In this engaging segment, John Rush is joined by Richard Battle to discuss the intricacies of the tax system and its impact on everyday citizens. The conversation delves into historical taxation practices, revealing how taxpayer contributions have been manipulated over the decades since World War II. Richard and John highlight the ongoing frustration of taxpayers regarding wasteful government spending and the urgent need for reform. Tune in as they explore potential paths to a more equitable taxation system and emphasize the hope for a future where taxpayers are respected and valued.
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All right, Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Good afternoon, John. We’re doing great, and we’ll see if we can help ease your throat a little bit.
SPEAKER 14 :
I appreciate you very much. Let’s declare Taxpayer Appreciation Day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, what’s interesting is next week we pay taxes, and the Tax Freedom Group says that April 12th, the average day, that we finally quit having to pay the government. We work for almost four full months for the government, which is insane. And so it’s not always been that way, but since world war two, it’s been worse than it should be. And of course, president Trump, uh, with trying to reduce expenses, trying to increase revenues through other sources. I believe he’ll rewrite the tax code before he’s finished. So for the first time in our lifetime, the taxpayer is being considered as something other than a chump. Because early, the whole reason we fought for independence was to respect liberty and have respect for the people that paid for government. But since then, Franklin Roosevelt and since World War II, the tables have been reversed, and only the people who received money got any respect, and the people that paid the freight were disrespected and contempted. Yeah, that’s right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Really quick, Richard, I think for me personally, and I know that I’ve got clients of mine that feel the same way, I don’t mind paying taxes as long as I don’t see them wasted like what we’ve seen happen with Doge. I feel like at times that I could get a drum, a metal drum, and take $100 bills and at least get some warmth out of it and get more out of that than what I’m doing right now with my tax dollars.
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Well, exactly. And so the income tax was reinstituted. They had one during the Civil War that was unconstitutional, 1913. And it was only supposed to be 1% on people making $100,000 in 1913 dollars. And so they started off, and until about 1940, only about 15 to 20% of the people had to file. The rest of the people didn’t. So it was truly a tax on wealthier income people, not everybody. But when we started ramping up manufacturing for World War II, and we were the arsenal of democracy, then all of a sudden 100% of the people had to file tax returns And a lot more people had to pay taxes for the war. And then after the war, here’s where it got us. And I read this in David Brinkley’s book, When Washington Goes to War, because they instituted withholding tax during World War II to make it easier for people to pay taxes. And when the war stopped, they cut defense spending. And all of a sudden, you got all this revenue going into Washington. And the politicians said, well, what are we going to do with this? And one of them said, well, you think we should give it back to the taxpayers? And another one said, well, nobody’s complaining. I guess that means they want us to spend it. And so since then, they’ve basically invented ways to spend money, which is evidenced by the things that Doge is pointing out now. They’ve got this glut of money coming in, and they feel like they have to spend more and more and more of it so they can maintain and increase their budgets year after year. And in the process, they abuse we, the taxpayers.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they make us feel like chumps. Well, we are chumps. Yeah, literally.
SPEAKER 04 :
Literally. Hopefully this will end in this administration, and they’ll start respecting the taxpayer again because we’re the ones that fund it. And so that’s why I like exposing all of these wasteful spending. I think we’re going to see corruption beyond our comprehension before it’s over with. And I think there are people on both sides of the aisle that are guilty of abusing federal funds. And I can’t wait to see some of that and see things cleaned up. And if President Trump is successful, I believe the Republican Party will reign for 100 years or more, just like they did after President Roosevelt with the Democrats.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, Richard, I cannot argue with you on that at all. I think this is something that… A good portion of Americans, not all, because you and I both know that there are some net tax receivers. Not everybody is a net taxpayer, but the net taxpayers definitely see this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yes, and that’s every piece of information that comes out is an encouragement because you’re right. Paying taxes are one thing. If it goes to people in need, just national defense, things that will build the country for the future, no one begrudges that. But we don’t want to see money wasted, thrown overseas. thrown out the window. I’ve seen this with my university as well as local governments also. So there’s opportunities at every level of public money to clean things up.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and again, Doge is really – and this is – these whole hands-off protests and things that we’ve seen happen over the last weekend, Richard, I just – I just shake my head. It’s like people really hands off of waste, fraud and abuse. What do you want them to not do? And this stuff, I mean, Richard, that makes no sense to me whatsoever.