Speaker 1: Seven oh six. In a very happy Friday to you,
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Always always happy when I see in the
Speaker 1: rundown our good friend from the Taxpayer Protection Alliance, which
Speaker 1: you can find online in Protecting Taxpayers dot org. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the fifty five KRSY Morning Show, Dave Williams.
Speaker 1: Good to have you on this morning.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian, and don't look at the sock market.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's my first word of advice for today is
Speaker 3: you know, listen to a lot of people panic right
Speaker 3: when they see the market going down, and it's always
Speaker 3: a good bet to invest in the market. And yes,
Speaker 3: people are kind of struggling right now, but you know,
Speaker 3: always play the long game here and don't panic.
Speaker 2: Don't panic.
Speaker 1: I've been through these ups and downs. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be sixty in September, so I've been through it a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been investing in four to one case
Speaker 1: since I had my first full time job as a lawyer,
Speaker 1: and you know, I just don't pay attention to it, honestly,
Speaker 1: because it's not worth the indigestion. And over the long haul,
Speaker 1: it's all worked out quite well in spite of the
Speaker 1: always temporary downturns. Always. I say that with a bit
Speaker 1: of hesitation, because you know, someday they if people aren't
Speaker 1: interested in purchasing our debt anymore, we're going to have
Speaker 1: a real problem on our hands. And I just sort
Speaker 1: of see that day coming closer and closer, which is
Speaker 1: a real concern. So the addressed to Congress, Trump's Addressed
Speaker 1: to Congress. Let's start there, because there was a lot
Speaker 1: of good there was some mixed reaction stuff, and of course,
Speaker 1: as you point out in your analysis of it at
Speaker 1: tax Payer Protection Lines, some bad stuff, at least from
Speaker 1: the perception of your group, and I understand why. So
Speaker 1: let's start with some of the good things. And I
Speaker 1: want to fast forward, moving away from the World Health
Speaker 1: Organization though the green news scam, which I agree it
Speaker 1: is a scam. Trump's all the above energy policy and
Speaker 1: just released this week the EPA really making some significant
Speaker 1: changes in terms of like greenhouse gas emissions that really aren't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here when you talk
Speaker 3: about the green news scam, and really it's you know,
Speaker 3: electric vehicles, it's I mean the trillions of dollars and
Speaker 3: I'm not overstating this that has been really cordoned off
Speaker 3: for green energy. We're talking about EV subsidies, we're talking
Speaker 3: about loans, we're talking about really just giveaways to green energy.
Speaker 3: And if green energy is going to be a part
Speaker 3: of the energy portfolio, it needs to survive on its
Speaker 3: own age. We're not saying not get we're not saying
Speaker 3: get rid of wind and solar, but if it's part
Speaker 3: of it, no government subsidies, no taxpayer subsidies. And I think,
Speaker 3: you know, that's where there's a little bit of disconnect.
Speaker 3: I think with people is that they really hate these
Speaker 3: new energy things. Well, don't hate them, just don't subsidize them.
Speaker 3: But I like what Trump is doing and saying no
Speaker 3: more EV subsidies, and we have to claw back all
Speaker 3: these green energy subsidies.
Speaker 1: And no more mandates, the mandates of the reason the
Speaker 1: subsidies are in place. If you mean, if the product
Speaker 1: could survive on its own to be something the public
Speaker 1: demands and they would want it. In other words, I
Speaker 1: want a car with massive off the line torque. Then
Speaker 1: you want an after vehicle. Fine, you've got a zero
Speaker 1: to sixteen less than two seconds by yourself, a Tesla plaid.
Speaker 1: But if that's not important to you, and you really
Speaker 1: don't mind your internal combustion engine. I'd stick with that
Speaker 1: because that's what I do, and that's what I like.
Speaker 1: I want them to be available and I want to
Speaker 1: be able to have the choice myself.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: And it really, you know, dovetails into what we talk
Speaker 3: about the EPA and really having less of a footprint.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny because they talk about a carbon footprint.
Speaker 3: What I want is less of is a government footprint
Speaker 3: on business, on individuals. I mean, that's my goal, just
Speaker 3: less thing, the government footprint. And you know, when you
Speaker 3: talk about regulations, you talk about permitting, the permitting process.
Speaker 2: It's not just about the bureaucracy.
Speaker 3: It's about allowing companies to do what they want to
Speaker 3: do and to be able to prosper and to build
Speaker 3: and to grow because the government is preventing businesses from flourishing,
Speaker 3: from expanding, and that's what the EPA does is stopping this.
