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Speaker 6: According to the Department of Justice, Eileen Wong and her
former fiance ran a fake website from twenty twenty to
twenty twenty two. They published articles at the direction of
the Chinese government. Here's an example from Wang's plea agreement,
in which she instructed to share a story denying the
existence of genocide and forced labor camps inside China. A
twenty twenty three report looked into the scope of Chinese
espionage in the United States. It found more than two
hundred incidents since two thousand, with a significant fight in
recent years. Last month, the FBI also gave insight into
China's nefarious tactics.
Speaker 7: They do these very overt things just to scare the
rest of the community and recruit people to report, you know,
within the community. So they're creating this Poorwellian climate affair
where everyone is afraid to speak out.
Speaker 6: So there are Chinese spies among us, Ailean Wan admittedly
one of them.
Speaker 1: Eileen Wan was the mayor of Arcadie, California, a Chinese spy.
Almost every single news report of this, and there are many,
Almost every single one of the published news reports that
I have read failed to mention one thing. What political
party is she affiliated with? The admitted Chinese spy. Would
you like to take a guess? You wouldn't mm hmm, okay,
would you like to take a guest? You don't think
it would be a guest? Yes, she's a Democrat now,
in all fairness, she was a Republican before she switched
over to the Democrats. Maybe her bosses said, well, join
the Republicans and they realized that no, no, no, you're
I don't know what happened. She's a Democrat the Chinese spy,
and if it were a Republican spy, it would have
been in the headlines of everyone, republican Chinese spy, Please
takes a deal instead nothing. It's pretty amazing, My friends.
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Boston Early's Rush, our
fastest hour in American media. I've got tons of we
always do interesting audio clips to play for you, including
what will be our clip of the day. But I
don't want to start with the clips. I read a
story yesterday said if we can had time, we'd get
to it. Couldn't get to it. I am determined that
we will do this story today, so we'll do it
right now. It was a story from Fox, and it
caught my attention, because this is a theme that first
came to my attention many years ago when rush Limbaugh
actually spent probably an hour discussing it in all of
its implications and ramifications, and in fact, it was so
profound that he devoted considerable space on his website to
point to the actual data of the story that he
did then and the research that he had done. It
was the wealthy and what percentage of taxes they actually paid.
The headline from Fox is this six different ways that
prove the wealthy pay a lot more than their fair share.
Politicians demand more from the wealthy, but never define what
enough looks like in real dollars or percentages. Is the
sub head. If you listen to politicians like Vermont Independent
Senator He's a Democrat, communist socialist Bernie Sanders, and New
York Democrat Representative Alexandria Casocotes, there is a constant drumbeat
when they're not endorsing billionaires like they are in California.
I inserted that in the rich don't pay their fair share,
we don't need oligar. These are powerful sound bites. They
are also among the most intellectually lazy phrases in modern economics.
Because here's the real question. No one answers, what exactly
is fair. Let's start with the facts, which many people
don't like to discuss, and not feelings. Let's leave the
emotions out of this, and says Fox, and let's deal
with the facts. Nothing but the faction, not the fox.
According to the data, according to data from the Internal
Revenue Service and the Tax Foundation, the top one percent,
the wealthiest among us, the top one percent, pay roughly
forty percent of all federal income taxes. One percent of
the people pay forty percent of all the federal income taxes.
When you look at the top ten percent of owners
of Americans, the top ten percent of earners, it is
close to seventy percent seventy percent of all federal taxes.
Almost seventy percent of it is paid by ten percent
of the people in this country, the top ten percent.
If you're in the top ten percent tax bracket, you
are among the group of people that are paying almost
seventy percent of all taxes that fly in to the
federal government. Meanwhile, nearly half half, nearly half of Americans
pay no taxes at all. Half the country's not paying
any taxes, little to none. Half the country pays almost nothing. Meanwhile,
the top ten percent of paying seventy percent of all
of the federal taxes. So this is what Fox says
about it when someone sells. When someone says the wealthy
don't pay enough, what they're really saying is it's fair
that lots of people pay zero, and they want the
rich to pay even more than their fair share. They
want the rich to pay even more than that share.
