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EPA Failure - March 10th, Hour 1

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Thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for joining us.
Happy Friday to everyone, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I have a quiz as we begin the program for Linda.
So, you know, the other night that, and we don't spend a lot of time on this program talking about ratings.
You know, in the 27 years I've been on Fox, once we got to number one, we've been the top-rated show.
I can only say thank you to this audience.
I don't want to be sounding braggish.
I hate people that brag, but I'm just being factual and I'm grateful.
And the same with this radio show.
We're now on, what, 720 stations.
I never thought anything like that would ever happen to me.
I'm very grateful because this is my love, my passion.
First time I got behind a radio microphone, I mean, I just fell in love with this thing.
And I'm so thankful that you listen and I'm thankful that you watch.
And I can't do this without your support.
We live and die by those things called ratings and people watching the show.
And the way I try to get good ratings is doing good shows every day.
They're really struggling, though, at fake news CNN.
So we're at nearly 3 million the other night.
Guess how many viewers?
They had Dr. Jill Biden for the hour.
At Fake News CNN, how many viewers do you think watch that extravaganza?
Give me your best bet.
Take a look at that.
How many dogs do they have?
How many dogs?
I'm assuming that's all that was watching.
Those two German shepherds.
Forget about it.
Here you go.
There's your two viewers.
Well, they don't have a cat that was overfed like yours.
Listen.
Had to go to a fat farm.
My cat, for the first time in her life, if she sold Dr. Jill Biden, she would have ran from that screen.
Okay, but you know, I don't even think you can use the word, you have to say chubby now, I guess, right?
Oh, please.
I don't have time for that.
I love people.
I'm doing the studio audience show.
People tell me, you know, you look taller in person.
I'm like, really?
You look skinnier in person.
I'm like, really?
You look younger in person.
I'm like, really?
So basically, I'm short, old, and chubby on TV.
I told you, I walked past Mark Simone the other day at that event.
Yeah.
He walked right past me.
I said, hello.
He said, well, you look good.
I'm like, I don't know what that means.
Does that mean I look terrible every other time you see me in the office?
What do you think, Dr. Jill Biden?
If I had to guess, I don't know, 700,000.
Nope.
Lower.
Oh, man, that's embarrassing.
Now, remember, this is an entire network.
I mean, they had close to 90 million votes, right?
I mean, America loves the Biden.
They love the Biden.
They love them so much.
So much.
Second guess.
58,000.
Not that low.
I'm going the other way.
368,000 total.
I mean, it's pathetic.
Well, she's pathetic.
I can't even believe it.
I'm not shocked because that's the same thing.
The woman who came she compares people to tacos.
I mean, give me a break.
Oh, it's hilarious.
We'll play this later.
My favorite Biden cut of the week is he's in Philly, you know, pushing his socialist financial agenda.
Where was Fetterman?
Fetterman, nobody knows what Fetterman is.
And anyway, refers to Trump as maybe your future president.
I'm like, oh, okay.
You can't make that up.
And then I'll play later, too.
Kamala Harris, you know, saying that kids are facing a climate mental health, they're facing climate mental health issues.
What is she talking about?
Like Majorkis, they've been telling us the border's secure, the border's secure, the border's secure.
Turns out the border's not so secure.
You should play that now.
But then he said that Mayorkis goes on to blame climate change for the increase in illegal immigrants coming to this country.
I'm like, oh, what?
It's cleaner here?
Is that what people are thinking?
We have cleaner air and cleaner water?
That the temperature is better here?
I mean, these people are absolutely out of their mind.
They've lost their Adam Schiff.
They've lost it.
And they're full of shift, too, on top of it.
Anyway, and then, by the way, you know, Joe Biden claiming MAGA Republicans want to gut Social Security and Medicare.
Guess the guy that's proposing that?
That would be your president, Joey.
It's unbelievable.
Joey, who still didn't go to East Palestine.
By the way, I really fear for the people of East Palestine because you're going to have the government at some point telling me, oh, the air is clean.
Oh, the water's perfect to drink.
And unless there is an independent organization after the same government got everything wrong on COVID, the same government promised you you keep your doctor, keep your plan and save $2,500 a year, none of which came true.
We're going to believe them, the same people that said in government that the air was okay, a ground zero, just days after 9-11.
I mean, I don't trust any of these people.
I think they're all full of crap.
You know, the whole bunch of them here.
Interesting subject on the issue of Biden's budget.
We went over this in some specificity and detail yesterday.
And it was the first person that did this.
Ted Cruz brought it up on TV last night, so I got to give him a shout out for this.
