Always a pleasure, an 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 tuning in and have stuck around to listen to me in the past on this program, you know that my background in my real life is I'm in the investment business and came out of the public accounting arena a number of years ago, got in the investment business and everything else.
So I like to always throw a little money, a little economics, a little, because that's what I do.
I study.
In fact, that's how I really got into broadcasting was I do financial reporting, financial analysis.
And so looking at the calendar and realizing that April 15th is coming up on Sunday.
And since the Sunday is weekend, 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's some sort of holiday in Washington, D.C., on Monday, therefore the tax deadline isn't until Tuesday.
I don't know.
So anyway, it's tax time.
So I thought we'd go through a little bit of, there's a great story that I read some time ago, and I loved it, from a professor at the University of Georgia.
His name is David Camershin, Ph.D., 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 all the business about taxes and money and finance and the economy and everything else, did you see where Mr. Slim is now the second richest guy?
And Mr. Slim may become the first richest guy.
I mean, Senior Slim.
Yeah, this guy has been number three.
His name is Carlos Slim, and he just owns a whole bunch of just about everything.
If you're in Mexico, you're going to touch a Carlos Slim product somewhere along the line.
Oh, he's very dominant, and he's 67 years old.
He's worth $53 billion.
Poor old Warren Buffett's only worth $52 billion, and he's right on the heels of Bill Gates, which is worth $56 billion.
And a lot of the Forbes people are saying, hmm, he may, this keeps going, he's going to overtake 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 get a ranking list going here.
It gets better.
He owns one of his many businesses is the big phone company in Mexico.
And he has holdings throughout Latin America.
And 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 they've had corruption in 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 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 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 this guy.
He's very wealthy.
And I've had fine.
Somebody gets their wealth.
I'm the first one to stand up and say congratulations.
But what cracks me up is that he told Associated Press that his vision of a businessman's role in the world is not that of 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 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.
He says he's at odds with 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 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.
All right.
Here's the so oh, and here's the other little, can I give you a tax tip?
Today is Friday the 13th.
I know the weather is, especially for those of you in the Northeast, you've got this big nor'easter heading for you, heavy rains, dangerous winds heading toward New York and Boston and got the marathon going.
It's going to 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 checked yesterday.
You know what the number one most 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 line one is your name.
Line two is your address.
You got to remember your social security number if you have one.
You guessed it.
You can't come up with something stupid, but all you got to 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.
So you send in the money if you owe some money, and then you don't get the big penalties that come in.
But anyway, it's a simple way to get.
It's an automatic deal until October 15th.
So there's my tax tip.
All right, here's this story about 10 men went to dinner.
Some of you may have heard this.
I've done a check around here, and 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, David Camerishin from University of Georgia.
He said, sometimes politicians, journalists, and others exclaim, it's just a tax cut for the rich.
How many of you 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 10 men.
Oh, this must have been written a while ago.
10 persons go to dinner, and the bill for all 10 came to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this.
Now, there's 10 of you, $100, quick!
That's right, $10 apiece.
But the way we pay our taxes is out of these 10 men that go to dinner, the first four pay nothing.
They just sit there.
They don't put in a dime.
The fifth man would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7, still better deal for all of them than the $10 they would have put in if they did it on an equal basis.
The eighth, it's going to cost him more than it would have otherwise.
He's going to pay $12.
The ninth, yikes, almost double what it would have cost him.
He's going to pay $18.
And the 10th guy gets stuck with $59 for his $10 meal.
So there isn't any tip.
These are tight-wide Republicans, okay?
So that's what they decided to do.
The 10 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 10 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.
Do I 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 $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth men 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 day.
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's deadline, the 17th, but it's close enough for government work.
So we're at this restaurant.
These 10 guys are at dinner.
The guy, the owner of the restaurant, gives them a $20 break.
Stick with me on the numbers here.
I know numbers are rough on the radio, 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, let me suggest how this $20 discount should go.
So the fifth man, like the four, now pays nothing.
The sixth man now pays two bucks instead of three.
The seventh man now pays five instead of seven.
So they're all getting breaks.
The eighth man pays $9 instead of $12.
The ninth guy now pays $14 instead of $18.
And the 10th man now pays 50 bucks instead of 59 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 the $20 at discount.
And he says to the 10th guy, he says, You got $9 break.
Yeah, the fifth man says, Yeah, that's right.
I only saved $1.02.
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 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 10th guy and they beat him up.
Well, the next night, they go to dinner.
Guess who doesn't show?
That's right, Mr. Number 10.
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 10 Men Went to Dinner.
