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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load of
Michael Verie show is on the air. Appociated Press I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Reuters reported on April tenth that Swiss drugmaker Novartes as
announced they will be spending twenty three billion dollars to
build and expand to sorry ten facilities in the United States.
They are a company who were at the top of
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the chart of who would be hurt most by President
Trump's tariffs. Novartis has been sending products into the United
States at a rather hefty rate. Nov Artists manufactures close
apene uh diclofenac, carba, mesipin, valsartan. I'm matt tineb cyclost
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foreign electrosol, what grow a, Oh my goodness, the things
you say methyl vinedate. Oh you know where you're right.
Ramon said, give you the give you the the common
that's the name of the drug itself. I'm sorry, so
it does close al volterine uh uh tegritol. Die I
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might get some of these wrong, folks. I don't know
a lot of these drugs. Gleevec or gilvac, neoral sando,
mune famera, riddling which apparently they stopped making riddling in
twenty twenty, Lamasil and others. So look, I hate big
farm as much as the next guy. But if products
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are going to be sold, are one of them made
in this country? And so does President Trump? And they're going,
all right, we have do we have to? I got
an email from a fellow said, no coverage of Swiss
pharmaceutical company and its twenty six billion dollar US investment
due to Trump investment, Trump tariff's See attached article by Novartes,
a Swiss pharmaceutical company, of their planned twenty six billion
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dollar investment. The article says twenty three but still a
lot in the US specifically related to Trump's tariff policy,
as stated by the Swiss, not a word on any
of our TV or radio news channels see wit Swiss website.
And I did see the Swiss, and I did see
the article, and it is true. I think you're going
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to see over the coming months a number of announcements. Now,
i'd like to see the rubber hit to road. I'd
like to see ground broken. I'd like to see these
things happen sooner rather than later. Why don't we still
have momentum? And I think there are people who will
make promises they never keep with the intention of simply
continuing the access to the American market. But I think
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what you're what you're witnessing is that these companies cannot
survive without the American marketplace as buyers of their products.
Before we get started, today is tax Day, and I
thought you might find it interesting, if not troubling, that
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Puerto Rico attracts people and the United States is in
on this. If you go down to Puerto Rico for
six months plus one day, you don't really pay any taxes,
and that's great for the people for But listen to this.
John Stossel did a great piece on this and on
this troubling.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Would you like to pay zero federal income tax? There
is a way to do that legally. I'm moving to
Puerto Rico. It's why YouTube star logan Paul has moved
his show from California.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I feel like people are wondering why Puerto Rico taxes one.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's one vertical, Yeah, it's one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's a big one.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Six percent of a big one, which ironically is the
same amount of money you keep every year.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Ninety six percent.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's how much of your earnings you now get to
keep if you move to Puerto Rico, you pay no
federal income tax and must give just four percent of
your income to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Also is like the only.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Place you can live go is zero percent capital gains,
no capital gains tax. I did it for the obvious
benefit of being able to keep most of what I own.
The tax breaks started after this Puerto Rican governor shrank
the bureaucracy. You let seventeen thousand workers go. If you
can't pay their salaries, what are you going to do?
He limits of the tax break to people who move
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here and stay for at least six months a year.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Last year, applications for these tax breaks nearly tripled.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think it's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Some people don't want those newcomers coming in.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It's an example of the continued colonization of the people
of Forficut.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But what AOC calls colonization, I'd call new opportunities.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
One report showed that the tax beneficiaries created north of
forty thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's too bad that Puerto Rico didn't do this decades ago.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
They wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In the economic trouble they are today.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
A lot of people are moving down here.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Social worker Melissa da Silva moved here from Rhode Island.
Now she runs her therapy and coaching business remotely from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What's your life like there?
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Like living in paradise? Every single day? I wake up
and I have the ocean in front of me. I
go out my back door, the rainforest is, you know,
off in a distance. It's just a magical place to live.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Alsome, I'm satan quite a bit. Twenty five percent of
my whole income. He hasn't gotten much city in the mainland,
and yet it's huge.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
People just don't really talk about it too much.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Why not.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
There's this fear of all of the people from the
state side they're going to come down and you know,
take over everything, which is understandable. I mean from learning
about the history of Puerto Rico. The Standards came over
and decided it's going to be their island and decimated
all the native people who lived here. And then the
States comes down and they decide it's going to be
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their island, and again, you know, the rights are taken
away from the people.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's the reason why some activists oppose this.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Tax break, like invading our lamb. They're invading our.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Land, and you know what, honestly, there are some people
that are doing that. I see people who come down
and they just stay there six months and they're like,
we're out of here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But there are.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
People, you know, they want to give back to the
island as well.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
If you don't pay taxes, aren't you hurting Puerto Rico?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Well, I do pay taxes.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I provide other things to the community as well.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
She sells digital art and gives part of her earnings
to a Puerto Rican charity.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's some who are opening up schools.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I live my life in service. God left Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Billionaire Brock Peers moved here and now helps run the
charity Toys for Tots. He also bought this hotel and
is renovating another, which had been abandoned after Hurricane Maria.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's expected to create three hundred jobs.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Others are building hurricane resistant farms and tech companies.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Still, some people always see such investment as a problem,
as if someone making money means others must lose.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
But that's not how the world works.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
When markets are free, new wealth gets created and most
people win.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It is not acceptable.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
AOC seems to think there are only winners or losers,
subjects or rulers.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So we are essentially importing a.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Ruling I like to Silva's answer to that, a new
ruling class.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
The saying is like all ships rise with as a tide.
