Speaker 1: It's nice eyes, Dan Yelling, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: I saw this piece today in the Washington Post, a
Speaker 2: column written by a fellow named Philip Bump, and he
Speaker 2: basically called into question why President Biden was well he
Speaker 2: I'll read his words, he says, if you look, he said,
Speaker 2: for some observers rooted in the convention of conventions, in
Speaker 2: the patterns of politics, Biden taking the stage at eleven
Speaker 2: thirty was a slight and intentional sidelining, sidelining of a
Speaker 2: president the party was eager to discard. He finishes the
Speaker 2: article with this interesting paragraph. Organizers canceled several speakers to
Speaker 2: hasten Biden's arrival and nix the planned performance from James Taylor.
Speaker 2: There's some unintentional symbolism in that too. Harris isn't young.
Speaker 2: She's sixty, turning sixty this year, but like most people,
Speaker 2: she is young compared to Biden, and her rise and
Speaker 2: approach are tangible measures of the center of gravity and
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party shifting toward its large percentage of younger voters.
Speaker 2: Taylor is someone who might have performed at the Democratic
Speaker 2: Convention in nineteen eighty eight, a favorite of the old
Speaker 2: generation of Democrats, and Democratic leaders. But with the clock
Speaker 2: ticking though, and the party needing to finalize the transition
Speaker 2: from Biden Harris, from the older generation to a new one,
Speaker 2: Taylor got bumped. What happened in Chicago on Monday night
Speaker 2: was what the Democrat Party suddenly and a month ago,
Speaker 2: unpredictably finalized its metamorphois into something new, something reoriented around
Speaker 2: a different part of the coalition. Biden has had his moment,
Speaker 2: and his party celebrated it, and then the moment ended.
Speaker 2: Very interesting tonight. We've heard from Michelle or the Democrats
Speaker 2: of her, from Michelle Obama. They're hearing now from former
Speaker 2: President Barack Obama. There will be some acknowledgments towards Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: But this was a coup. I mean it was. It
Speaker 2: was a decision made by the party elders that Joe
Speaker 2: Biden's the clock had run out on Joe Biden. Fear
Speaker 2: or unfair, that's what it is. That's what it was.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Warren, down to Fall River, Warren next
Speaker 2: on Nightside. Thanks for checking in, Warren. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well. Yeah, I agree with you. The Democrat
Speaker 3: Party is I would almost dare say they're like they
Speaker 3: are the mafia right now. Because you know, I got
Speaker 3: a question for you, if we find out down the road,
Speaker 3: I just say, twenty years down the road, that we
Speaker 3: find out the people that were actually running the government
Speaker 3: instead of Biden, is that treason?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so, because the reason I don't
Speaker 2: think so is that every president has his sets of advisors,
Speaker 2: his set of advisors. It's the phrase off, it is
Speaker 2: the so called kitchen cabinet. So most of the real
Speaker 2: cabinet members have to be nominated by the president and
Speaker 2: approved by the US Senate. And obviously great deference is
Speaker 2: given to the choice that a new president or any
Speaker 2: president makes for their cabinet members. However, there's nothing that
Speaker 2: prevents a president from having either other people on his staff,
Speaker 2: on his own staff or informal advisors. And Joe Biden
Speaker 2: had that like any president did.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean it's just I mean, we keep
Speaker 3: on hearing that he you know, that he wasn't running
Speaker 3: the country or he's not running the country. I've heard
Speaker 3: it for three and a half years now, and it's
Speaker 3: just I'm just wondering, like, if we ever find out that,
Speaker 3: you know, he never made it you know, it wasn't
Speaker 3: him making the decisions, it was a people.
Speaker 2: I think you'll find out, I think, Warren, you'll find out.
Speaker 2: You won't find out that other people making decisions. You'll
Speaker 2: find out that he was making the decisions. But probably
Speaker 2: there were a lot of decisions that he made which
Speaker 2: relied very heavily on the input of other people. And
Speaker 2: you might find that his You know, there have been
Speaker 2: other presidents whose wives were very influential. Certainly Alanor Roosevelt
Speaker 2: was very influent, influential. Wood Row Wilson's wife was influential
Speaker 2: during his presidency. So there's nothing wrong with that. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no illegality here. They basically decided, the grand poobas
Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party decided it was his time to go.
Speaker 3: And I kind of disagree with you because there was
Speaker 3: a difference of making the decision and or being told,
Speaker 3: being forced to make a decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Yeah. And again, the
Speaker 2: other thing is that probably most of those people are
Speaker 2: not going to tell the tales out of school because
Speaker 2: they're loyal to themselves into into Joe Biden. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, if I was the president of the United
Speaker 2: States and I said, I want one from Fall River.
