Speaker 1: I know it wasn't on your list day, but we
Speaker 1: got a new uh it was.
Speaker 2: It was I want to Dave.
Speaker 1: You're a tax paying human being, are you not?
Speaker 2: You do pay?
Speaker 1: You paid federal taxes on behalf of the city of Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Dave.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for the labor that you
Speaker 1: engaged in that's generated you money that they took from
Speaker 1: your paycheck to help fund the Cincinnati Streetcar. The city
Speaker 1: Council voted unanimously to accept a quarter of a million
Speaker 1: dollar grant from the Federal Transit Administration to upgrade technology
Speaker 1: behind the signs that show writers information about when the
Speaker 1: when the street car is going to actually show up. Now,
Speaker 1: they actually had the signs already in place, but they
Speaker 1: haven't had any accurate for accurate information more than a
Speaker 1: couple of years because apparently it didn't hook up with
Speaker 1: the GPS. They didn't know whether the street car was
Speaker 1: at any given time, so they couldn't let writers who
Speaker 1: were standing at the streetcar stops know when the train
Speaker 1: was actually going to show up. That's going to change now, Oh, goody, goody, goodie.
Speaker 1: So appreciate your share the quarter of a million dollars.
Speaker 2: You know, I do have a comment, but I don't
Speaker 2: think the FCC would be too happy.
Speaker 1: Oh my nineteenth year in radio, Dave, I struggle with
Speaker 1: that every single day because I can have a rather
Speaker 1: saucy tongue when I'm not on the air. So I've
Speaker 1: been able to maintain control without slip up. Knock wood.
Speaker 1: There is no wood in my studio, but we'll pretend
Speaker 1: we're knocking wood and to not jinx me that I
Speaker 1: don't drop an FCC non compliant word anyway. On your
Speaker 1: list of topics, find David Protecting Taxpayers dot or great site.
Speaker 1: He's looking out for the American taxpayer dollar. Is Trump
Speaker 1: pursuing free and fair trade? And you answer your own
Speaker 1: question in the reporting by David McGarry, No, what I
Speaker 1: know Trump had some It sounded like some measure of
Speaker 1: success with China and rare earth minerals the other day.
Speaker 1: But where are we on fair and fre each and
Speaker 1: what's the story behind this one?
Speaker 3: Dave Williams.
Speaker 2: It is so confoluted, so mixed up, because one day
Speaker 2: the terrorifts are on, the next day the terriffs are off,
Speaker 2: and it's providing so much economic uncertainty to businesses, to
Speaker 2: consumers and Brian. I have a new theory, and I've
Speaker 2: been thinking about this a lot, is that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: when he ran his businesses, he negotiated with a lot
Speaker 2: of different people. Right now, this was done behind closed doors,
Speaker 2: but this is what you do as a businessman. They
Speaker 2: say this is going to cost X to build this building.
Speaker 2: You say, well, I want to cost why? You know,
Speaker 2: waggle then X? You haggle. Absolutely, he did it in
Speaker 2: private these he's haggling in public now and the market
Speaker 2: is freaking out because they see one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: five percent tariff on China one day, thirty percent, the
Speaker 2: next day fifty five and businesses don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: Do we buy goods from China? What happens if it's
Speaker 2: halfway over here and the tariffs increase? And again, I
Speaker 2: like the fact that he's negotiating, but you can't do
Speaker 2: that on the world market and not expect some sort
Speaker 2: of repercussions like this, and the market listen, don't pay
Speaker 2: attention to the market because it's going to be a
Speaker 2: pretty safe bet, right It's going to go up, it's
Speaker 2: going to go down. But I think the economic uncertainty
Speaker 2: that businesses are like do I invest, do I invest
Speaker 2: money to expand what do I do? So I think
Speaker 2: there in line is a problem with what he's doing
Speaker 2: that's so public.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I couldn't agree with you more. You need
Speaker 1: to be able to plan. You need something concrete on
Speaker 1: the table, whether it's you know, whether you prefer something
Speaker 1: different or not. At least you know the cards that
Speaker 1: you have been dealt and can play them accordingly. I mean,
Speaker 1: if someone you know, in the middle of a poker
Speaker 1: game was able to take three of your cards and
Speaker 1: then give you three different ones, I mean, how can
Speaker 1: you bet and anticipate what's coming up? And I mean
Speaker 1: it's just I get that. It's like the tax rate.