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that just goes to show that the people that are protesting have a dog in the fight, so to speak, and they are trying to protect their jobs and and trying to protect the status quo, and they’re trying to do anything they can to make Donald Trump fail. And that shows the important thing. If Donald Trump is saying the things he wants to do, everyone should be for that, because it benefits everyone if he’s successful. And them wanting to retain power over anything else just demonstrates how bad that situation is.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know what, that’s a great point, and I’ve said that many times on this program as well. Just the simple fact that they don’t want to give up waste, fraud, abuse, power, as you say, should tell everybody a lot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, yes, and what I’ve called it is an all-you-can-take buffet. Oh, that’s a fact. And so if you look at the eight of the top richest counties in the United States, eight of the top ten surround Washington, D.C. And I’ve told people when I’ve gotten off the airplane in Washington, I feel like there’s a vacuum pulling my wallet out of my pants because all the money is being taken to Washington.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and I don’t think that’s the wrong feeling. That’s exactly what is happening.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and so part of this, I think, is also masked in this movement to a globalist government. And I think we can see physical and monetary policy that’s made us subservient to a future globalist government in the past. And I think you would agree that the best government is the government closest to the people. And it’s bad enough when it’s a state government. It’s worse as a national government. And God forbid we ever have a single global government because then there would be no consideration for individuals whatsoever.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s what’s so maddening to me about all of the tariff talk and the things that are going on there, Richard, is the reality is that is a way to level the playing field and stop some of that globalization. And man alive, Richard, as you can tell, Wall Street hates that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. And President Trump has exposed that the deal that was cut after World War II. I mean, we went in and our defense group went in and won the war. Then we paid for the reconstruction of Germany and Japan and Europe. We paid for all that. And then we set deals up to make their economy have an advantage over ours. that have been in place this last 80 years. And all President Trump is trying to say is, hey, that’s long enough. Let’s make this thing more equal because nobody’s helping us and we’re about to go broke.
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In the end, do you think they can get this done at the White House or the legislative level? Do you think they can do this?
SPEAKER 04 :
Gosh, I hope so, because I think it’s our only chance in our lifetime to see this. And if it’s done, as I say, I think it will empower the Republicans if they go along with it and enact it and are successful for 100 years, because it will revolutionize our government back to something more closely resembling to what it was during the founding.
SPEAKER 14 :
And maybe a better question is, will the left allow that to happen?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, they’re going to do everything they can to stop it. And their ally, the media, is doing that as well. They’ll take the negative side of any story. They’ll only present half-truths, which my dad used to tell me the biggest lie in the world is a half-truth. And so the media is full of half-truths, trying to confuse and create fear and uncertainty and doubt in the people so that we will not back the president and his efforts. And so we need to stand firm. and let him go through this because I think he’s on the right track to right the ship.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. I think, by the way, I don’t disagree with you. I think you’re right. I do think that there’s a lot to do in that area, and this is the other question I had for you, is there’s a short time to get this done because of the election that comes up in 2026.
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Yes, and one of the things that I just detest is is Congress, this is a time they need to be working more. And here they are with this same old type of calendar they have every year, where they’ll work two or three weeks and take long vacations, and they say they’re going to work with the constituents, and that’s all fine, but they’ve got business to do in Washington. There’s not been a regular budget passed since 1997. There’s all kinds of things that need to be codified. So they need to be there working and getting those things done. That’s a major priority to reinforce the president’s actions.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right, Richard. Again, I hope that this stuff does happen. I’m not going to say that it won’t. I guess we’ll wait and see what happens. But I’m like you. I’m hopeful that we’ll get something done.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we need to hang tough. We need to support people trying to get this done, including the president. And we need to tell people the same thing and encourage them to hang tough as well.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. I appreciate it, Richard. How do folks find you and get books that will help them out with presence here as we head down the stretch into graduation?