Speaker 2: He's going to be in my staff. We don't really
Speaker 2: have a title for him, but I consult with him
Speaker 2: a lot. You know. That's it's it's it's a it's
Speaker 2: a blurry line, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: It is a very blurry line. And I think what
Speaker 3: they did with him last night was totally disrespectful. I
Speaker 3: mean again, they should have had him on. Put him
Speaker 3: on it, put him on at nine. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: if he's if he's a keynote speaker, have him speak
Speaker 3: for half an hour at nine.
Speaker 2: Well that was not to be. And again, even at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, the president, he's the incumbent.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like he's a former president.
Speaker 2: He was the current president of the United States, and
Speaker 2: he basically.
Speaker 3: The current president of the United States. With total disrespect.
Speaker 2: You got it, Thank you, talk soon. I appreciate connect. Again.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for people either who are your opinion. I
Speaker 2: care your opinion is important, so feel free to join
Speaker 2: with your opinion. But I'm specifically looking for people tonight
Speaker 2: who are still in the fence and haven't decided, or
Speaker 2: anyone who has changed their vote in their own mind.
Speaker 2: Meaning you at one point this summer, let's say we're
Speaker 2: solid for Trump and now you're having second thoughts and
Speaker 2: are leaning towards the Democrats. Or conversely, you were solid
Speaker 2: for Joe Biden and now you've decided that you're going
Speaker 2: to go with Donald Trump or you're going to stick
Speaker 2: with the Democrats. I'd love to know what people are
Speaker 2: thinking right now. So it's an informal sort of poll,
Speaker 2: but i'd love to get your reactions. It's as simple
Speaker 2: as that. Uh, if you're sitting in front of a
Speaker 2: TV listening through speeches, you know what they're going to say,
Speaker 2: but you have no idea what the next call it
Speaker 2: might say. Six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. Coming right back
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Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: nights Side Studios on w BZ the News Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks keep Rolling'm going to go to Jan in Hanson. Hi, Jan, welcome,
Speaker 2: You're next on Nightside. Hi.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great? Jan? How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Just saw a movie,
Speaker 4: but uh so I'm feeling what movie do fun?
Speaker 3: What movie?
Speaker 4: Dead Pool?
Speaker 2: Which one?
Speaker 4: Deadpool?
Speaker 2: Deadpool. Uh, anyone in that that that we would recognize?
Speaker 4: It was that at a theater or a were we
Speaker 4: watching that was in a theater? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, what was it about?
Speaker 4: If I could ask, It's about these Marvel characters that
Speaker 4: never die and okay, they keep fighting. It's a calm.
Speaker 4: It's like a dark comedy. Okay, okay, funny.
Speaker 2: Some would argue that our presidential election is a dark
Speaker 2: comedy too, but whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a dark comedy.
Speaker 2: So have you figured out who you're going to vote for?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I was going to vote for Biden, but then he
Speaker 4: dropped out. Now it's hariss. So I don't know if
Speaker 4: I want to vote for an independent or not, you know,
Speaker 4: like JFK.
Speaker 2: Or RFK r FK. Yeah, yeah, I can't vote for
Speaker 2: JFK but r FK, So why not? Why not vote
Speaker 2: for President Biden's vice president?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I think maybe she's just a
Speaker 4: little bit too liberal. I mean, I'm I'm I'm an
Speaker 4: independent leaning to the Democrat side. But I so, I
Speaker 4: don't I don't know who I've going to vote for.
Speaker 2: Who was the last Republican you voted for?
Speaker 5: For President Trump?
Speaker 2: Oh? Really?
Speaker 3: Is the stake of my life in what year?
Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Both twenty oh, twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: And so you voted, So you voted for Hillary in
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I voted for Trump. Voute sixteen and
Speaker 4: twenty oh.
Speaker 2: Okay, And no way that.
Speaker 4: He could because I didn't want Hillary.
Speaker 2: Okay, no way that you can that he can earn
Speaker 2: your vote again, I assume no. No, okay, So it'll
Speaker 2: either be a Democrat or a third party candidate, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: who did you did you feel Biden did a good
Speaker 2: job as president?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, I did. Okay, I do. I really proudly
Speaker 4: did a good job. And now the pundits putting him
Speaker 4: down and people putting him down for saying he didn't
Speaker 4: do anything and he didn't do this, and he didn't
Speaker 4: do that. It's like like open your eyes, you know,
Speaker 4: yes he did. He did a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you think that he should have I assume you
Speaker 2: think you should have stayed in the race. Do you
Speaker 2: think that he was moved out by the powers of
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party or do you think he came to
Speaker 2: that decision on his own.
Speaker 4: I think it was I think it was both really. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think he just talked into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean eventually he had to get out.
Speaker 2: I mean he, I mean he no one could could
Speaker 2: physically force him out. But I think that there was
Speaker 2: a lot of pressure put on the president of the
Speaker 2: United States.
Speaker 4: Yes, I did too, a lot of pressure, no doubt,
Speaker 4: no doubt in my mind.