They want more from the people that are already paying
the most, while lots of people, almost half this country
pays nothing in taxes. So then the article goes on
to say, let's talk about what rich actually paying taxes.
They pay They pay the federal income tax. So how
much is the quote unquote marginal rate? What's their rate?
If you are in the rich, you're paying thirty seven
percent of your income. Thirty seven percent of your income
is going into taxes divided up by a dollar one
hundred ones. If you're in the rich, before you get
to the other taxes, just because you're rich, they're gonna say, okay,
gimme thirty seven of that hundred bucks and just keep
mote doing the math. Thirty per seven percent of that
you got one hundred bucks. The government's gonna take thirty
seven dollars off the top just because you're rich. Then
you pay state income taxes. So if you are rich
and you're in states like California in New York, you
can put another ten to fourteen percent on top of that.
So let's for the sake, make it easy, call it
another ten percent. You're rich. By the time you just
pay your federal and state taxes, you're up to forty
seven from either forty seven to fifty one percent of
your income, half of your income half. Look, if you
get a divorce from your spouse, your spouse tells you
what I want half. I want half. We've only been
married six months. I can't stand you. But you're gonna
give me half, and you're gonna give me half in
perpetuity until you find some way to get out of it.
I want half. That is what the government is telling
the wealthy, just state and federal government. Now let's say
you own property. If you earn property, congratulations, you write
a check every year to keep it. If you're in
states like New Jersey, Tejas, New York, you can easily
pay another ten g's to thirty g's just for a
higher value home. And guess what you keep paying that
year after year after year after By the time you
get through paying let's say you're in a home twenty
years and you're paying thirty gees, what is that you're
paying almost six hundred g's and just property taxes if
you will, if you hit that bracket, and some places
in New York thirty g's, they wish they could pay
thirty g's. They were paying that twenty years ago. Then
you get hit with sales tax. You go out and
buy something, then you're gonna get sales tax. There are
places now Tennessee Washington, for instance, where sales tax is
ten percent. So then on the money that you've already kept,
you're gonna pay another ten percent of that money when
you buy stuff. Now, if you're rich and you're already
paying half, then you go out and buy stuff and
stimulate the economy, and that pushes you up. If you're
paying tax on that to sixty percent of the dollars,
well over half of those dollars that you've earned are
paid out in taxes. Then capital gains tax, capital gains tax,
the states are coming after you with that. And then
you add on to that estate taxes. So you live
all your you save your money before you can even
hand it off to you the next generation. Here come
these greedy politicians again with their hands in your pockets
and they take on after you're dead, they're still taking
from you. And yeah, but you and not even talking
about the other specialized serve taxes along the way, the
gas tax that like what they're doing in Virginia where
they want to add fifty new taxes to people, including
a tax to go to the gym, attax to get
an Uber delivery, I mean uberdrive at tax if you
get something delivered to your house from Amazon. They want
to put a tax on that.
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Speaker 1: So with all that tax money that's collected, what happens
to it? Well, I know what we should do. Let's
take a visit, shehry. Let go out to Minnesota and
then let's stop in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 8: First, Minnesota charges announced tonight's after more than a million
dollars in snap benefits for stolen in Minnesota, and according
to those charges. Sixty year old added Waheed Muhammad used
other people's EBT cards to buy products from Walmart, Sam's Club,
and Costco and then sold those items at his own
grocery store called Minnesota Food Grocery. From March to August
of twenty twenty one, he purchased one point one million
dollars this is in products through various EDT cards, and
an investigation found he promised payment and even free groceries
from his store for people who gave him those cards.
Speaker 9: Five months down to a fraud scheme that could potentially
cost taxpairs in Ohio hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet,
a recent audit revealing major red flags in that state's
medicaid program. Mike Tobin following all of it, Mike joins
us now from a Midwest eurea.
Speaker 1: Mike, what's you find out?