Speaker 1: What's the tax rate going to be? You know, and
Speaker 1: businesses worry about that, but once it's in place, regardless
Speaker 1: of what the taxes, at least they can plan accordingly. No,
Speaker 1: we won't be investing this much this year because my
Speaker 1: taxes went up. Yes, we will be investing more in
Speaker 1: our business this year because the taxes went down. That
Speaker 1: makes its planning. Everybody needs some measure of stability to
Speaker 1: do that, and there's really literally no stability in this
Speaker 1: whole mess.
Speaker 2: And you know, Brian you make a really good point
Speaker 2: about the tax rate, because the one of the tax
Speaker 2: rates that they locked in in twenty seventeen was the
Speaker 2: corporate tax rate at twenty one percent. Now, a lot
Speaker 2: of things are going to expire at the end of
Speaker 2: this year if they don't pass this one, big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2: But what the one thing that did they did lock
Speaker 2: in because they knew that you have to have this,
Speaker 2: you know, tax certainty was the twenty one percent corporate
Speaker 2: tax rate. So Congress has acknowledged this is that businesses
Speaker 2: need this long term planning. So you're absolutely right, yep.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: I hate the phrase big beautiful bill. Every time I
Speaker 1: say it, I just it's just, you know, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: A little piece of your soul is taken away.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, because you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of it that I consider not beautiful. But
Speaker 1: you know, there is some great things and there are
Speaker 1: some great things in it. But this starts to illustrate
Speaker 1: the point when they did the twenty seventeen tax cuts,
Speaker 1: which I think we're great and we're good for the
Speaker 1: economy generally speaking, and since they took less of my money.
Speaker 1: I feel better about it because I'm not paying for
Speaker 1: stuff I don't want to pay, at least not as
Speaker 1: much they set to expire. I mean, why didn't they
Speaker 1: just lock them in then permanently and then for some
Speaker 1: other Congress down the road to have to raise our taxes. See,
Speaker 1: this is what irks me about Congress. These deadlines in
Speaker 1: there that undo what has been done, which creates this
Speaker 1: uncertainty and instability out there every exit number of years.
Speaker 2: Well, and the spending increases are never some set there's
Speaker 2: never an exploration for this spending increases. It's always the
Speaker 2: tax cuts. And listen, this is something we've been talking
Speaker 2: about for years, is that everyone saw this deadline coming up,
Speaker 2: and Congress said, oh, we have plenty of time, We
Speaker 2: have plenty of time. And you know, here we are
Speaker 2: June of twenty twenty five, and we have six months
Speaker 2: left to get this done. And now we're being force
Speaker 2: fed this bill that has tax increases. I mean there
Speaker 2: are tax increases. You have the endowment tax. And listen,
Speaker 2: Trump is going after Harvard, He's trying to get more
Speaker 2: money from Harvard in these lefty places. The problem is
Speaker 2: our right wing endowments that are going to get hit
Speaker 2: by this tax. Right now it's one point four percent,
Speaker 2: it's going to go to twenty one percent. So Hilldale College,
Speaker 2: a lot of these conservative organizations now are going to
Speaker 2: get a tax increase in this in this bill. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say the full name anymore, but through
Speaker 2: this legislation, they're going to get a tax increase, which
Speaker 2: is counterintuitive and counterproductive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, I certainly understand wanting to go
Speaker 1: after Harvard. I mean, it's just it has gone so
Speaker 1: full on brainwashy left that I don't even understand how
Speaker 1: it can be an institution that has any value anymore.
