can stick around. We've got a little time between
Speaker 3: now the bottom of the air when Jennifer grows So
Speaker 3: High State Representative District forty five joins the program. Sho'll
Speaker 3: be in studio for a full hour. We will talk
Speaker 3: about Medicaid since she is on the Medicaid Board. Perfect
Speaker 3: timing considering Jack Windsor from the Windsor Report was on.
Speaker 3: He's been investigating this and following the money and apparently
Speaker 3: it's a terrible situation in terms of fraud, waste, and
Speaker 3: abuse here in Ohio based upon the actual numbers, Jennifer,
Speaker 3: are you talking about that? We'll talk about the budget votes.
Speaker 3: She was one of the few Republicans who did not
Speaker 3: vote for the budget. And maybe get a word or
Speaker 3: two about property taxes. Someone that former auditor for Hamilton
Speaker 3: County Dusty Roads knows something about score to the phones
Speaker 3: and see what he's got to say. Dusty, welcome to
Speaker 3: the program, my friend. Great seeing yesterday listener, laun Jope,
Speaker 3: you had as good a time as I did.
Speaker 13: It was fabulous as always good time. The problem with
Speaker 13: the property tax they solved it in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 13: I believe. And what they did was when values jumped,
Speaker 13: they rolled back the millage of every voted levy so
Speaker 13: that you're voting for money, not millage. And if your
Speaker 13: value doubled, your taxes went down. Most of them, everything
Speaker 13: above the first ten mills, and that's most of eighty
Speaker 13: percent of the taxes. The problem is the schools pushed
Speaker 13: a twenty mili floor option in to the mix in
Speaker 13: the late eighties, and they were crying that they were
Speaker 13: getting no benefit from inflation when they had to go
Speaker 13: back for levees all the time. So with the twenty
Speaker 13: mil floor, they exempted the school tax from the rollback.
Speaker 13: And what happens is when real estate jumps like it does,
Speaker 13: it doesn't track inflation. The taxes go way up in
Speaker 13: those school districts that are at the twenty mil floor,
Speaker 13: and the schools can jigger their budgets to get onto
Speaker 13: the twenty miil floor. There's a about seven or eight
Speaker 13: Hamilton County, including violent old Kills, and all the schools
Speaker 13: in Butler County are at the twenty mili floor. So
Speaker 13: every time they get a big jump in values, the
Speaker 13: taxes go up and the school has got a win
Speaker 13: fall unvoted tax money. And that's the answer. And nobody
Speaker 13: will talk about the twenty mili floor in Columbus.
Speaker 3: Well, and wonderful explanation, and I appreciate it, but I'm
Speaker 3: going back to the now. I believe twenty year old
Speaker 3: Supreme Court decision was just says the way we fund
Speaker 3: schools here in the state of Ohio is unconstitutional, and
Speaker 3: they haven't done anything about it in twenty years.
Speaker 13: Well, that's another issue. I'm talking about the fact that
Speaker 13: property taxes aren't supposed to blow out of sight when
Speaker 13: values go up. There's a kicker in there that rolls
Speaker 13: back the levees and the schools evaded with the twenty
Speaker 13: mili floor option, and the property owner gets screwed. I mean,
Speaker 13: it's that simple, and I know the Supreme Court ruled
Speaker 13: in the legislature order. That's another issue. I'm talking about
Speaker 13: property taxes and they're not supposed to go up a
Speaker 13: lot when values go up, and the schools got around
Speaker 13: it and they don't have to pass a levee and
Speaker 13: old kills for the next whatever because they're getting unvoted
Speaker 13: tax increases. And that's the secret, and the legislators won't
Speaker 13: address it and won't even talk about it. But that's
Speaker 13: the boogeyman in this whole thing. Is the twenty mili
Speaker 13: floor exemption for schools.
Speaker 3: Well, Dusty, none of this is a curveball if you
Speaker 3: can address or do you have any thoughts or ideas
Speaker 3: about it. I mean, all of this massive increase in
Speaker 3: property taxes as a result in this grassroots group collecting
Speaker 3: signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot
Speaker 3: to eliminate property taxes altogether. Is that even something that's feasible?
Speaker 3: Is there a way? I mean, if that were to
Speaker 3: pass and we were eradicated property taxes, the whole funding
Speaker 3: structure for police, fire, the school's parks, I mean, you
Speaker 3: name it, all of that will be turned on its head.
Speaker 3: Is there any workaround should something like that go through
Speaker 3: and pass.
Speaker 13: I don't know, that's the problem, and you put your
Speaker 13: finger on it Ramaswami said he was going to end
Speaker 13: property taxes, but he didn't say he always going to
Speaker 13: replace the income So that's a problem. But on the
Speaker 13: other hand, they brought it on themselves by getting around
Speaker 13: that rollback and taking unvoted tax increases, So they brought
Speaker 13: it on themselves and lots of luck. I mean, you
Speaker 13: could put a fifteen percent sales tax on everything, I
Speaker 13: guess raise the income tax. But it's like the old
Speaker 13: here you alone, don't tax you doing text me, text
Speaker 13: that man behind the tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, and you know that.
Speaker 3: I would actually, you know, conceptually, even consider a sales
Speaker 3: tax increase as long as it wasn't outrageous to do
Speaker 3: it that way. But the problem with that is it's
Speaker 3: like federal tax dollars. They take them from us here locally,
Speaker 3: it goes to Washington, d c. And then anytime you
Speaker 3: want to get the money back, it comes with strings attached,
Speaker 3: or it's not fairly allocated. Someone's always left out, And
Speaker 3: so every year there'd be this scrap and fight between
Speaker 3: you know, this township, that township, this police department, that
Speaker 3: police department. You didn't give me enough, you gave too
Speaker 3: much to Cleveland because they're too well connected or whatever.
Speaker 3: So the redistribution of the pot of money from the
Speaker 3: additional sales tax will be fought over, and I think
Speaker 3: that would represent represent an on goaling battle and challenge
Speaker 3: for everyone for sure.
Speaker 13: For sure. But the property tax they solved it. Uh,
Speaker 13: and then the school's got a work around in the
Speaker 13: late eighties and that up end of the whole thing.
Speaker 13: If that rollback was an effect for all every voted levy,
Speaker 13: the increase wouldn't have been that much it was in miniuschool.
Speaker 13: But that's the problem, and nobody wants to mess up,
Speaker 13: so lots of luck to them. Ask your state representative
Speaker 13: guest what she thinks about the twenty milter floor, and
Speaker 13: that's the solution, and good luck to the people. I mean,
Speaker 13: I hate property taxes, but like you say, what are you.
Speaker 1: Replace them with? Yeah?
Speaker 3: But so now the spear real quick does before we
Speaker 3: part company. And so the idea would be to reduce
Speaker 3: the twenty mil floor down to what ten Just repeal that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I repeal it. Let the school taxes be treated
Speaker 13: as every other tax. The fire department didn't get any
Speaker 13: more money when the values were not because their levy
Speaker 13: rolls rolled back. The police department didn't get any more money,
Speaker 13: but the schools, if they were under this funny mill floor,
Speaker 13: got a wind fault.
Speaker 3: Well, you answered the question for our listeners. I'm glad
Speaker 3: you were out there, man, because I'd been scratching my
Speaker 3: head over the whole reality of this, and I figured
Speaker 3: you were the man. Hell, you were at the Helm
Speaker 3: for such a long time in the auditor's department, you
Speaker 3: at least have the answer to why we're dealing with
Speaker 3: is right now. Great seeing you yesterday, man. It's always
Speaker 3: a pleasure to have you in our company, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure my listeners enjoyed having you there as well. Seeing
Speaker 3: another one down the road, but Dusty.
Speaker 13: I'll see you then, Brian, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: Thanks brother. Great hearing from you today. Five three, seven,
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Speaker 3: Seven twenty fifty five KRC Detalk Station Friday. Jennifer Gross
Speaker 3: waiting in the wings should be joining me at the
Speaker 3: next segment and spending a full hour in studio talk
Speaker 3: about matter here in the state of Ohio, including medicaid,
Speaker 3: including the budget, including the twenty mil four of the
Speaker 3: Dusty just brought up. Unless she's ready for that, we're
Speaker 3: gonna get it anyway. Bobby, welcome to the program, Thanks
Speaker 3: for calling this morning. Good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Good to hear you, my friend.
Speaker 4: I got some information about the EPA and FEMA and
Speaker 4: everything with East Palastine just came out in the last
Speaker 4: couple of days, but the unmet needs reports were never issued.