Let's all grow with this.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Puerto Rico tried big government, strict regulations, handouts, even a
government controlled power company.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
This is our invitation.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
High bed tax breaks, Ramone, the King of Ding, and
this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
About one hundred and ten years ago, the income tax began.
We didn't have one before that.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
The build up to World War One, build up to
being a world power did not require that the government
eat the core of the apple we produce, leaving us
with very little.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That tax was promoted as only being on the rich.
Don't worry about this new tax. It's only for the
very very wealthy, which is how they pass everything off. See,
we're going to attack the very wealthy and take what
they have. That's good, right. You hate they're very wealthy,
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don't you, because you're not the very wealth Yes, take
what they got. I don't care what you use it on.
Just take what they got because I don't got it,
and they got it, so you get it. Why would
you want the government to take from a citizen. How's
that help you? But jealousy. Oh, it's a powerful thing,
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and the people who run government understand that. In fact,
that's how all the great revolutions begin. That's how the
Russian Revolution began. They told the poor people, the serfs,
we're going to take from the rich people. Now get
your pitch fork and help us take from the rich people.
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The minute they took from the rich people, kill them,
took power. They then killed the very people who had
helped them acquire power. That's similar in so many cases.
But people without have the mistaken belief that they can
somehow acquire wealth by someone else losing theirs. That's not
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how it works. During the campaign, which was just a
few months ago, President Trump stopped at a barbershop to
speak to the people there, and he was asked about
abolishing the income tax. Don't underestimate how important this was
to his appeal. Such a radical notion, and I do believe.
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I do believe that he intends to do that. Whether
he's able to do it, I do believe that he
intends to. I think he understands, forget mount Rushmore create
his own if you could get rid of the income tax,
and you could with tariffs and reduce spending. But here's
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what he said, Well.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
All this extra revenue we're going to be bringing into
the country. So do you believe at some point in
time we could find a way, once the country's back
on its feet and getting enough revenue and paid off
our debt, do you think it's possible to find a
way to eliminate federal taxes?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
For there is a way.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How do you feel about you know, in the.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Old days, when we were smart, when we were a
smart country in the eighteen nineties, and all this is
when the country was relatively the richest it ever was.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It had old terraffs. It didn't have an income tax.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Yes, okay, now we have income taxes, and we have
people that are dying.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
They're paying tax and they don't have the money to
pay the tax.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
No, in the old days eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we
had so much money they had to set up committees,
blue ribbon committees, how to spend our wealth. We had
no idea how to spend it with so much money.
Then we went to the income tax system and the
rest is sort of history.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
But no, there is a way.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
If what I'm planning comes out.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It is a great question.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
By the way, everyone could have taken They're a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
You know, everyone could attain the American dream if it
wasn't for the high costs. That the burden of high taxes,
and we tax at every step of the way when
we make it, and regulations and regulations.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
So I cut more regulations in four years than any
other president by four times.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary. So what people are missing about
Trump's tariffs is that revenue could be used to provide
Trump's tax agenda. There is a purpose to this. It
would replace the income tax.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And for someone who says that this money coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Is really a tax on consumers, what do you say,
I say a couple of things.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
One, we're seeing the CEO Walmart is pushing back on
his Chinese suppliers and he is telling them they have
to eat all the tariff tarraft increases. They're the largest
retailer in America. I think forty million Americans go into
Walmart every week. We saw in Trump one point zero
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prices didn't go up. And if we have that happening.
At the same time, we are able to use that
income to provide President Trump's tax agenda, no tax and tips,
no tax on social Security, the excuse me, no tax
in overtime, and making auto interest deductible for American cars.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's a home run for working class Americans. And then
we'll take this one to the break. Ron Paul flashback,
the brilliant Ron Paul who called for the abolition of
the FBI and the CIA and saying that the income
tax should be abolished. We should all give credit to
the godfather of all these ideas Trump has today, and
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that was the Great run Pole. The income tax is unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Again, something happened in the twentieth century where the American
people decided that there would be There's something happened where
we have changed our attitude about what we wanted from
our government. We've ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state
that we cannot afford, and we've also became an American
empire where we have troops around the world and we
pay for the defense of Japan and Germany and everybody else.