It was put together by David Camershin, Ph.D., professor of economics, University of Georgia.
And it's so true.
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. Slim.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people who 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 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 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.
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 a required economics course.
Where are we going to start today?
How about Mike in Virginia Beach?
Hi, Mike.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Tom Sullivan.
Hi, this is Mikey.
I'm one of them stupid conservatives.
I have a master's degree in management.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and I've I have worked hard, and now I'm even stupider conservative because now I make enough money that I'm in a higher tax bracket.
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 up there around seven or eight now.
Well, congratulations.
Thank you.
But the thing that I'm wondering, since you said that you have some economics background, is what do you think of the fair tax?
Neil Bortz has proposed it.
I know.
Neil Bortz has proposed it, and there's been a lot of people that have done about everything they possibly can to come up with the fair tax proposal.
First of all, there isn't of all the various tax proposals.
And I did work in the tax department of one of the formerly big eight CPA firms.
And so 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.
The flat tax or a fair tax.
You know what the argument is against that?
The people come out of the woodwork and say, it's regressive.
It's regressive.
You got to kidding me.
The guy who, the 53 billionaire guy, is going to pay the same tax for a loaf of bread as I am?
And the answer is yes.
Well, that's unfair.
So who, I'm drawing a blank.
Who was the minority or the minority whip?
Excuse me.
He was the majority whip from Texas who went is he was he pushed this fair tax in a big, big way.
His name escapes me.
I'm sorry.
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 go, well, wait a minute.
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.
So do I like it?
Yes.
Politically, well, I don't believe it will ever see the light of day.
If 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 building with a dome in Washington.
Yep, we're here, and Rush will be back on Monday.
Tom Sullivan sitting right here behind the golden EIB microphone.
Yeah, 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 generally, it's because they did something to earn that dime in most cases.
Not all cases, I understand.
Carl in St. Pete's.
Hi, Carl.
You're on the Russian rubber.
I'm taking the call.
Sure do appreciate you answering the call.
I find myself in a sticky situation where I've earned more money in a year than I was supposedly had claimed that I earned and come to find out that somebody has taken my identity and filed taxes in another state.
I wanted to know what the outcome of this could be.
I just contacted my attorneys.
They want to start levying property and, you know, with the threats and everything.
Oh, so you're getting letters from the IRS.
Oh, yeah.
Oh.
So I wondered to what extent, in your background, this can be pressed too, or how it can be.
You're going to become a pen pal with the IRS for a while.
But be confident because the IRS is getting a lot of this sort of stuff 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 so you're in for a hassle factor, and you just start a file of all the places that they've taken your ID and used it.
And 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 fraud going.
And it's a big problem in this country that there's people filing fraudulent tax returns, getting their check.
That would have been the point with the difference in the states where I live and where the claim was filed.
Yeah.
But I don't think they figured that out.
One quick comment before we go or before I let you go.
I know you're busy.
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 votes early, well, what they're going to do is they're going to give their ideas away.
And then all the conservatives are going to steal the ideas and use them for their own.
Yeah, but what difference does it, what channel it's going over on your TV set?
Understandably so.
That's the part that baffles me is that, I mean, people in this, you know, we get this all the time in the media where all these politicians want some microphone time, some camera time, and there's none bigger than Fox and their distribution throughout the country.
I don't know.
Hey, 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 it is.
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.
Thank you so much.
No, thank you.
Oh, by the way, I had totally digressed.
I had the pleasure of Mike Deaver on my show at my local show yesterday.
He was in town.
And 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 just, you know, just what a pleasure about knowing the inside stories about Ronald Reagan and how he knew who he was and knew what he wanted to do.
And that's whether you agreed or disagreed with him, that was what people respected.
It's become a celebrity fest now.
Instead of people with big ideas like Ronald Reagan, and you're right.
I mean, on that debate, 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.
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 16 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 private schools.
It took a lot of hard work, a lot of lessons learned, and I finally began earning a little over $10,000 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 you.
Yeah.
Oh, 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?
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, if you want a flat tax, everybody will get the same tax break and everybody will pay the same tax.
When 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 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 you doing?
I'm doing great.
Look, you just did one of those things that some of us conservatives do that really gets to me is you had the caller calling about the fair tax, and your response was, yeah, it's great, but it's never going to happen politically.
And I just think that if we keep having that attitude, stuff's never going to happen.
Well, you're right.
You're absolutely right.
It's just that I got frustrated.
I was very excited about that tax.
In fact, there's actually one I like a little bit better called the consumption tax.
I like that even better.