Speaker 4: All this information is coordinated by FEMA, the White House, EPA,
Speaker 4: National Security Council, and the Department of Justice. Emails are
Speaker 4: coming out now from Lee Selden and everything. I'm just
Speaker 4: wondering what our governor in the state of Ohio and
Speaker 4: the state EPA didn't want to publish the information.
Speaker 1: Your term about Palestine.
Speaker 3: Yes's Palestine's Yeah, if you said that, I didn't, It
Speaker 3: didn't register in my thick skull, so I thought, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know it.
Speaker 1: It is really damning.
Speaker 3: The information we so far about what they didn't tell
Speaker 3: us is damning. And you know, you stand around, you go,
Speaker 3: wait a second. You got people's lives at ask you here.
Speaker 3: You got livestock dropping dad, you got waters polluted, You
Speaker 3: got a bunch of people who are worried with this
Speaker 3: top literally undeniably toxic intentional burnoff. And then they find
Speaker 3: out that cancer clusters are a problem, and yet they
Speaker 3: don't bother let anybody know.
Speaker 4: They knew it in the very beginning. They just didn't
Speaker 4: want it out in the public sphere. But you know,
Speaker 4: that's the whole thing. But my question is, what did
Speaker 4: Mike Dwine know and what did that lady in the
Speaker 4: EPA in the State of Ohio though, Why wouldn't they
Speaker 4: release the information to the public.
Speaker 3: I agree completely. Regardless of the names of the individuals,
Speaker 3: they are elected officials. They are supposed to be looking
Speaker 3: up for their constituent's best interest. Why wouldn't you give
Speaker 3: the information out? Obviously there was a you can call
Speaker 3: it a cover up or a refusal to provide value information.
Speaker 3: But what's the motive behind denying us access to something
Speaker 3: that's so critically important?
Speaker 4: They didn't want people to know how severe it was?
Speaker 3: No, again, I go, but why not? What's what's wrong
Speaker 3: with letting us know the truth? I mean, we can
Speaker 3: handle it. I mean, that's that's the part that really
Speaker 3: always irks me when something like this is held from public,
Speaker 3: you know, from from the public. Why is it held?
Speaker 3: I mean, why don't we have all the Kennedy documents yet?
Speaker 1: Why do?
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a million different areas that the federal
Speaker 3: government sits on information that I think we can handle
Speaker 3: if we're just told the truth. All I want is
Speaker 3: the damn truth, you know, whatever it happens to me.
Speaker 4: They bear false witness number one. Yeah, and if you don't,
Speaker 4: a man with that word has no honor, You have
Speaker 4: no honor, you have no soul. I mean, look at
Speaker 4: him right now. They're not a lot of these individuals.
Speaker 4: They're nothing but a bunch of liars and hypocrites. Those
Speaker 4: are the worst too, that you can get well.
Speaker 3: And I undeniably agree with you on that. But again,
Speaker 3: the big looming question for me in the room is
Speaker 3: always why are they just sitting on the information that
Speaker 3: we could use. Why weren't we told they knew the
Speaker 3: COVID nineteen vaccine caused myocarditis early? Why didn't they let
Speaker 3: us know? And you could easily come maybe draw a
Speaker 3: more clear conclusion on that one. There could be some
Speaker 3: nefarious reason behind that. This this is where conspiracy theories
Speaker 3: come from, Bobby. You find out later in the game,
Speaker 3: after people run around and talk about, well, these days
Speaker 3: these vaccines could be dangerous. You're damn right, they could
Speaker 3: be dangerous. They didn't do a full clinical trial study.
Speaker 3: It is throw them out of the general world. But
Speaker 3: you see the information about the downside. We get that
Speaker 3: when we'll watch a pharmaceutical commercial. Do not take this
Speaker 3: drug if you're allergic to the drug. This drug could
Speaker 3: cause cancer in certain individuals. Do not take if you're breastfeeding.
Speaker 3: All of that, we go, Okay, I heard what you said.
Speaker 1: You warned me.
Speaker 3: You got studies which show in a certain number of
Speaker 3: people that this drug will cause this problem, but it
Speaker 3: still may cure my problem or solve the pain that
Speaker 3: I'm dealing with, So you know what, I'm going to
Speaker 3: take a calculated risk and take it anyway. I just
Speaker 3: want the information so I can do that. It's like
Speaker 3: food labeling laws tell me what's in the product I'm eating,
Speaker 3: so I can decide whether or not I want to
Speaker 3: put it in my body. So information's good and we
Speaker 3: can all digest it and make rational decisions based on it.
Speaker 3: But when they just simply do not tell us valuable
Speaker 3: important things, like you know what, this is a really
Speaker 3: carcinogenetic plume that's out there and we may have to
Speaker 3: be studying and looking out for cancer risks. I might
Speaker 3: want that information so I could talk to my doctor
Speaker 3: about it, so he's on alert that you know, this
Speaker 3: person could very well get cancer because they breathed the
Speaker 3: air in East Palestine and drank the water there after
Speaker 3: the train derailed. I'm entitled to that. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I suppose it's a form of lyying, but withholding the
Speaker 3: truth can be viewed as a form of lyne But
Speaker 3: simply withholding the truth without any conceivable reason behind it,
Speaker 3: why wouldn't they let you know? And yes, you can
Speaker 3: implicate the wine praps. You can imp implicate the EPA.
Speaker 3: You can implicate anybody in the Biden administration who had
Speaker 3: it but didn't let us know. That's fine. Those are
Speaker 3: the actors who have it but won't let us know.
Speaker 3: I still want the answer to the question of why not.
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Speaker 3: Real exciting day for me in studio representing District forty
Speaker 3: five here in the state of Ohio. Jennifer grows Always
Speaker 3: great to see. It's been too long since I've seen you,
Speaker 3: but it's a real pleasure having you here today.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Thank you, Brian. It's good to be here.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Since we were on the topic of property taxes, you
Speaker 3: were listening, we heard Dusty, and I know there's a
Speaker 3: budget going on now and all these things. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk about the budget. We're certainly going to talk
Speaker 3: about Medicaid because you're on the Medicaid board. And I
Speaker 3: don't know if you heard my conversation with Jack Windsor earlier.
Speaker 3: He got the report regarding the Lexus Nexus dive into
Speaker 3: income levels and how terrible that was that all these
Speaker 3: people out there, some people with a million dollar plus resources,
Speaker 3: still on the Medicaid system. Medicaid fraud, wasting abuse has
Speaker 3: been a known problem here in the state of Ohio
Speaker 3: for a long time. So for my listeners, we will definitely.
Speaker 1: Get to that.
Speaker 3: But I want to start with the property tax thing.
Speaker 3: As you know, there's that petition being circulated just eliminate
Speaker 3: it all together. And I'm struggling with how I mean,
Speaker 3: While it sounds like a wonderful idea because I hate
Speaker 3: looking at my property tax bill, which has gone up
Speaker 3: dramatically since we built a house, but I don't know
Speaker 3: how funding for anything would work in the absence of
Speaker 3: that since everything is built around that property tax, so
Speaker 3: putting that issue aside. There is that petition circulating, but
Speaker 3: in terms of what we were warned about this potential
Speaker 3: second round of Matt Nolan, president of the County Auditors Association,
Speaker 3: speaking with Paula Christian Ever at CPO, said, listen, you
Speaker 3: embrace yourself.
Speaker 1: It's coming again.
Speaker 3: You're going to see another twenty percent jump, right, and
Speaker 3: there are seniors out there. I feel so sorry for
Speaker 3: seniors on a fixed income and they've been in their house,
Speaker 3: it's all paid off. They think they've got nothing to
Speaker 3: worry about except maintenance and upkeep, and then boom, you
Speaker 3: get a property tax bill that's jumped by a thousand
Speaker 3: dollars or something crazy like that. So how do we
Speaker 3: address this? Dusty said, this is the genesis of this,
Speaker 3: was that twenty mili floor that the school which allows
Speaker 3: them to get an ever increasing larger and larger amount,
Speaker 3: which is why our tax bills keep going up.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 1: What's your takes all?
Speaker 15: Well, First of all, Brian, you know we know that
Speaker 15: homeowners are being crushed by by property tax, and especially
Speaker 15: our over sixty five who've given largely they've lived in
Speaker 15: the community's twenty thirty forty years, but they have unrecognized
Speaker 15: gains on their homes, and so a lot of people
Speaker 15: we can we can't wait for them to move and
Speaker 15: say move to somewhere else and use your record, your
Speaker 15: unrecognized gains. So it's an issue that the House is
Speaker 15: very very aware of. And we do actually have a bill,
Speaker 15: it's HB one eighty six. But let me say, we
Speaker 15: have a group of bills and we're calling this from
Speaker 15: the House. Just came out yesterday in Columbus at a
Speaker 15: press release with Representatives Roma and Representative David Thomas, and
Speaker 15: we're calling it the Property Tax Relief Now Act. So
Speaker 15: HB one eighty six is the one that addresses the
Speaker 15: twenty mil floor. And what it would do is it
Speaker 15: limits the growth of the school district twenty mil floor
Speaker 15: to the rate of inflation. So what that means is
Speaker 15: the only increase the schools would get. Remember how Dusty
Speaker 15: was talking about the wind fall again, Well, this would
Speaker 15: limit it to the rate of inflation.