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But at the same time, you had to have two
ways of financing this one. We decided we'd have an
income tax that we would start subtlely and small, that
would escalate to the point that it really is the
biggest rip off in the country, along with a federal
reserve system that allows us to monetize.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the degreigation of this society.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That we love.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater. The amount of tax that government
takes is over forty percent. You know, when the funding
fathers got sick and tired of the British taxes, they
had a taxable twenty five percent. The American people are
rather complacent to put up with this, and so we
are a bit we have enslaved ourselves. Not only do
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are we enslaved through the tax system, but we're enslaved because.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We keep all the records. We don't keep the right records.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Can you imagine this tax simplification bill that just came out,
and if we don't learn those forms and do it right,
we have a gun pointed at our head by the
irs and say you're going to be put in prison
if you don't want to fill out those forms. How
many times that they have to go through the W
four form, I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. We
have to keep the information, then we have to turn
it over the government. We then set ourselves up for
self incrimination. Then we are guilty until proven innocent. They
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say you owe such and such amount, we are guilty
and proven innocent, and then we will go to jail
and they confiscate money from our banks.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You got a little bit wrong, buck Paul.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
The IRS can come and confiscate our money very easily
if they send us a bill and we don't pay it.
If they send you a bill at the end of
the year and say you did not pay ten thousand
dollars on taxes, you jolly well better prove that you
don't know it. It's up to you to hire your
herney and hire your accountants and spend a lifetime or
many years of agony to prove yourself innocent with your
records that you turn over to them. But back to
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the general principle, taxation is bad knowing because the IRS,
I think, is such a vicious organization. But because taxes
is confiscation of wealth, because it isn't part of the
American tradition. It wasn't what the founding fathers intended, it
isn't what we had through the nineteenth century, and it's
totally unnecessary in a libertarian society.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Remember one, I remember Scott can can Mount, and that
right there is the mindstone and this whole assent.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh Brah.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Watching her best friend go to space, the light instructor
said that I am.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Her best success story.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
Why because she's never had somebody go through the course
who's terrified of flying. Everybody who's gone through the course
is somebody that there's been a lifelong dream.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
They wanted to do. So she said, I'm her best successor.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Very very fine Green, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Get quoting it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 13 (17:11):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Right now, you are officially an astronaut.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Much how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I feel super connected to love.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I'm so proud of me right You never know how
much love is inside of.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
You, rocket Shad.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all about.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
It, like how much love you have to give and
how loved you are until the day you launch.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
As I loved it the month of April, You're like,
I'm going to space and I'm launching my tour. It's
really incredible. Now I know I'm asking this question for
your fans. Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
And not only that, I have got to reveal my
setlist for the tour.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
On a butterfly. I'm just flying in space.
Speaker 14 (18:08):
I don't know if anyone's ever been space, anyone's ever.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Done that before, So I'll.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Just do There's a lot of things that you have done. First,
you are now officially an astronautic.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Let me just tell you on.
Speaker 12 (18:17):
Behalf of everyone here a blue Origin. I'll webcast and
everyone all of these individuals that put this incredible thing
on congratulations.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I went on ride alongs with police officers. Does that
make me a cop? I went today to a day
of the fire Academy. We wore the uniform and you
sweated and the fire come, you know, came flying over
the top of you down these Hallwayses that make me
a firefighter? If you sat next to somebody on a plane,
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does that make you a pilot? All of this is
just this paying as astronauts. It demeans the accomplishment of
the great men and a few women who went into
space and braved the dangers and a fair number of
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people die. From the beginnings was Mercury Gemini, there was
you know, I gotta be careful because we broadcast from Houston,
and part of Houston is Clear Lake, and just outside
the city limits there are a series of little towns
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that are really just an attempt to be out of
the city of Houston, so you don't have to be
part of the welfare state and crime little community. But
the residents were for many years part of the space program.
Houston is known as space city for good reason. And
there are a number of people in war, especially when
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NASA was going and blowing, that were part of this
amazing thing to go to space. And those people undertook
great risk of their lives and they worked very hard
to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this. And now
they're playing this game. Oh, Katie Perry, you're an astronaut?
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Neil Oh guilt can you're an astronaut? Is Oprah proud?
Speaker 15 (20:28):
I met?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oprah's very proud. You get to be an astronaut, and
you get to be an astronaut, and you it's all so,
it's all. It's the everybody gets a trophy mentality. It's
the idea that all you need to do to be
a member of our armed forces is really, really want
to you're a boy who wants to be a girl,
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just call yourself a girl. The truth be damned. Everybody
gets a trophy, everybody wins. You dumb it everything down,
and you leave as disgusted and frustrated those who are
the best in class. And what you see in this
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case is a race to the bottom. You see a
culture in decline. You see the sorts of people who
are bringing quote unquote news, bringing stories of failure as success.
What is this whole body positive movement but an attempt
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to say your fat ass is not gross any longer.
You're beautiful, you're wonderful. Here spill over into the seat
of the guide next to you. Don't strive to be
more healthy, don't strive to weigh less. Be as fat
and gross as you possibly can, and we'll even watch
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you eat job of the hut. Well, the whole body
positivity movement is a way of saying, don't do things
to make you feel better, look better, be better, be healthier. No, no, no,
embrace very bad habits. And before you tell me, but Michael,
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they may have a grand problem. That's like pointing out
that some of the illegal aliens aren't being trafficked or
doing the trafficking, or carrying fentanyl or killing people. You
may be right, but I'm comfortable going ahead and deporting
all of them, and you should be too. Don't make
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excuses for this nonsense because the body positive movement does
not come from a good place. None of these things
come from a good place, and none of these things
end up in a good place. If you're the coach
who comes in and institutes ice cream parties instead of
two days, if you say, guys, you don't have to
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hit the weight room, because that's hard work. Everybody should
get to play on every play in every game, and
we're just gonna make it work without any of the
sacrifices that traditionally accompany a championship team. You would be
a loser of a team, you'd be a loser of
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an individual, and we would be a loser of a nation.