Speaker 2: We have a many energy revolution happening in this country.
Speaker 3: You have companies that are building nuclear power plants and
Speaker 3: going with nuclear power to power their data centers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon,
Speaker 3: all of them right because they see this as the
Speaker 3: future of energy and nuclear energy is renewable, and the
Speaker 3: left hates to hear that. They hate to hear that
Speaker 3: nuclear energy is renewable, but it absolutely is and really
Speaker 3: could solve a.
Speaker 2: Lot of our energy problems.
Speaker 3: And the product sector again is taking the lead on
Speaker 3: this and saying, yes, we need to embrace nuclear energy
Speaker 3: to help reduce energy costs.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Amazon just these past fall announce that they have signed
Speaker 1: contracts in multiple states for these small modular reactors, which
Speaker 1: were a revolution in nuclear technology. It produces a massive
Speaker 1: amount of small of power and a very small footprint,
Speaker 1: and they're just just amazing there. I think this is
Speaker 1: the revolution and things to these giant tech companies embracing
Speaker 1: it conceptually and actually moving forward with investments in it.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to allow us, the unwashed masses
Speaker 1: they have access to it too, and it'd be less
Speaker 1: resistance than nuclear power generally speaking.
Speaker 3: Well, and I think that a lot of people's mindset
Speaker 3: they're stuck in the nineteen seven Oh yeah, when it
Speaker 3: comes to nuclear power, they think of three mile I
Speaker 3: only think of these things.
Speaker 2: We are way beyond that.
Speaker 3: And again, like you said, these tech companies are leaving
Speaker 3: the way in this, so it's really fascinating to say
Speaker 3: if we see more of this deployment in the coming years.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A couple other highlights the extension of the Tax Cuts
Speaker 1: and Jobs Act from twenty seventeen. They're going to have
Speaker 1: to get their work done on that one because it's
Speaker 1: going to expire at least when I'm looking at Protecting
Speaker 1: Taxpayers dot org. You've got a countdown clock to that.
Speaker 1: We have two undred ninety two days to get that done.
Speaker 1: So and then DOGE. All the work DOGE is doing
Speaker 1: just revealing to the American public how wasteful they are
Speaker 1: with our money, just across the board, whether it's fraud,
Speaker 1: waste abuse, just stupid programs like transgender urban farmer programs.
Speaker 1: I mean, give me a break. It's just mind boggling,
Speaker 1: and that left is being forced to defend the indefensible.
Speaker 3: This is the crazy part, Brian, is that you have
Speaker 3: people like Chuck Schumer who are complaining about DOGE, and
Speaker 3: it's like, well, you know, we want to cut spending.
Speaker 4: No, you don't know, you don't.
Speaker 3: You have never offered an amendment, You have never offered
Speaker 3: any piece of legislation to cut spending, to look at
Speaker 3: wastefle spending, So what Dose is doing is I want
Speaker 3: to say it's revolutionary, but it's not because Rand Paul
Speaker 3: has been doing this for years. It's been putting out
Speaker 3: reports on wastefle spending. Now it's institutionalized and we're hearing
Speaker 3: a lot more about it. And I love this discussion.
Speaker 2: Now. Hasn't been perfect.
Speaker 3: Has the execution been perfect, Absolutely not, But it's a
Speaker 3: discussion that we haven't had in this country, a sustained discussion.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've been talking about this for months now.
Speaker 3: We haven't had that for a very long time. And
Speaker 3: it's so healthy to talk about getting rid of these programs.
Speaker 3: And you know us ai D, the you know the
Speaker 3: crazy things that are being funded through us ai D.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's get rid of them. And let's do it now.
Speaker 3: You know, Speaker of Mike Johnson, you know when you
Speaker 3: pass a continuing resolution, offer some of these spending exactly.
Speaker 2: Let's get the ball rolling, man. T is time is,
Speaker 2: the clock is ticking.
Speaker 1: Indeed, he did mention a better balancing the federal budget.
Speaker 1: But then Trump always comes out and says, I Am
Speaker 1: not going to touch those security, Medicare, Medicaid, which are
Speaker 1: the biggest problems we have on our hands. Someone is
Speaker 1: going to have to deal with that mess. They're unsustainable
Speaker 1: and they're on a trajectory to collapse on themselves, and
Speaker 1: everyone keeps saying no, no, no, we're not going to
Speaker 1: touch I'm not going to touch him. So I believe
Speaker 1: in ferreting out the fraud, waste, and abuse is a
Speaker 1: great first step, but the programs themselves are going to
Speaker 1: have to be reorganized.