And we'll talk to our friend Stephen Moore, the economist, later in the program today.
By the way, Janet Yellen finally admitted the 87,000 new IRS agents.
They're going to be primarily targeting those making less than $400,000.
She actually acknowledged Friday that 90% of IRS audits will be conducted on small businesses and families and not billionaires.
Who do you think gets audited the most now?
Middle-class Americans.
You know why?
Because all those rich people, they have the money.
They can afford to hire the accountants and the lawyers that know the IRS rules and regulations, the ins, the outs, how to make deductions and save money, and they do it the right way because they're not stupid.
It's unreal.
You know, this Biden budget is unbelievable.
It will push the national debt past $50 trillion within the next 10 years.
That's $20 trillion more than it is today.
It's insane.
You know, we're going to increase the income tax by 5%.
We're going to almost double the capital gains tax.
Then we're going to tax unrealized capital gains.
I mean, and what's in this bill of Joe Biden's?
Now, the only good news is the House is never going to pass it.
If they pass it, I will personally go and campaign against all 222 Republicans in the House, all of them.
They're not going to pass it.
Anyway, so you look at the budget.
It's going to be over $50 trillion in 10 years that we are going to have.
We're stealing from our kids and our grandkids.
We're stealing their money.
We're robbing them blind.
We're ruining their future.
We're ruining the economy.
The debt to GDP ratio is usually in the 40 percentile range.
It's now at 100% and going to 110.
And then soon after that, 130%.
That's the kind of number you get from a third world economy.
That's how bad that is.
You know, so we're going to have $50 trillion in debt.
That's what he's proposing.
And then you look inside the budget.
How many times do you think that he mentions equity?
63 times.
How many times do you think they talk about climate and Joe's budget?
148 times.
Environmental justice 25 times.
In his budget, how many times do you think they mention transgender?
Eight times.
By the way, do you know what intersex is?
What does that mean?
Do you know what anybody knows what that means?
Well, the word intersex is in there seven times.
I'm not playing ignorant here.
I don't know what it means.
I'm sure it involves sniffing.
I don't know what it means.
It's Joe Biden.
It has something to do with sniffing.
How many times does he really mention the issues that matter to you, the American people, inflation?
He only mentioned that 10 times, not counting the direct references to the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that only raised inflation.
He only mentioned fentanyl two times, border security only eight times.
He only mentioned police four times, law enforcement nine times, crime 24 times, gas prices three times, parents three times.
So, you know, just looking at that analysis, what do you see?
All right.
Treasury Inspector General audit 42,000 federal employees reportedly don't file returns.
Are you kidding me?
That's on justthenews.com.
I did not see this article.
Thank you for bringing that in.
Let me read this.
Tens of thousands of federal employees have repeatedly failed to file their federal income tax returns, according to a new federal watchdog group.
You know, I do say this all the time, and I mean, I believe whether you like the laws or you don't like the laws, you got to follow the law.
I don't like the income tax laws in this country.
I don't like it at all.
I don't like it one bit.
But you know what I do?
I follow the law.
I pay my taxes.
I have not one accounting firm look at my taxes.
I have two.
I don't know anything about tax forms.
I don't know a thing.
So I have to hire one firm, then I hire a forensic firm, and then I hire my law firm, my legal team.
They go over it and they ask all the questions that, you know, if anything's questionable, and then I'll sign it.
You know, my lawyer would say it's safe to sign it, and then I'll sign this stupid thing.
Why do I do that?
Because you don't think they want to target me?
They hate conservatives.
They can't stand it, but that's what they're admitting.
Anyway, Biden's budget will push the national debt past the $50 trillion mark.
I mean, the idea that you would tax unrealized gains or have capital gains taxes on unrealized gains is insane.
Okay, let's say you have $1,000 worth of McDonald's stock.
You paid $800 for it.
At the end of the year, oh, it's worth $1,000.
So they're going to tax you on the $200 you made on your McDonald's stock as part of your portfolio.
Okay.
But you didn't sell it.
So it's on paper, it's $1,000.
In reality, it's only going to be worth what it is when you cash it in.
Okay, let's say a year from now, McDonald's stock, and I hope it doesn't happen.
I want McDonald's to do well.
McDonald's stocks, why?
You don't want to die.
That's right.
You want to do it.
It's such a random thing to say.
What's so random?
I don't want McDonald's to do well.
I think they're doing just fine.
You know what?
I do want them to do well.
I want every business to do well.
No, no, I hear you.
It's just funny.
And it's a sad thing that you won't take your son to get a happy meal at McDonald's.
That is pathetic.
I take him to Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A.