Speaker 8: Hello?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 11: Overall bill Ohio gets billions of dollars from the Fed
for its Medicaid program. The state's auditor has found some
very suspicious ways the home health care money is being distributed.
During a recent state audit, investigators found forty percent of
the money spent went to just one county. That's Franklin County,
where Columbus is, and almost forty percent of that money
went to just two zip codes. The addresses are all
within four miles of each other.
Speaker 1: The state auditor says.
Speaker 11: Overall, they found what they call an error rate of
almost sixteen percent. Now, error rate is just a bureaucratic
way to say money sent to people for whom it
was not intended.
Speaker 9: Now, some of them were dead people that were still
on the rolls, some of them were other type of errors.
But is sixteen fifteen point six percent something that's significant, Well,
in a program as large as Medicaid, you bet your
boots it is.
Speaker 11: In fact, the Ohio auditor says, that could potentially equal
anywhere from eight hundred million dollars to four billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Overall, four billion dollars, it could go up to. That's
where your tax money's going, Folks. The fraudsters.
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Speaker 1: The audio bites the folks's fraud is everywhere. You're talking
almost four billion, maybe just in Ohio. A lot of
it's entering in money that's flowing through Columbus, Ohio HU
and then of course more fraud. Every day, there's more
fraud being uncovered in Minnesota. It's astounding. I want to
go very quickly to Javier Bassera. You know, I've been
pronouncing this guy's name more. I see an X at
the beginning of a name, and for years I've never
known how to pronounce it, or even when I do
know when it's Javier, I keep calling him Xavier because
that's x a veer Xavier, but it's Javier Ollier. I
like it Xavier anyway, what a cooling x Xavier? Anyway.
He was on an interview with k t LA and
I just want you to hear the way the interview began.
Cut ten. This is how they say the interview is
sitting across from him before it even gets going. This
we do we have it?
Speaker 2: Do we have it?
Speaker 1: Cut ten? Exavia, basta? Here we hold on. I'm sorry, Javier.
Here here we go.
Speaker 7: This is the start of our interview with Javier Bassetta
in Highland Park.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is a profile piece. This is
not a gotcha piece.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, look, I think we're these questions are fair.
Speaker 2: It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
Speaker 1: So long it's about the profile.
Speaker 8: I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like
to begin the interview.
Speaker 12: The way I described profile is you talk about all
the things that I've done, things I want to do,
and along with some tough questions, but not only tough questions.
Speaker 1: Before the interviews thought she's like, this is this is
this is a profile. Right, this isn't gotcha. You're not
gonna gotcha me. It's just amazing. So as the interview proceeded,
let's look to this cut eleven from Javier Buzzetta.
Speaker 7: Every time is anxious a secretary.
Speaker 5: A New York Times investigation found the Health Department couldn't
find some eighty five thousand children it had released.
Speaker 1: That's not accurate. What you just read is not accurate.
Speaker 12: First, that's what I'll say, because it was never the
case that we could not find kids. You're essentially I
don't know if you've got those talking points from Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: It's from a New York Times artifact.
Speaker 1: That's not what the New York Times said.
Speaker 12: The New York Times said that individuals of the children
and their sponsors did not respond to calls they didn't
say we couldn't find.
Speaker 8: Kids working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machineries and factories,
children as young as fourteen years old.
Speaker 12: That part occurred after these children had left the care
of the partmenty Healthy and the Services.
Speaker 6: Do you let these children go into those individual sponsors?
Speaker 12: In their sponsor, some of these kids, probably because they
needed to earn some money, started working places that were
very exploited.
Speaker 1: He's justifying child labor with these are old kids that
they let in under the Biden administration. He was helping
Human Services director and they lost these kids. And he
used to I don't know who's talking points? These are
you got Donald Trump? Tummant, No, sir, it's from the
New York Times. God's wrong. It's not wrong. This is amazing.
He didn't like to gotcha questions. I mean, I don't
know whether you've heard about this. Remember those cuts we
played from Spencer from Spencer Pratt the other day with
the LA debate, the LA Mayor's debate. Yeah, well, guess
what they were supposed to have another debate tomorrow. Guess
what happened Wednesday's debate among candidates for mayor of Los
Angeles was canceled after the front runners decided against speaking.
