ABOLISHING the Income Tax? | Don't Let the Left Weaponize Empathy | 1/28/25
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
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🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The conversation covers a range of topics including military policy changes under Trump, economic policies focusing on tariffs versus income tax, reactions to advancements in AI technology, the reinstatement of military members discharged for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations, emotional appeals in the immigration debate, the role of Catholic Charities in immigration law, state responses to immigration policies, the lab leak hypothesis, and narratives surrounding sports and public perception.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 28th, 2025. |
| 0:03.0 | Trump says no more trannies in the military. |
| 0:05.0 | Don't fall for the emotional blackmail on immigration, |
| 0:08.0 | and why the refs rigging games for the Kansas City Chiefs is a figment of your imagination. |
| 0:13.0 | Next on the AM update. |
| 0:15.0 | I want to go back to those military flights going south. |
| 0:18.0 | We, as you said, we have never seen that before. Is that going to be a |
| 0:22.3 | constant commitment from the U.S. military every single day to take deportees out? Yes. |
| 0:28.4 | All my people are getting attacked. And I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops |
| 0:33.4 | needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over a hundred million dollars to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line? |
| 0:48.3 | Last night at House Republicans' annual retreat in Florida, Donald Trump addressed to Republicans and says it's time to get rid of the income tax. |
| 0:57.1 | It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before. |
| 1:03.0 | Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking. |
| 1:13.3 | In other words, relatively. |
| 1:15.2 | And they set up the great tariff commission of 1887, and this commission had one function, |
| 1:25.2 | what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous |
| 1:29.0 | that they had no idea. It was a blue ribbon committee. It was set up 1887 and what to do with all |
| 1:35.4 | of the money that we had. And again, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinnelly was |
| 1:42.2 | killed, he took over this vast sum of money and he did all of |
| 1:47.2 | those national parks and all of the other things. And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast |
| 1:52.5 | amount of money. And that was all made through tariffs. We had no income tax. The income tax came in |
| 1:57.9 | in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our |
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