Speaker 9: Now, I understand that the.
Speaker 15: Average person who works for a capitalistic company and not
Speaker 15: the government doesn't typically get a three point five percent
Speaker 15: raise every year. However, it will limit the schools, that
Speaker 15: that bill will limit the schools to a and the
Speaker 15: rate of inflation, which will greatly help because we do
Speaker 15: see that in January we will have another windfall of
Speaker 15: property tax increase and we can't have that.
Speaker 3: No, we cannot. But you know, in terms of addressing
Speaker 3: the schools, Oh my god, what are we going to do.
Speaker 3: We don't get an increase. We can't keep up with inflation.
Speaker 3: Problem solved, that's right. Oh, yes, that's right. And fortunately,
Speaker 3: at least right now, projections indicate and we've already seen
Speaker 3: the inflation is down. Now, it's going to be terrible
Speaker 3: in years where you have like nine percent inflation. But
Speaker 3: if you're looking at a two, which is what the
Speaker 3: FED usually is looking for in terms of acceptable desirable,
Speaker 3: it's like two percent. Most of us can swallow that.
Speaker 9: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: I can swallow a two percent increase of my property
Speaker 3: tax built, but not a thirty percent increase, that's.
Speaker 15: Right, and it will be recalculated. You know, there's a
Speaker 15: It creates a property tax credit that's equal to the
Speaker 15: amount of the tax generated by the twenty mil floor.
Speaker 15: And I can't get into particular details. This just came
Speaker 15: out yesterday, but I'd encourage everyone to talk to their legislator.
Speaker 9: But this is a whole entire package.
Speaker 15: So not only does it adjust the twenty mil floor,
Speaker 15: but it also addresses those that are on the homestead exemption.
Speaker 15: It gives local government the opportunity to match what the
Speaker 15: state does, so so the funding. Remember that your local
Speaker 15: property tax. Let me be really clear to every single listener,
Speaker 15: all of your local property tax stays local. The state
Speaker 15: makes the laws that affect those taxes, but all of
Speaker 15: the taxes you pay stay local. None of it goes
Speaker 15: to the state when it's your property tax. So we
Speaker 15: need to remember that we have to address the local spending.
Speaker 15: You had mentioned early earlier, Brian, that you'd be okay
Speaker 15: with paying some maybe an increased sales tax, and.
Speaker 1: That way everybody participates well.
Speaker 15: And that is something that I've heard from my constituents.
Speaker 15: They talk about, how you know, we have a school
Speaker 15: levy and everybody votes yes on the levee except for
Speaker 15: maybe some of our elderly who are on a homestead exemption.
Speaker 15: They don't want their property taxes to go up, but
Speaker 15: everybody votes yes.
Speaker 9: School levies pass. But here's the thing.
Speaker 15: If you don't own property, there's no skin off your
Speaker 15: teeth in this way. It will require local governments because
Speaker 15: there's more coming. We'll talk probably more about this today,
Speaker 15: but it will require potentially counties to consider an increase
Speaker 15: in sales tax and also potentially an income tax for
Speaker 15: the school systems because there is an opportunity for them
Speaker 15: to do that if they so choose, but the people
Speaker 15: get to vote on that.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, let's pause. We'll bring Jennifer Gross back. We
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Speaker 3: Jennifer Gross, State representatives some District forty five talking property taxes. Welcome,
Speaker 3: refreshing a dose of information here. We have local tax
Speaker 3: commissions and how do they factor into this property tax equation?
Speaker 1: Is your mic on?
Speaker 9: I don't know you are now it is it on? So?
Speaker 15: Well, the local and I'm not an expert in all
Speaker 15: things all things, but there's a local tax commission at
Speaker 15: every county and they have the ability to work within
Speaker 15: your sales tax and raise revenue that way. So Representative
Speaker 15: Thomas and others have been trying to go around the
Speaker 15: state and say, hey, you can take a little prop
Speaker 15: you can take a little pressure off of your homeowners
Speaker 15: by working within sales tax. But commissioners don't typically want
Speaker 15: to raise taxes, right, No.
Speaker 3: Unless it's for a stadium. Yeah, sorry, I get that
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 15: Because you're from Cincinnati. I'm in Butler County. We don't
Speaker 15: have to worry about some of that. I don't take
Speaker 15: county issues, but yeah, so they can be working on
Speaker 15: sales tax and that gives buy into everybody in the county,
Speaker 15: and it increases revenues so that it can take pressure
Speaker 15: off the homeowner. And that commission usually consists of three people.
Speaker 15: And I don't quote me on this everybody, but I
Speaker 15: believe it's a commissioner, the prosecutor, and the auditor maybe
Speaker 15: those three.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so we have some possible relief in sight.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you have any idea what this might
Speaker 3: translate into in terms if this bill passes, or this
Speaker 3: Property Tax Relief Bill Act and all that's involved with it,
Speaker 3: the sort of work that's right, what that might translate
Speaker 3: into in terms of reduction in tax and property taxes.
Speaker 15: The average homeowner in Ohio should see eight hundred and
Speaker 15: fifty dollars removed from their property tax. It provides approximately
Speaker 15: three point five billion in direct property tax relief to Ohioans.
Speaker 9: Immediately.
Speaker 1: Well, that's going to be welcome. Welcome.
Speaker 15: Prevent spikes and unvoted property tax I mean, there's multiple
Speaker 15: bills that can rattle them off. Maybe we'll talk about
Speaker 15: them in this hour, but it aims to keep taxes
Speaker 15: and revenues low. It empowers local government to provide direct
Speaker 15: relief to the how is most vulnerable through a local
Speaker 15: homestead exemption match that they can add to the state exemption,
Speaker 15: and it empowers voters to eliminate most unvoted, unvoted taxes
Speaker 15: for local governments, and it reduces the over reliance on
Speaker 15: property tax which, as you stated earlier, was determined to
Speaker 15: be unlawful.
Speaker 14: And yeah, and we need to address that right now. Well,
Speaker 14: that's the Supreme Court case that I was mentioning earlier.
Speaker 14: This our school funding mechanism has been deemed unconstitutional for
Speaker 14: the last twenty years. And yet it's like people complained
Speaker 14: about Donald Trump defying the courts, and you're going, oh,
Speaker 14: he's defying the courts.
Speaker 3: This is the downfall democracy. Well, we as a state
Speaker 3: have been defying our own Supreme Court now for two decades.
Speaker 13: True.
Speaker 9: True, a lot of people level.
Speaker 15: We also have the death penalty in Ohio, but we've
Speaker 15: had no people that have had to pay for that
Speaker 15: so during the the wine years.
Speaker 1: So I'm not a fan.
Speaker 3: Of the death penalty because I don't believe in the
Speaker 3: state's ability to take a life away because you know what,
Speaker 3: sometimes they screw up.
Speaker 9: True, that's the.
Speaker 3: Reason for not I know, there's some terrible people out
Speaker 3: there that I would love to see struck down by
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Speaker 3: a lot of cases where their death penalty has been
Speaker 3: overturned because somebody lied. Witnesses were lying, prosecutors were lying,
Speaker 3: police didn't do their job right, and then you can't
Speaker 3: the state shouldn't be able to take a life. I
Speaker 3: don't want to go down that way.
Speaker 15: That's another example lot of us not following some of
Speaker 15: the laws of the land.
Speaker 9: But I hear you on that.
Speaker 3: All right, let's continue with Jennifer will ultimately get to
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Speaker 3: You are distracting me, Jennifer Gross is a distraction in studio,
Speaker 3: but a welcome distraction anyhow, Jennifer from District forty five
Speaker 3: were too breaking things down. So we really did a
Speaker 3: good job of the property tax thing. Let's start. We'll
Speaker 3: just get do the tip of the iceberg in this
Speaker 3: segment as we introduce a more far reaching conversation on
Speaker 3: issues related to Medicaid. Now, when I talked to Jack
Speaker 3: Windsor about this, he was looking at that one segment
Speaker 3: of the Medicaid population, the blind, disabled, and is it elderly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, the ones that most needed Yes.
Speaker 15: The ones that I walled off as a chair and
Speaker 15: didn't even touch because I thought, I mean, how do
Speaker 15: I go back to your listeners and the people and say, well,
Speaker 15: we're going to cut the age, blind and disabled off Medicaid.