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Well, we appreciate that. RichardBattle.com is the website. If they order there, everything’s assigned volume. If they like an inscribed version for a gift, email me, Richard, at RichardBattle.com after ordering. Everything’s at Amazon, including Kindle and audio versions as well.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And, you know, really quick, back to Richard’s conversation on taxes and all of that. And hopefully you guys have all got things dialed in because tax day is Tuesday, so a week from yesterday. That’s the 15th. And if not, you need to file your extensions or whatever else you need to do. Keep in mind that even if you file an extension, whatever taxes you owe still have to be paid along with that extension. You don’t get off not paying. So you’ve got to be within, I believe… Don’t quote me on this, but I think it’s within 10% of what you owe. Otherwise, you’re going to get a big fine along those lines. So make sure that you’re actually estimating things fairly closely, your accountant or whoever is doing that. And if you owe, you’re going to have to pay regardless, and you can file taxes in that manner. during that extension time, which runs all the way to October the 15th. So if that’s something you need to take care of, then make sure you get that done by Tuesday, because the last thing you want to do is not do that, because the penalties, by the way, for not filing on time, for being late, by the way, even if you owe, not filing is a penalty. Not paying the full amount is another penalty, and this is how the IRS starts stacking on fee after fee after fee, and it really adds up over time. So do not get caught in that trap of just saying, oh, I’ll get to it someday. There are some things in life you can do that with. not the irs eventually trust me eventually it will catch up and if you’re somebody that has not filed for example for a length of time you hear these stories all the time well i i haven’t filed a return in 10 years okay they will eventually catch up to you and i always wonder about those people it’s like we haven’t filed in 10 years meaning you don’t have any credit In summary, you’re saying, well, what do you mean by that? Well, if you do anything, especially business-wise, and you don’t have tax returns and the like, you’re not getting lines of credits, and if you’re self-employed, you’re not getting a mortgage and things along those lines. So your ability to borrow money and do things along those lines is really hindered If you don’t have these things all dialed in. Now, if you’re self-employed, you typically know this or you should know this. Your tax advisor, accountant, whoever should be telling you those things. If not, I am. And the other thing that the IRS will always tell you, and this is true with any law, by the way, ignorance isn’t an excuse. You can’t say, well, I didn’t know. No, that doesn’t fly either. That doesn’t fly. You could say, I didn’t know I needed to file a return for such and such. You’re still going to get penalized. You’ll have to pay the penalty. And just as a side note, if you’ve never been through this, if you owe the IRS and they come back and say, okay, yep, you owe us X, they have the ability and will take over bank accounts and seize assets and do all sorts of other things to get their money. They’re not going to be left out in the cold. It’s not what they do, trust me. You see at times different businesses that will be seized and what have you. Sometimes it’s locally for sales tax or things like that, but in a lot of cases it’s income tax. And believe me, even though they know they’re not going to get their full amount, they will take whatever they can get. And if you’re a business owner and you’re trying to skip out and not pay whatever tax is due… they’re going to come find you. Trust me. And you may think that, well, I’ll get by for X amount of time. And you may. You may get by for X amount of time. But believe me, it’s going to catch up. And it will. And they’ll find you. And they will find you. Not just find you. They will find you. And depending upon how things go, there’s people that have gone to jail over this. This is one area they don’t dink around with. Now, something else. I read this the other day. People are stating that if there’s ever a time to cheat on your taxes, it’s this year because of some of the changes going on with Doge and agents and so on. Yeah, I wouldn’t do that either. I wouldn’t do that either. If you can’t prove legitimately expenses and things along those lines that are in accordance to what you’re filing, I wouldn’t file that way. I wouldn’t take that risk. Some are saying, go for it. I would not advise you on that. Again, eventually, that will catch up. And yes, I know, there’s always that one person that we all know that gets by with it. Or do they? They might tell you that they got by with it, but did they? Those are things you don’t know. So bottom line, no, don’t cheat on your taxes. Do what you need to do. If you owe, you owe. It is what it is. 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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, we are back. Sunny Kutcher joining us now. Young Americans Against Socialism. Sunny, welcome. How are you?
SPEAKER 15 :
Doing well. How are you today?
SPEAKER 14 :
Doing okay. My voice is about gone, but I’m doing all right, so I’m glad you’re here.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, me too. There’s some big developments going on. Sorry to hear about your voice. That’s what happens, I guess, when you talk all day long on the radio, huh?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that and I had a sinus infection that hasn’t helped things out either. But, you know, hey, it is what it is. We’ll make it. Not a big deal. Yes, lots of things going on in not just the world, but here in the U.S. as well.