Speaker 1: They've undermined the value of the name that they've built
Speaker 1: up of so many years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, you know they're bringing in other people
Speaker 2: now and these other tax increases. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've seen this. The remittance tax. Now, if you send
Speaker 2: money overseas, you will now all have to pay three
Speaker 2: and a half percent. Now, what they're saying is, but
Speaker 2: if you're an American, then you'll get the money back
Speaker 2: at the end of the year through a tax refund.
Speaker 2: So let's say you send money overseas for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: My wife is from El Salvador. She sends money to
Speaker 2: her mom, right, and she's she's been a US citizen
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five years. Well, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: prove that you're an American citizen. The banks don't track this.
Speaker 2: The banks have no idea what you if you're legal,
Speaker 2: if you're you know what your status is in this country.
Speaker 2: So the bank is going to have to charge you this.
Speaker 2: They're going to raise their fees to charge you this
Speaker 2: three point five percent. Now, if you are filing your
Speaker 2: taxes and use the standard deduction, yeah, you can no
Speaker 2: longer do that. You now have to itemize if you
Speaker 2: were sending money overseas. It's unnecessary. It's an unnecessary thing
Speaker 2: for to be in this bill.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure maybe that was something the accounting industry
Speaker 1: was behind, because if everybody has to now start itemizing,
Speaker 1: there's going to be more accountants fired filed because you know,
Speaker 1: you can't just easily take the ten thousand dollars and
Speaker 1: just call it a day. Plus you have to keep
Speaker 1: receipts too.
Speaker 3: So any.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I was unhappy about the
Speaker 1: Republicans that they capitulated the Democrat States and raising the
Speaker 1: salt to forty thousand dollars, something the Senate may very
Speaker 1: well undo. I know they're having conversations about that. I
Speaker 1: had Congressman Thomas Massey on yesterday talking about what it
Speaker 1: would take to get him to vote for it, since
Speaker 1: he was one of the few Republicans voted no. And
Speaker 1: he said, well, if the Senate puts that back to
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars and does a couple of other things,
Speaker 1: he said, I'll embrace it. But you know, he was
Speaker 1: a He's an absolute, outright no on that, and I
Speaker 1: certainly understand it. It's a gift to the high tax
Speaker 1: Democrat states. They're the ones that raise the taxes so
Speaker 1: much that they think they need that forty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: that increase or third thirty thousand dollars increase.
Speaker 2: And this affects a very small portion of the country.
Speaker 2: We're talking about California, New York, the states that have
Speaker 2: been less fiscally responsible with uh with their spending and
Speaker 2: with their taxes. That's that's who's going to benefit from this.
Speaker 2: So if you are Florida, Texas and you're fiscally responsible,
Speaker 2: you're paying for other people's high taxes, and it just
Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense. But this is what I'm using.
Speaker 2: The air quotes here was negotiated by the House to
Speaker 2: get these moderate Republicans to vote for it. And you know,
Speaker 2: the deficit, we see increased deficits spending, We see a
Speaker 2: debt ceiling that's going to be increased. I mean President
Speaker 2: Trump doesn't want a debt ceiling. He says we shouldn't
Speaker 2: have a death feeling. Oh my goodness. I mean talk
Speaker 2: about any sort of a sidge of fiscal responsibilities out
Speaker 2: the window. I mean, if you have no debt ceiling,
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, it's not stopping them now. The debt
Speaker 2: ceiling is not stopping them. Now. You take that away,
Speaker 2: and yikes.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's a frightening landscape in front of us.