Speaker 9: You'd have my head on a platter, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, theoretically, if anybody's going to be deserving
Speaker 3: of some assistance, it would be them, Yes, But if
Speaker 3: they've got a lot of money, then they don't need
Speaker 3: to be in a public assistance program. That's where the
Speaker 3: public assistance programs comes from, or the need comes from.
Speaker 1: Duh.
Speaker 3: Then I'm not man explaining, but I'm just so disturbed
Speaker 3: by what our state's third party vendor, a company contracted
Speaker 3: out to do this kind of work, and that's Lexus Nexus,
Speaker 3: according to Jack Windsor, and by all accounts have access
Speaker 3: to eighty five percent of every everybody in the country's
Speaker 3: bank accounts. They took looked at one slice I think
Speaker 3: it was twenty five percent of.
Speaker 15: The fifty six percent and found twenty nine percent.
Speaker 1: That's where outside.
Speaker 3: So they look at a little over half of the entire blind, disabled,
Speaker 3: elderly community and determine that twenty three percent of them
Speaker 3: have more income, they are not qualified to be in
Speaker 3: the program. And so he goes back to the High
Speaker 3: Department of Medicaid and it's like, what's the deal here,
Speaker 3: And they gave him some long winded, wordy goofy response.
Speaker 3: He's published it today, but which basically said nothing and
Speaker 3: my question to him is like, wait a second. They're
Speaker 3: are vendor. We trust them with the information. They're who
Speaker 3: we rely on to determine eligibility. In the first place,
Speaker 3: they determined they aren't eligible, why not send them a
Speaker 3: letter and so you're kicked out of the program. And
Speaker 3: if they said were like, what, I don't have that
Speaker 3: kind of money, they can come back and try to
Speaker 3: present evidence that it's not their money or they don't
Speaker 3: have it, or Lexus and Nexus was wrong. That's this
Speaker 3: simple solution that would result in billions of dollars in savings.
Speaker 1: What in the hell?
Speaker 15: Yes, and let's pull that out. Four thousand Ohio Medicaid
Speaker 15: beneficia areas were found to be holding one hundred thousand to.
Speaker 9: Nine hundred.
Speaker 15: Nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 15: in assets, and twelve people had over a million dollars
Speaker 15: and they were on Medicaid.
Speaker 9: Let's break that down.
Speaker 15: For that population, they're getting in benefits twenty four hundred
Speaker 15: and ninety nine dollars a month. So the taxpayer is
Speaker 15: on the hook for those four thousand people who do
Speaker 15: not qualify, or twenty nine percent at two thousand, four
Speaker 15: hundred and ninety nine dollars a month times twelve times
Speaker 15: every year they were on.
Speaker 9: You can do the math.
Speaker 15: That's where the billions of waste is coming from.
Speaker 1: That would address a lot of claimed budget shortfalls.
Speaker 15: And their legs and property tax. I mean, like we
Speaker 15: should be moving now. We need to be clear. The
Speaker 15: federal government matches. We pay thirty five cents on every
Speaker 15: dollar the federal government.
Speaker 9: We call it a pull down. I do not like it.
Speaker 15: Ohio is thirty to thirty five percent dependent on the
Speaker 15: federal government. And we could talk about this in the budget.
Speaker 3: It's our neighbors in every other state the tax. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't care. It's federal government money. That's our money.
Speaker 3: I don't want people in Kentucky for paying for our fraud,
Speaker 3: waist and abuse. I mean, that's what pisses me off
Speaker 3: so much. I just see I'm getting unhinged here, Jennifer.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's always well, the federal government's gonna pay. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, go ahead and expand medicating your state, because
Speaker 3: the federal government's gonna cover ninety percent of the expansion.
Speaker 1: Damn it. That's taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 9: The federal government we are That's right, that's right. People
Speaker 9: forget We're gonna draw that down.
Speaker 15: And don't even get me started on snap benefits that
Speaker 15: are spent in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3: See again, if they would more closely look at that,
Speaker 3: if we would more closely looked at if all the
Speaker 3: states out there would finally say, no, Moss, We're gonna
Speaker 3: do a deep dive on this. Now, welcome to the
Speaker 3: world of artificial intelligence. It's made the job of ferreting
Speaker 3: this out so much easier. I'm sure some geek like
Speaker 3: Elon Musk could put it into a computer and have
Speaker 3: it spit out in like five seconds. Got the list
Speaker 3: of people who aren't eligible, regardless of which program we're
Speaker 3: talking about, and weeks all save we could probably cut
Speaker 3: a trillion dollars out of the government spending every year.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, you aren't kidding even more.
Speaker 3: Let's bring Jennifer back. It's seven fifty five coming up
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Speaker 3: I fifty about KRC Decaux Station, having a really enjoyable
Speaker 3: conversation here, cutting through the chaff and focusing on the
Speaker 3: week with Jennifer Gross High State Representative District forty five.
Speaker 3: Outspoken she is, and I really appreciate your conviction. You know,
Speaker 3: it's it's nice to have a politician who knows exactly
Speaker 3: where they're coming from and why they're coming from where
Speaker 3: they're coming from. So in our on air and off
Speaker 3: air discussions, that's come through very loud and clear. You know,
Speaker 3: there's little term Barbara Streiss and BS. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of BS politicians out there, and you have no idea
Speaker 3: whether what they're saying is the truth a lie. They're
Speaker 3: just trying to appease you for the moment to get
Speaker 3: you to leave them alone. But you know there's Congressman
Speaker 3: Massy out there who you know exactly where that guy's
Speaker 3: going to vote, you know exactly why he's going to vote,
Speaker 3: way ahead of time. You don't need he doesn't need
Speaker 3: to utter a symbol. Still, will you just show me
Speaker 3: a piece of legislation I could look at and say,
Speaker 3: Massy's going to be a yes, or Massy's going to
Speaker 3: be another Congressman, Davidson, that's very similar.
Speaker 15: My congressman, best congressman in Ohio if I don't say
Speaker 15: so myself. Yeah, And Massey with his debt clock, I mean,
Speaker 15: how do we how do we we need a debt
Speaker 15: clock in Ohio to be able to show or not
Speaker 15: in debt?
Speaker 1: But Trump wants to scrap the debt ceiling outright.
Speaker 9: Spending.
Speaker 3: I mean it's saying you know, I'm usually in line
Speaker 3: with what Trump wants to do. And you know, anytime
Speaker 3: I criticized Trump, oh my god, I'll get an earful temple.
Speaker 3: You know I do. But you know, it's like listeners
Speaker 3: are called. We say, Brian, I agree with like eighty
Speaker 3: eighty percent of what you say. I believe that I
Speaker 3: agree with about ninety percent.
Speaker 1: Of what you say.
Speaker 3: I f it's a pretty good batting average. I'll take that,
Speaker 3: and I expect everybody who agree with me one hundred
Speaker 3: percent of the time.
Speaker 15: Your wife does your wife agree with you? One hundred
Speaker 15: percent mine doesn't.
Speaker 3: Of course, she's listening right now.
Speaker 9: My husband's listening.
Speaker 3: You know, if she does disagree withment something, it's going
Speaker 3: to be something so trivial because we don't fight about anything.
Speaker 3: We have nothing to fight about. We get along great.
Speaker 3: Thirty three years this.
Speaker 9: Month, wow, twenty two for me.
Speaker 3: We've been together longer than thirty three years. We started
Speaker 3: dating in eighty seven.
Speaker 9: So we have a bill.
Speaker 15: We have a bill that that was sponsored by Representative
Speaker 15: Beth Lear and Josh Williams that focuses on the foundation
Speaker 15: of the nuclear family with a mom and a dad.
Speaker 15: The month between Mother's Day and Father's Day is natural
Speaker 15: family month. Oh well, we're working on legislation for that
Speaker 15: doesn't discount o their families, right, but it does. It
Speaker 15: does focus on the solid foundation of There.
Speaker 3: Have been so many studies reflecting that. You know, part
Speaker 3: of the problem in America is the the the eradication
Speaker 3: of the nuclear family. And you know the Johnson administration
Speaker 3: is largely responsible for that because they would only give
Speaker 3: welfare benefits the single moms. There was no in senator
Speaker 3: to get married, no one senator to have a guy
Speaker 3: around the house. Anyway, moving back to Medicaid. Since you're
Speaker 3: on the Medicaid board and we've already identified one of
Speaker 3: the problems, which is no one apparently ever gets thrown
Speaker 3: off in spite of the fact that they don't qualify.
