How much of a threat is Islam to America's future stability and prosperity? The show reacts to a new labeling of CAIR as a terrorist organization and viral footage out of heavily-Muslim Dearborn. Saagar Enjeti discusses the debate over abolishing property taxes, which has inspired a massive reaction from show viewers. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So, so today's opening story is going to be Islam versus America.
There's a lot of these stories that are kind of coming together all at one time, coalescing.
And I thought it was really apropos because, Blake, you know, there's a lot of talk right now online about the fracturing of the right or that, you know, different groups are chipping at each other.
And there's people, we like to argue always, frankly, and but just especially, we'll be, we'll admit it.
The elections in Virginia, New Jersey were challenging.
They weren't results we were hoping for.
And always after that, that ends up with some sniping, some blaming.
And then there's other stuff that's been going on.
You know, we don't even want to name names and like dive into it.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
It's a lot of stuff Charlie fought so hard against.
Charlie, all he just cared about looking forward, building the coalition, finding the common ground where there was disagreement.
Absolutely.
And we were talking just before this show, what would Charlie be wanting to do right now?
And he wouldn't be wallowing in disagreements.
He would be thinking, what can unite us?
And one of those things he cared so much about uniting us on before his death was, hey, guys, one of the problems facing America is this rising tide of Islam.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And so what we saw, and I think it's a really important, I think, event, cultural event, but I think it's a precursor of things that we are probably going to see more of, unfortunately.
And that was in Dearborn, Michigan, where you had, let's say, hundreds.
I've heard as many as a thousand.
I'm not sure on the total numbers.
We couldn't verify it.
But protesters that came out, they announced that they were going to do this protest on November 10th.
And then they said we're going to do it on November 18th.
So they only had like eight days or so between the announcement and the protests.
Went to Dearborn and there were clashes in the streets yesterday.
Apparently, there was a J6 prisoner, Jake Lang, who was involved in kind of, I think it got more heated as soon as he got involved, but they were just trying to say, hey, listen, this is America.
Dearborn is kind of ground zero for, it's probably a terrible expression to use when we're talking about the Islamification of America, but it's ground zero for this mass migration that's happening within the West, largely, especially in the UK.
You and Charlie visited the UK, and that was one of your largest observations.
But now it's happening in Dearborn.
And we've got Mom Donnie as the new mayor in New York.
A lot of things are coming together.
And then yesterday, Blake, Governor Greg Abbott went on X, went on Twitter and said, Today I designate the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on America Islamic Relations, CARE, as foreign terrorists and transnational criminal organizations.
This bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down.
Big moment.
For sure, for sure.
And, you know, CARE, it gets brought up, so it is an Islamic advocacy arm in the United States, but it's long had friction where it gets, you inevitably get involved with some shady stuff.
And so something that actually was just reported yesterday in the New York Post, the California chapter of CARE, they were cutting $1,000 checks through something called the Champions of Justice Fund.
And what those $1,000 checks were going to, among others, were agitators on U.S. college campuses, the ones who were shutting down entire campuses, harassing other students, taking over buildings as part of their anti-Israel protests, which in early 24, which we'll be frank, frequently spiraled into just outright violent, anti-Semitic, disruptive behavior.
And they were getting funded by CARE.
And that gets at the heart of what we've talked about also with Antifa, which is there are these left-wing nonprofit arms whose purpose is to provide ideological cover and financial support for barely legal or just aggressively illegal behavior by their more rank-and-file individuals.
And you have to break these networks up.
You can't just have financial subsidies endlessly going to people who are terrorists, terrorist sympathizers, rioters, disruptors, the people who actually aren't winning at the ballot box.
And so they impose what they want through the streets and through the courts rather than ever winning an election.
Yeah, well, I mean, CARE for, you know, what it's worth.
They call themselves a social justice or civil rights.
We're a civil rights organization.
Which is, by the way, it's just par for the course.
They're going to launder radical Islamic values, ideas, and frankly, people, because they're very in favor of mass migration from Islamic countries to the West.
They're going to launder those ideas in left-coded language, right?
So they're going to wrap themselves in the ideas and language of the left in order to destabilize the countries.
But CARE has alleged ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, including funding terror-designated groups.
They oppose President Trump's travel restrictions and travel bans in Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0, calling it religious-based discrimination.