A place where their values align with mine.
I'm trying to get it.
Do you let him get french fries?
I do.
He gets the waffle fries.
The one thing that they don't have at Chick-fil-A that I know of, I don't think they have a toy.
You know what they have?
Do they have a happy meal?
They have books.
They have books.
And it's his favorite.
It's Liam's favorite book.
Bear Says Thanks.
It's all about being kind and giving thanks.
I can't really argue.
The liberals should love that.
However, you do owe the kid a happy meal and stop giving him these stupid air-fried french fries.
He gets contraband in other places.
I don't have to be the one.
Oh, I'm going to be the one.
When Uncle Sean sees him, we're going straight to McDonald's.
Wonderful.
You can get cardiac arrest again.
We won't pesco and collect 200.
I'm taking them straight to McDonald's.
Did you see the World Health Organization is attacking salt intake?
Okay.
Well, you want to move to the next story?
Yeah, let's go.
Even the Wall Street Journal, the budget, you know, they want 4.7 trillion more of your money and still grow the federal debt by 17 trillion.
I mean, we cannot survive as a country with this economic plan.
It doesn't work.
By the way, Wall Street has not been reacting well the last three days.
And then, of course, we had Jerome Powell earlier in the week talking about the possibility that rate increases are going to be much higher than he thought he would have to implement.
So that's coming next.
You know, this will lead to a record national debt, record high taxes this country has never seen before.
And it's going to destroy.
Nobody is going to invest money.
For example, if you pay your taxes and you have a profit and you make money and then you want to invest that money and the government already got their 40%.
If you're in California, the state got their 13%.
Now they want, if you have a net worth of over whatever number they have or define as rich, then they want a surtax of 25%.
And then when you die, they'll take 40% more.
At what point do we say, get the hell out of our lives and stop wasting our money with your big socialist spending pro.
Socialism fails every time.
Unfulfilled promises, more poverty, and a loss of freedom in the name of false security.
I say it all the time.
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Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
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It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
I'm Leon Napok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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All right, what a week this has been for Dumb Things Said.
You know, first we had Mayorkis, you know, though the border's secure, the border's secure, well, the border's not secure because of climate change.
Actually said it.
Then you have Kamala Harris, you know, mocked, I think, for good reasons, for saying the kids are facing a climate mental health issue.
This is what she said.
The only thing missing is the giggling.
I mean, one of the young leaders was talking to me about climate mental health.
I said, tell me what's going on with your peers, climate mental health.
And she talked, I said, I think I understand that, but unpack it for me.
And she talked about how her peers are thinking about it.
One example is, you know, whether when they're ready, could they start a family?
Worried about what that would mean.
And the stress of it.
They were talking about it in terms of their peers trying to figure out, you know, they're going to have to get a job and they're going to have to make a living, but what can they do and how can they adapt the education that they're having now to their activism?
Okay, let's unpack this.
This is the dumbest vice president.
I can't believe we have a president that doesn't know the day of the week.
That's the soundbite of the year so far.
This is the dumbest place.
I mean, between the word salads, the giggling, and now stating that kids are facing a climate mental health issue.
I want a Venn diagram of all the dumb things.
I want a Venn diagram.
It's mind-numbing to me.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean, not good news on the economy.
You should see the Drudge Report right now.
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Regulators shut it down.
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There's a fear that this could be their Enron.
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We have a lot of economic news, and a lot of it's scary.
You know, like they've been telling us, the border is secure, the border is secure, the border, it's not secure.
You know, just like keep your doctor, keep your plan, save on average $2,500 a year.
Millions of Americans lost your doctors.
You lost your plans, and 40% of the country has one Obamacare exchange option available to them.
40%, over 40%.
The average increase in premiums thanks to Obamacare, about up 250%.
But why would anyone have listened to me?
Well, on top of all those lies, now the latest lie is Joe Biden yesterday said, my economic plan is working.
No, it's not.
Look, I think we've got a good jobs report.
I'm happy to report that our economy has created over 300,000 new jobs last month.
And that's on top of a half a million jobs we had the month before.
All told, we've created more than 12,000, 12,000 jobs since I took office, nearly 8,000 of the manufacturing jobs.
That means overall, we've created more jobs in two years than any administration has created in the first four years.
And I think all this matters.
It's no accident.
It means our economic plan is working.
And when I took office, the recovery and the economy was, there was no recovery in the economy, was really.
And then Joe Biden whispers about these 87,000 new IRS agents going after the wealthy.
Listen.
And on top of that, what they're really focused on that I saw here, I shouldn't get into all this now, but is what has kind of surprised me.