Speaker 3: They will, Brian, I think Trump has a unique opportunity
Speaker 3: here because he's probably not running again. I mean, he
Speaker 3: talks about the third term, but you know he's not
Speaker 3: going to run again. So why not have this difficult
Speaker 3: discussion now because it's not going to hurt him politically,
Speaker 3: Because I mean, this is it right, So this is
Speaker 3: the time to do it if you are president, is
Speaker 3: to have these difficult but necessary discussions, because like you said,
Speaker 3: this is trillions of dollars in taxpayer spending that we
Speaker 3: need to bring under control, and there's ways to do it.
Speaker 3: And I know people don't like to hear the P
Speaker 3: word privatization, but if I'm allowed to invest my.
Speaker 2: Own money, I know not I know, give me the option.
Speaker 3: We're not saying it's mandatory Bryan, we're saying, give me
Speaker 3: the option if I want part of my social Security
Speaker 3: to go into a private fund, I should be able
Speaker 3: to do that.
Speaker 4: Amen.
Speaker 1: And the tariff, you and I can agree the terrorifts
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily a good thing, and I know that's one
Speaker 1: of the things you labeled under the bad Trump loves them.
Speaker 1: I understand reciprocal tariffs, so they're taxing our stuff or
Speaker 1: tariffing our things, and why wouldn't we put a tariff
Speaker 1: on theirs? Obviously it has an inflationary reality. But when
Speaker 1: you're using teriffs to get another country to do something
Speaker 1: that you wanted to do that it doesn't want to do,
Speaker 1: then we run into some real problems because then they
Speaker 1: do reciprocal tariffs and it becomes a downward spiral.
Speaker 3: Right, and companies don't pay taxes. Consumers do a right
Speaker 3: higher prices. So that's the problem is that this is
Speaker 3: going to get passed on to the consumer, and that's
Speaker 3: the last thing that we want. So you understand what
Speaker 3: he's trying to do, but it's not working because we've
Speaker 3: seen prices skyrocket and when you talk about he's going
Speaker 3: to delay them for a month, Well, you can't build
Speaker 3: a manufacturing base in a month.
Speaker 2: If you say we're going to.
Speaker 3: Delay auto tariffs or whatever tariffs, you can't build that
Speaker 3: whole manufacturing base in a month to make sure it's
Speaker 3: produced in the US.
Speaker 2: So it's just it's not feasible.
Speaker 1: Well, let's positive seven to fifteen. We'll bring back Dave
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Speaker 1: It's seven twenty and a happy Friday to year. Brian
Speaker 1: tell Us here with Dave Williams from the Taxpayer Protection
Speaker 1: Alliance online at Protecting Taxpayers dot org. I could line
Speaker 1: up the lists of your favorite pet fieves, Dave, after
Speaker 1: all the years we've talked and in the street cars
Speaker 1: is number one? You and I always have a go
Speaker 1: about that as a colossal waste of tax dollars. And
Speaker 1: I can't figure out whether number two is is taxpayer
Speaker 1: funded stadiums or the post office.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's uh, that's tough, Brian. Let's put them
Speaker 2: at a tie at number two.
Speaker 1: Tie at number two, right next to taxpayer funded stadiums,
Speaker 1: the United States Postal system, which literally loses billions and billions,
Speaker 1: and every single year, for as long as you and
Speaker 1: I have been talking, they lose billions of dollars. I mean,
Speaker 1: a business model that should work, a business model that
Speaker 1: should be flexible, like any other business. If nobody's mailing
Speaker 1: letters like they used to, then you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: cut back the size of your business or come up
Speaker 1: with an alternative business model that will help you continue
Speaker 1: to be profitable.
Speaker 4: But they never are profitable.
Speaker 2: No, they're not, and they're a monopoly. You have a
Speaker 2: you have a mailbox.
Speaker 3: Nobody can put anything in that mailbox except the Postal Service.
Speaker 3: It is against the law for any other company to
Speaker 3: put anything into your mailbox. You know, it's funny the
Speaker 3: Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, they talk about
Speaker 3: these monopolies and anti trusts and breaking up these big companies,
Speaker 3: break up the post Office. I mean, they're not looking
Speaker 3: at the most obvious monopoly that's out there, and that's
Speaker 3: the post Office. And again they're losing billions of dollars
Speaker 3: a year. I would love to have monopoly business, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like printing money.
