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April 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 13, 2007, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome back.
Welcome to the uh the big radio show.
Always a pleasure and honor, a thrill, an enlightenment.
I learned from you as we go through this broadcast excursion.
Rush out today.
He'll be back on Monday.
And for those of you that have been uh tuning in and have uh stuck around to listen to me in the past on this program, you know that my um background in my real life is I'm in the investment business and um came out of the uh public accounting arena a number of years ago, got in the investment business and everything else.
So I like to always throw a little a little money, uh a little economics, a little because that's what I do.
I study, that's that's all I in fact.
That's how I really got into broadcasting was I do financial reporting, uh financial analysis, and um and so looking at the calendar and realizing that April 15th is coming up on Sunday, and since the uh Sunday is uh weekend uh that means the 16th,
but this year because of the fact there's this goofy rule about some sort of holiday, if there's a holiday, a federal holiday, which there is a some sort of holiday in Washington, D.C. on Monday, therefore the tax deadline isn't until Tuesday.
I know.
Whoever so anyway, uh uh but it's tack it's tax time.
So I thought we'd go through a little bit of uh there's a great story that I read uh some time ago and I loved it from a professor at the uh University of Georgia.
His name is um uh David Camershin, PhD, professor of economics, University of Georgia.
I don't know if he's still there or not.
This goes back a few years.
Also, before we get into uh all the business about taxes and money and finance and the economy and everything else, did you see where uh Mr. Slim is now the second richest guy and and Mr. Slim may become the first richest guy.
I mean senior slim.
Yeah, this guy is um uh has been number three.
His name is Carlos Slim, and he is a uh he just owns a whole bunch of just about everything.
If you're in Mexico, you're gonna touch a um Carlos Slim product somewhere along the line.
Oh, he's he's very dominant, and he's uh sixty-seven years old.
He's worth fifty-three billion dollars.
Poor old Warren Buffett's only worth fifty-two billion, and uh he's right on the heels of Bill Gates, which is worth fifty-six billion.
And a lot of the Forbes people are saying, hmm, he may uh this keeps going, he's gonna overtake uh uh Bill Gates as the numero uno, richest guy in the world.
So it gets no no no, but it gets better.
I'm not trying to just uh get a ranking list going here.
It gets better.
He owns uh one of his many businesses is the big phone company in Mexico.
And he has holdings throughout Latin America.
And it's it's just odd because here we have this country that's south of us, and we've got all these issues regarding immigration and everything else.
And the reason people don't want to stay in Mexico is not because they don't love their country, it's because of the fact that they want to live, make a living, put food on the table, raise their families, and um uh they've had corruption government down there, and there's the you talk about the very rich and the very poor.
Well, how about the second richest guy coming from this very poor country, very industrious country, very hardworking country that should be and with and just blessed with all kinds of natural resources, you would think they would be able to figure out a way to build their economy so that the Mexican people would love to stay in Mexico and have us uh beg for any of them to come and work here to provide their good work ethic or whatever.
But that's not the way it is.
You got you got this guy, he's very wealthy, and I've had fine.
Somebody gets their wealth, I'm I'm the first one to stand up and say congratulations.
But what cracks me up is that he he uh told uh Associated Press that his vision of a businessman's role in the world is not that of uh Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.
See, he doesn't have to be politically correct, I guess, in Mexico.
What he said was he said, our concept is to uh is more to accomplish and solve things rather than giving.
That is not going around like Santa Claus.
Poverty is not solved with donations.
That from Carlos Slim.
Oh, he says he's at odds with uh Warren Buffett who said he'll donate a billion and a half every year to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
So Bill and Melinda Gates can do with their money what they want.
So can Warren Buffett.
I just thought it was kind of interesting to see that the number two guy and soon to be number one possibly is a guy who says poverty isn't solved with donations, and I don't run around like Santa Claus.
No kidding.
Oh, all right, here's the um so uh oh and here's the other little can I give you a tax tip.
Today is Friday the thirteenth.
Uh I know the weather is uh especially for those of you in the Northeast, you've got this uh big nor'easter heading for you, heavy rains, dangerous winds heading toward the New York and Boston and got the marathon going.
It's it's it's gonna be nasty.
So maybe for you folks, you can sit inside this weekend and work on your taxes.
For the rest of us, you want to just go enjoy the weekend?
Just go on to the IRS websites, IRS.gov.
You know, I I checked yesterday.
You know what the number one most uh sought after piece of information is on the IRS website?
It's the tax extension form.