SPEAKER 15 :
Definitely. It’s, you know, it’s the greatest time to be alive in history. I will say that, you know, the left, the right, people who want the destruction of American values. That’s been happening since America has been around, but I think now freedom is really winning, and I do believe this is a Revolution 2.0 type of era, and I’m really honored to be a part of it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I agree. Okay, so lots to talk about when it comes to tariffs. I’ll do a little bit more of this even in the 5 o’clock hour for all of you listening when it comes to Wall Street and all of that. But in general, Sonny, Trump has stood pretty – a lot of people are saying, well, he reversed course today. He saw what was happening in the markets and the bond market and so on, and he had to reverse course. I don’t see it that way. I think this was all strategic on his part.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, absolutely. I mean, Trump is no dummy, and he’s been talking about tariffs for 30 years, maybe longer. And what did he used to say? My favorite word in the dictionary is tariff. He told us what he was going to do. The voters who voted for him presumably would know that that was part of his plan as far as trade and foreign policy goes. And I don’t believe that he in fact, he said no tariffs on countries that want to negotiate. So he was very open about, you know, what would happen if you chose to follow along. And I really want to stress that, you know, a lot of people are also trying to twist this narrative and say that, you know, we are attacking these countries by putting tariffs on them. No, no, no. This is actually a response. over the many decades that America has been tariffed by those foreign nations.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s exactly right. No, I appreciate you saying that because that is definitely what’s been going on. And no, we don’t need to apologize for that at all. We’re not attacking anybody. We are, and I say this all the time on the program, Sonny, I think sometimes people forget this. The news media forgets it all the time. We are the world’s biggest customer.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. I think we supply 35%. I wish I had these numbers. It was right on a post that I saw. But, you know, think of the 30% range of what we produce that supports the global economy. That is literally more than a third of the global economy. And so you really cannot allow a trade deficit like we have to go on for so long. Uh, somebody who was interviewed by, I think his name is like Bob light is the girl. I don’t know what to say his last name, but he was interviewed by Tucker Carlson and did a wonderful, uh, strategy analysis discussing why these tariffs actually will work. And that, uh, first of all, they work in other countries. So that kind of right. Bunk is a theory that they don’t work and they’ve worked in the past year when president Trump was in his first term, we saw, you know, some tariffs as well. and i just the trade deficit doesn’t work if it’s sustained if you have a constant outflow of more than you’re producing it just that has that is what has led to the stagnation in our country. I mean, that is what has led to the loss of 300,000 jobs in Michigan alone. That was what the representative, John James, who’s now running for Michigan governor, wrote in his recent announcement, is that Michigan has been decimated. The auto industry has been decimated by the outsourcing of jobs and the factories. And putting even that aside, Kevin O’Leary was talking about the ways that China has actually rips off not only because of the outsourcing and the fact that they use slave labor, but they actually steal companies’ IPs and their products and their technologies. That is what their plan has been all along, is they have regulatory… a rule that they abide by in China because they employ children and peasants who get paid 20 cents a day, and we don’t do that here in America. So we’ve always been at a disadvantage precisely for that reason.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. No, you are exactly right. He’s right as well. In fact, I’ve watched some of his comments of late, even on tariffs and so on. And he’s been one of the few, not the only, but he’s been one of the few guys out there on, you know, the political front. And by the way, Kevin’s not, you know, for a lot of people that are listening, I wouldn’t call him an out and out, you know, conservative. He’s got a lot of conservative principles. There’s a lot of things he and I disagree on when it comes to, you know, certain social issues and things like that. But in this particular case with tariffs, he has been spot on all the way through. And he has not been wrong at all.
SPEAKER 15 :
He’s not been wrong. And I think it also just comes that you don’t need to be an economist to figure this one out. You know, demanding respect and accountability for the values that this country stands for will never steer us wrong. because when you are in a negotiation and president trump is known to do the art of the deal and i think that’s exactly what played out these this past week or you know over a week’s time but when you demand accountability the other country is forced to play their cards the other entity is forced to play their cards and that’s exactly what china did and now the chinese communists are being squeezed the market has bounced back because You can actually see when Trump says something, it reacts. When Trump says something, people trust in what he’s saying. Be cool. You know, Comic-Con even told people when to buy. Like, I’m sure a lot of people were like, what? What do you mean? You know, and then the market had its biggest gain since 2020. So their entire… Their entire talking point was it’s been the worst day since 2020. Well, we’ve had the best day since 2020.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
So that really just put a wrench in their plan.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, the other thing too, Sunny, we need to add to this is, you know, the socialist part of this, i.e., you know, China especially, and you look at how they produce their goods and the thumb that is on People, the average, you know, I talked about this yesterday, the average Chinese citizen making somewhere around six to ten thousand USD a year. The reality is they make a fraction of what we make in this country. Even the top end of that is only like sixteen thousand a year. So the reality is. Because of the oppression that they have on their own people, that’s how they boost their economy. And so all these people running around saying, how can we do this to China? How can we do this to China? Wait a minute. They’re doing this to their own people. What are you talking about?
