Mark Simone is back on 710 WOR.

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Steve Forbes, chairman, editor-in-chief, Forbes Media, and great best-selling author.

You should get his latest book, Inflation.

This is a very important book.

Get it, read it, and of course follow them on Twitter. You see them all over television. Of course, read Forbes. Steve Forbes, how are you doing? Doing fine. Thanks. How are you, Mark? I'm good. I'm good. So where do we even start? You know, nobody pushed for electric vehicles more than the Democrats and Trump wanted to end the EV mandate.

They were furious.

Now that they're at war with the biggest electric car in the world, are they going to go along with that dropping the mandate?

Well, I think they're doing all of the above.

And I think this is a fundamental attack on modern socialism.

Modern socialist recognized years ago that you don't have to take over the means of

production.

You don't have to nationalize things.

You can minutely control them by regulation, by obtrusive regulation.

So you take gas stoves.

They didn't bang gas stoves.

The EPA just put in regulations that made 96% of them illegal.

So they do it by that way.

And every aspect of our lives.

Even pizzas, how you make them in New York.

So the administration is doing this very seriously.

And you see that at the EPA with the new commissioner, Lee, Ellen, the administration is doing this very seriously.

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