They want to make sure we don't have enough IRS agents.
You know, those IRS agents we had, they're going to check on the accounts for the super wealthy, which require a lot of agents to look at it.
They want to get rid of them.
I don't know.
We just have a very different value set.
This guy is out of it.
It is so bad.
It is so humiliating.
Well, it just so happens that Janet Yellen, your Treasury Secretary, let the cat out of the bag on how Biden intends to use the 87,000 new IRS agents that he plans to hire, which is double what we have, more than double what we have now.
90% of the audits conducted by new IRS agents will target working Americans that make less than $400,000 per year.
Now, Yellen acknowledged earlier today that 90% of the IRS audits will be conducted on small businesses and families and not on billionaires.
Now, I've gone through this a hundred times.
All those rich people, I don't know anybody that, first of all, I don't know people that inherited money and are trust fund brats.
I don't.
I know people that made money in their lives and made a lot of it and are successful.
And the only way they made it was by working their asses off.
You know, I don't know anybody that ever won the lottery.
I just don't.
I don't mind the people play, but it is kind of interesting that all the things that the government used to arrest mob people for, they're involved in.
You know, right in New York City, I see one weed store after another.
No, I've never gone in.
I have no interest in going in there.
I don't like drugs, period, end of sentence.
That's my personal choice, unless you consider Tito's a drug.
I do drink Tito's, or occasionally a Koors Light, or half a Heineken Hannity.
You know, I can drink a little more than a half a Heineken.
Anyway, so the 87, you know, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Adrian Smith asked Yellen about the 87,000 new IRS agents hired at the agency over the next decade to conduct, you know, tax enforcement on Americans.
Regarding the audits, are you talking about the total number of audits or the proportion of audits on families and small businesses under $400,000?
Yellen admitted.
I'm talking about the proportion of those small businesses and families.
She acknowledged it.
She's contradicting her boss.
Anyway, and she went on, Smith responds, so the proportion is 90%.
According to the data, we can expect 90% of new audits to be on people making less than $400,000 a year.
Yellen tried to draw attention to the total number of audits and not the proportion of audits that will impact small businesses, et cetera, et cetera.
I mean, it speaks for itself.
Smith reminded Yellen that the rates of audits and commitments, I believe, certainly are clear.
By the way, guess who the people are that get audited the most?
The poor and the middle class, not rich people.
Hey, you say, Hannity, that doesn't sound right to me.
Why not the rich people?
Well, it seems that they pull my, you're going to get the Hannity treatment.
The Hannity treatment is, see the word Hannity, yank the file.
You know, let's go through it.
Problem is, there's nothing wrong with my income taxes.
I pay my taxes.
And by the way, I urge all of you, follow the law.
Pay your taxes.
Don't be stupid because they will come after you.
I know many people that this has happened to.
So be careful.
I would urge you to take it seriously, but you're going to do what you want.
But you think of the overall economy here.
We're talking about $50 trillion in national debt, $20 trillion more in national debt in 20 and sorry, in 10 years.
That's Joe Biden's budget.
And he's out there, you know, telling us the economy is great.
It's not great.
$6.9 trillion budget plan, $5.5 trillion in new tax increases over the next decade, a massive 5.2% federal worker pay raised that he's included in this deal.
By the way, people that work for the federal government, the story that I just told you about, four out of 10 federal workers don't even file their income taxes.
Why aren't they auditing them?
I file my taxes right there.
And it's so frustrating.
Anyway, so Biden makes his announcement now that we've had time to examine it.
There's nothing good here.
Raising income taxes by 5%, nearly doubling the capital gains tax, a new 25% minimum tax on families worth X amount of dollars.
And I'm thinking, okay, you're going to take their money.
They already pay taxes on that money.
Now you're going to double the capital gains tax if they put that money at risk in a business that hopefully creates jobs and is successful by providing new goods and services.
Nobody, if you have to pay that much in taxes, they're not going to risk their money.
When you take taxed money already and then you put it at risk and then you get a profit if you're lucky enough to get a profit, sometimes you don't.
Sometimes you lose money in an investment.
But if you make a profit, now they're taking the same amount of money they're taking for income tax reasons.
So they're taking, you risk, you have money taxed, you put it at risk, and now they want 40 cents of every dollar.
And on top of that, then they want unrealized capital gains taxed.
Again, it's phantom money.
Like you look at the stock market today, the Dow down 427 as we speak.
Okay, it's been a crappy week on Wall Street because we have nothing but crappy news on the economy.
All right, so what's an unrealized capital gains increase or tax?