SPEAKER 15 :
Of course, they’ve only been using our country as a source to gain wealth, to enrich the elite at the top, when most of China is actually inhabited by peasants who are either farmers or are indentured servants, essentially, to the Chinese Communist Party. I mean, are people forgetting that China is, in fact, run by the Communist Party, I think? China has done such a fantastic job to use propaganda to prop themselves up as this regular nation that’s just operating as normal nations do, like we do here in America. That could not be further from the truth.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, you’re right.
SPEAKER 15 :
You’re right. All this has done is exposed people who, like we talked about last week, or I don’t know, I put it on a post, if you are… If your argument against tariffs is, well, this is hurting other nations, this is hurting China, just like you said, you’re basically exposing yourself as a globalist or, you know, that you support the Chinese Communist Party. And we know. I mean, Chuck Schumer has been out there waving a Chinese flag. You know, people are in our Congress waving Ukraine flags. It’s very clear that they do not want to put America first. It was very clear, you know, the voters spoke and decided that that was their choice, that they felt America was being put first because, you know, of having President Trump as our president. And I think he’s doing exactly what he intended to do. So it’s a little, you know, I think that what I like to call this manufactured outrage, President Trump is just throwing the kitchen sink away. because that is how you keep the far-left radicals on their toes. If they get too much time, they use the crisis just like they were trying to do with the stock market. All of a sudden, everybody’s an economist, and they know exactly how the stock market works. Looking at numbers, looking at the candlesticks, and saying, you know, oh, how could he do this? When the entire time, you know, All of it was eat the rich, occupy Wall Street. Our economy and how well the middle class is doing isn’t based on the stock market. Now, all of a sudden, he’s destroying the middle class. So all this says to me is that the left is consistent at lying, twisting the truth and producing propaganda in order to lie to you so that you are easily controlled and push their agenda for them.
SPEAKER 14 :
The whole this last weekend, all of their hands off protests that they did prove exactly what you just said, Sonny.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. And that is literally all they have. I mean, because they don’t have they don’t want to have policies. They’re only interested in taking down and destroying. They don’t want to build up. They don’t want America to be successful.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, they don’t.
SPEAKER 15 :
They support globalism. That’s right. Like so simple.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, in a lot of ways, Sonny, it really is really, really simple at the end of the day. And why more even Sonny conservatives? I don’t know why even some conservatives struggle so much with this because it’s like, well, wait a minute. If you just look at the big picture and you look at everything that’s going on and you look at what other countries, by the way, are doing to us, and I will be the first to admit, not every – country that we’re terrifying is a communist regime. Although, bear with me here, Sonny, although you look at a country even south of our border, which I have a lot of respect for the folks in Mexico, a lot of the people that are down there, they’re hard workers, they’re good people, they’re family people. I get that end of things. Although, that’s a country whereby… It’s not necessarily communists that they’ve allowed in and run the country. They let the cartels run the country, which, by the way, isn’t that far off of having communism.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. I mean, call it call it by a different name. But we’re talking about nations and populations that are governed with, you know, an eye with an iron fist with by control that they are governed. an oppressive control that they cannot you know they don’t live in a republic where they create the laws that their leaders are supposed to follow or that they have a constitution that protects rights that they’re supposed to follow so you can apply that to the cartel a great example the communist party the nazi party all of these things even you know i would say personally islamic fundamentalist muslim countries good point that operate under syria law i mean that’s another story that was used this week all these you know islamic uh, communities that are being pushed out and, and that are, they’re literally operating Sharia law in this country, which is just, it’s very, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thank you for bringing that up, Sonny. The, there’s a video out there. If you guys haven’t seen it yet, I would highly suggest that you, you go watch it. I haven’t had time to play it, Sonny, but it’s, it’s where there’s all of these European quote unquote leaders, mayors, et cetera, that are all a part of what you’re talking about. And it’s like, you guys are knuckleheads. Why are you allowing this?