Speaker 2: Well, Jana, I'm glad you called. I'm glad you enjoyed
Speaker 2: the movie. Have I ever had you on the show before?
Speaker 2: Since your first time?
Speaker 6: In my first time, got to give you one of
Speaker 6: the clause.
Speaker 4: Many a lot? You what I listen to you guys
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's great. I appreciate it. And I hope you'll
Speaker 2: continue to call and uh as the weeks turn into
Speaker 2: a couple of months and we get towards November, call again.
Speaker 2: And if you I'd love to know who you eventually
Speaker 2: decide you're going to vote for, because I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be people like you who are going to decide,
Speaker 2: in some form or fashion decide the election.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I hope so, I truly believe that.
Speaker 2: Thanks Jen, thanks so much for voting. You appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Tim Bye, good night, six one, seven, four ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I have open lines there. I have three open lines
Speaker 2: at six, one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty
Speaker 2: talking a little politics. That'd love to have you be
Speaker 2: honest with me and tell you tell me what you're
Speaker 2: thinking right now and how you're thinking may or may
Speaker 2: not have changed in the last few weeks. I think
Speaker 2: jans calls will interesting because there's someone who voted for
Speaker 2: Trump twice, uh seem to like Biden and may not
Speaker 2: vote for Harris. It's funny. Everybody's story can be a
Speaker 2: little different. Okay, it's there. When we watch these conventions,
Speaker 2: you see the people who are the party loyalists, the
Speaker 2: Republicans and the Democrats, and we tend to think, oh, well,
Speaker 2: you know, it's just no, it's it's much more complicated
Speaker 2: than that. Let's go to Eileen and how I Leen?
Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in. How are you tonight?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm I'm fine, watching out the window of the
Speaker 7: beautiful full moon.
Speaker 2: Good for you. Better than watching TV, that's for sure.
Speaker 7: So well, I just I can't stand to put on
Speaker 7: the TV and listen to all those people, and I
Speaker 7: my children tell me I can't vote for Trump. Why
Speaker 7: can't I vote for Trump? Why shouldn't I vote for Trump.
Speaker 2: I think you should vote for whoever you want. I
Speaker 2: don't think you have a right to tell your children
Speaker 2: who to vote for, and I don't think your children
Speaker 2: have a right to tell you who to vote for.
Speaker 2: I think we're all individuals, and I think when we
Speaker 2: get into the privacy of the voting booth, you have
Speaker 2: every right to vote for who you want, or you
Speaker 2: have a right not to cast a vote. I mean
Speaker 2: you can walk in there and it's just you and
Speaker 2: the ballot. That's that's the sec of the hit of
Speaker 2: the of the secret That's that's the beauty of the
Speaker 2: secret ballot.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 7: Well, I I just don't like Harris. I'm sorry, she's
Speaker 7: I She just totally turns me off, and I am.
Speaker 2: Well, why do you hear and answering some questions about
Speaker 2: why she's changed her positions. You know, she was against fracking,
Speaker 2: now she's four fracking. She was against this, now she's
Speaker 2: for She was for this, now she's against it. She
Speaker 2: has yet to do a news conference, She's yet to
Speaker 2: do Trump is talking too much, and I think she's
Speaker 2: talking too little in my opinion.
Speaker 7: Well, Trump isn't talking that much lately, is he.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's been out there trying to do these in
Speaker 2: these little news conferences. He was in I think Wisconsin yesterday.
Speaker 2: He was in Michigan today and he just and he
Speaker 2: had a he had a news conference. I think it
Speaker 2: was like over the weekend down at his golf course
Speaker 2: in Bedminster, and he just goes on. He speaks for
Speaker 2: like an hour before he starts to even take questions,
Speaker 2: and he takes questions for half an hour. So, uh,
Speaker 2: it's a weird race, Eileen. And keep your mind open
Speaker 2: and see what happens. And if your kids tell you
Speaker 2: what to do, you know you're an adult and their adults,
Speaker 2: I assume and and therefore each of you follow your
Speaker 2: own heart and do what you have to do, simple
Speaker 2: as that.
Speaker 7: Well, I am I like Trump, and I think he
Speaker 7: was unfairly, very unfairly criticized during his whole presidency, and
Speaker 7: that that makes me angry.
Speaker 9: And do a.
Speaker 2: Lot of people who feel that way. You're not You're
Speaker 2: not the only one that feels that way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I really am sorry that R F. K Junior.
Speaker 7: That would be a wasted vote, But I uh, he was.
Speaker 7: He was the person I thought should should become more prominent.
Speaker 7: But I think he's He's only.