We're not gonna let that happen.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What MD allow me to introduce myself. My name is
Mitch Michael Perry, genius.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
We did a pole without doing any research of the
five most famous tax cheats, it being tax Day, that
we could think of off the top of our heads, and
we ranked them from fifth to first. Our fifth was
Joe Francis. You may not know the name, but if
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you remember the Girls Going Wild videos, that was him.
He was indicted on charges of deducting more than twenty
million dollars in false business expenses back in two thousand
and two. Two thousand and three, he pled guilty to
misdemeanor council false return in bribery, accepted a plea deal
including eleven months in prison, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in restitution to the irs. Served time for other
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more disturbing charges, false imprisonment assault after slamming a woman
into a wall. A real stand up guy here, he
is calling the jurors retarded.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
Just because a jury is mentally retarded and jealous of
who I am. You know that jury. You should be
put in jail, you stupid idiots. That's all I have
to say. You stupid, stupid idiots, you stupid jury. You
should be put in jail or lineup and shot. You're idiots.
It's sad.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I mean, that's what they should give the death penalty to.
Stupid jury's because.
Speaker 16 (24:59):
I'm not that person. It's awful just to convict people
because you're jealous of them as retarded.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Quite the charmer. At number four, we have Leona Helmsley,
known as the Queen of mean. Trump loves her. They're
old friends. He actually really likes her, and I think
feels that she got a bad deal. Her husband, Harry,
and her were indicted back in nineteen eighty eight on
one hundred and eighty eight counts of tax fraud. Harry
was one of the world's wealthiest billionaire real estate moguls.
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They were alleged to have paid for personal expenses out
of their business accounts, like renovations to their Connecticut mansion.
And yes, I say Connecticut, a former housekeeper claimed. Leona
said only little people pay taxes. She was guilty of
the crime of being arrogant. If you want to know,
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here was CNN telling the story.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
She had built up a successful real estate career in
her own right, but when she married Harry, they were
one of the most powerful and wealthy couples in the world.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
He's a great romance sir. And he's brilliant, and he's
good looking, and he's rich. I've got everything right.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Leona and Harry Helmsley were most well known for their hotels,
and for Leona's inclusion and advertisements is the self appointed
hotel Queen. The author of a book on the Helmsley
says the couple had it all.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It was a very successful marriage and as a team
they worked well.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But things went downhill. The Helmsleys were indicted for not
paying their taxes, and while Harry did not have to
face charges because of his health, Leona did, I.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Am not going to jail. I've done nothing wrong. I
have done nothing wrong. I'm innocent. My only crime is
that I'm Leona Helmsley.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Newspaper headlines blaired that she once told a maid only
the little people pay taxes, something she always denied.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She said, we paid.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Three hundred and forty four million dollars in taxes.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Of course I didn't say it. The US Supreme Court
turned down an appeal for Helmsley, and after a federal
judge ordered her to serve a four year prison sentence,
Leona Helmsley collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where
she was treated for a heart to regularity and hypertension.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Only a month later she was off to jail.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The author of the Helmsley book believes that Leona forgot
about the priorities of life.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're not here just.
Speaker 17 (27:19):
To make money, and we're not here just to accumulate power.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And coming in at number three on the five most
famous tax chief cases, the Star of White Men Can't Jump,
The Blade trilogy, and Major League Wesley Snipes, who served
three years in prison and was fined nine and a
half million dollars for failing to file tax returns from
nineteen ninety nine through two thousand and one. He was
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acquitted of a more serious felony tax fraud and conspiracy charge.
He argued he was a non resident alien and that
the IRS was an illegitimate agency, but the jury didn't
buy it. After release, he was played on house arrest
the Associated Press with that story.
Speaker 13 (28:03):
So he Snipes gets three years behind bars. He was
sentenced Thursday on misdemeanor tax charges.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But this is a man of integrity.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Snipes's lawyers offered dozens of letters from family and friends
attesting to his good character and asking for leniency.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh what I did is I just answered the question
straight up and down. The brought.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
Fellow actors Willie Harrelson and Denzel Washington also wrote letters
on his behalf. The judge, though, said Snipes showed a
history of contempt for tax laws and granted prosecutors the
maximum three year sentence they had requested. Jess government alleges
Snipes Ow's nearly three million dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 14 (28:44):
For over eight years, he engaged in numerous steps of
tax defiance conduct everything from submitting bogus bills of exchange
to the government to accusing the government that the actual
tax prosecutors are at risk if they go after him.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
To filing frivolous documents.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
For years on he claimed he didn't have to pay taxes,
still arguing the government has no right to collect. He
was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony,
tax fraud and conspiracy and number.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Two on our list. In nineteen ninety irs hit Willie
was seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes. Assets were seized,
but not before his daughter hand delivered his famous guitar
trigger to him In Hawaii, Willie struck a deal for
six million dollars which included him recording an album titled
the Irs Bool By my Memories, I passed that sprinkle
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with the blues, A few ol dreams inside I can't use?