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s, It’s outrageous. This has to be a major course correction here, and we must expose this. I mean, any person is free to practice any religion that they want in this country that is protected under the First Amendment, freedom of religion, but you are not allowed to submit and force people to comply with Sharia law. That is unacceptable. That does not happen in this country, constitutionally at least. But, you know, just to kind of finish our point about the tariff thing is that I think, what is it, 75-plus countries have come to the table and decided that they want to make a deal because they don’t want additional or reciprocal tariffs, rather. And that was the point all along. And so, once again, I just think this strategy has worked so well because it’s been completely transparent. And China has exposed themselves. And, you know, you mentioned a good point of people who are not, you know, conservatives or people who are not necessarily like outward globalists or whatnot or hate America or the like that are arguing against these tariffs or don’t support these tariffs because they believe from an economic standpoint that it doesn’t make sense. Because, okay, so what? Because America, we’re not on the level where we can supply enough goods to the rest of the country? Are you saying that, you know, the days of American glorious manufacturing is over? I mean, what a horrible and, you know, negative way to look at our country. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 14 :
Agreed. I agree. Really quick, especially, Sunny, when we are the breadbasket, literally, of the world, we do more to feed the rest of the world probably than any other country out there. Yes, there’s other countries that do well with wheat and things like that, but literally as a country itself and what we do export-wise as far as food and things like that go. And, yeah, to shortchange us and say we couldn’t do these things, the reason we – haven’t, and this is a whole other discussion probably for another day, another segment is, you know, years ago, companies realized, wait a minute, I can go to a foreign country, get the labor for literally 10% of what it is in this country. That should have been fixed at that time, not now, but Trump is now fixing it because it finally has come to a head and it has to be fixed now, not down the road. You keep kicking his cow down the road, it’s just going to get to be a bigger and bigger problem, is my point.
SPEAKER 15 :
Precisely, and I think it was Kevin O’Leary or someone that talked about how these corporations, and a lot of people don’t even know how this even works, including myself. I don’t own a corporation. I don’t own a big business where I’m like, okay, I’m going to go build a factory in China because we’re going to mass produce a product for people. Too bad we can’t get $10 shoes on Shein anymore, right? How awful. But the point is that you go to this country, like you said, okay, I can make it for 10% or whatever the profit margin is. But what China does is tell you, okay, we’re going to take your product. Basically, you’re going to give us all rights to how to build your product. You build the factory, you give us the money, you build the factory, and then we’re going to employ our child workers and slave indentured servant workers in your factory for, you know, 16-hour days or whatnot. And thanks for the money, and we’ll just ship it back to you at a cost, you know, at a lower cost. So, I mean, yeah, sure, if you’re running a business, that helps your bottom line, I guess, but… If you are, you know, for American manufacturing, it doesn’t really help us at all. And, yeah, that’s why we’re in this predicament that we’re in. So it’s very important to look at this from a long-term strategy, which I think many people are seeing. I think even people who were down last week are now coming back up. They’re like, okay, you know, and the whole China thing, like people are, I think that actually has proven to some people like, okay, there was, there’s, this is a long-term strategy. And the fact that, you know, if allies are going to come together to compete with China and kind of push back against the squeeze that they’ve had on the entire world for a long time now is at least proving that this has some, I mean not some, but a huge influence on the global trade.
SPEAKER 14 :
I saw a video last night. Have not, for all of you listening, I have not had time to verify this. I do not know if this is real or not. It just happened to be a video that I caught, and I would venture to guess that it’s probably more accurate than you think. It showed the cost of making a Nike tennis shoe that are like $140 retail here in the States, Sonny. That actual cost when they’re made is a buck. Wow. That’s what it is overseas. It’s a buck. Because of everything you rattled off a few minutes ago.