Speaker 2: Doing about about four or five percent of the polls
Speaker 2: at this point. So I think that the public has
Speaker 2: decided that he's not gonna win, but he could influence
Speaker 2: who's gonna win because he could take votes away from
Speaker 2: one candidate or the other. Aleen, I got to keep
Speaker 2: rolling here. Great to hear your voice as always, and
Speaker 2: I will. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Tell those kids that you have a mind of your
Speaker 2: own and you're gonna use it whatever you do. Okay, Thanks, Okay,
Speaker 2: have a great name. Let me go next to Sal
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. Sal periodically drops by, Hi, Sal, How
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Hey Dan?
Speaker 10: How are you sir?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. Is that California're excited about the
Speaker 2: possibility of their former US Senator now Vice President Harris
Speaker 2: running for president.
Speaker 10: I don't care for To be honest with you, I
Speaker 10: wanted to talk about the Democrats if I.
Speaker 2: Could, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 10: So I'm from Boston originally, and my dad had a
Speaker 10: house in Watertown. He sold it and he paid capital gains,
Speaker 10: which is fine because you know, he bought it back
Speaker 10: in the sixties and he was on social Security and
Speaker 10: the social security because they caught they saw that during
Speaker 10: the system, they saw that he sold it. Took a
Speaker 10: thousand dollars a month away from him. And when we
Speaker 10: called them to say what happened, they said, you can
Speaker 10: thank Obama that they passed a law stating that if
Speaker 10: you sold the capital gain or whatever. I mean, I
Speaker 10: can't prove it obviously now on the radio, but they
Speaker 10: took a thousand dollars a month for a year.
Speaker 2: Really, I have given a social security Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: never heard that, to be honest with.
Speaker 10: You, Yep, that's what they did. So you can thank
Speaker 10: Obama and the Democrats for trying to do whatever they can,
Speaker 10: you know, to I don't know what it is, you know, whatever,
Speaker 10: whatever bills or deals or whatever they did. But that's
Speaker 10: what happened to my family.
Speaker 2: H How old was your dad at that time when
Speaker 2: he sold the house.
Speaker 10: He was retired. He was in the seventies. He had
Speaker 10: the house for years. I mean he bought it in
Speaker 10: the sixties. We grew up there. You know, whatever the
Speaker 10: deal is, you know, he rented it out, He did
Speaker 10: all the you know, whatever it was he did. You know,
Speaker 10: it was a rental. He paid taxes on it every year,
Speaker 10: you know, and then and then when he sold it,
Speaker 10: he paid the capital gains, which is justified, you know,
Speaker 10: because the values of Watertown was amazing. But but when
Speaker 10: we when we heard about that, you know how they
Speaker 10: took the money away from social Security. I'm like, what's
Speaker 10: that got to do with the capital games? What's that
Speaker 10: got to do with social Security? I mean, you pay
Speaker 10: into social Security for your whole life, and now all
Speaker 10: of a sudden, you know, you're you have a property
Speaker 10: and you're you're getting social Security, And because you have
Speaker 10: this property and you made money, they're going to take
Speaker 10: money away from you and your social security. I mean,
Speaker 10: what's that?
Speaker 2: Uh, it doesn't make any sense to me at.
Speaker 10: All, But they did it. You can have your producers
Speaker 10: do the research in it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do it even if we talk here,
Speaker 2: let me let me see uh, And they said, let
Speaker 2: me let me read something to you here. Capital gains
Speaker 2: are other kinds of income. Rental payments, inheritances, pensions, interested
Speaker 2: dividends do not reduce your Social Security payments. So selling
Speaker 2: investment and he may leave you with a tax benefit
Speaker 2: with a tax bill, but won't affect your Social Security benefits.
Speaker 2: So I think in all honesty, cell, that you're mistaken
Speaker 2: on this.
Speaker 10: Okay, now I don't want to I'm not do it
Speaker 10: because my mom's sab Security or my parents' Social Security
Speaker 10: A check was one thousand dollars less for a year.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at a couple of can selling my investment
Speaker 2: property affect my Social Security benefits? More than seventy one
Speaker 2: million Americans will receive soci Security benefits in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: That includes retirees, people who qualify for SSI disability benefits,
Speaker 2: and some survivors. Each one will receive an increase in
Speaker 2: their benefits. You know, you know a cost of living increase.
Speaker 2: Does earned income affect your benefits? Capital gains, capital gains
Speaker 2: and other kinds of income, rental payments, inheredanances, pensions, interests,
Speaker 2: or dividends do not reduce your Social Security payments. So
Speaker 2: selling investment property may leave you with a tax bill,
Speaker 2: but won't affect your Social Security benefits. However, However, however,
Speaker 2: for individuals with very high incomes, there's another consideration of
Speaker 2: deciding when to sell investment property. The Net income Investment tax.