Okay, you buy stocks, you have $1,000 in McDonald's stocks.
Today it's worth, you paid $800.
By the end of the year, it's worth $1,000.
You now have to pay taxes, you have to pay capital gains taxes on money based on the increase on paper.
That's only paper.
That's phantom money.
Can I make a proposition?
When you finally sell the McDonald's stock, maybe it's worth $500, but you already pay taxes because they're taxing you on unrealized gains.
It doesn't become real until you cash it in.
Yes.
Are you ready for my idea?
It's groundbreaking.
I'd like to take the 87,000 new agents divided by twos around 43.5 and apply all of those to the 42,000 federal agents that can't file their taxes and let those two wash out and leave the American people alone.
I'm just thinking out loud.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm thinking out loud.
How about we hire 87,000 more Border Patrol agents?
Oh, forget about it.
I'm all in.
Let's start that petition.
I got you there.
There we go.
Now we're the only thing I'm happy about is increasing defense spending because China and Russia have bad intentions and they want to kick our ass and they want America to be weak.
That scares the hell out of me.
You know, a 5.2% pay raise.
We can't afford it.
$6 billion and more Ukrainian aid up to $130 billion.
Are you kidding me?
And Western Europe doesn't chip in their fair share.
$59 billion in new funds for affordable housing.
Oh, so we're going to take money from one group of people and we're going to build free homes for another group of people.
Isn't that nice?
You know, that's a new Green Deal radicalism, socialism.
It's unreal.
You know, and this is not going to end well for this country.
I am telling you, this is really bad.
This is not going to end well.
You know, when you listen to the president, you know, Uncle Sam needs to start closing the budget gap.
You know, Republicans now are going to have a fight over the debt ceiling.
All 222 Republicans in the House, and I've been saying this now for months, you guys need to unite together and you need to put forward a plan of fiscal responsibility that in exchange for your vote to raise the debt ceiling,
so the full faith and credit of the United States will not be put in jeopardy because that's going to be the panicked argument when they get to the final hours of this and hoping and praying and counting on Republicans fighting each other and not uniting behind a plan.
You have the opportunity, and this is going to be a heavy lift.
Kevin McCarthy needs 218 Republican votes to do something to instill fiscal responsibility.
Look, they did it once, if you recall the Budget Reduction Act, I forget what year it was, and that included sequestration, which is automatic spending cuts.
That's where we need to go.
We got to live within our means.
Connie Mack, remember you had the penny plan?
Congressman Connie Mack of Florida, great guy.
And now we probably need a nickel or a dime plan.
And that is, you know, you have baseline budgeting, which every year they include increases in every department and spending.
Well, you can't, at this point, you're robbing from your children.
I would rather that we cut actual dollars and have no increases in spending with the exception you take care of Social Security and Medicare and our defense.
You know what?
Everything else, you know, make do with less.
And it's not even really less because the budgets have been exploding for year after year after year.
I mean, they still want to spend on, you know, COVID levels.
The pandemic is over, Joey said.
Maybe it's the time to let Novak Djokovic play in the Miami Open and the U.S. Open.
They won't let him fly into play.
The guy has natural immunity.
My gosh.
I think it's a great idea.
Ron DeSantis said, okay, you can't enter by plane.
He'll send a boat to the Bahamas and send him in, bring them in that way.
So unfair.
One of the greatest athletes of all time.
Unreal.
Biden's Environmental Protection Agency announced the plan to shut down America's coal industry.
Joe Manchin, why are you a Democrat?
Seriously, Joe, why?
You know, because the EPA proposed a rule Wednesday that would force coal plants to close only months after the White House walked back Joe Biden's vow to shut down coal plants.
Oh, we didn't really mean it, but they did mean it.
You know, just like they really do want to get rid of, you know, gas stoves.
I'm not giving up my gas stove.
If I have to, I'm going to go out.
I'm going to stockpile gas stoves.
I'm going to buy a couple extra ones.
I'm going to get propane tanks.
And I'll have enough gas to run my stove until the day I die.
That's my plan.
I'm a mini prepper as it is.
I have water.
I have food supplies for months and months.
I've got a pretty strong collection of firearms, all legal, all New York legal.
I'm ready.
You got rice and beans?
I got food.
You need rice and beans?
I got water.
You need peanut butter?
I got protection.
And I'm going to have extra gas stoves in case one breaks.
You got extra jewels?
Are you kidding me?
I probably have enough for five lives.
You're never going in the bunker without your jewels.
No.
Ketos and jewels.
By the way, nobody would want to be with me in the bunker without them.
I hear you, brother.
I'd be cranky.
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