It's right there, just click on the thing.
It's so simple.
There's like um line one is your name, line two is your address.
You gotta remember your social security number if you have one.
Uh you have you guessed it you can't come up with something stupid, but you but you all you gotta do is guess what you think your taxes will be.
And if you don't have any idea, go to last year's tax form, the 05 tax form, and look for the number that says total tax.
Put that number down, figure out how much you paid in through withholding or payments, and if you don't owe any money, you're done.
You don't even have to sign it, just send the thing in.
If you do owe some money, you don't even have to send that in.
They'll hit you with penalties and interest, but uh so you send in the money if you if you if you owe some money and uh then you don't get the big penalties that come against.
But it's anyway, it's a simple way to get it's an automatic deal till October 15th.
So there's my tax tip.
All right, here's this story about ten men went to dinner.
Some of you may have heard this.
Um I've I've done a check around here and uh they're going, nope, never heard it.
It's a good explanation of how income taxes really work.
And this is written by this professor again, uh, David Camershin from uh University of Georgia.
He said, Sometimes politicians, journalists, and others exclaim it's just a tax cut for the rich.
How many all heard that?
And it's just accepted that that's the fact.
But what does that really mean?
And just in case you're not completely clear on the issue, let's put tax cuts in terms that everyone can understand.
All right, imagine a group of ten men.
Oh, this must have been written a while ago.
Ten persons go to dinner, and the bill for all ten came to one hundred dollars.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this.
Now there's ten of you a hundred dollars quick.
That's right, ten bucks a piece.
But the way we pay our taxes is out of these ten men that go to dinner, the first four pay nothing.
They just sit there.
They don't put in a dime.
The fifth men would pay one dollar.
The sixth would pay three dollars.
The seventh would pay seven dollars, still better deal for all of them than the ten bucks they would have put in if they did it on an equal basis.
The eighth, uh, it's gonna cost him more than it would have otherwise.
He's gonna pay twelve dollars.
The ninth.
Yikes, almost double what it would have cost him.
He's going to pay eighteen dollars, and the tenth guy gets stuck with fifty-nine dollars for his ten dollar meal.
So that's there isn't any tip.
These are tight wide Republicans, okay?
So that's what they decided to do.
The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day, and they seemed quite happy with the arrangement.
Until one day the owner threw them a curve.
And he says to them, he says, Ah, you guys are such good customers.
I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
I'm going to give you a discount.
I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by 20 bucks.
So now the ten guys go to dinner and the tab is 80 bucks.
The group still wants to pay their bill the way that we pay our taxes.
So the first four men are unaffected.
We have time to do this.
I think I have time to do this.
First four men are unaffected.
They still ate for free.
But what about the other six men, the paying customers?
How would they divide up the twenty dollar windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
They realized that twenty dollars divided by six is three dollars and thirty-three cents.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up with well they would be being paid to eat their meals.
That doesn't work.
So the restaurant owner suggested it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts that each should pay.
And wait for the conclusion.
I'm up against a break, but it is a fascinating lesson in how taxes really work on this Friday before what would otherwise be the tax deadline.
Short break, phone number you want to chime in today, 800-282-2882.
My name is Tom Sullivan, and this is the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan in for Rush.
Rush will be back on Monday, tax weekend.
Well, it's not.
It's Tuesday is the deadline, the 17th, but it's close enough for government work.
So we're at this restaurant.
These ten guys are at dinner.
The guy, the owner of the restaurant, gives him a $20 break.
Stick with me on the numbers here.
I know numbers are rough on the radio, but yeah, but you'll get the whole idea.
You don't have to sit here and calculate this whole thing.
I will do that for you.
So the restaurant owner says, uh let me let me suggest how this twenty dollar discount should go.
So uh the fifth man, like the four, now pays nothing.
The sixth man now pays uh two bucks instead of three.
The seventh man now pays five instead of seven, so they're all getting breaks.
The eighth man pays nine dollars instead of twelve.
The ninth guy now pays fourteen dollars instead of eighteen dollars, and the tenth man now pays fifty bucks instead of fifty-nine bucks.
Now, percentage-wise, the percentages get smaller as the numbers get bigger, but the tenth guy saved nine bucks and the other guys did not.
And so all of them were better off than before.
And the first four continued to eat for free, but once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
The sixth guy says, I only got a dollar break out of out of the twenty dollars at discount.
And he says to the to the tenth guy, he says, You got nine dollar break.
Yeah, the fifth man says, Yeah, that's right.
I only saved a dollar two.