They had the CARES executive director, Nihad Awad, in 2023 express joy over the October 7th Hamas attacks in Israel.
I was happy to see Palestinians break the siege, was what he said.
They promote Sharia-aligned policies and public institutions.
So, for example, because we're talking about Texas, look what CARE has done in Texas.
CARE has advocated for accommodations like halal meals in schools.
They've advocated to adjust exam schedules for Islamic holidays, allowing imams to perform marriages.
They do that in, I think they already do that in New York.
I think they get Eid off.
That's kind of related to Ramadan.
Yeah, yes, exactly.
So blue districts, you would assume this.
But what Governor Abbott has done in Texas, they're going to get sued.
CARE's going to sue them.
Other people are going to sue them.
But what he has done in Texas, it should be codified by the state legislature.
This should be as strong of a political foot forward as you could make, right?
Because, you know, governors, executive orders from the president, they're all less firm than when you pass them through legislation, right?
They're less reliable, stable.
But this is the other thing.
Look, CARE has even modified jail procedures to align with Islamic practices.
So Charlie used to say this.
Islam is incompatible with the West.
And you have to take this from a macro to a micro.
On the micro level, you are going to meet nice Muslims, okay?
That is not the argument that Charlie made.
That is not the argument that we will make on the show.
You will sometimes, obviously, meet people that are wonderful people of all backgrounds and walks of life.
However, on the macro, Islam is not compatible with the West.
And we have clips of Charlie saying these things, by the way, if we want to throw it away with Charlie.
Let's do 190.
The spiritual battle is coming to the West.
And the enemies are wokeism or Marxism combining with Islamism to go after what we call the American way of life.
And the American way of life is very simple.
I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school, have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school.
While also.
While also not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.
That's important.
We want the American way of life, which is, by the way, Christendom.
Amen.
Never quite got him to leave the tea out of Christendom.
Such as life.
Such is life.
But we'll have more on this.
But the Muslim call to prayer, once you start hearing it, it's at 4 a.m.
And they play it very loudly because they view that as an assertive, aggressive, an assertive play to show we are taking over this place.
We are terraforming America to resemble the Middle East.
There's a lot of videos of them, you know, telegraphing their next moves.
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All right, so we've mentioned this Dearborn thing.
I want to play a couple of these scenes really quick because this was a collision of Christians, right?
You can debate whether they were being good Christians or bad, but they socially identified and represent themselves as Christians versus Muslims in the streets.
And it was a collision, there's no doubt.
And here's one that was really disturbing to me, obviously, given our this is the Charlie Kirk show.
This is a Muslim calls for Christians protesting that they're going to get Charlie Kirked.
Play cut 221.
He just said he hopes he hopes Jake gets Charlie Kirk.
You hope I get Charlie Kirk?
You hope he gets killed because you don't like him?
What?
Yeah, you hope he gets killed because you don't like him.
I suppose we'll be hearing that one for a long time, won't we?
Yeah.
Which sadly.
You know what?
I hate it, but at the same time, there's something satisfying or useful when the mask comes off, when they just admit what they want.
Yeah.
Hopefully people notice.
And you see just how depraved they are.
I totally agree.
Here's Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hamoud to a resident.
You do not belong in this city, Islamophobe.
Get out.
225.
I mean, Hezbollah, you know, bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans.
So I just feel it's quite inappropriate.
You are an Islamophobe.
And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you're not welcome here.
And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.
Jeez.
Good people.
And this is what they do.
This is what I want to make very clear.
Their whole goal is to infiltrate mayor by mayor, elected office by elected office.
And then they're going to, essentially, their plan is to outbreed.
They were going to immigrate and they're going to outbreed Americans and Westerners more broadly.
And I want to play this clip, actually.
I believe, yeah, this is Bridget Gabriel.
She's been on the show before with Charlie.
And she talks about how successful Muslims were in these past elections.
Play Cut 220.
42 Muslim candidates won elected office.
42, 76 ran and 42 got elected.
So while all eyes were on Mamdani in New York, the Muslims were able to sweep such victories for the first time in American history across at least nine states occupying positions.
And last clip I'm going to play in this segment, but this is an Islamic Imam explaining how they plan to take over America, and it ties into that last clip: Play Cut 222.
Let's work towards a Muslim mayor.
Next election that comes in, nominate people for the school board of education.
Next election that comes here, nominate people for the local township.
Begin the demographics change.