Speaker 3: How do we fix this? I mean, I keep hearing, oh,
Speaker 3: that's the county's responsibility, or we don't do that here,
Speaker 3: and you know, somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got
Speaker 3: to pull the trigger, and then somebody's gonna have to
Speaker 3: go through and look at all the working age people
Speaker 3: who are receiving Medicaid benefits. I mean, but it's complicated,
Speaker 3: but we're talking about a return on investment that is
Speaker 3: so huge the problem just can't be ignored any longer,
Speaker 3: especially since it's coming to our everyone's attention, most notably
Speaker 3: in that small segment that we just talked about that
Speaker 3: equals billions of dollars.
Speaker 9: That's right, Brian.
Speaker 15: One of my goals as chair of the Ohio Medicaid
Speaker 15: Committee has been to open up the vision for people
Speaker 15: to see what's actually going on. One of the problems
Speaker 15: with bureaucracy, no matter where it is in government, and
Speaker 15: that includes Ohio Medicaid, is lack of transparency. So we
Speaker 15: really need to doge Ohio Medicaid. And we have a director,
Speaker 15: Director Jada Brady. She's the director over the Joint Medicaid
Speaker 15: over Site Committee and in my part of the budget,
Speaker 15: which unfortunately several of those things have been removed. Now
Speaker 15: I'm hearing in the Senate version of our budget increases transparency. Now,
Speaker 15: why we would want to decrease trans parency in the
Speaker 15: Ohio budget as curious to me, as you had stated earlier.
Speaker 15: With Republicans in charge, I can't answer that, but I
Speaker 15: have a call to one of the senators on Saturday
Speaker 15: morning and I'm going to ask them about that. But
Speaker 15: we have I increase transparency in the budget for Director
Speaker 15: Braid to dobble.
Speaker 9: We'll see what's going on.
Speaker 15: The current director of medicaidas shall we say, not as
Speaker 15: transparent as I would like.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe because that person doesn't want to see how
Speaker 3: poorly and inefficiently the system is run.
Speaker 15: But you know, Brian, I mean, if someone's an alcoholic
Speaker 15: and they realize they have a problem, that's when we
Speaker 15: get somewhere right, that's when they go get treatment. So
Speaker 15: if we and we know that we do in huge
Speaker 15: government programs Transparency will only help us get well. Transparency
Speaker 15: helps us fix the problem. You know what, we know
Speaker 15: we have a problem. It's like we know there's something
Speaker 15: going on, and.
Speaker 3: Quite often under those circumstances, there will be an intervention.
Speaker 9: Y's right.
Speaker 3: People, the family members are responsible in this particular alcoholic
Speaker 3: related type scenario. Are the representatives and senators in Columbus
Speaker 3: that need to intervene. This is one department within state government,
Speaker 3: and you all know who the problem is, and you
Speaker 3: all know where the problem is. It's time to stand
Speaker 3: up and have a sit down conversation and say you
Speaker 3: need to get your blank together and start saving you
Speaker 3: know how taxpayer dollars and everybody else in the country's
Speaker 3: dollars by not wasting so much by letting the problem fester.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 15: Well, Representative Davilla has been the one started the intervention.
Speaker 3: Jack Whitwindsor from early in the program got his information
Speaker 3: and that was at least he got the ball running.
Speaker 3: That's right, man, and I hope he scores it.
Speaker 15: Can can I just say Representative Davilla is a Navy commander.
Speaker 15: I mean those of us who've been in the military
Speaker 15: are we are used to working hard, and we're also
Speaker 15: used to government, but we also are used to accountability.
Speaker 15: And I love that Representative de Villa through people that
Speaker 15: have helped him in his district. They're the ones who
Speaker 15: brought this, you know, to his attention and showed him
Speaker 15: where to go. You know, it's a government of the people,
Speaker 15: for the people, and buy the people. Davilla acted because
Speaker 15: he had someone behind him saying, hey, you probably ought
Speaker 15: to look at this. So he looks at it, and
Speaker 15: so we get transparency. We need to have that. And
Speaker 15: he's the intervener. And again as Director of Medicaid, if
Speaker 15: I can have people and other legislators bring not the
Speaker 15: Director of Medicaid, the chair of the Ohio Medicaid Committee,
Speaker 15: bring bills forward to reform this program.
Speaker 9: Every little bit helps.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: I think it's a topic we can probably address in
Speaker 3: the remaining three minutes of this segment before we go
Speaker 3: to break. So six hundred million dollars for the blank
Speaker 3: in Cleveland Browns Complex. I don't want the Bengals to
Speaker 3: get state taxpayer dollars that you might talk in earlier
Speaker 3: about our local tax commissions. That's where the tax came
Speaker 3: to build a stadium in the first place, that was
Speaker 3: our decision as Hamilton County voters. We made We made
Speaker 3: the wrong decision. Perhaps we made the right decision, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: That's where it came from. I don't know if we
Speaker 3: ever got any state money for that, but I find
Speaker 3: the concept of giving private owners of businesses and mean,
Speaker 3: oh my god, it's the Bengals. No, it's a business.
Speaker 3: You know, you're not giving the guy down the street
Speaker 3: with the mom and pop store, the convenience store, whatever,
Speaker 3: state tax payer dollars. There's no line to stand in
Speaker 3: for them to hold their hand out and say, hey,
Speaker 3: can I have a part of the money. So why
Speaker 3: is it that we're supposed to pay for that in
Speaker 3: any way, shape or form.
Speaker 15: And why should people in southwest Ohio be taking out
Speaker 15: a bond for a Cleveland stadium?
Speaker 3: But here's that was the worst proposal because the bond
Speaker 3: would have been paid for over twenty five years with
Speaker 3: interest rates, and it would have been to be more
Speaker 3: like a billion dollars. So they've thrown that out in
Speaker 3: favor of raiting this this fund that no one knew
Speaker 3: we had.
Speaker 9: I was unclaimed fund one seven billion.
Speaker 1: I read it was four point seven.
Speaker 9: Wow, Okay, baby, you're right.
Speaker 3: They got a pile of money. Oh was this grab
Speaker 3: it from that? Like wait a second. First off, you
Speaker 3: had that that pile of money, and apparently you're allowed
Speaker 3: to take from it to give it to the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 9: And shouldn't we save that for property tax?
Speaker 1: See that's welcome that.
Speaker 15: Let me tell you, let me go back though that's
Speaker 15: six hundred million though, Ohio people are on the hook
Speaker 15: for that. So not that a billionaire is going to
Speaker 15: default on a loan or a bond, which is a
Speaker 15: loan right to them, But they're putting fifty million dollars
Speaker 15: of earnest money down like buying a house six hundred million.
Speaker 15: But if they defaulted on that loan, the Ohio people
Speaker 15: would be on the hook for the five hundred and
Speaker 15: fifty million.
Speaker 9: That's the truth about that.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like student loan for business.
Speaker 15: So so my sixty five and over who just retired
Speaker 15: are having a hard time paying their property tax, are
Speaker 15: giving a loan to the Cleveland brown stadiums the stadium there.
Speaker 3: So quickly, do you have any idea who has the
Speaker 3: pictures of the people who proposed this and voted for it,
Speaker 3: because clearly there's some information out there that wants to
Speaker 3: be kept hidden otherwise, I don't know how the Cleveland
Speaker 3: Browns ends up with all that money to the exclusion
Speaker 3: of literally every other sports team you know, minor league
Speaker 3: or professional. You know, Ohio State's got a football field,
Speaker 3: they got a great team, since at Bengals are there,
Speaker 3: we got FC Cincinnati. I mean, the list is seemingly
Speaker 3: endless of people could have their hands out in the
Speaker 3: sports realm alone. So how is it that they got it?
Speaker 15: Well, I believe that there was pressure obviously in the
Speaker 15: Ohio House of Representatives to support this, But the day
Speaker 15: before the vote, I got a request from Paycorps, right,
Speaker 15: they want some you know, a different version, and then
Speaker 15: FC Cincinnati, so we of course do.
Speaker 1: And then you're handing out money to sports teams.
Speaker 15: You're going to ask everybody else is going to want
Speaker 15: it too, So that was part of the reason we didn't.
Speaker 15: It's not that we don't like Cleveland. I mean, we
Speaker 15: love the Bengals better down here, of course, but but
Speaker 15: we don't. But we don't believe as conservatives that that
Speaker 15: this money should really go in that direction.
Speaker 3: So that's my only point. It is not against the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns. I got no problem with the city of Cleveland.
Speaker 3: People who live there. I think they're they're they're Ohioans,
Speaker 3: they are my neighbors, exactly. I've been to Cleveland, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't care about that. If it was Columbus, or
Speaker 3: if it was hell War in Ohio was getting this
Speaker 3: kind of money.
Speaker 1: I'd still asked the same damn question. It's not right principle.