It's unfair.
You got nine times more than I did.
The seventh man is upset too.
He says, That's right.
Why should he get $9 back when I only got $2 back?
The wealthy get all the breaks.
So the four first four men who didn't pay anything yelled and said, Wait a minute.
We didn't get anything.
The system exploits the poor.
So what did they do?
The nine men surrounded the tenth guy and they beat him up.
Well, the next night they go to dinner.
Guess who doesn't show?
That's right, Mr. Number ten.
So the nine sit down and eat without him.
But when it came to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They did not have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill.
And that boys and girls, journalists and college professors is how our tax system works.
The people who pay the highest tax get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they may start eating overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
And that's the piece called Ten Men Went to Dinner.
It was put together by David Camershin, PhD, Professor of Economics University of Georgia.
And it's so true.
It is it is so, so so true.
There's a lot of jealousy in this world.
And so I look again and I talk about Mr. Slim and I go, Congratulations, Mr. Sim Slim.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people are going to be very mad at him.
I don't think he cares.
Because he's the guy who came from nothing, made his billions of dollars, and good for him.
Obviously, he see I'm I'm in the belief that there is nothing stopping you or me from doing the same thing.
We make choices every single day about what you want to do.
I presume most people that are fairly wealthy, there's some that have inherited their wealth.
But most people have worked very, very hard for it, and they have given up other things to work hard for it.
Either by going to get more education, go to school longer, get a spe a special skill, special knowledge, or hard work or a combination of the two of those things, and they come up with more money.
And then people get jealous.
It's the best economic story I've ever, ever, ever heard was the one I heard when I was probably two years old, which is the three little pigs.
You can go play, you can go have fun, but when things start getting rough, you run to the person who has not spent all that time goofing off, but has been working.
So I think the three little pigs is uh required economics course.
Where are we going to start today?
How about um how about Mike in Virginia Beach?
Hi, Mike, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
All right, this is Mikey.
Um I'm uh I'm one of them stupid conservatives.
Uh I have a master's degree in management.
Oh, yeah, one of those.
Yeah, and I've um I have um uh worked hard, and now I'm uh even stupider conservative because now I make enough money that I'm in a higher tax bracket.
You're uh you're one of the guys at going to dinner, you're one of the ones with the bigger bill, it sounds like.
Yeah, I'm I'm up there around seven or eight now.
Well, congratulations.
Thank you.
But uh the thing that I'm wondering, since you said that you you have some some economics background.
Yes, sir.
Is um what do you think of the fair tax?
Um Neil Bortz is as uh proponent.
I know, Neil Bortz has proposed proposed it, and uh there's been there's been a lot of people that have uh done about everything they possibly can to come up with a with it with the fair tax proposal.
There first of all, there isn't of all the various tax proposals, and I did work in the in the uh tax department of one of the formerly big eight CPA firms, and so I I've studied all these different proposals, I've looked at how they work, and there isn't one of them that doesn't have some reason for some group of some people to be upset about.
Uh the flat tax or a fair tax.
Uh the you know what the argument is against that, the people come out of the woodwork and say, it's regressive.
It's regressive.
You gotta you gotta kidding me.
The guy who the fifty-three billionaire guy is gonna pay the same tax for a loaf of bread as I am.
And the answer is yes.
Well, that's unfair.
So uh who I'm I'm drawing a blank.
Who was the minority or the minority whip excuse me, he was the majority whip from Texas, who went uh is uh he was he pushed this fair tax in a big, big way.
My his name escapes me, I'm sorry.
Uh it's Friday, I guess I'm out of remembering things.
He pushed very, very hard as the minority whip of the Republican Party when the Republicans were in control of the Congress, and could not get it even past the starting point with Republicans in charge, which of course is another whole show about what they did not do when they were in charge.
But you look at this and you and you go, Well, wait a minute.
If I don't have a problem with a fair tax.
I think it's exactly what it says, a fair tax.
A flat tax.
I think it's great.
Puts everybody on the same even keel because we cannot discriminate against anybody in this country except for income.
The rules change depending upon if you make more than the next guy.
You don't get the same tax deductions as your neighbor.
You don't get a lot of the things.
You don't qualify for a lot of things that your neighbor qualifies for.
Do I like it?
Yes.
Politically, well, I will I don't believe it will ever see the light of day.
If uh uh Army, Dick Army, that's who it was.
If he can't get it done, nobody can get it done.
And especially it won't get done while the Democrats are running that uh building with a dome in Washington.