Who buy my.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
Memories of things that used to be? There were the
smiles before the tears with a smile little some better years?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Who by my.
Speaker 17 (30:10):
Memories of things that used to be?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
When I remember how things were.
Speaker 15 (30:23):
Mine?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The Moores all Lea.
Speaker 18 (30:26):
Heard the seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes was covered
with an asset seizure, but dedicated fans purchased a lot
of those items.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And gave them back to Willie. That was also true
of John Connley when he when he was hit with
a tax fraud case many years earlier. The nineteen ninety
case would be settled in nineteen ninety three after Willie
struck a deal for six million dollars which included him
recording an album titled the Irs Tapes? Who Buy My Memory?
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Bringing us to the number one most famous tax cheat case,
and that was gangster in mob boss Al Capoune, likely
the most notorious tax evator in all of history. Because
we love to tell the story. They didn't catch him
for being a gangster. They caught him for not paying taxes.
He famously said, the government can't collect legal taxes on
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illegal money. How are y'all going to tax me on
things that I gained illegally? Nineteen twenty five to twenty
seven he's convicted on five counts of tax evasion twenty
eight to twenty nine, willful failure to file to file,
Sentenced to eleven years in prison an eighty thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 15 (31:43):
Talk about excitement at the county jail. It mainly come
to pass. And here's the proof. But Draul Fons Capo alias,
but there Al Brown alias the Big Shock has met
the enemy, and he is there and is made to
the Bearburne Street station with a nast guard that had
DoD matter to us self. It won't be long now
before the world's most notorious gangster will be only an
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offensive memory. And if he behaves himself while he's a
guest of Uncle Sam in Atlanta, he'll be out again
in only seven and a half years. And so up
until nineteen forty, mister Caport will be mister forty thousand
and eight eighty six. Now for the change, they're taking
him for a ride. Let that be a good lesson
to you. Always be sure and pay your income tax.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load of
Michael Verie show is on the air. Appociated Press I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Reuters reported on April tenth that Swiss drugmaker Novartes as
announced they will be spending twenty three billion dollars to
build and expand to sorry ten facilities in the United States.
They are a company who were at the top of
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the chart of who would be hurt most by President
Trump's tariffs. Novartis has been sending products into the United
States at a rather hefty rate. Nov Artists manufactures close
apene uh diclofenac, carba, mesipin, valsartan. I'm matt tineb cyclost
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foreign electrosol, what grow a, Oh my goodness, the things
you say methyl vinedate. Oh you know where you're right.
Ramon said, give you the give you the the common
that's the name of the drug itself. I'm sorry, so
it does close al volterine uh uh tegritol. Die I
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might get some of these wrong, folks. I don't know
a lot of these drugs. Gleevec or gilvac, neoral sando,
mune famera, riddling which apparently they stopped making riddling in
twenty twenty, Lamasil and others. So look, I hate big
farm as much as the next guy. But if products
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are going to be sold, are one of them made
in this country? And so does President Trump? And they're going,
all right, we have do we have to? I got
an email from a fellow said, no coverage of Swiss
pharmaceutical company and its twenty six billion dollar US investment
due to Trump investment, Trump tariff's See attached article by Novartes,
a Swiss pharmaceutical company, of their planned twenty six billion
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dollar investment. The article says twenty three but still a
lot in the US specifically related to Trump's tariff policy,
as stated by the Swiss, not a word on any
of our TV or radio news channels see wit Swiss website.
And I did see the Swiss, and I did see
the article, and it is true. I think you're going
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to see over the coming months a number of announcements. Now,
i'd like to see the rubber hit to road. I'd
like to see ground broken. I'd like to see these
things happen sooner rather than later. Why don't we still
have momentum? And I think there are people who will
make promises they never keep with the intention of simply
continuing the access to the American market. But I think
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what you're what you're witnessing is that these companies cannot
survive without the American marketplace as buyers of their products.
Before we get started, today is tax Day, and I
thought you might find it interesting, if not troubling, that
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Puerto Rico attracts people and the United States is in
on this. If you go down to Puerto Rico for
six months plus one day, you don't really pay any taxes,
and that's great for the people for But listen to this.
John Stossel did a great piece on this and on
this troubling.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Would you like to pay zero federal income tax? There
is a way to do that legally. I'm moving to
Puerto Rico. It's why YouTube star logan Paul has moved
his show from California.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I feel like people are wondering why Puerto Rico taxes one.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's one vertical, Yeah, it's one.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
It's a big one.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Six percent of a big one, which ironically is the
same amount of money you keep every year.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Ninety six percent.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's how much of your earnings you now get to
keep if you move to Puerto Rico, you pay no
federal income tax and must give just four percent of
your income to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Also is like the only.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Place you can live go is zero percent capital gains,
no capital gains tax. I did it for the obvious
benefit of being able to keep most of what I own.
The tax breaks started after this Puerto Rican governor shrank
the bureaucracy. You let seventeen thousand workers go. If you
can't pay their salaries, what are you going to do?