Speaker 9: Let's go back.
Speaker 15: So the Senate is changing that funding from a six
Speaker 15: hundred million dollar bond in the House budget to taking
Speaker 15: the money from the unclaimed funds pile in.
Speaker 1: No, but that's to me, beyond the point or beside
Speaker 1: the point.
Speaker 9: Right, right, It's it's Ohio money.
Speaker 1: It's Ohio money.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 3: It's my taxpayer dollars. It's your taxpayer dollars, and it's
Speaker 3: going to one family.
Speaker 9: It shouldn't happen.
Speaker 3: It shouldn't. Somebody was threatened behind the scene. I bet
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Speaker 1: This September twenty one, call Many twenty two.
Speaker 3: We got a few minutes left with Jennifer Gross again
Speaker 3: representing District forty five here in the state of Ohio,
Speaker 3: doing a great job. This morning Jennifer and enjoying our
Speaker 3: conversations and then topic near and dear to your heart.
Speaker 3: And I just sent Maureen an instant message saying, hang around.
Speaker 3: You're gonna love this because she just sent me a message.
Speaker 3: Maureene listens in Florida, but she is all over and
Speaker 3: has been all over the whole COVID nineteen, the vaccine,
Speaker 3: the cover up information, and YadA YadA yah. It's one
Speaker 3: of her favorite topics. And she shows, I got another
Speaker 3: conspiracy for you. So she's self deprecating in that regard
Speaker 3: because a lot of things she's told me over the
Speaker 3: years of like, there's no way anyway. One of the
Speaker 3: things we learned during COVID nineteen is that the pharmacies
Speaker 3: were not allowed to fill ibermactin prescriptions. And I found
Speaker 3: that quite offensive, and I didn't realize that they were
Speaker 3: able to interfere with a physician's practice of medicine. The
Speaker 3: physician is a diagnostician. There is such a thing is
Speaker 3: off label use of drugs. We've been doing this forever
Speaker 3: and if the physician and his infinite wisdom, after talking
Speaker 3: with his or her patient about the potential downside risk,
Speaker 3: and we've tried this that hasn't worked.
Speaker 1: We tried.
Speaker 3: I've got an idea. Maybe this will help you get
Speaker 3: the relief you need. They were stopped from doing that.
Speaker 9: That's right.
Speaker 1: Cold, No, you're gonna lose your license. That to me,
Speaker 1: that blew my mind.
Speaker 9: That's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 15: So my answer to that in Ohio was HB twelve,
Speaker 15: which is due to be voted out of the Ohio
Speaker 15: Health Committee this week. So if you have a representative
Speaker 15: in your district, or even if you don't, and you
Speaker 15: like a bill, it's called the Jeff, Dave and Angie
Speaker 15: Right to Try Act. And Jeff Smith was a man
Speaker 15: who died in Westchester hospital. His wife had to sue
Speaker 15: the hospital to get ivermectin and then unfortunately she paid
Speaker 15: seven thousand to get it, and then the local judge
Speaker 15: took it away, and then Jeff died in the hospital,
Speaker 15: and so and then Dave and Angie also up north.
Speaker 15: They also died in an Ohio hospital. Patients were requesting averramectin,
Speaker 15: hydroxychloroquin budestinied numerous other drugs Brian but there was only
Speaker 15: one drug and that was remdy severe and a ventilator
Speaker 15: and Unfortunately, physicians lost that opportunity to say, you know,
Speaker 15: I think we ought to try this. I have doctor
Speaker 15: witnesses that have come up to the state House and
Speaker 15: spoken about how they were not allowed to utilize different treatments,
Speaker 15: and this bill protects that patient provide a relationship, the
Speaker 15: sacred relationship. Also allows the physician to have free speech,
Speaker 15: which was vetoed by the governor last year with a
Speaker 15: similar bill like this one of mine, and so we
Speaker 15: came back again. I believe that patients and providers need
Speaker 15: to have a private, safe grid relationship, and that pharmacists
Speaker 15: the important part of the team and collaborators with the team,
Speaker 15: are not the prescriber. They don't examine the patient, they
Speaker 15: don't look at the patient, they know their history and
Speaker 15: and so there are there are a lot more details
Speaker 15: to the bill. Main opposition is the Ohio Pharmacists Association.
Speaker 15: Oh shocking, and that's unfortunate. But not all pharmacists are
Speaker 15: against it. I mean some pharmacists did dispense but but
Speaker 15: but a lot of people did not, and there was
Speaker 15: pressure for them not to. And when a patient gets
Speaker 15: prescribed to medication, Brian, who do they return to if
Speaker 15: that that medication is rejected, they go back to the
Speaker 15: physician who prescribed the treatment. Now, this bill allows if
Speaker 15: the pharmacist says, hey, this is going to kill the patient,
Speaker 15: they don't drug interaction.
Speaker 3: That's what pharmacists are for. No, you're taking that medication.
Speaker 3: If you take this one on top of it, you're
Speaker 3: going to die.
Speaker 15: And that is protected in this bill. They still have
Speaker 15: the ability to do all of that, but they don't
Speaker 15: get to tell a physician I'm not going to give
Speaker 15: this because I don't I don't agree with your plan.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to give you this because Moderna came
Speaker 3: up with a vaccine. Well, that doesn't mean you have
Speaker 3: to take the Moderna vaccine. You're entitled to try something
Speaker 3: alternative and that, you know, especially with a demonstrably safe pill.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I remeke them.
Speaker 3: It's been around for decades, it's solved all kinds of problems,
Speaker 3: and you may reject the idea that it's going to
Speaker 3: help you with your COVID and you're allowed to be
Speaker 3: in that camp. That's where the informed decision comes in. No, No,
Speaker 3: I believe what everybody's telling me, that you're crazy to
Speaker 3: take a orse warm pill or whatever. But it's been
Speaker 3: well documented that you know, in the final analysis it
Speaker 3: did actually kind of work for a lot.
Speaker 9: Of folks, and it's over the counters.
Speaker 3: Well, that's why the pharmaceutical companies hate it. Because it's
Speaker 3: no longer subject to a patent. It can be manufactured
Speaker 3: inexpensively and cheaply, and.
Speaker 15: People don't understand that sometimes. And I want to remind
Speaker 15: your listeners that twenty to sixty percent of all prescriptions
Speaker 15: prescribed by providers are off label. So doctors see that
Speaker 15: it works for something else that it wasn't originally indicated
Speaker 15: by the FDA, but the FDA determines any drug that's
Speaker 15: out there is safe for human consumption.
Speaker 3: Well, that's how you got vi ager because it was
Speaker 3: supposed to be a blood pressure medications, right, And they
Speaker 3: pet guys were coming in and going.
Speaker 1: Hey, can I get some more of this?
Speaker 3: Like well why Like they discovered, oh my god, it
Speaker 3: really does work, Amen, and making made billions and billions
Speaker 3: and billions of dollars stumbling upon it as an off
Speaker 3: label use. Jennifer Gross, this has been a wonderful conversation.
Speaker 3: You can come in anytime. We'll talk again more. And
Speaker 3: I appreciate your time with my listeners of me today.
Speaker 3: Thank you Brian stick around, I heard me the aviation
Speaker 3: next where Jay Ratlowe joins the program. Next we have
Speaker 3: a long list of topics with Jay and I hope,
Speaker 3: I hope you'll wait around for that.
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Speaker 3: Hey, thirty one, fifty five carsite talk station. I love
Speaker 3: Thursdays at this time because you get talked to. iHeartMedia, aviation,
Speaker 3: extort and all around. Great guy. Jay Rattliff, Welcome back, Jay,
Speaker 3: my friend. Pleasure to have you on as always.
Speaker 5: Hey, it's a highlight of my week. Brother. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm glad it's.
Speaker 3: Thursday, and we have a seemingly unlimited number of topics
Speaker 3: to go through today based upon the list you gave me.
Speaker 3: I didn't know you do you know why I did that? Though, Okay,
Speaker 3: you didn't mon any curveballs.
Speaker 16: There you go, nineteen different topics. There's no way I'll
Speaker 16: get a car. Forgive me for underestimating your curveball ability.
Speaker 1: My friend, that's okay.
Speaker 3: You have any boy, but you always hit him. You
Speaker 3: always hit him. I mean, you know, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: a curve ball, you hit it. Ye listen, it doesn't
Speaker 3: matter whether it's a slider or Yeah. I real quick
Speaker 3: without having to go down that road. I saw Boeing's
Speaker 3: paying one point one billion to avoid prosecution for the
Speaker 3: seven thirty seven knots crashes.