The announcement from the League of Women Voters was set
to host the form. Came the news that Los Angeles
Mayor Karen Bass opted out of the debate, and then
also what's your name dropped out of the debate the
other Democrat there, so no debate. Pratt with their Well
they're women, you're not supposed to say that, but he
bested them. I'll put it like that. He vested them embarrassingly.
All Right, we have more on the you know what,
the elections and black people, and the elections and black people.
Let's dip into the well, yeah, this is getting tiring
every day. It's like we gotta go down this racial
rabbit hole every single day. But let's start with the Democrats.
Let's see where we start. Okay, let's start with cut two.
Uh Troy Carter, Democrat representative from somewhere. He just quick here,
So we can't we can together.
Speaker 5: And we gotta pike together, and we've got to demonstrate
that we're not going.
Speaker 1: To get angry, We're not going back. That's there, you go. There,
no second coming of Jim Crow.
Speaker 10: That's what there will be no second coming of reconstruction.
Speaker 1: There will be no second coming of taking away the
rights that we fought for, that we died for.
Speaker 12: But that only happens when we are informed, mobilized, and
we vote.
Speaker 10: There will be no second coming of Jim Crow. There
will be no second coming of reconstruction. You know why,
because there will be no second coming of Democrats. The
game of Jim Crow and the.
Speaker 1: Game of reconstruction, there will be no second coming of
Jim Crow. Jim Crow two point zero will not happen.
Let's go to CNN the Abbey panel cut three. It's abby,
what do you.
Speaker 2: Just think I have to wrestle with the carrier going
to be the first generation to actually leave this country
worse than the one that we inherited. And I think
for Black millennials, the progress that our parents and grandparents
gave us that we're watching being ripped away from us,
things that our generation is going to have to really
wrestle with. There's a price that was paid for this right.
There is a price that we uphold and whether or
not you value that where whether or not you value
that or not, there are people is wet and died
and were imprisoned for access to the ballot box. And
what we're seeing through what we're seeing throughout the South,
is that their voice, their vote, their representation, and people
who have lived experiences to represent them are not being
sent to Congress or where they need to go.
Speaker 9: This debate, by the way, is happening among the justices.
Speaker 2: If you look at the Louisiana decision, the Conservatives are saying,
we've made time to let go of this of using
racial discripined. That's why, and that's why I utilize the
description of the different justice to say.
Speaker 9: Exactly what you just said a party, which is there's
a history here that we're overlooking. Ellie, I mean the three.
Speaker 1: Years and let's stop right here because I got another
one to play. Is taken too long. This is the
next one. This is when he gets into it with
Kevin O'Leary. See and then cut four. This is BARACKI
sellers going at it with Kevin o'ldary, the same stuff.
Speaker 3: Everybody should take confidence in the fact Supreme Court basically
supported one vote.
Speaker 1: One person, guarantee amen in perpetuity and the rest is
just map wars. And I think we should get.
Speaker 5: Used to it, and I think it's as you said,
a state based situation.
Speaker 1: Add this to the mix.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, the state decides at
the state level.
Speaker 1: It's in the constitution. Get over it. So the problem,
the problem with the problem with.
Speaker 2: That sentiment is that you were born in nineteen fifty four. Yeah, okay,
you're seventy one, Yeah, in nineteen fifty vampire. During your lifetime,
we've actually had brown v. Board of Education. I remember, yeah,
Brown V. Board of Education. I don't know how you
remember it.
Speaker 1: I think you were like two months old.
Speaker 2: But I'm not finishing.
Speaker 1: Let me finishing real back to yeah, you're still.
Speaker 2: Alive, right, there's an entire generation of people Brownie board
it overturned Plessy V.
Speaker 1: Ferguson.
Speaker 2: My point is that my mother was born in nineteen
fifty one. She desegregated schools. My father was shot in
the Civil rights movement. Those people, I'm going to finish
because you're being utterly disrespectful. So I'm going to finish
this comment. So what I'm telling you is that there
are people in this country who fought, died, and bled
for the right to vote.