He limits of the tax break to people who move
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here and stay for at least six months a year.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Last year, applications for these tax breaks nearly tripled.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I think it's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Some people don't want those newcomers coming in.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
It's an example of the continued colonization of the people
of Forficut.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
But what AOC calls colonization, I'd call new opportunities.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
One report showed that the tax beneficiaries created north of
forty thousand jobs.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's too bad that Puerto Rico didn't do this decades ago.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
They wouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
In the economic trouble they are today.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
A lot of people are moving down here.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Social worker Melissa da Silva moved here from Rhode Island.
Now she runs her therapy and coaching business remotely from
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What's your life like there?
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Like living in paradise? Every single day? I wake up
and I have the ocean in front of me. I
go out my back door, the rainforest is, you know,
off in a distance. It's just a magical place to live.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Alsome, I'm satan quite a bit. Twenty five percent of
my whole income. He hasn't gotten much city in the mainland,
and yet it's huge.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
People just don't really talk about it too much.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Why not.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
There's this fear of all of the people from the
state side they're going to come down and you know,
take over everything, which is understandable. I mean from learning
about the history of Puerto Rico. The Standards came over
and decided it's going to be their island and decimated
all the native people who lived here. And then the
States comes down and they decide it's going to be
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their island, and again, you know, the rights are taken
away from the people.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
That's the reason why some activists oppose this.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Tax break, like invading our lamb. They're invading our.
Speaker 8 (06:43):
Land, and you know what, honestly, there are some people
that are doing that. I see people who come down
and they just stay there six months and they're like,
we're out of here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
But there are.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
People, you know, they want to give back to the
island as well.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
If you don't pay taxes, aren't you hurting Puerto Rico?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Well, I do pay taxes.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
I provide other things to the community as well.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
She sells digital art and gives part of her earnings
to a Puerto Rican charity.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
There's some who are opening up schools.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I live my life in service. God left Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Billionaire Brock Peers moved here and now helps run the
charity Toys for Tots. He also bought this hotel and
is renovating another, which had been abandoned after Hurricane Maria.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
It's expected to create three hundred jobs.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Others are building hurricane resistant farms and tech companies.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
That's what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Still, some people always see such investment as a problem,
as if someone making money means others must lose.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
But that's not how the world works.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
When markets are free, new wealth gets created and most
people win.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It is not acceptable.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
AOC seems to think there are only winners or losers,
subjects or rulers.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So we are essentially importing a.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Ruling I like to Silva's answer to that, a new
ruling class.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
The saying is like all ships rise with as a tide.
Let's all grow with this.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Puerto Rico tried big government, strict regulations, handouts, even a
government controlled power company.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
This is our invitation.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
High bed tax breaks, Ramone, the King of Ding, and
this other guy, Michael Barry.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
About one hundred and ten years ago, the income tax began.
We didn't have one before that.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
The build up to World War One, build up to
being a world power did not require that the government
eat the core of the apple we produce, leaving us
with very little.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
That tax was promoted as only being on the rich.
Don't worry about this new tax. It's only for the
very very wealthy, which is how they pass everything off. See,
we're going to attack the very wealthy and take what
they have. That's good, right. You hate they're very wealthy,
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don't you, because you're not the very wealth Yes, take
what they got. I don't care what you use it on.
Just take what they got because I don't got it,
and they got it, so you get it. Why would
you want the government to take from a citizen. How's
that help you? But jealousy. Oh, it's a powerful thing,
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and the people who run government understand that. In fact,
that's how all the great revolutions begin. That's how the
Russian Revolution began. They told the poor people, the serfs,
we're going to take from the rich people. Now get
your pitch fork and help us take from the rich people.
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The minute they took from the rich people, kill them,
took power. They then killed the very people who had
helped them acquire power. That's similar in so many cases.
But people without have the mistaken belief that they can
somehow acquire wealth by someone else losing theirs. That's not
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how it works. During the campaign, which was just a
few months ago, President Trump stopped at a barbershop to
speak to the people there, and he was asked about
abolishing the income tax. Don't underestimate how important this was
to his appeal. Such a radical notion, and I do believe.
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I do believe that he intends to do that. Whether
he's able to do it, I do believe that he
intends to. I think he understands, forget mount Rushmore create
his own if you could get rid of the income tax,
and you could with tariffs and reduce spending. But here's
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what he said, Well.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
All this extra revenue we're going to be bringing into
the country. So do you believe at some point in
time we could find a way, once the country's back
on its feet and getting enough revenue and paid off
our debt, do you think it's possible to find a
way to eliminate federal taxes?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
For there is a way.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
How do you feel about you know, in the.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Old days, when we were smart, when we were a
smart country in the eighteen nineties, and all this is
when the country was relatively the richest it ever was.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
It had old terraffs. It didn't have an income tax.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
Yes, okay, now we have income taxes, and we have
people that are dying.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
They're paying tax and they don't have the money to
pay the tax.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
No, in the old days eighteen ninety eighteen eighty, we
had so much money they had to set up committees,
blue ribbon committees, how to spend our wealth. We had
no idea how to spend it with so much money.