Speaker 1: You would think, well, in I guess we Gause. It's
Speaker 1: mentioned in the Constitution. If I recall correctly, I guess
Speaker 1: they're not required to break even. At least they know
Speaker 1: they're going to get some sort of federal bailout. I mean,
Speaker 1: is that what this comes down to.
Speaker 2: Exactly?
Speaker 3: And you know, really over the past few years since
Speaker 3: COVID that they've gotten tens and tens of billions of
Speaker 3: taxpayer dollars. Now, they've always gotten taxpayer dollars in the
Speaker 3: fact that they don't have to pay taxes. They don't
Speaker 3: pay tax on gasoline for their trucks, so they've always
Speaker 3: gotten a really good deal from the taxpayers. But it's
Speaker 3: really the checks have been written over the last five
Speaker 3: or six years, specifically for the post office.
Speaker 1: Well, what seems to be the problem here is it
Speaker 1: just the fact that well, again I think this problems
Speaker 1: existed since before the Internet showed up and people were
Speaker 1: still mailing letters. But that obviously has compounded their problems
Speaker 1: because fewer and fewer people are mailing things. I think
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, if I get something substantive, maybe
Speaker 1: an actual bill or something that requires my attention, it's
Speaker 1: ninety percent just junk mails.
Speaker 4: What I call it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's poor management.
Speaker 3: It really is from top to bottom, and Congress has
Speaker 3: just punted every time when they've looked at postal reform,
Speaker 3: look at Saturday delivery. If we got rid of Saturday delivery,
Speaker 3: that would save two billion.
Speaker 2: Dollars a year.
Speaker 3: And I really don't believe people would notice if Saturday
Speaker 3: delivery went away, if you had to wait till Monday
Speaker 3: to get your mail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't get mail on Sundays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we get packages on Sundays from the Post
Speaker 3: Office because they have a deal with Amazon to make
Speaker 3: sure that packages are delivered on Sunday, and that increases
Speaker 3: the cost. So it's estimated that each package that is
Speaker 3: delivered by the post Office, whether it's Amazon or any
Speaker 3: other seller, they lose about a dollar fifty per package
Speaker 3: they lose.
Speaker 4: They don't make you make it up dollar fifty. You
Speaker 4: make it up in volume, Dave, Yes, volume, volume, volume, well.
Speaker 1: As you report, and I know you didn't make the
Speaker 1: statistic up. US Postal Service lost nine point five billion
Speaker 1: dollars in twenty twenty four alone.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So part of the problem is when they
Speaker 3: hire temporary seasonal employees because of the unions, they have
Speaker 3: to offer them full time jobs after you know, after
Speaker 3: Christmas after the season, so no other company does that.
Speaker 3: No UPS, they hire seasonal. You know what seasonal is seasonal?
Speaker 3: So in January they don't have a job at UPS
Speaker 3: or FedEx. At the postal service, you get the option
Speaker 3: of joining to postal service full time. Again, these are
Speaker 3: poor management decisions and a lot of it is driven
Speaker 3: by unions, and a lot of us is driven by.
Speaker 1: Stupidity, truly, And the electric vehicle mandate I can see
Speaker 1: this is the most likely one to eliminate because I
Speaker 1: think the contract they had with the electric vehicle manufacturer
Speaker 1: hasn't They haven't delivered on it.
Speaker 3: They haven't delivered on it. They're about ten thousand to
Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars each vehicle more expensive than a regular
Speaker 3: combustible engine. And you know, if we see gas prices
Speaker 3: go down, obviously you save money there. Yeah, and gas
Speaker 3: prices have gotten down with more energy explorations, So listen.
Speaker 3: I think that again, this is a business model that
Speaker 3: isn't working. And do we absolutely need to privatize it.
Speaker 3: I think we should move towards it, but that's not
Speaker 3: the ultimate answer.
Speaker 4: We just need better.
Speaker 2: Decision making and listen.
Speaker 3: More attention by Congress Congress passed the Postal Reform Act
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and what they did was
Speaker 3: they took all of the postal obligations the healthcare as
Speaker 3: and move them over to medicare.
Speaker 2: Well that didn't save any money.
Speaker 3: No, it just means that taxpayers are still paying for
Speaker 3: in this and they didn't reform this in any way.
Speaker 1: Oh by, don't look over there, you're still on the hook,
Speaker 1: Dave William bookmark the page protecting protecting taxpayers butt or
Speaker 1: appreciate the work that you're doing and bringing this to
Speaker 1: everybody's attention each and every day, Dave, and look forward
Speaker 1: to having you back on the program really soon. Keep
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