People converted.
There's a big, huge conversion going on in this country.
So that's demographic change, mayor by mayor.
I mean, this is their plan.
It is a conquering.
Maybe, Blake, that's the question.
Explain why Islam is more than a religion.
It's actually a political ideology.
Well, it is.
It is.
The thing about Islam is, in contrast to Christianity, if you read the Gospels, if you read the early Christians, there can be places that are very Christian, but Jesus doesn't actually talk a lot about how you're supposed to organize a state, how you're supposed to organize a government.
It is mostly about individuals or faith communities.
Islam from the start is political.
Muhammad is the political leader of the first Muslims.
They have the concept of a caliph who is a political leader of all Muslims.
Islam has from the very beginning specific rules.
How should an Islamic state be organized?
And what this means is, is you have far more explicit rules of this is what you should endeavor to do in your country.
That is what Sharia is.
Sharia means Islamic, like law according to Islamic principles.
Islam, if you are a devout Muslim, you are explicitly required to pursue those laws.
And so if you're a good Muslim, you are going to be saying we should pursue Sharia.
They might disagree about exactly what it is, but there's no tension like there would be with Christianity.
Like with Christianity, we would have a lot of reasons to say, oh, you can't compel certain things on everybody.
Or there's just no obvious way you're supposed to set up a Christian state.
But with Islam, no such tension exists.
You are, in fact, supposed to set up an Islamic government.
You're supposed to impose special taxes on people who are not Muslims.
You are, I mean, I think they're even supposed to like dress differently.
And there's all of these things.
And so there's this vast history for Muslims to view.
Oh, I am part of, and also it was a conquest thing from the beginning that the faith was created and rapidly conquered the area around it to spread Islam.
So they have an entire history of we can expand, we can take over an area, and then we can impose Islamic law, Islamic norms on that place.
In the past, they did it with actual warfare.
We are now in the 21st century, and they are very aware it can be done demographically.
You'll have Islamic thinkers in their own private sermons and podcasts.
They will say, we are going to conquer the West with our wombs.
That's the wording they'll use.
And they say the West is a woman to be mounted.
This is very much their intention, and we better wake up to it.
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I'm excited about our next guest.
We actually tried to do this yesterday and ran into weather disruptions and power outages here in Phoenix.
And that's Sagar and Jetty, host of Breaking Points, a really popular show.
And Sagar is a really, you are, you're welcome.
Welcome to the show, Sagar.
Thank you, guys.
Thanks for having me.
You are a contrarian thinker on a lot of topics, I think, and you always make it interesting, whether that's daylight savings time or in this case, property taxes.
And you and Blake, I think, are of the same mind here.
What is your take on this push in Florida to eliminate property taxes?
Yeah, first of all, just thank you guys for having me.
My first time joining the program since Charlie's passing.
I just want to commend you both for the job that you guys are doing.
And I'm very, very sorry that Charlie and I never got to have the fight about daylight savings time that we were once promised.
So R.I.P. Charlie, we will one day be able to have that.
But on property tax in general, there's been a new push by Governor DeSantis.
This is picking up on quite a few red states, Governor Abbott and others in Texas, pushing explicitly to either abolish property tax, and in a more objectionable case, in my opinion, specifically carve out property tax exemptions for older homeowners.
And something that I'm really passionate about is defending the very idea of property tax very specifically while also being able to critique individual school districts because I believe that it's very important to preserve the local connection of the taxpayer to the community.
And one of my more recent objections right now, specifically, is that it actually centralizes control of education, of police, public services, and others at the state and the federal level.
And if you really think back to the founding of our republic, property tax is in many ways the most American tax that exists.
14 out of the 15 colonies had property taxes by 1796.
Thomas Jefferson actually believed that property tax was the most righteous tax that could exist here in the United States.
And so I'm concerned more specifically at a very high level that this is largely a giveaway to the wealthy landowner class, which, yes, also disproportionately happens to be much older, and that it is not one that prioritizes younger families, turnover, and other healthy elements of a housing market, which remains, as you guys know, as Charlie knew as well, one of the central pain points for the burgeoning American family.
And if we care about families, caring about housing, housing policy, school district funding is something that we all really need to think very deeply about.
And I just think this goes in the wrong direction.
Yeah.
So I just want to say we always invite response from our listeners, freedom at charliekirk.com.