Yep, we're here, and uh Russia'll be back on Monday.
Tom Sullivan sitting right here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Yeah, it's um it's the way taxes really work, and there's a lot of jealousy in this country about somebody who gets a dime more than they do, and and generally it's because they did something to earn that dime in most cases.
Not all cases, I understand.
Carl in uh St. Pete's.
Hi, Carl, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Sure do appreciate you answering a call.
Uh uh I find myself in a sticky situation where I've earned more money in a year than I was supposedly uh had claimed that I earned and come to find out that uh somebody has taken my identity and filed taxes uh in another state.
I wanted to know what the outcome of this could be.
I just contacted my attorneys, they want to start uh levying property and you know, with the threats and everything.
Oh, so you're getting letters from the IRS.
Oh yeah.
Oh uh I wondered what to what extent in your background uh this can be pressed too, or how it can be.
I uh you you're going to become a pen pal with the IRS for a while.
But but but be confident because the IRS is getting a lot of this sort of stuff and and IDs stolen and everything else.
It's going to take like everybody else, including me, who have I've had my ID stolen as well, and and so you're in for a hassle factor, and you just start a file and you of of all the places that they've taken your ID and used it, and uh you just keep corresponding with them.
The IRS, though, is I have found in this particular case, it's very easy for them to go back and figure out that they've got some uh some fraud going.
And it's a big problem in this country that there's people filing fraudulent tax returns, getting them getting a check and that would have been the point with the the difference in the states where I live and where where the claim was filed.
Yeah.
But uh I don't think they figured that out.
One quick comment before you we go or before I let you go, I know you're busy.
Um you were asking why the Democrats wouldn't go ahead and debate on Fox News.
Yes.
The real inside secret about that is when you debate, you have to debate on ideas.
And I really don't think that they have ideas, and if they did have ideas and they did give them because they want to go with their preliminary uh uh votes early, yeah.
Well, what they're gonna do is they're gonna give their ideas away, and then all the conservatives are gonna steal the ideas and use them for their own.
Yeah, but what diff what difference does it uh what channel it's going over on your TV set?
Understandably so, but uh that's the part that baffles me is that I mean I d uh people in this in you know we get this all the time in the media where all these politicians want some some microphone time, some camera time, and there's none bigger than Fox and and their distribution throughout the country.
I don't know what's that John Kerry that always said go to my website, go to my website, you can never express his idea, but go to my website and find out what that's right.
I don't have an answer for anything, but if you go to my website I've been trained to say that.
Yeah.
Thank you so much, man.
No, thank you.
I ha oh, by the way, I had uh totally digressed now.
I had the pleasure of uh Mike Deaver on my show, yeah, my local show yesterday he was in town.
And uh because he was with Ronald Reagan back when he was governor of California in Sacramento and then on to the White House with him.
And uh just uh you know, just what a pleasure about knowing the the the inside stories about Ronald Reagan and how he knew who he was and knew what he wanted to do.
And that's w whether you agreed or disagreed with him, that was what people respected.
I I uh it's become it's become a celebrity fest now.
Instead of people with with big ideas like Ronald Reagan.
And you're right, I mean on that debate, uh there there won't be any big ideas.
I don't know.
David in Houston, David, hello, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Hello, sir.
Good day.
Good day.
Uh I'll I'll give this to you in a caveat and then I'll listen to your response.
I'll hang up after I speak.
It took me sixteen years, I had to actually learn the Japanese language through a book and then pay for a tutor for me to finally earn six figures.
Wow.
It was not easy.
It was very difficult.
I didn't come from a privileged background where I had uh private schools.
It took a lot of hard work, a lot of lessons learned and I finally began earning a little over ten thousand dollars a month.
The thing that I find reprehensible is the vast number of people who are telling me that I should share but they can quote to me what's on Oprah and Ricky Lake every single day of the week.
Anyway, I'll listen to your hey and congratulations to your success.
I think it's absolutely fabulous.
But it is one of those things.
In fact, does Rush still have it on his website, who pays what when it comes to taxes?
Because I know the website's been updated.
But it is, this 10 men go to dinner story is so illustrative of exactly what's happening here.
Is the guy that paid the most was the guy who saved the most when taxes were cut.
Because taxes, again.
it's it's if you want a flat tax everybody will get the same tax break and everybody will pay the same tax.
Well the tax goes up everybody has the same increase.
Taxes go down, everybody gets the same decrease with a progressive tax, you want to tax people with more money more percentage then you can't have it both ways where when taxes come down, you can't say well let's not have progressive cuts where the person who gets the who pays the most gets the biggest cut percentage wise or dollar wise.