Speaker 16: No criminal charges. We're not gonna, you know, we're not
Speaker 16: gonna say that we did anything criminally. We're not gonna
Speaker 16: blah blah go to court where it might be drag
Speaker 16: out and a lot of this stuff be rehashed. But
Speaker 16: you know, you and I talked about that's exactly.
Speaker 5: What was going to take place.
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, look, look when President Trump was elected and
Speaker 16: I saw Boeing and all the airlines lining up to
Speaker 16: donate one million.
Speaker 5: Dollars to the Trump Inaugural Fund.
Speaker 16: My thought, here we go again, Yeah, because they're going
Speaker 16: to be allowed to pull this crap time and time
Speaker 16: and time again and once again yeah Boeing after admitting
Speaker 16: they did things, in my estimation criminal criminal.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 16: No, no, absolutely, I mean other than money. And the
Speaker 16: families are just like beside themselves thinking what does it
Speaker 16: take to get justice or just deliberate over an extended
Speaker 16: period of time that.
Speaker 3: Should have resulted in a massive punitive damage award. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Why would United Airlines want to delay additional cockpits safety requirements?
Speaker 3: You think that they be all over that.
Speaker 16: Well, you know, the thought is right now, the safety
Speaker 16: and it's just not United, it's it's several airlines, but
Speaker 16: it was right now. The safety protocol is if one
Speaker 16: of the crew members in the cockpit needs a laboratory,
Speaker 16: you've got the flight attendant who gets the beverage cart
Speaker 16: and they block access as best they can to the
Speaker 16: galley area into the cockpit as the door opens and shuts.
Speaker 16: And the thought has always been, we've got to have
Speaker 16: something that is more secure than just a male or
Speaker 16: female flight.
Speaker 1: Attendant beverage cards. It does so kind of half assed, but.
Speaker 16: Again it's it's the best we can do. So it
Speaker 16: was decided in now two thousand and nineteen, but then
Speaker 16: finalized in twenty twenty three that we would have a
Speaker 16: secondary cage door, if you will, that flight attendants could
Speaker 16: pull locked shut right there at the beginning of the
Speaker 16: galley that would in essence prevent anybody from getting where
Speaker 16: near that hallway between the galley and the cockpit, where
Speaker 16: someone could exit the cockpit, go the lavatory and come
Speaker 16: back out without any worry at all of anyone being
Speaker 16: able to access the cockpit during a time when that
Speaker 16: door is open. The Airlines were given in twenty twenty
Speaker 16: three a two year deadline until August of twenty twenty
Speaker 16: five to have this underway. Any surprise that they're nowhere
Speaker 16: near that August twenty twenty five deadline, So right now
Speaker 16: they're asking for two more years, and I suspect in
Speaker 16: two years, my friend, you and I are gonna be
Speaker 16: talking about them requesting another extension, because here's my thought, Airlines,
Speaker 16: if they can take a pickle off of a sandwich
Speaker 16: to save X amount of fuel per year, they're.
Speaker 5: Going to do it.
Speaker 16: Now they're being told to add a very heavy security
Speaker 16: cage to the aircraft, when many of them may think
Speaker 16: this is Jay's speculation. Here, Wow, what we're doing works.
Speaker 16: Why do we have to add extra weight which costs
Speaker 16: us extra money blah blah blah to the airplane when
Speaker 16: what we have right now works. So that's why when
Speaker 16: a lot of these bozos talk about safety, is are
Speaker 16: number one priority? I just want to throw up or
Speaker 16: throw something at the TV or whatever I'm watching, because
Speaker 16: I'm thinking, no, it's not. If it was guess what
Speaker 16: two years ago, this would have been a priority. It wasn't,
Speaker 16: not one bit. And the thought process is that eventually
Speaker 16: Airbus m Boeing will be at least offering on their
Speaker 16: package of options, the ability to buy an aircraft with
Speaker 16: one of these you know, caged yeah type, which is
Speaker 16: a secondary barrier to the cockpit door which is already locked,
Speaker 16: and then you've got something else that, when needed can
Speaker 16: be put into place simply swing and locked and when
Speaker 16: not needed swings right back right.
Speaker 1: You know, at least you can say that it's the
Speaker 1: way it costs issue. Period.
Speaker 3: In the story, they're not again security they're just against
Speaker 3: moving in that direction because of the thing.
Speaker 16: If you want it delayed, can you not say that
Speaker 16: you're not as security minded as as we like? And
Speaker 16: again that's my speculation, that's my opinion. That may have
Speaker 16: nothing to do with it. But if airlines are consistent,
Speaker 16: and believe me they are, you'll look at a lot
Speaker 16: of things that the FAA recommends, Hey, you should do
Speaker 16: this because the engine has had issues. Well, no, right,
Speaker 16: you're not being forced to, so they're not in you know,
Speaker 16: contray or any contradiction with an FAA mandate they were offered.
Speaker 5: They said no, yeah, but believe.
Speaker 16: Me, safety is still are number one priority. The engine
Speaker 16: blows up and they're like, oh, yeah, I guess, I
Speaker 16: guess we'll check there.
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Speaker 3: Jay Ratliff has I ared me the aviation expert going
Speaker 3: through the topics. I want to jump ahead on your
Speaker 3: list because I'm wildly curious to know why the TSA
Speaker 3: is warning travelers against using airport charging stations.
Speaker 5: They're being hacked.
Speaker 4: Oh no, what happened.
Speaker 16: What happens is a lot of times when we travel,
Speaker 16: most of us carry with us the devices we need.
Speaker 5: To recharge our electronics.
Speaker 16: Sure, but sometimes you go to an airport and they'll
Speaker 16: have the central charging station with a lot of different
Speaker 16: outlets that's provided by the airport, and you go up
Speaker 16: and you know, just plug it in and go right. Well,
Speaker 16: apparently some individuals, through technology that I don't understand, have
Speaker 16: the ability to utilize these charging stations, and if somebody
Speaker 16: charges the device, there's a way.
Speaker 5: That they can hack into that device while.
Speaker 16: It's there, allowing them to gain access to everything that's
Speaker 16: on your device, which means passwords and financial information and
Speaker 16: anything else that you might have happen to have that
Speaker 16: you use that device for. So the TSA thing being
Speaker 16: very careful as you do this, because several people have
Speaker 16: reported this taking place.
Speaker 5: It's a lot like the ATM.
Speaker 16: Sometimes people slap something on there that looks like where
Speaker 16: you would put the card, and when you do, it's
Speaker 16: not to access the ATM or whatever. It's for somebody
Speaker 16: to read the information, get your information, then use that
Speaker 16: to steal from you. And it's a similar type approach
Speaker 16: here where these charging stations are being used as a
Speaker 16: conduit for people to access some of our private information.
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Speaker 16: I'll leave that dar brother Dave to go deep in
Speaker 16: the weeds there. That's as far as I can go.
Speaker 3: That's great, Okay, Now, how is it that airlines are
Speaker 3: charging solo travelers more than couples?
Speaker 1: I mean, don't.
Speaker 3: Aren't tickets purchased individually, whether you're going as a couple
Speaker 3: or an individual.
Speaker 16: They are, But then you're you're giving airlines far too
Speaker 16: much credit. If there's a way that they can zing us,
Speaker 16: they're gonna do it, because what happens is a lot
Speaker 16: of times when you have people that are traveling, let's
Speaker 16: say on a couple, they're traveling, they're cost conscious and
Speaker 16: as such, what happens is they'll look for the cheapest
Speaker 16: fair and they're not as interested in schedule as much
Speaker 16: as they are in the cheapest fair. But individuals are
Speaker 16: traveling by themselves. Many times it's for business and they're
Speaker 16: secondary cost conscious, primary the schedule. So what has been
Speaker 16: found out is there have been occasions where we've had
Speaker 16: airlines that are charging for if you had a couple
Speaker 16: flying round trip on a specific route, it might be
Speaker 16: two hundred and sixty six dollars per person round trip.
Speaker 16: If you put in a search for one person traveling
Speaker 16: on the same dates, same flights, same airline, it's not
Speaker 16: two sixty.
Speaker 5: Six, it's four to twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: And the thought is, wait a minute, time out here.
Speaker 16: We're all on the same airplane, we're flying at the
Speaker 16: same time, and checking what airlines are doing is saying,
Speaker 16: you know, that business traveler has to be there, so
Speaker 16: let's you know, I had a little premium to that
Speaker 16: man or woman's fair. So it's it's something that you know,
Speaker 16: forgive me for saying this, but it's true. It would
Speaker 16: never have happened under the Biden administration. This kind of
Speaker 16: crap where airlines are blatantly doing things, is that the
Speaker 16: Bide administration would have done something about it. It just
Speaker 16: you know, and I told you, I said the bide.