Then we went to the income tax system and the
rest is sort of history.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
But no, there is a way.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
If what I'm planning comes out.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
It is a great question.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
By the way, everyone could have taken They're a sophisticated cat.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
You know, everyone could attain the American dream if it
wasn't for the high costs. That the burden of high taxes,
and we tax at every step of the way when
we make it, and regulations and regulations.
Speaker 10 (12:19):
So I cut more regulations in four years than any
other president by four times.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Scott Bessen, Treasury Secretary. So what people are missing about
Trump's tariffs is that revenue could be used to provide
Trump's tax agenda. There is a purpose to this. It
would replace the income tax.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And for someone who says that this money coming in.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Is really a tax on consumers, what do you say,
I say a couple of things.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
One, we're seeing the CEO Walmart is pushing back on
his Chinese suppliers and he is telling them they have
to eat all the tariff tarraft increases. They're the largest
retailer in America. I think forty million Americans go into
Walmart every week. We saw in Trump one point zero
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prices didn't go up. And if we have that happening.
At the same time, we are able to use that
income to provide President Trump's tax agenda, no tax and tips,
no tax on social Security, the excuse me, no tax
in overtime, and making auto interest deductible for American cars.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That's a home run for working class Americans. And then
we'll take this one to the break. Ron Paul flashback,
the brilliant Ron Paul who called for the abolition of
the FBI and the CIA and saying that the income
tax should be abolished. We should all give credit to
the godfather of all these ideas Trump has today, and
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that was the Great run Pole. The income tax is unnecessary.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Again, something happened in the twentieth century where the American
people decided that there would be There's something happened where
we have changed our attitude about what we wanted from
our government. We've ushered in this overwhelming runaway welfare state
that we cannot afford, and we've also became an American
empire where we have troops around the world and we
pay for the defense of Japan and Germany and everybody else.
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But at the same time, you had to have two
ways of financing this one. We decided we'd have an
income tax that we would start subtlely and small, that
would escalate to the point that it really is the
biggest rip off in the country, along with a federal
reserve system that allows us to monetize.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Sixty five years ago.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Well, I know, but since sixty five years we have
seen the degreigation of this society.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
That we love.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I mean, the libertarian society is no longer with us
because the amount of tax coming out of the economy
is still much greater. The amount of tax that government
takes is over forty percent. You know, when the funding
fathers got sick and tired of the British taxes, they
had a taxable twenty five percent. The American people are
rather complacent to put up with this, and so we
are a bit we have enslaved ourselves. Not only do
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are we enslaved through the tax system, but we're enslaved because.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
We keep all the records. We don't keep the right records.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Can you imagine this tax simplification bill that just came out,
and if we don't learn those forms and do it right,
we have a gun pointed at our head by the
irs and say you're going to be put in prison
if you don't want to fill out those forms. How
many times that they have to go through the W
four form, I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. We
have to keep the information, then we have to turn
it over the government. We then set ourselves up for
self incrimination. Then we are guilty until proven innocent. They
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say you owe such and such amount, we are guilty
and proven innocent, and then we will go to jail
and they confiscate money from our banks.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
You got a little bit wrong, buck Paul.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
The IRS can come and confiscate our money very easily
if they send us a bill and we don't pay it.
If they send you a bill at the end of
the year and say you did not pay ten thousand
dollars on taxes, you jolly well better prove that you
don't know it. It's up to you to hire your
herney and hire your accountants and spend a lifetime or
many years of agony to prove yourself innocent with your
records that you turn over to them. But back to
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the general principle, taxation is bad knowing because the IRS,
I think, is such a vicious organization. But because taxes
is confiscation of wealth, because it isn't part of the
American tradition. It wasn't what the founding fathers intended, it
isn't what we had through the nineteenth century, and it's
totally unnecessary in a libertarian society.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Remember one, I remember Scott can can Mount, and that
right there is the mindstone and this whole assent.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh Brah.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Watching her best friend go to space, the light instructor
said that I am.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Her best success story.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
Why because she's never had somebody go through the course
who's terrified of flying. Everybody who's gone through the course
is somebody that there's been a lifelong dream.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
They wanted to do. So she said, I'm her best successor.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Very very fine Green, didn't you.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Get quoting it.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 13 (17:11):
I'm so proud of me right now.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Right now, you are officially an astronaut.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Much how do you feel?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I feel super connected to love.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I'm so proud of me right You never know how
much love is inside of.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
You, rocket Shad.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It's all about.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
It, like how much love you have to give and
how loved you are until the day you launch.
Speaker 12 (17:48):
As I loved it the month of April, You're like,
I'm going to space and I'm launching my tour. It's
really incredible. Now I know I'm asking this question for
your fans. Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
And not only that, I have got to reveal my
setlist for the tour.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
On a butterfly. I'm just flying in space.
Speaker 14 (18:08):
I don't know if anyone's ever been space, anyone's ever.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Done that before, So I'll.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Just do There's a lot of things that you have done. First,
you are now officially an astronautic.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Let me just tell you on.