Speaker 1: And every additional dollar we spend, every and the larger
Speaker 1: than that massive pile of debt, which is currently almost
Speaker 1: what thirty seven trillion dollars gets and then when the interest,
Speaker 1: when the bond rate goes up and you refinance or
Speaker 1: you end up having to pay more. It's like having
Speaker 1: your credit card rate increase. You're going to have to
Speaker 1: pay more for debt service. It's already a trillion dollars
Speaker 1: a year, Dave. We're just paying on interest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot of agencies combined. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: crazy to think about what a trillion dollars is and
Speaker 2: it's more than the defense budget. We're paying more in
Speaker 2: interest than we're spending on defense, and we get nothing
Speaker 2: from interest. I mean, at least we get a parade
Speaker 2: when we spend almost a trillion dollars in defense.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Something else that I am not in favor of.
Speaker 1: This reminds me so much of the Soviet Union in
Speaker 1: North Korea. To roll out all of your military hardware.
Speaker 1: I mean, I appreciate celebrating the anniversary of the Armed
Speaker 1: Forces or the United States Army, and that's a glorious thing.
Speaker 1: They're great people. They do wonderful things. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: support of the American military personnel and the veterans. But
Speaker 1: you know, Dave, another thing. I know you've noticed they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to pass an audit eight times in
Speaker 1: a row. You think there's any fraud, wasting abuse in
Speaker 1: the trillion dollar defense bending bill, Dave.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about not passing an audit, but they
Speaker 2: lose engines. I'm not kidding that they said, well, we're
Speaker 2: supposed to have fifteen engines, but we only count twelve.
Speaker 2: We don't know where the three went. I mean, and
Speaker 2: these are you know, massive pieces of equipment. So we're
Speaker 2: not talking about pencils and you know post it notes.
Speaker 2: We're talking about big pieces of equipment that go missing
Speaker 2: and they're unaccounted for. So this is hundreds of billions
Speaker 2: of dollars. Like you said, you know, it's been years
Speaker 2: since they've been able to pass an audit, and they've
Speaker 2: never passing audit.
Speaker 1: Where did that tank go? Wasn't it parked there yesterday?
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Speaker 1: of the Taxpayer Protection Alliance and his crew looking out
Speaker 1: for the American taxpayers.
Speaker 2: Since really have a we went really long.
Speaker 1: In the last segment day, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: give short shrift to the food stamp crackdown, so let's pause.
Speaker 1: We'll save that one for the next segment, we've learned
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, these protests that are going on
Speaker 1: a lot of Los Angeles, some may call them riots
Speaker 1: you choose, but the funding that's behind them, and we
Speaker 1: find out that there are organizations out there the American
Speaker 1: taxpayers have actually funded to fund a what I would
Speaker 1: argue is a leftist, you know, pro illegal immigration ideology
Speaker 1: that's run contrary to the Trump administration's philosophies. I know
Speaker 1: Biden didn't have any problem with it, but how is
Speaker 1: it the American taxpayers funding organizations that have a political affiliation.
Speaker 1: I mean, if American taxpayer dollars were going to churches,
Speaker 1: people would be screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Speaker 1: But you know, a lot of these organizations, in my mind,
Speaker 1: take a leap of faith like attitude, much like religion does.
Speaker 1: They're not much different from religion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is sort of the untold story of what's happening.
Speaker 2: Is because you have a lot of nonprofits that receive
Speaker 2: money from taxpayers, right, And we put out a report
Speaker 2: this was years ago, called phony philanthropy. Is that we
Speaker 2: are now? You know, Brian, you and I we are
Speaker 2: members of these organizations because we're taxpayers, but we don't
Speaker 2: agree with their mission. Listen, if you want to donate
Speaker 2: money to an organization, that's your money, don't use my
Speaker 2: money right to keep an organization propped up that I
Speaker 2: don't agree with. And let's look at what's going to
Speaker 2: happen next. Is taxpayer money is going to be used
Speaker 2: to rebuild Los Angeles and what's happening there. And consumers
Speaker 2: are also going to be on the hook for increased insurance.
Speaker 2: We've sawd this with the with the fires of the
Speaker 2: California fires. So this this is not just who's funding this,
Speaker 2: but who's going to fund the cleanup in the aftermath,
Speaker 2: And it's always the US sax bear, always a taxpayer.