Speaker 16: Deministration drove me crazy. There was nothing I liked about
Speaker 16: it other than they held airlines accountable. And the Trump administration,
Speaker 16: which I'm thrilled he's our president. The airlines are going
Speaker 16: to be given some latitude. So if I'm traveling by
Speaker 16: myself on an upcoming trip, I'll be checking the airline's
Speaker 16: website as well a third party website, and I will
Speaker 16: be checking for two people flying from here to Vegas
Speaker 16: or wherever I need to go to on business. And
Speaker 16: then I'm going to change that search from two people
Speaker 16: to one, and I'm going to make sure it's the same.
Speaker 1: Fair There you go.
Speaker 16: American Airlines, American Airlines, United and others have been caught
Speaker 16: excessively charging passengers and they're gonna say whatever craft They're
Speaker 16: gonna say as far as well, it's based on demand,
Speaker 16: blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's based on.
Speaker 16: Them trying to squeeze every penny out of us as
Speaker 16: they can't. And when you catch somebody doing that, if
Speaker 16: they're your airline of choice, maybe find another airline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Appreciate the pro tip there too.
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Speaker 3: I think about Kersee talks DAS one more with IRMDIA
Speaker 3: aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Jay Dave had it from interest
Speaker 3: I to you is listening. You know what that concept
Speaker 3: is called juice jacking. Juice jackie, juice jacking. So when
Speaker 3: somebody's still.
Speaker 5: Going to steal that, I know, No, don't like it
Speaker 5: was my word.
Speaker 1: It's a thing.
Speaker 3: I mean if if Dave says it, it's a thing,
Speaker 3: I don't think he's pulling up the whole cloth.
Speaker 5: So he's gonna steal his words. Juice jacking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can.
Speaker 16: Guarantee you I will get it wrong and say something
Speaker 16: totally stupid.
Speaker 5: It's close to that, but well we'll see.
Speaker 1: But thank you, Dave.
Speaker 3: You get a phrasing button from Joe on that as well.
Speaker 3: All right, just because it's a funny story, and even
Speaker 3: though I will be sixty in September, it still sounds
Speaker 3: like something I'd like to do. The two year old
Speaker 3: at Newark Airport.
Speaker 16: Cue the music mission Impossible music.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Mom and dad are checking in at the Jet Blue
Speaker 16: ticket counter and this little two year old is doing
Speaker 16: what two year olds do, just you know, everywhere. Next thing,
Speaker 16: you know, he kind of gets away from mom and dad,
Speaker 16: who apparently their attention was elsewhere, and he goes over
Speaker 16: the little step over behind the ticket counter.
Speaker 5: The Jet Blue.
Speaker 16: Agents, yeah, I guess they don't seem he remains invisible,
Speaker 16: and he gets on the baggage.
Speaker 1: Belt and down he goes.
Speaker 16: He's down and turning the corner before he disappears, before
Speaker 16: anybody really spots him, and by that time it's too late. Now,
Speaker 16: this isn't a toboggan kind of ride, because what happens
Speaker 16: is those bags have security codes on him, or codes
Speaker 16: that the labels that as it's going through there, they
Speaker 16: had these large arms that are calibrated for bags that
Speaker 16: could be forty to fifty pounds that move those bags
Speaker 16: with some force to other belts that are going in
Speaker 16: other places, so that the bags can be directed where
Speaker 16: they need to be. Now, seriously, if a toddler was
Speaker 16: down there, one of these calibrated arms were to activate
Speaker 16: prematurely and strike the child, it would kill him.
Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, it's oh so it's not as it's
Speaker 3: not as comedic as I was thinking it would be
Speaker 3: because we.
Speaker 5: Know the kids.
Speaker 16: Okay, no, but because we've had some we a lot
Speaker 16: of times. You'll see them put the really really small
Speaker 16: bags in a in a toboggan thing and the because
Speaker 16: the reason for that is when the arms hit, we
Speaker 16: want the carrier to take the force of it because
Speaker 16: if not, you're gonna damage. Bag claims go lower as
Speaker 16: those bags go flying off the wall. But what happens
Speaker 16: is there's a video that's gone viral of a TSA room.
Speaker 16: They're screening bags, several agents. It's black and white, and
Speaker 16: here comes the belt down from the ceiling bag bag
Speaker 16: two year old toddler, bag bag bag and then everybody
Speaker 16: grammer to go grab him, and fortunately he was okay,
Speaker 16: reunited with the careless parent.
Speaker 1: Careless parents, Well, look.
Speaker 16: Every one of us have momentarily lost track of our kids.
Speaker 16: You just don't want it to be in a point
Speaker 16: where they can be in that kind of danger and
Speaker 16: believe me, could have ended that way. But if you
Speaker 16: if you want to a chuckle and I hate to
Speaker 16: use that word, you can go to YouTube and there's
Speaker 16: several examples of kids that just.
Speaker 5: Went for a ride.
Speaker 16: One poor lady who thought that the bag behind the
Speaker 16: counter was the moving sidewalk to her gate and she
Speaker 16: stepped on it and wrote it around until the wall
Speaker 16: kind of knocked her down and she disappeared on the
Speaker 16: other side of the wall. It was an elderly lady.
Speaker 16: Fortunately she was okay. But wow, yeah, those things happened.
Speaker 1: I guess they do. I understand.
Speaker 3: Atlanta Airport is changing the way they screened their crew members,
Speaker 3: the airline flight crews. What's this one about.
Speaker 5: It's called non crew members.
Speaker 16: It's a program that allows if you and our pilots
Speaker 16: in uniform active duty lighting sentence as well, we can
Speaker 16: actually go through a separate line at the airport for screening.
Speaker 16: I found that most of the time, most of them,
Speaker 16: we're not gonna be screened, okay, which be sure, I
Speaker 16: D Boom will go right through. Occasionally the FA is
Speaker 16: gonna pull one of us out for screening. It's called
Speaker 16: random screening. That FAA loves random screening. I hate random screening.
Speaker 16: But anyways, because I always say, if it's such a
Speaker 16: good idea, my friends at the FA, let's do with passengers.
Speaker 16: And of course we'll love to do that. But in
Speaker 16: Atlanta brand they're finding all these pilots that have loaded firearms.
Speaker 16: Oh wow, whoops, excuse me. So they're saying, I guess
Speaker 16: this random stuff isn't working like we thought it should,
Speaker 16: so they are going to drop that go to a
Speaker 16: different crew members screening type program. It's probably still gonna
Speaker 16: have some random nature to it, but something that is going,
Speaker 16: in essence require more screening for the crew members. And
Speaker 16: it needs to remember Atlanta was the place that also
Speaker 16: did not screen employees from the time they went from
Speaker 16: the parking lot to the ramp. It was random. And
Speaker 16: they found out that there was a gun smuggling ring
Speaker 16: by some Delta agents between Atlanta and New York, and
Speaker 16: they decided, hmm, maybe we should start screening every single person.
Speaker 16: It wor only handful of airports in the country do it.
Speaker 16: And you I've talked about it forever, and I've been
Speaker 16: talking about it for thirty years. You have airports that
Speaker 16: have collectively across the country, probably a million people a
Speaker 16: month that touch airplanes that aren't screened. If we're talking
Speaker 16: about catering, if we're talking about the fuel, talking about
Speaker 16: the ground agents. Now they are randomly screened, and I
Speaker 16: always get mean emails from the FA anytime I say it,
Speaker 16: are not screened, But I'm sorry, I don't look at
Speaker 16: random as an effective means of security. Ladly, one of
Speaker 16: these individuals could be coerced bribed into putting something they
Speaker 16: think is non dangerous on an airplane, only to find
Speaker 16: out it very much is. Yea, and those types of things.
Speaker 16: And again, we spend billions of dollars inside the security
Speaker 16: for airports, and we showed we should totally do that.
Speaker 16: But there's other measures we need to be taking. In Atlanta,
Speaker 16: they're going to be making one of those changes.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, all right, as we do. We have to
Speaker 3: part company, which I don't like, but we do. So
Speaker 3: let's end on hub delays.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's the quite fastest segment of the week for me, Detroit,
Speaker 16: Dallas and Charlotte. And I think Charlotte's going to be
Speaker 16: the absolute headache of the day. So if you're connecting
Speaker 16: on America through Charlotte.
Speaker 5: Make sure they have Boay to get a hold of you.
Speaker 16: Get to the airport a little early because we're going
Speaker 16: to be seeing some flight delays through that hub today.
Speaker 3: Really enjoy our time together, Jay. I look forward to
Speaker 3: next Thursday and doing it again. And as always, best
Speaker 3: of health and loved you and your better half. Take
Speaker 3: care of my friend.
Speaker 5: You too as well.
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