It's really dollar wise more than anything else.
Jesse in New York hi Jesse you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey how are you doing I'm doing great look uh you just did one of those things that uh when some of us conservatives do that really gets to me is uh you know you had the caller calling about the fair tax and your response was uh yeah it's great but it's never going to happen politically and I just think that if we keep you know having that attitude stuff's never going to happen.
Well you're right yeah you're absolutely right it's just that I I I got frustrated I was very excited about that tax.
In fact I like there's actually one I like a little bit better called the consumption tax.
I like that even better.
But but I'll take I'll take either one of those over the current system which penalizes you for actually going out and being successful.
But but but I think the thing that frustrates me was when Dick Army tried tried with with Republicans running the show.
Well we just have to get the uh we just have to get the message up to them.
I mean Neil Bortz's uh own book he even says his own proposals it'll never see the light of day and I mean that's ridiculous.
Well you're you're absolutely right it's a it's a defeatist attitude and I normally not in a defeatist mood.
Right because all the ideas are on our side of the debate.
The other side has no ideas.
They just have the status quo and collectivism and keep that stuff coming all the ideas are on our side so how you gonna how you gonna uh how are you gonna do the first thing you have to do then if we're gonna if we're gonna talk about solutions Jesse and you're absolutely right if you're gonna talk about solutions then we got to start with what?
We've got to get well first of all we got to get the people in elected that think like you.
Right.
Well it starts with communication first, you know we can't be uh you know we have to be able to talk to each other, talk to our families, talk to our friends, not be worried that uh someone's gonna say, oh you're just a conservative crackpot or whatever.
I get that from my own family sometimes.
Yeah I know I know but but but it's got to be not afraid and just we've got to you know educate, educate, educate.
That's what we're doing Well and and it is repeating the message repeating the message but here's the problem.
Here's the problem that also has to be overcome and and I'm open for any ideas and solutions to this is that if you're one of the guys going to dinner and it's not costing you anything then why would you want it to change?
Exactly well before they become more than fifty percent.
See, and here's here's the problem is that whenever they this is what's so disingenuous with politicians they say what we're gonna do is we're gonna uh solve this budget problem, we're gonna raise the taxes on the rich.
The rich and the poor in this country are very small groups percentage wise.
Right.
There isn't a politician who has the kahunas to go out there and say the a one dollar increase in taxes on the middle class is going to raise billions of dollars because of the fact that they they just they're always preaching, we're gonna give you a tax break.
We're gonna give a tax break to the middle class.
And yet the middle class because of the huge numbers involved a little change there will raise or lower a tremendous amount of revenue.
There it's also uh have you been following the news lately where they're talking about this is it, this is the year, they're gonna finally fix that alternative minimum tax which is gouging more and more taxpayers.
How many years in a row have they said that?
Yeah, I know.
So guess who is the one that is getting caught by the alternative minimum tax?
It's the middle class taxpayer.
They cannot take it away without losing billions of dollars.
And so their solution, one of the solutions I've been reading about is, well, we'll raise the money from the rich.
Well, if you're going to take away a little bit from 100 million people and you're going to add taxes to 100,000 people, the numbers are not going to be doable.
Yeah, not going to wash.
Yeah.
the weather what's that are you ready for the weather oh no I'm you know I need some global warming over here I've I've been breathing I've been exhaling extra hard to get some more carbon dioxide if you where is Al when you need him exactly all right hey Jesse you good catch on your part I appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
We'll take a short break 800 two eight two two eight eight two Tom Sullivan sitting in for rush.
Welcome back Tom Sullivan in for rush today he'll be back Monday uh talking about taxes and then tax weekend coming up I the deadlines on Tuesday but still for those of us who haven't quite completed all the necessary paperwork whatever happened to that uh speaking of Ronald Reagan whatever happened to I remember he got up shortly I think the first year or two after he became president held a national uh news conference and was talking about how he wanted to put everything on a postcard.
Tax returns were going to be a postcard and here's and Jesse from New York you're absolutely right you have to you have to have a mindset that we can do this.
And uh so this b this story about ten men went to dinner, if you want to go in and Google it or Yahoo it or whatever you you know dog pile it or whatever you use for your search just put in how income taxes really work.
How income taxes really work and the story will come up because it's been it's been widely publicized.
I don't know what year this was put out but it it's still valid today as it was whenever it was first published and it's a great story.
