In this episode, Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis tackle recent political dynamics, including the influence of past presidents, the desperation in Biden’s recent moves, and the historical tax policies that have shifted business strategies over decades. Tune in for a provocative and insightful conversation that spans from American tax policies to international developments in the Middle East.
Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis, morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
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Hey, how about a scam? And I love listening to you, and I heard you say, oh, Lord, when Grandpa Joe, who… Our new morning host before you, Chris DeGaulle, captured it perfectly. There was a big concern that his teeth were going to fall out of his head any moment last night. I mean, it was bad. Mumbles and mumbling and stammering, and it sounded like he did have a denture malfunction. But he did the crap about, all I wanted for the people to pay the fair share. Right. I get so mad at that because I would love once and for all for somebody to tell me what that means. And no one can ever define it. Give me a number. Well, give me a number. I’ll give you some numbers because I got my tax returns out for the last 10 years. Now, look, I’m blessed. And this is part of the problem. You and I are blessed. We don’t exactly make minimum. wage. No violin music for us eating dog food. We make a good living. But by the way, that’s baked into the cake for these leftists, because that’s their point, too. They say, look, Mark Davis, Mike Gallagher, these guys make a lot of money, so they can afford to pay a lot more than they’re paying. All right, how much more than 51% of my income am I supposed to give to the government, Mark? When I left New York, Now, admittedly, that’s New York, because I’m paying city, state, and federal taxes.
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51%.
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Now, you’re telling me that me giving more than half of my income to the government isn’t my fair share, Mark? I come to Texas, I mean Texas, Florida, to get away from that, no more city or state, it’s still 50%. close to 40. I mean, you know, I looked at my tax returns for the last 10 years. I mean, again, cry no tears for me. That’s right. But if a seven-figure tax burden is not my fair share, I paid seven figures. I’m in the seven figures here over the last decade of what I’ve paid in taxes. I mean, I’m not kidding you. It’s unbelievable how much tax… And look, I keep saying, well… 50% of what I make is still better than most, and I know that, and I’m blessed. But what’s my fair share of that, Mark? That’s exactly it.
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80%?
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Listen, this is why the Beatles and the Stones started to do business in America, because in England they had like a… 80, 90% tax burden. Is that what Biden wants?
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Is that what the Democrats want? Of course it is. Great, great. Of course it is. So I’ve worked in this business 45 years. I’ve achieved a certain level of success. And I’m supposed to be taxed so that I earn, you know, what an insurance agent earns. Because the insurance agent ain’t paying 80%. That’s the thing that gets me. But that’s all it’s about with these people. The Bidens of the world, the Democrats, the loony leftists of the world see the world this way. We’re the bad guys because we’re financially successful, and we’ve got to be cut down to size. That’s just, that’s their worldview, Mark. There’s no way around that. And meanwhile, and my gosh, yesterday, Pam Bondi, holy moly, she’s strong, tough. She took on, I mean, Adam Schiff, at one point she said, look, you were censored by Congress for asking questions like this. Little pencil neck.
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The other California Senator, Alex Padilla, she said, I’m not going to be bullied by you. Just super. Before we go to her, one last thing on Biden, and it’s a big one, but we can probably cover in 30 seconds. The always kind, always gracious Harold Ford Jr. was on my list of my favorite Democrats. He’s on the five and did some of the post Biden comments. He has said I think he’s just being gracious to that history will be kinder to Biden than his current approval ratings might be. And I thought about that, by the way, which is. Yeah, I think the only Truman was worse coming out in 1952. Yeah. Why? Why in the world would they be? Was history kinder to Carter? Not really. Until Biden, he was America’s worst president ever.
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In 20 years long enough.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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In 2050 years, what can they say were the Biden achievements?
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Thank you. And how will they be spun better? I mean, well, how and if anything, Trump 2.0 is going to make the Biden years maybe not look worse. But as Reagan did to the Carter years, the Trump years are going to show, hey, this is actually how you do it.
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Well, watching watching it. Watching Biden’s desperation in trying to claim credit for the Hamas terrorist hostage ceasefire deal is fascinating. He’s frantically trying to. In fact, at the beginning of the speech last night, they obviously inserted that because it was a last-minute development. Is there anyone that doesn’t think Trump’s emergence and ascension is the reason this happened? Look, Biden had 15 months to get a deal done. And you’re telling me five days before the inauguration? Look, even Bibi, everybody’s acknowledging it’s the Trump effect. Now, having said that, I get it. Biden is the sitting president. And if the deal is going to happen this week or this weekend before, okay. Well, we’ll see. Now there’s some questions about it. You know, now there’s Bibi is saying that the Hamas is pulling some shenanigans. Oh, color me shocked. What?
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Hamas? Not honest brokers? They’re not Boy Scouts?
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The terrorists aren’t being honorable? No. Tell them no. You say it isn’t so. But look, we’ve got to pray for these people. There’s a couple of dozen people still. I think most of them are dead. I hate to say that. I don’t want to be disrespectful, but these scoundrels, these monsters are awful. But, you know, for Biden to try to… I get trying to grab the credit, but there was a level of desperation to it that I found really, really. But Pam Bondi, and you know, when I see Richard Blumenthal up there, I still can’t get over stolen valor Blumenthal grilling Pete Hegseth. That’s astounding to me. How does he get to be on the Armed Services Committee, Mark? How could you be on that august committee when you’ve lied about serving your country in Vietnam?
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Well, the voters keep putting you there, and then a Democrat-run Senate gives you a position of power. Right.
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Now, I don’t know of any more. We’ve got a new sheriff in town, and we’re bundled up. We’re ready to go.
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In fact, we’re—go ahead. Before we leave the hostage thing, and we all pray for that to work, I’ve given this to listeners. I want to give it to you. It is a documentary called We Will Dance Again. I don’t know if you heard me talking about it. Oh, yeah, no, you have. It is remarkable. It is survivors of and their cell phone video of. Those attacks, it puts you in that festival grounds for that attack.
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In fact, today on the show, we’re going to visit with Yael Eckstein, who’s the president and CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. And I got a pretty big announcement to make, and I’ll share it with you because you’re my buddy and this is my family here, 660 AM The Answer. We’re headed back to Israel this year. We’re going to go back to the Holy Land on the anniversary of October the 7th. And you ready for this? Even better? We’re going to give people who want to come with me the opportunity to join me. We’re going to open this up to our audience. We’re going to have a fairly small exclusive group of listeners who are able to come and join us in Jerusalem in October. Wow.
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