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🗓️ 20 February 2025
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0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
0:06.6 | Michael, you were the head of the Republican Party. |
0:08.8 | Republican Party's always been for tax cuts. |
0:10.1 | That's not new. |
0:12.3 | But now what they're doing is, you know, there was always this lie that they were going to be paid for. |
0:16.3 | You know, they're going to be paid. |
0:17.0 | They're never paid for, right? |
0:17.9 | They always just blow a hole in the deficit. |
0:19.4 | But now they're literally like, we're cutting farmers money and Medicaid, and don't worry, we're going to send |
0:26.9 | you 5K, which they, when are they going to send them that? And if you've lost your farm, well, |
0:31.7 | that doesn't help. Your thoughts? No, I agree with that. None of it is geared towards the working middle class of this country and |
0:40.6 | certainly not the working poor. And so there's programs which Doge is going after in the guise of |
0:48.0 | efficiency is really more designed to create those lanes to justify spending on the back year all back in all this money |
0:57.2 | all of this money is being accumulated to to your lead in to pay for the tax cut that's the end game |
1:05.7 | so let's not be stupid people and understand exactly what the deal is here. This is not about government |
1:12.4 | efficiencies because there's nothing efficient about what Elon Musk is doing. Secondly, |
1:19.3 | the New York example of the pricing that the city put in place with the state's approval. This flies in the face of everything |
1:30.9 | that George Mason talked about. There were a lot of folks at the time concerned about an overreaching |
1:36.9 | federal government. So the party that said, hey, you know, the federal government has no place |
1:41.9 | in states' rights, that little 10th Amendment thing, |
1:45.1 | right, where the states get to call the shots for themselves and their local governments. |
1:49.3 | Even that's now blown out of the water. That cover has been exposed. So now we have a full of |
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