Speaker 2: This tax is three point eight percent that the IRS
Speaker 2: collects on investment income. For those with income above certain
Speaker 2: specific thresholds. The Levey applies to capital gains, interest, rental royalty,
Speaker 2: interom and passive income, but not salary wages or SOB
Speaker 2: security benefits. Those sources of income are part of the
Speaker 2: calculation to determine if your subject of attax, which is
Speaker 2: determined by calculating you modified adjusted gross income. I think,
Speaker 2: from what I'm reading here, and I'm just doing quick
Speaker 2: quick readings, so you can't hold me to this, I
Speaker 2: do not see anything which suggests that your dad's Social
Speaker 2: Security payments should have been reduced by one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a month by virtue of the fact that he enjoyed
Speaker 2: a capital gains benefit from the sale of a property.
Speaker 10: I should go back to them. I should go back
Speaker 10: to them and get a lawyer.
Speaker 2: Then to I definitely would. I would call a tax attorney, okay,
Speaker 2: or you know, preferably a tax attorney. If you were here,
Speaker 2: I could make a recommendation to you. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: that you can find the tax attorney in Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: because if you do think I don't know if your
Speaker 2: dad is still alive, I don't know. Okay, you certainly
Speaker 2: should spend the time to settle it in your mind
Speaker 2: and talk with a tax attorney.
Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Let me know what happens. I've just done a quick
Speaker 2: quick read here. Uh, and I'm telling you I think
Speaker 2: that that that that was a mistake. It should not
Speaker 2: have happened. If it did happen, and if it was
Speaker 2: not a mistake, maybe there was some other reason, maybe
Speaker 2: somehow your dad's your SOL security benefits are based in
Speaker 2: large part on your earnings over over time, and you
Speaker 2: have to have you know, so many forty quarters and
Speaker 2: all of that. So you know, I've I have, I
Speaker 2: get SO Security and I get a very nice check
Speaker 2: from so Scurity, but I've paid a hell of a
Speaker 2: lot into SO Security. Okay. So if if if all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they miscalculated your dad's earnings and they
Speaker 2: decided we're going to now have to crawl back some
Speaker 2: of that money, but it would not have to do
Speaker 2: with capital gains taxes from what.
Speaker 10: My reading is, No, they did that. Yeah, their point
Speaker 10: was that you had to sale and and we're taken
Speaker 10: one thousand dollars a month for.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think I think your recollection of that either
Speaker 2: as incorrect, although I suspect you you're you're accurate. Talk
Speaker 2: to a tax attorney and do me a favor. Call
Speaker 2: me back and let me know. Okay. I will thank you,
Speaker 2: BUTOULD appreciate it. Thanks Joe, hopefully, sal excuse me South,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, call again.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I want you to call me Rotha because I've heard
Speaker 2: from me before and I like to hear from different
Speaker 2: people in different parts of the country.
Speaker 10: Fair enough, no problem, sir, you think take care.
Speaker 2: Thanks out, good night. Okay. Now the only lines that
Speaker 2: are open are six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: The others are full up, so stop dialing six one, seven,
Speaker 2: two five four to ten thirty and start dialing six one, seven,
Speaker 2: nine three one ten thirty. I got Bill, Roland and
Speaker 2: Joel coming up, and I got room for you at
Speaker 2: six one seven nine three one ten thirty, and I
Speaker 2: will get you in. I promise. We are talking about
Speaker 2: a variety of issues, but primarily if you're an undecided voter,
Speaker 2: if you have tied, if you if you find yourself
Speaker 2: moving away from your candidate of a month ago and
Speaker 2: towards someone else, make your points coming back on Night's side.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get right back at it. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get now all of a sudden, the lines getting full.
Speaker 2: Bill and Lexington Bill next on Nightside.
Speaker 11: Go ahead, Hey, Ken, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. I'm just following along here and trying
Speaker 2: to figure out what the pulse of the night side audiences.
Speaker 11: I hope it's that they view this next election it
Speaker 11: is not American idol. But judge the people on their
Speaker 11: on their policies, not themselves.
Speaker 2: Yep. I think that's it. That is how I will
Speaker 2: how I will view it. But I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I like a lot of Trump's policies, but I don't
Speaker 2: like his demeanor right now. I really don't.
Speaker 11: You know, He's he's he is a nasty old businessman,
Speaker 11: and it doesn't help that he was on TV with
Speaker 11: his TV shows and whatnot. But I do believe in
Speaker 11: my heart that his policies what's best for America. Right now.
Speaker 11: I believe I believe that this isn't this isn't a
Speaker 11: race between Republicans Democrats at the moment. I believe that
Speaker 11: a lot of our politicians are leading way too far
Speaker 11: out of the left, which ends up in socialism, and
Speaker 11: it's happened to Venezuela in the past five six, seven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's incredible what's going on down there.
Speaker 11: And I just you know Obama. I had to. Obama's
Speaker 11: been running the country since he got out of the
Speaker 11: White House.
Speaker 2: Well who else.
Speaker 11: Who's nine blocks away and builds a wall around that house.
Speaker 11: But I needed to be so close to the pulse.