Speaker 1: Don't be a dick.
Speaker 13: Just understand just under second on a second, because.
Speaker 1: Because we're not supposed to use the word dick on
this show.
Speaker 2: I want you to understand there there's a price that
was paid for this right. There is a price that
we uphold.
Speaker 1: And stop stop, stop stop. I have a lot of
sympathy for what Bakari saying. Number one, Okay, I get that,
and I don't want you to think I'm making fun
of Bakari sellers on this point, because like sellers like
Bacari sellers, I anybody born in this era and that
had parents that grew up in the Democrat Party South
knows what it means when you say people died and
people bled and people were treated horribly so that black
people could vote. And I get that, and I get,
by the way, and I also get his passion over it.
What I don't understand is his perspective now over it,
and that's what I take issue with. But I understand
where Bacari. I understand why he's so heated. But I
also get what Kevin's point is, which is where most
most people are with this stuff. Look, the nineteen sixties
are over all red. D stop it. We're not in
the nineteen sixties already, stop it. What Debbie I'm repeating
what Debbie duhanm just texted me. Ladies and gentlemen, she's
James your language. It wasn't my language. I'm not the
guy that called the guy a day. It was the
black guy that did it at CNN, not the black
guy here to call the guy a dick. He said,
stop being a dick to the white guy. And I
thought that that was a little over the top. Total
guy stopped being a dick on The Abbey Show. We
gotta take a break, by the way, because if we don't,
we won't get to the clip of the day. So
I mean, it wasn't me, Debbie, it wasn't me that
said it.
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Speaker 1: Su Lighties and gentlemen, it is time for our clip
of the day. For the second day in a row,
we shall reach out to social media and experienced our
clip of the day from a young woman of African
American descent. This woman, ladies and gentlemen, is our clip
of the day.
Speaker 14: Surprise, surprise, the left is pulling the race card script again.
Black representation racism, white supremacy. It's the same playbook every time,
and they only pull it out when their power is
on the line. This past week really proved my point.
Last week, Tennessee read drew the ninth congressional district in Memphis,
currently held by Steve Cohen, a seventy six year old
white Democrat, been there since two thousand and seven. Democrats
lost their minds Jim Crow, white supremacy, the NAACP files
an emergency lawsuit, and then the truth comes out. The
Republican most likely to win that seat is Charlotte Bergman,
a black Republican woman from Memphis, single mom who overcame homelessness,
built her own business, lost her grandson to gang violence.
She has run against Steve Cohen six times. Six Democrats
spent twenty years keeping a white man in that maj
already black district, and CNN's response, it actually is racist.
A black woman replacing a white man in Congress is
racist and this is not new. Six months ago, Virginia
governor Race Win some earls years marine veteran would have
been Virginia's first black female governor, running as a Republican
against Abigail Spanberger, a white woman who shows up to
campaign against the black woman. Barack Obama cuts two ads
for Spanberger, flies to Norfolk and headlines a rally in
front of seven thousand people in a black community. This
same Barack Obama who one year earlier lectured black men
in Pittsburgh and told them that they had a mora
whole duty to vote for Kamala Harris because she was
a black woman. One year later, he's begging black voters
to reject the black woman because she's a Republican. Let
me say this plainly. They don't care about black representation.
They never did. They just needed us to vote Democrat.
Speaker 9: Is that was.
Speaker 14: Lbj's whole plan. He bragged he'd have us locked in
for two hundred years. That's why Charlotte Bergman doesn't count.
That's why win some Earl's doesn't count. That's why I
don't count. Because we are proof proof that Black Americans
can think, vote and lead. However, we choose proof that
the whole thing falls apart the second we walk away,
and they need you to ignore us. So hear me, clearly,
they don't care about black representation. They don't care about
black people, they care about our vote. They care about
our allegiance. They care about power.
Speaker 3: That is it.
Speaker 14: That is all it has ever been, So stop letting
them use you.
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