Speaker 3: Excellent point.
Speaker 1: Same thing in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: riots where federal buildings were smashed and burned and Antifa
Speaker 1: those are federal buildings. That means you and I are
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Speaker 1: Hey, it's seven twenty nine right now, betch five KRCD
Speaker 1: talk station. You find Dave Williams and the Taxpayer Protection
Speaker 1: Alliance online at Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Dave a real
Speaker 1: terrible situation. East illustrated in one of the frauds that
Speaker 1: they were able to find in this NAP program, thirty
Speaker 1: million dollars in EBT transactions, fraudulently issued applications and misappropriate
Speaker 1: USDA licenses, EBT terminals at unauthorized stores like smoke shops
Speaker 1: and other businesses that shouldn't qualify. And oh look, part
Speaker 1: of the problem is even folks working within the government
Speaker 1: and these programs which people hold so valuable well, are
Speaker 1: engaging in fraud and facilitating this kind of thing. With
Speaker 1: the USDA employee or LASA Davis sold confidential government information
Speaker 1: to the criminals that I just mentioned. We're involved in
Speaker 1: this thirty million dollar fix. This is just one of
Speaker 1: probably gazillions of issue or illustrations of fraud in the
Speaker 1: food stamp program.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is frustrating, to say the least, because we
Speaker 2: went to EBT, the electronic benefit transfer. I believe it
Speaker 2: was two thousand and four in the early two thousands
Speaker 2: to try to combat the waste for abuse with paper
Speaker 2: food stamps. And listen, that's how you do it. I mean,
Speaker 2: you haven't a lot electronic paper trail. But you know,
Speaker 2: thieves always find a way to game the system, and
Speaker 2: this is what's happening. And you mentioned something that is
Speaker 2: really critical in that story is that the call is
Speaker 2: coming from inside the house. Yes, is that you have
Speaker 2: a USDA employee who is part of this. And you
Speaker 2: mentioned that thirty million dollars is one particular case, but
Speaker 2: they are estimating it could be up to two hundred
Speaker 2: billion dollars it's lost to fraud in the foodstamp program.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is an insane number to consider and
Speaker 2: to think about, you know, having that we could save
Speaker 2: one hundred billion dollars. So when conference says no idea
Speaker 2: where we can save money, well, here you go. I mean,
Speaker 2: here's this one of many things. But again, criminals always
Speaker 2: find a way to rob. And when you're the government,
Speaker 2: it's easy to rub the government because they aren't watching it.
Speaker 2: Systems are usually very weak. I mean, you have the
Speaker 2: IRS that has forty to fifty year old IT system,
Speaker 2: so it's no surprise that this is happening, Brian.
Speaker 1: It's like the aviation system. They're still using floppy discs
Speaker 1: to help keep track of airplanes in the sky, which
Speaker 1: is scary.
Speaker 2: Newark, New Jersey does not have a fiber connection. So
Speaker 2: that's why some of the outgies that have occurred is
Speaker 2: they don't have the latest Internet. I mean, they don't
Speaker 2: have gig service at Newark, New Jersey Airport. They are
Speaker 2: using with you know, fifteen twenty year old technology.
Speaker 3: So yeah, using.
Speaker 1: Twelve hundred bod modems with the regular telephone remember those.
Speaker 2: Days, Yeah, I had the good old days.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the practical reality is this is because
Speaker 1: I think if the government was actually a business that
Speaker 1: had to run efficiently or it would go out of business.
Speaker 1: So I know we're on that existential threat given how
Speaker 1: much we overspend. But that aside, there's no incentive by
Speaker 1: government to crack down on this. They don't have to
Speaker 1: earn money. They merely take it, and you know, they
Speaker 1: operate and they just continue to go on their merry
Speaker 1: way in spite of the fact that they could be
Speaker 1: saving the American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars in
Speaker 1: one program alone. They really don't really take much by
Speaker 1: way of action to stop anything from happening, and that's
Speaker 1: why it slips through the cracks. It's easy to rip
Speaker 1: the government off because they're not attentive to where the
Speaker 1: money's going.