Speaker 11: Why when you go back to Chicago, we didn't do
Speaker 11: a damn thing for the whole time you were a
Speaker 11: cent of avail.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, he just gave a very powerful speech. I just
Speaker 2: caught the end of it during the news break. He
Speaker 2: certainly he does know how to he's a good orator.
Speaker 11: Oh sure, I would like to pay less for gas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a bad thing.
Speaker 11: And I'd like to pay less for groceries. I don't
Speaker 11: know why, Like the very first day mister President Biden
Speaker 11: was elected that he closed the pipeline down on the
Speaker 11: price of gas spiked to two dollars more gallon, which
Speaker 11: drove everything else in the world up. Everything you ship
Speaker 11: with petroleum. Like, that's not a good thing. One pipeline
Speaker 11: does that. It seems to me every time the Democrat
Speaker 11: hats an office, the price of gas goes sky high.
Speaker 11: And I got a wonder like, who owns all that stock?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that, but I do think
Speaker 2: in my opinion that the Democrats would like to move
Speaker 2: us away from fossil fuel and away from gas uh,
Speaker 2: you know, cars, and to ev vehicles. And I think
Speaker 2: the public is resisting that at this point. And I
Speaker 2: think that there will be more subsidy for electric vehicles
Speaker 2: if the Democrats, you.
Speaker 11: Know, carry thee From what I understand by people that
Speaker 11: work in the industry, the electric industry, the grid industry,
Speaker 11: the grid can't support that.
Speaker 2: Not at this point. Not at this point. I don't
Speaker 2: think there are too many charging stations, public charging stations
Speaker 2: that I.
Speaker 11: Say no, or enough electricity to make this come to
Speaker 11: fruition in the next ten years.
Speaker 2: Yep, there's no doubt about that. You're all You're right
Speaker 2: on all of those things. So you have been with Trump,
Speaker 2: You're sticking with Trump.
Speaker 11: I'm sticking with Trump. I wish he could just learn
Speaker 11: to be a little more And I don't want to
Speaker 11: say politically correct, because I believe political correctness is what's
Speaker 11: gotten us in this.
Speaker 2: Mess No, but I just think that he goes off
Speaker 2: in these rifts and it's like, and it's you. You
Speaker 2: begin to wonder how stable is this guy. It's it's
Speaker 2: one thing to believe strongly in your positions, but he
Speaker 2: just goes off me. He's calling you the other day.
Speaker 2: He's better looking than Kamala Harris. I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: what is that?
Speaker 11: I mean it's and that's the DS we don't need
Speaker 11: to hear. It makes me just yeah and just talk
Speaker 11: talk about the policies, and that's it.
Speaker 2: Couldn't agree with you more, couldn't agree with you. It
Speaker 2: makes him an unseerious candidate. It's like he's he's running
Speaker 2: to become I don't know, a night side a nighttime
Speaker 2: comedian or something like that. It's weird, honestly.
Speaker 11: It's like every it's like every forty five minutes shooting
Speaker 11: yourself on the foot.
Speaker 2: You got it, You got it? Hey, Bill, I'm up
Speaker 2: on my break. I'm trying to get one more in
Speaker 2: here before the break. I so appreciate your calling, and
Speaker 2: I hope you continue to call my program.
Speaker 11: Always a pleasure, and thank you.
Speaker 2: That got you? Thanks Bill? Okay, let me get real
Speaker 2: quickly Joe is an act and Joe, you're next on Nightside.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hi, Yes, I got two things.
Speaker 8: I'll say something about the election, But first the answer
Speaker 8: to that question concerning your social security. You probably are
Speaker 8: still working and don't have Medicare. But when you get Medicare,
Speaker 8: I retired at seventy three. There's something called IRMA IRMA
Speaker 8: and it's income related monthly adjustment amounts.
Speaker 9: And what it is.
Speaker 8: It's a search charge on your Medicare which depends on
Speaker 8: your income. And I think a thousand is a little
Speaker 8: too much. But I'll tell you right now what my
Speaker 8: chart says for a married couple, assuming a gentleman was
Speaker 8: married at the time, If the married couple has more
Speaker 8: than seven hundred and forty ninety nine dollars and ninety
Speaker 8: nine cents, they face each and they're both on Medicare,
Speaker 8: they face each a four hundred and nine four hundred
Speaker 8: and nineteen dollars a month search charge, which is a
Speaker 8: little under one thousand. And I know of some people
Speaker 8: that have had this problem selling property. Selling a nice
Speaker 8: house in Watertown could have could have resulted in easily
Speaker 8: a capital gain of a million dollars. Okay, well, and
Speaker 8: that that would have capital gain would be taxed, and
Speaker 8: that that would be income. Basically, that million dollars of
Speaker 8: young would be taxed at a lower rate, but it's
Speaker 8: still a million dollars of income, and therefore that would
Speaker 8: result in a charge for only one year. Now, they
Speaker 8: don't allow you to average, so you only pay. You
Speaker 8: only pay this charge for one year, and then the
Speaker 8: following year you don't have that gain, go back to
Speaker 8: the normal Social security.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's assume you gain a million dollars hypothetically,
Speaker 2: and they're going to charge you an extra five hundred.