And I almost felt like uh when I was reading it to the to you in the first uh half hour of this of this hour it's kind of like reading a nursery rhyme to uh you know to your children go so the nine men gathered around the tenth man and beat them up I mean it's it's got all the little stories that's like it's like a nursery rhyme.
Mother goosely so for those of you with children add this into the Mother Goose book and and start reading it to your children and your children will look up at you in amazement and go, but Daddy, mommy, that doesn't sound fair.
And then they will grow older and they will switch the system and we will all live happily ever after the end it is it's that simple.
I mean what is so hard here?
Mike in Michigan Mike hello you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Thank you so much uh the capitalist system greatest system by far that uh ever been imagined anyhow the more you make uh the more successful there you go the success and the desire for money is the engine of the system.
Yep.
Okay and the more successful we are with that system the more by definition We all back because somebody that works for me uses the highway.
I use the highway.
We pay the same tax, but I also use the highway for my trucks.
I use the highway for my employees.
Not only do they use it for themselves, but they use it to assist me.
And so, like I say, if they if the government is protecting my uh mansion in Michigan here and by fighting in Baghdad, they're protecting my million-five mansions.
Yep.
Whereas my employees, they're in protecting, you know, if he loses his apartment and his 50 cent TV, what is he really lost?
Well, it's a big deal to him.
I've I've been there.
I had an apartment with a 50 cent TV and valued every every piece of that 50 cent TV.
But I no, I got your point.
I got your point.
It's it's it's true.
I mean, it's it's all a matter of uh the more somebody makes, the more in this system, not in Mexico, obviously, but in this system, they it gets spread around through through the marketplace.
But I'll tell you a little story.
Uh another little story.
I got lots of little stories.
There's something going on in California, but I also hear that it's brewing in Washington.
And they're there this legislative legislation working through the California legislature.
And what they want to do is they want to, because what struck me about this, Mike was you talked about using the highways and everything else.
What they what the proposal is that the bureaucrats or the the the ruling class, the elected class, is going to penalize people who buy vehicles that they don't like by assessing an extra twenty,
five hundred dollar tax on the purchase of that vehicle, and that money is then going to go into a new government agency that will take a whole bunch of that money, but then what's left over, they're going to have some left over, and they will give it to you if you buy a vehicle that they like.
So it's another attack against it's the nanny government.
It's another attack on they know more than you do about how to live your life.
I would love to go into these people's homes and say, wait a minute, let me take a look here and see what I don't think you should own.
Uh you owe more money because of the fact that you bought this, and I don't agree with that, but that's what they're doing.
And and so it's it's working its way right now through the California legislature.
And the word is is that there's a similar piece of legislation trying to be promoted in uh Capitol Hill in Washington.
So if you think it's just some California kooky thing going on, no, it's the next wave, and you'll know you heard it on this program first, of where they're going to try and tax you more if you drive the wrong kind of car.
Minivans, SUVs, etc., etc.
And they're gonna take your money and give it to somebody who buys a vehicle that they think is more socially acceptable.
I go back again to uh what are the colors of the uniforms that they're goose stepping in.
Folks, this is what happened to our free society.
Again, you don't have to like an SUV, but why can't somebody buy what they want to buy?
We may not like what you drive.
We may not like what you own, what you wear, how you invest your money.
I mean, those slurpees have a lot of sugar in them.
I think we should tax those extra and give the money to people who buy wheat germ.
We'll be back.
Tom Sullivan in on the Rush Limbaugh Radio program.
All right, uh, I want to get something in very quickly before we head out uh for the weekend.
I've got this uh story came out of uh Steve Nolgren with St. Petersburg uh Florida Times about they're looking for World War One survivors.
Did you know that?
They they don't know the government doesn't know how many they are.
And they found that there are three of them that they know of.
There's this guy, Harry Landis, who's 107, and he's uh living uh very healthy.
He only takes eye drops, no other medication, and he served in World War One.
And so they're looking for, they've got two others they know of for the total of three, but anyway, last Friday was the 90th anniversary of our entrance into uh World War One.
Mr. Landis lives in an assisted living facility with his 99-year-old wife Eleanor.
And uh they found a guy, uh uh Frank Buckles from Charlestown, West Virginia, and Russell Coffey from uh 108 in North Baltimore, Ohio.
But the government, the Veterans Administration, is looking to find if there's any other surviving World War I soldiers.
There were 4.7 million Americans who fought in that war.
So if you know of any, the VA in Washington wants to hear from you.
Have a great weekend.
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