And I will say the discussions we have had on this topic have been volcanic.
We've gotten a ton of emails about it.
And I'll be frank, they are mostly hostile to you and me, Sager.
That a lot of people, you know, we got a lot of very authentic stories, people talking about how they had to work and save their entire lives to be able to their homes, or how they are, you know, there are seniors who are economically struggling right now and they feel singled out and it's really bad.
And I don't want to downplay any of those things.
And I want to emphasize we are not engaging in generational warfare on the old.
I am not advocating dispossess the old.
We are not saying the old are villains.
But what we have to recognize is if we're going to change our tax system to make American life more affordable, that's the goal of this.
The goal is fighting for affordability.
We have to think who benefits most and also who is actually hurting the most in America.
And what you know, Sager, is Charlie talked about this all the time.
The people who are in the most dire situation in America are the young.
They feel like they have no path forward to what their parents and grandparents had access to.
And as a result, they're becoming very radical on the left and on the right in many cases.
And so I think it would be disastrous for us to pursue a tax policy of abolishing of just abolishing property tax when it is almost certain that this will mean raising the tax burden that is paid by young working families.
Because the offset to this is almost inevitably going to be higher income taxes or higher sales taxes.
It's like the hail tax desert.
You squeeze the balloon somewhere and it will expand elsewhere.
And so we have to think where is that balloon going to expand?
Right.
And let me just back up.
Let's talk about Florida specifically, right?
So the Florida Policy Institute estimates there's some 1.5 million Floridians who live in school districts where actually 50% of their funding, over 50% of that funding, comes specifically from the homestead property tax.
That's about 5% of the Floridian population, but you have some $18.5 billion in shortfall that an exemption of homestead property tax would happen.
Now, as Blake said, inevitably, especially in a state like Florida, where you have no income tax, the money is going to have to be made up from somewhere else.
So that could impose like a tourist tax.
If you guys have ever stayed in Florida, you know, different rates for hotel rooms, if you're a Florida resident, if you're not, and of course, you know, it's not like the Disney vacation for a family member is already not exorbitantly expensive.
But secondary to that is it will almost certainly have to be made up in some other form.
Sales tax is usually the way that this goes about.
And, you know, one of the reasons I'm really passionate about this is I grew up in the home state of Texas.
And I think it's really important to say that one of the things I'm proud of is that so many Americans who live in unaffordable hellholes like where I am here in the DMV, where child care is $150,000 a year on average, actually literally where I live, where the median home values are well over $1 million.
I think that's disastrous.
I think it's the most anti-family place in the world.
The median home buyer around here is some 40 or 50 years old.
I'm very proud people are moving to my home state of Texas to raise families for affordable housing.
But what recently happened is what we took is that family dream.
And instead, we basically pass off the societal, the societal compact.
We're all in this together.
The silent generation paid property taxes for boomers whenever their children were going to school.
And now by abdicating that responsibility and explicitly trying to take school taxes out of seniors, and I understand, you know, about the cost of living increase, et cetera, for Social Security not necessarily keeping up, but it is important to note that this idea about so-called fixed income is one that actually does apply across the entire income spectrum.
Blake, I thought you made a really excellent point on the show earlier where when a young person who lives anywhere and sees a 30 to 40 percent increase in their rental income, you know, the median conservative argument to that is, well, I'm sorry, you know, the free market has consequences and you're simply going to have to move.
And, you know, the point about the societal compact is when we also start to talk about Medicare and Social Security and the entitlement funding, which currently is being outflowed, being paid for by the younger generation, I just think it's important for that compact that we all explicitly pay into and support the system.
And I don't think there's anything more important than supporting younger families right now who, as Blake said, ultimately tax policy is a zero-sum game.
Like the funding does actually do need that does need to come from somewhere.
And largely, the vast majority of Americans live in states right now where they have older, you know, they have exemptions for older homeowners and increasingly pass the buck to the younger homeowner, the younger family who is having a lot of difficulty making ends meet right now.
And that is my singular mission, if there is one, is to try and make it to advocate for policy, which will actually make it easier for them.
Yeah, I mean, I think this is, you know, I think everybody's heart is in the right place.
We want more families, we want more marriages.
We want to restore the social compact for Gen Z. My one pushback here is, and I want to, I was not aware that Thomas Jefferson said it was the most righteous of all the taxes.
One of the most righteous.
One of that.