But I'll take either one of those over the current system, which penalizes you for actually going out and being successful.
But I think the thing that frustrates me was when Dick Harme tried with Republicans running the show.
Well, we just have to get the message up to them.
I mean, Neil Bortz's own book, he even says his own proposal it'll never see the light of day.
And I mean, that's ridiculous.
Well, you're absolutely right.
It's a defeatist attitude, and I'm normally not in a defeatist mood.
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.
All right.
So how are you going to do that?
The first thing you have to do then, if we're going to talk about solutions, Jesse, and you're absolutely right.
If you're going to talk about solutions, then we've got to start with what?
First of all, we've got to get the people elected that think like you.
Right.
Well, it starts with communication.
First, you know, we can't be, you know, we have to be able to talk to each other, talk to our families, talk to our friends, not be worried that someone's going to say, oh, you're just a conservative crackpot, da-da-da-da, or whatever.
I get that from my own family sometimes.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
But it's got to be not afraid.
We've got to educate, educate, educate.
Well, 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 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.
And before they become more than 50%.
See, and here's the problem, is that whenever they, this is what's so disingenuous with politicians, they say, well, we're going to do is we're going to solve this budget problem.
We're going to raise the taxes on the rich.
The rich and the poor in this country are very small groups percentage-wise.
There isn't a politician who has the kahunas to go out there and say a $1 increase in taxes on the middle class is going to raise billions of dollars because of the fact that they are always preaching, we're going to give you a tax break.
We're going to 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.
Have you been following the news lately where they're talking about this is it?
This is the year.
They're going to finally fix that alternative minimum tax, which is gouging more and more taxpayers.
Guess who?
10 years in a row, they said that.
Yeah, I know.
So guess who is the one that is getting caught by the alternative minimum tax is 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.
Hey, you ready for the weather?
What's that?
Are you ready for the weather?
Oh, no.
I need some global warming over here.
I've been breathing.
I've been exhaling extra hard to get some more carbon dioxide.
Where is Al when you need him?
Exactly.
All right.
Hey, Jesse, a good catch on your part.
I appreciate it very much.
Thank you.
We'll take a short break.
800-282-2882-TO Sullivan sitting in for Rush.
Welcome back.
Tom Sullivan in for Rush today.
He'll be back Monday talking about taxes and then tax weekend coming up.
The deadline's on Tuesday, but still for those of us who haven't quite completed all the necessary paperwork, whatever happened to that, 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 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 have a mindset that we can do this.
And so this story about 10 men went to dinner.
If you want to go in and Google it or Yahoo it or whatever you, you know, dogpile 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 widely publicized.
I don't know what year this was put out, but it's still valid today as it was whenever it was first published.
And it's a great story.
And I almost felt like when I was reading it to you in the first half hour of this hour, it's kind of like reading a nursery rhyme to your children.
Go, so the nine men gathered around the tenth man and beat him up.
I mean, it's got all the little stories.
It'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 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.
Jeez.
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.
The capitalist system, greatest system by far that ever been imagined.
Anyhow, the more you make, 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 the government is protecting my mansion in Michigan here and by fighting in Baghdad, they're protecting my million-five mansion.
Yep.
Whereas my employees, they're in protecting, you know, if he loses his apartment and his 50-cent TV, what does he really lost?
Well, big deal to him.
I've been there.
I had an apartment with a 50-cent TV and valued every piece of that 50-cent TV.
But no, I got your point.
I got your point.
It's true.
I mean, it's all a matter of the more somebody makes, the more in this system, not in Mexico, obviously, but in this system, it gets spread around through the marketplace.
But I'll tell you a little story, 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 it's 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 the proposal is, is that the bureaucrats or the ruling class, the elected class, is going to penalize people who buy vehicles that they don't like by assessing an extra $2,500 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.
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 so 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 Capitol Hill and 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, et cetera, et cetera.
And they're going to take your money and give it to somebody who buys a vehicle that they think is more socially acceptable.
I go back again to 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.
I want to get something in very quickly before we head out for the weekend.
I've got this story came out of Steve Nolgren with St. Petersburg, Florida Times, about they're looking for World War I survivors.
Did you know that?
They don't know.
The government doesn't know how many there 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 living very healthy.
He only takes eye drops, no other medication.
And he served in World War I.
And so they're looking for, they've got two others they know of, so a total of three.
But anyway, last Friday was the 90th anniversary of our entrance into World War I. Mr. Landis lives in an assisted living facility with his 99-year-old wife, Eleanor.
And they found a guy, Frank Buckles from Charlestown, West Virginia, and Russell Coffey from 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.