Speaker 2: And there's no consequences private business if there's If there's fraud,
Speaker 2: you get fired and maybe other you know, you prosecuted
Speaker 2: in the government, you get shifted to another part of
Speaker 2: the agency or maybe another agency. And again not to
Speaker 2: harp on the IRS. Yeah, to harp on the IRS.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen this where information has been leaked
Speaker 2: time and time again and there's never been any consequences
Speaker 2: for the folks that are leaking this information. So Darren
Speaker 2: Line has a problem. This USDA employee is probably going
Speaker 2: to get a slap on the wrist and then a
Speaker 2: two percent bump in their pay next year. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is what happens. But as you said, in the
Speaker 2: private sector, it doesn't happen. So why not look at
Speaker 2: the things that the government shouldn't be doing and give
Speaker 2: it to the private sector and say, Okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to get better results from this. And but we're going
Speaker 2: in the opposite direction where the government is saying that
Speaker 2: IRS again direct file, we want to prepare your returns. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The private sector is doing a really good job at
Speaker 2: that HR block and all these other places look out
Speaker 2: for you and your money and try to get you
Speaker 2: a big refund. So no, we're going the opposite direction here.
Speaker 2: You want more of the private sector, not less of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, at least if you're dealing with an accountant,
Speaker 1: there's sort of a fiduciary obligation for them to look
Speaker 1: out for your best insurers by properly filing and finding
Speaker 1: all the areas where you maybe can make deductions where
Speaker 1: you can pay less taxes, that kind of thing. The
Speaker 1: federal government in their hands, I mean, their interest is
Speaker 1: in maximizing the dollars that come into their operation, not
Speaker 1: to reduce them. So there's no way they'd be looking
Speaker 1: out for the American taxpayer's best interest exactly.
Speaker 2: And that's why we just have to change the mentality
Speaker 2: of the people that are elected that government is not
Speaker 2: the answer. Government is the problem, and we need to
Speaker 2: come up with better answers. And you know, my concern
Speaker 2: is when they're talking about this legislation, the tax cuts.
Speaker 2: That's all they're talking about. That's all that they can
Speaker 2: focus on. They can only focus on one thing at
Speaker 2: a time. There are so many other issues. There's the
Speaker 2: postal service, there's a regulatory overreach. Yeah, there's so much
Speaker 2: more that they should be talking about, but they're so
Speaker 2: focused on just one piece of legislation.
Speaker 1: Well, we've identified all kinds of problems, Dave, time and
Speaker 1: time and time and time and time again we talk
Speaker 1: about this kind of thing.
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe the government officials just aren't listening to
Speaker 1: you or I or common sense, logic and reason. They
Speaker 1: don't care that we're digging ourselves into a hole that
Speaker 1: we can't get out of.
Speaker 2: I don't know, they don't. And let me let me
Speaker 2: just say I was talking to Joe about this before
Speaker 2: I came on the air. Is during this parade on Saturday,
Speaker 2: all I asked for is one streetcar to be a
Speaker 2: part of this parade. I just want to see a
Speaker 2: streetcar going down Constitution Avenue and all its.
Speaker 1: Glory, uh, filled filled with members in the army.
Speaker 2: That's too much to ask.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great, I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh, Dave Billiams always enjoy our conversations, even though they
Speaker 1: can be depressing at times. Make you're shining a bright
Speaker 1: light on what needs to be fixed. And maybe someday
Speaker 1: you and I will get our wish and they'll fix it.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we'll continue to identify and talk about it.
Speaker 1: Look forward to having you back on the program really
Speaker 1: soon again Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Dave, have a great
Speaker 1: day and week.
Speaker 2: My friend YouTube Brian, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thanks brother. It's seven thirty six.
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