Please explain why, if you, if you know, why he said that, what his rationale was for that.
I'm just curious.
Yeah, at the time of the colonies, it's very important to remember, and you guys discussed this as well, the idea of a general income tax or a capital gains tax or any of these other taxes was anathema.
Really, a lot of it was alcohol taxes, like a Paguvian syntax.
It was tariffs and it was property tax.
Property owners were the only ones who could vote at that time.
But very importantly, it was seen as a way as the property owner themselves is benefiting from the social benefit of what it would pay for.
Let's say from the mail system to eventually evolved into cops, into schools.
And that's why 14 out of the 15 colonies by 1796 had a property tax on the books.
In fact, there used to be something called a general property tax, which we don't even have anymore.
And so I really do understand how difficult it can be.
You know, when you look at your mortgage and especially with the so-called reassessments of home outviews, and more importantly, people saying, I don't feel like I'm getting enough for my property tax.
But my real message to you is you have the ability to change that on a level more than any other.
I mean, if you live in the state of Florida, there's what, millions of people who live in the state of Florida, the realistically, your ability to campaign and to change policy at the state level is very low.
And, you know, issues that you guys have talked about here on the show, one reason why parents felt so much courage to come and speak up, let's say, against critical race theory or transgender or something, was because, you know, as taxpayers, we pay into this.
We're directly funding it and we have that access.
And by removing that, you actually really do remove the social compact between the parent and the locality and the ability to influence turnover and ultimately to govern our own destiny, which is what local government really is all about from our police force, you know, from electing sheriff.
Like so much of this is actually baked deeply into the American spirit.
And so, long way to answer your question, is it was about localism and it was fundamentally about community.
And it was seen as both a way to raise revenue, but also to turn people into good citizens and to recognize the ability for us to influence where those policies could and which direction they could go.
Well, I should, I want to flag this only because we did get an email recently pointing this out from Heather in Florida who says there are proposals where it would eliminate the advalorum property tax except for school funding, which might be I think it'd probably be a superior way other than the fact that obviously our public school funding is one of the most wasteful things we have.
But I have another historical question for you, Sager.
I'm curious because, you know, we're talking about the landed gentry were the only ones that could vote back at America's Founding.
Was it just a property tax on like working farms and productive pieces of land that made a revenue?
Or was it actually a property tax on, you know, if you owned a home in a township somewhere?
So it was Colony by Colony and it was also what Blake is saying is about the general property tax.
So it wasn't just necessarily on that.
It was also on the amount of stuff that you actually owned and its overall assessed value.
But it was variable and different a little bit and from some of the reading that I have done.
I do think it's important though to address that point and to where we're talking about, you know, today, which is one of the reasons why I think this is really important is because the homeownership class largely is on the older side of the spectrum.
And one of the things that I think all of us on this show are trying to get into is how can we make it so that younger families can afford homes.
And so ultimately, when we have so many policy proposals, which largely are going to benefit some of the older Americans, which are, you know, rapidly appreciated their own housing stock, which, you know, if you look at their stock portfolios or overall wealth generation, we should also be looking perhaps at inverse proposals that say, oh, well, if we're going to, let's say, give exemptions or others, then we need to look at where does it encourage, let's say, a first-time homebuyer and others.
And I think, unfortunately, like I said in my home state of Texas, we're going in the opposite direction.
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I love this tweet from you, Sager.
You go, property tax is the only issue aside from weed that I have received as much hate for.
This is absolute confirmation I am over the target.
I think that's been your experience too, Blake.
I mean, I want to be as charitable as possible because I know we have 350 million people in this country.
Plenty of people have a lot of challenges, and we should always avoid any, you know, hateful warfare that stereotypes everyone as all the same.
And so it's easy to say, like, oh, rich boomers living it up and wanting to go on cruises.
I know a lot of people are not doing that.
We're getting emails from them where they talk about how hard it is, but we have to avoid generational warfare the other way.
And I always want to emphasize: if you're going to just abolish or radically cut property taxes or make special carve-outs, if you're not actually attacking government spending directly, that bill is going to be paid another way, and someone's going to pay that price.
And that's attacking them just as much.
Yeah, well, and Sager, I'm going to give you an opportunity to respond to that because I'm actually in favor of maybe some ideas where when somebody retires and maybe it's means tested, maybe we freeze it at a certain rate or something like that.