SPEAKER 15 :
That, I mean, I was not expecting… To hear you say a dollar, I was thinking maybe a couple.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, maybe $1. Well, I was thinking, you know, $25, $30, whatever. But as I’m thinking through it and realizing that, well, this is why a lot of those companies offshored a lot of things. Because keep in mind, too, really quick, and I know we’re always tight on time, but when a company, and this is something that could be fixed in this country, we could do some things to make things better for manufacturing in this country, but we don’t. For example, you can go to another country. Go there with the plans on this is the plant I want to put in. Here’s where I want to put it in. Here’s when I want it up and running and so on. And the reality is you could literally do that in a fraction of the time that it takes to get that done in the U.S., Sonny. Some of that has to do with… Environmental standards. Some of it has to do with local counties and governments and so on and approvals and on and on and on we go. My point is we could fast track a lot of things in this country and allow manufacturing to get a quote unquote pass in some areas. But because we don’t in defense of and this is where it’s this where it gets dicey in defense of those. manufacturers back in the day that offshored part of why they offshored is because of what i just said a moment ago they could go overseas and have a lot less brain damage when it was all said and done than doing that here in the in our country of course i mean it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out to say well this is going to be way better for our our our profit margin i mean
SPEAKER 15 :
But then at the end of the day, it’s like, what are you really supporting? You are actually complicit in supporting the use of child slave labor. That’s right. This is what we’re saying. I mean, so for the humanitarians and the progressive far left, you care about, oh, the American worker. The world. They also don’t care about indentured services of children.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
For 16-hour days and make $50 a month. I mean, so which is it? And that is why, once again, the… The conclusion is that the left just loves to lie because they just don’t care. That’s right. They just don’t care. And they want you to believe their lies. It is very sad that, you know, that you literally have people coming out against tariffs and President Trump because they are siding with communist China. I mean, really? Like, that’s where we’re at. Yeah. The people who need to be exposed are being exposed for the communist-loving supporters that they are.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. How do folks find you, Sunny Young Americans Against Socialism?
SPEAKER 15 :
YAS.org is our website, Y-A-A-S.org. We create content, educational resources for families, all Americans, and kids to learn about the freedom that we have in America, why it’s so special, important to protect. and the dangers of socialism, why it completely destroys countries and just leaves absolute destruction in its wake, 100 million lives taken by communism. So that’s what we’re trying to do is just bring the truth to young people who buy these prepackaged lies that socialism is just about free stuff. and you can get our resources on our website. We would love your support. We’re a 501c3, so you can get that tax deduction, and definitely would love to hear from you and get involved, and can’t wait to speak again next week about something else.
SPEAKER 14 :
Awesome. Appreciate it, Sunny. Have a great rest of your day. Appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you.
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All right, I talked about this bill earlier in the week, and that is HB 25-1312, which is basically the bill that you as a parent, and I’ll talk about this in a moment, even as schools, different types of schools, have to affirm that whatever that child says, you’re affirming that. So in other words, if your 10-year-old comes to you and says, you know, I want to be, you know, I’m a boy and I want to be a girl, I’m a girl, I want to be a boy, you have to affirm that. call them by the name they want to be called by, on and on we go. So keep in mind that this bill requires schools to use a student’s chosen name, even if it differs from their legal name if related to issues of gender identity. A student would be allowed to choose which dress code to follow rather than having it dictated by their biological sex. The bill prohibits deadnaming or misgendering, including using a student’s legal name or a biologically accurate pronoun when the student prefers otherwise. Now, why does this matter? This is an article that I got sent to me. There’s no religious exemption for faith-based schools. So even, you know, schools that don’t believe in all this nonsense, Christian schools, et cetera, homeschooling even, depending upon the situation and whether you’re helping with other homeschoolers and so on, you could see how this would even get into some of those other areas. Reality is there’s no exemptions for that. Doesn’t matter. If you’re a faith based school and you miss, quote unquote, gender someone, you could also be in trouble, even though that goes against your deeply held beliefs. Mine as well. You guys already know my feelings on this. I won’t play that game. If you’re Johnny, you’re Johnny. You’re not Sally. If you’re Sally, you’re Sally. You’re not Johnny. And don’t ask me to call you anything other than that, because that’s just psychotic. You are participating in their psychotic behavior by doing that. And it’s nonsense. And until the rest of us that are adults in the room start calling it nonsense, it’s not going to change. But we’ve got legislators down at the Golden Dome here in Colorado that want to play this game. By the way, these are very, very sick and twisted and mentally ill individuals themselves, if you ask me, or they wouldn’t be pushing this kind of nonsense through. HB 25-1312. All right, that’s it for hour number two. We’ll be back for another hour. Don’t go anywhere. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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