Speaker 8: Dollars a month, four hundred and nineteen.
Speaker 9: Right now, I get that.
Speaker 2: That's the number game. I'm just trying to Let's say
Speaker 2: it was five hundred dollars a month for twelve months.
Speaker 2: That would be six thousand dollars over the course of
Speaker 2: that twelve months, but you'd still so you.
Speaker 9: Would only be more if it's a married couple.
Speaker 2: Each No, I get it, I get it. I get it.
Speaker 9: Each agadica, I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to simplify it. I'm trying to simplify it, Okay,
Speaker 2: trying to simplify it. I have soial security, I get
Speaker 2: my health insurance to my wife's company. So I'm not
Speaker 2: on Medicare, okay. But but the point that you're making
Speaker 2: is that the sale of a substantial amount of real
Speaker 2: estate could have an impact on what you have to
Speaker 2: pay for your Medicare surcharge. Okay, but that would not
Speaker 2: be what South from Los Angeles was describing was in
Speaker 2: effect a clawback that they were taking one thousand dollars.
Speaker 8: They take it right right out of your Social Security
Speaker 8: because so that.
Speaker 2: Might be, that might be the answer, but sal was
Speaker 2: describing it as the consequence. He did not mention a
Speaker 2: connection in Medicare. I'm aware of that. Thank you for clarifying.
Speaker 9: Those are the consequences.
Speaker 8: It's just to cut it.
Speaker 9: It comes right off automatically right now.
Speaker 2: I see it. But it is not something that will
Speaker 2: go on beyond the year.
Speaker 9: So beyond the year, but it couldn't my case.
Speaker 8: Of course, I've got not that much, but I've got
Speaker 8: quite a bit coming off each month because i haven't
Speaker 8: high retirement income.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it, I got it. Look, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: Joe very much. I hope Sali is still listening. But
Speaker 2: I also think that he should sit yeah with a lawyer.
Speaker 8: Who I'm voting for or my yeah on voting, I'm
Speaker 8: between now and between Trump and Kennedy, both of them.
Speaker 8: I'm very much against the CIA. I'm very much against
Speaker 8: all of this foreign involvement for many many years yep,
Speaker 8: fifty years now, I've been against it, and I think Trump,
Speaker 8: you know, is sympathetic to that, and certainly Kennedy is.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me ask you if he's my question.
Speaker 2: Here's my question, Okay, real quick, because we're running out
Speaker 2: of time and I want to get everybody in here.
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to figure out who are going
Speaker 2: to vote for. My question is have you ever voted
Speaker 2: for third party presidential candidate before? Have A voted for
Speaker 2: Lost Parot, Jill Stein or anyone like that?
Speaker 9: Yes, you have Ross Perot, and I voted for for
Speaker 9: the Fellow again.
Speaker 8: In two thousand, I voted for Ralph Nader, and I
Speaker 8: voted for Ralph Nader again.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, my prediction is you you were going to
Speaker 2: eventually vote for Robert R. F. Kennedy Jr. Do me
Speaker 2: a favor after you cast your ballot, call me back
Speaker 2: and let me know.
Speaker 9: I will.
Speaker 2: Past performance is always indicative of future results.
Speaker 8: So that's that's my guest with you with Kennedy. But
Speaker 8: I may change to Trump and I'll let it.
Speaker 2: Keep me posted. Okay, thanks Joe, thanks for the forming
Speaker 2: a phone call. Thank you very much. Have a great one.
Speaker 2: All right. I got Robin Maine, I got Bill and
Speaker 2: Wooster are gonna get you both in. Stay right there.
Speaker 2: We got to take a very quick break. If you
Speaker 2: want to try to get on, I'll give you two
Speaker 2: options six one seven, two, five four to ten thirty
Speaker 2: or six one seven nine three one ten thirty. But
Speaker 2: Rob and Bill your and don't worry. Stay there. Back
Speaker 2: on nights out after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios.
Speaker 2: I'm WBZ News Radio. I want to thank Joe from acting.
Speaker 2: He's absolutely right to selling a house affect Medicare benefits.
Speaker 2: The sale of your home could affect your Medicare Part
Speaker 2: D and Part D premiums if it results in a
Speaker 2: significant capital gain that increases your modified adjusted gross income
Speaker 2: above certain thresholds. And those thresholds are two hundred and
Speaker 2: six thousand dollars for someone filing jointly and one hundred
Speaker 2: and three thousand dollars for an individual on Medicare who
Speaker 2: is filing individually. Okay, I'm going to get both Bill
Speaker 2: and Worcester and Robin Maine. Let me go to Billin
Speaker 2: Worcester first. Bill, give you about a minute and a half.