I want to throw a graphic up here just to kind of underscore the point that you guys are making.
And this is from Fortune magazine: 159.
It's the age distribution of home buyers and sellers by generation.
So you see that weighted really high up at the old boomer, young boomer, and old Xer.
Those are the three biggest.
Meanwhile, millennials and Gen Zers are lagging far behind.
And then there's also this.
It's a visual, another one, 163.
It shows that boomers make up 50% of the wealth in the country.
And then you see those small little slivers of pies for millennials.
And frankly, Gen Xers are lagging pretty far behind.
Now, I understand boomers are a larger generation, but these are kind of the thoughts that we're exploring.
And we're saying, hey, listen, let's give some for Gen Z or we're going to have a dramatic political revolution in this country.
And you're going to get Mom Donnyism all over the place.
So we've got to find a solution.
We've got to find a solution.
So how about this as a middle ground?
If you retire at 65 and you're on fixed income, and it's maybe based on your ability, your income level or whatever, your wealth level, you could freeze it at a certain level because we are seeing dramatic spikes, maybe not currently this year, but especially after COVID, we saw property values shoot up.
We saw reassessments shoot up the amount of property tax elderly on fixed income had to pay.
Why can't we find some middle ground there?
Or is that the wrong approach?
It's just a little tough, Andrew, because the presumption behind that is that the younger family can also simply just absorb that in there.
Where, you know, if when we're talking about who actually does get automatic and inflation-adjusted income, unfortunately, you know, if just to speak quite frankly, it's people who are on Social Security.
People on Social Security get the automatic cost of living adjustment, including, by the way, they just got from the one big beautiful bill.
88% of Social Security recipients will now also get it tax-free.
So in terms of the amount of money, specifically state-directed money, what you're getting at is that those people actually have much better ability because of their automatic inflation-adjusted tax-free income to absorb some of the shock that comes while a younger family, you know, technically can go out there and Make more money, but of course, it's very, very difficult in today's job market as well, especially if we look at the wages that track overall inflation, even including CPI inflation.
In general, I'm not really for some stuff like that because we've seen the way that it's played out, let's say, in the state of California, one of the most unaffordable housing markets on the planet, which of course has those frozen property tax rates from the time that people buy, which leads to highly variable problems in the amount that people are paying different neighborhoods depending on when you bought, and has explicitly been proven statistically to actually lock a lot of people in housing stock.
And I know that that can sound a little bit dystopian, but the thing is, is what Blake and I are trying to say is: look, nobody is advocating for anybody being kicked out of a house, but we are accepting market realities where, yes, you know, with large assessment has also, frankly, quite largely increased your own personal wealth.
And if we look at the history of the United States of America and really at the family unit all across the world, you know, downsizing is just simply one of the facts of life in many societies across the world.
It actually would be viewed at extremely strange.
This idea of living in large, not palatial home, but even a three or a four-bedroom, multi-generational housing is viewed much more, you know, as practical and a solution for avoiding having to put people in elderly homes.
And that's simply, you know, part of an American characteristic.
But more importantly, what I am trying to do beyond even the specifics that you're trying to lay out is let's not go far in the point of the way that we did with entitlements, which has led to a lot of the way that we are right here.
If we abolish property tax, well, we're not going to get rid of schools, we're not going to get rid of police.
There has to be other funding vehicles, and especially in states like Florida and Texas, which pride themselves as pro-family states, that's going to have to probably come in the form of a highly regressive sales tax or some other tax, which is almost certain to hit the worker and the younger family member, as well as not increasing the amount of housing stock.
And so we have to accept certain market realities and others that currently exist in the way that our housing market works and the way that all of these things are funded.
And we have to design it so that all of us together can prosper.
And you're right, you know, Zorhan Mamdani, rent control in a lot of ways is the inverse of your rent control and rent price fixing specifically is the inverse of property tax abolishment.
Something I'm going to borrow there from Blake.
And I think people who are conservative can rightfully ridicule that while not recognizing their own impetus to want that same thing when it benefits themselves.
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Thank you guys for having me.
Really appreciate it.
I want to emphasize because it's created such a passionate reaction.
We are not pursuing generational warfare.
We're not attacking anyone who owns a home, anyone who's retired.
We are reminding people we are all in a country and we have people who have the biggest problems, which are young people.
And this would ignite generational warfare to pursue this.
