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Well, I lost the bet. You lost the bet. You see that? With us right now, the best economist, the great Steve Moore, he, among other things, he runs the committee to unleash prosperity.

They put out the best briefing of news and what?

Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.

He's gone.

Well, you just had him on hold.

Well, we'll get him back.

We got them back.

It's called the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.com. If you go there and sign up for

the daily briefing, it really gives you five or six great stories every day, really good stuff

and the best analysis. It's free. It'll come right to your email. Committee to Unleash Prosperity.com.

We do have, Steve Moore, how you doing?

Hey, Mark, it's good to be with you.

I'm doing just fine.

I see that they're going to impose a new tax to go into New York.

They're going to charge you like $30 to bring a car into New York.

That's just what New York needs, more taxes.

Yeah, well, it's $15, but it's $24 to $30 for trucks.

Now, won't that increase the cost of everything sold in every store in Midtown? It sure will. And, you know, look, New York actually has a falling population. You should be encouraging businesses and people to move in, not to move out. And, you know, as my old buddy Larry Cutlow and our lapper would say, if you tax something,

you're going to get less of it.

So if you tax people for running the city, they're not going to come.

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