Speaker 2: You're a little late, but you go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Okay, Dan, I'm a regular listener with a except I
Speaker 5: took an exception. I have to listen to the Democratic Convention.
Speaker 5: But as soon as Obama camelin and a couple of
Speaker 5: minutes into it, I couldn't take it anymore. The division
Speaker 5: of his attitude, dividing the people in this country. Yep,
Speaker 5: it's just too much to take. So I came back
Speaker 5: on thank you.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 5: On the issue of the medicare thing, I don't think
Speaker 5: it only relates. Okay, it's pod B. You're right. You
Speaker 5: just clarify what somebody else called your pod B premium
Speaker 5: is affected by your income, but as far as I know,
Speaker 5: it doesn't have They've just been sale the house. You
Speaker 5: could be a high income earner. Your pod B could
Speaker 5: go anywhere from what I don't even have Medicare because
Speaker 5: I never got qualified so security. But anyways, you could
Speaker 5: be as low as like what one hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: hundred and forty hundred and fifty dollars a month for
Speaker 5: pod B if you're down below a certain level of
Speaker 5: income gross income.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was capital gains and again most people yeah, but.
Speaker 5: I don't think capital gains affects the Medicare pot B.
Speaker 5: Only any income you have. You could be hitting dividends
Speaker 5: from stocks and bonds, or you could have another job.
Speaker 5: Your income is up and bring it up. Your ink
Speaker 5: premium pot P could go as high as four five
Speaker 5: hundred dollars a month. Okay, you're good, Your wife is,
Speaker 5: your insurance is with you, what you can sell your house,
Speaker 5: and it won't affect you whatsoever as far as loser
Speaker 5: any solid security because they're not gonna be deducting your
Speaker 5: pot your pot deep out of it where it comes from.
Speaker 2: Well, look, Bill, I appreciate you for the clarifying. This
Speaker 2: is tough stuff. It's interesting stuff, and that's why I
Speaker 2: suggested a sal in Los Angeles. You know, talk to
Speaker 2: a tax attorney out there and make sure that that
Speaker 2: that you tell that texts.
Speaker 5: Your solid security. And because you don't have any uh
Speaker 5: any any any pot being you don't have medicare, it
Speaker 5: won't affect. So you're upset that way. But when you
Speaker 5: want to go on so is good. For some reason,
Speaker 5: you have to go on so onto medicare. Rather, you're
Speaker 5: gonna have to pay a big penalty to come into
Speaker 5: it because you haven't been into it.
Speaker 2: Yep, No, I understand that, and hopefully I won't. Bill.
Speaker 2: I got I let you, I get you here, but
Speaker 2: I got to get Robin Maine in as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for call and appreciate it. I'll give
Speaker 2: you more time next time, Robin Man. Rob, go right ahead,
Speaker 2: got about a good minute for you.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Rob, No problem, Dan, I definitely cannot democrat,
Speaker 6: especially this time around the amount of money that they're
Speaker 6: promising us. You know, they're going to give us this,
Speaker 6: they're going to give us that, and they're not justifying
Speaker 6: where it's going to come from. My taxes can't go
Speaker 6: up anymore, Dan, You know, we just had property re
Speaker 6: evaluations up here. My local taxes went up twenty five percent.
Speaker 6: I just can't do anymore. We have to pay for
Speaker 6: the COVID money that we just blew, you know, so
Speaker 6: that's going to come out now, you know, which can't
Speaker 6: handle it. And then the whole thing with the you know,
Speaker 6: with the foreign aid, the wars around the world. I'm
Speaker 6: dumbfounded by the whole thing in Ukraine. You know, Ukraine's
Speaker 6: actually pushing into Russia now, so they're actually invading Russia
Speaker 6: and we're still financing this. It's dumbfounding to me. Our Ally,
Speaker 6: Israel is just defending their own homeland. You know, they're
Speaker 6: defending against a horrific attack, which we did on September eleventh,
Speaker 6: and the Democrats are against this. This is crazy to me.
Speaker 2: I think you make some great points, and I wish
Speaker 2: you would call earlier so we could have a longer conversation.
Speaker 2: So please please come back some night a little earlier,
Speaker 2: because I think you just made some great points. Okay,
Speaker 2: have a great night.
Speaker 6: Thank you too.
Speaker 2: Thanks Rob for calling and appreciate it. We had a
Speaker 2: thirty year Rob. I think, okay, we're done for the night.
Speaker 2: Great job, Rob Brooks. Marita is back today. I'm set
Speaker 2: up the eight o'clock hour. Want to thank everyone who
Speaker 2: listened and particularly the calls. I know it's kind of
Speaker 2: tough tonight because we're doing politics while there's been politics
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