Speaker 12 (18:17):
Behalf of everyone here a blue Origin. I'll webcast and
everyone all of these individuals that put this incredible thing
on congratulations.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I went on ride alongs with police officers. Does that
make me a cop? I went today to a day
of the fire Academy. We wore the uniform and you
sweated and the fire come, you know, came flying over
the top of you down these Hallwayses that make me
a firefighter? If you sat next to somebody on a plane,
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does that make you a pilot? All of this is
just this paying as astronauts. It demeans the accomplishment of
the great men and a few women who went into
space and braved the dangers and a fair number of
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people die. From the beginnings was Mercury Gemini, there was
you know, I gotta be careful because we broadcast from Houston,
and part of Houston is Clear Lake, and just outside
the city limits there are a series of little towns
(19:40):
that are really just an attempt to be out of
the city of Houston, so you don't have to be
part of the welfare state and crime little community. But
the residents were for many years part of the space program.
Houston is known as space city for good reason. And
there are a number of people in war, especially when
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NASA was going and blowing, that were part of this
amazing thing to go to space. And those people undertook
great risk of their lives and they worked very hard
to prepare themselves mentally and physically for this. And now
they're playing this game. Oh, Katie Perry, you're an astronaut?
(20:24):
Neil Oh guilt can you're an astronaut? Is Oprah proud?
Speaker 15 (20:28):
I met?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Oprah's very proud. You get to be an astronaut, and
you get to be an astronaut, and you it's all so,
it's all. It's the everybody gets a trophy mentality. It's
the idea that all you need to do to be
a member of our armed forces is really, really want
to you're a boy who wants to be a girl,
(20:50):
just call yourself a girl. The truth be damned. Everybody
gets a trophy, everybody wins. You dumb it everything down,
and you leave as disgusted and frustrated those who are
the best in class. And what you see in this
(21:14):
case is a race to the bottom. You see a
culture in decline. You see the sorts of people who
are bringing quote unquote news, bringing stories of failure as success.
What is this whole body positive movement but an attempt
(21:35):
to say your fat ass is not gross any longer.
You're beautiful, you're wonderful. Here spill over into the seat
of the guide next to you. Don't strive to be
more healthy, don't strive to weigh less. Be as fat
and gross as you possibly can, and we'll even watch
(21:57):
you eat job of the hut. Well, the whole body
positivity movement is a way of saying, don't do things
to make you feel better, look better, be better, be healthier. No, no, no,
embrace very bad habits. And before you tell me, but Michael,
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they may have a grand problem. That's like pointing out
that some of the illegal aliens aren't being trafficked or
doing the trafficking, or carrying fentanyl or killing people. You
may be right, but I'm comfortable going ahead and deporting
all of them, and you should be too. Don't make
(22:41):
excuses for this nonsense because the body positive movement does
not come from a good place. None of these things
come from a good place, and none of these things
end up in a good place. If you're the coach
who comes in and institutes ice cream parties instead of
two days, if you say, guys, you don't have to
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hit the weight room, because that's hard work. Everybody should
get to play on every play in every game, and
we're just gonna make it work without any of the
sacrifices that traditionally accompany a championship team. You would be
a loser of a team, you'd be a loser of
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an individual, and we would be a loser of a nation.
We're not gonna let that happen.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What MD allow me to introduce myself. My name is
Mitch Michael Perry, genius.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
We did a pole without doing any research of the
five most famous tax cheats, it being tax Day, that
we could think of off the top of our heads, and
we ranked them from fifth to first. Our fifth was
Joe Francis. You may not know the name, but if
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you remember the Girls Going Wild videos, that was him.
He was indicted on charges of deducting more than twenty
million dollars in false business expenses back in two thousand
and two. Two thousand and three, he pled guilty to
misdemeanor council false return in bribery, accepted a plea deal
including eleven months in prison, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in restitution to the irs. Served time for other
(24:23):
more disturbing charges, false imprisonment assault after slamming a woman
into a wall. A real stand up guy here, he
is calling the jurors retarded.
Speaker 16 (24:34):
Just because a jury is mentally retarded and jealous of
who I am. You know that jury. You should be
put in jail, you stupid idiots. That's all I have
to say. You stupid, stupid idiots, you stupid jury. You
should be put in jail or lineup and shot. You're idiots.
It's sad.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I mean, that's what they should give the death penalty to.
Stupid jury's because.
Speaker 16 (24:59):
I'm not that person. It's awful just to convict people
because you're jealous of them as retarded.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Quite the charmer. At number four, we have Leona Helmsley,
known as the Queen of mean. Trump loves her. They're
old friends. He actually really likes her, and I think
feels that she got a bad deal. Her husband, Harry,
and her were indicted back in nineteen eighty eight on
one hundred and eighty eight counts of tax fraud. Harry
was one of the world's wealthiest billionaire real estate moguls.
(25:27):
They were alleged to have paid for personal expenses out
of their business accounts, like renovations to their Connecticut mansion.
And yes, I say Connecticut, a former housekeeper claimed. Leona
said only little people pay taxes. She was guilty of
the crime of being arrogant. If you want to know,
(25:48):
here was CNN telling the story.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
She had built up a successful real estate career in
her own right, but when she married Harry, they were
one of the most powerful and wealthy couples in the world.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
He's a great romance sir. And he's brilliant, and he's
good looking, and he's rich. I've got everything right.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Leona and Harry Helmsley were most well known for their hotels,
and for Leona's inclusion and advertisements is the self appointed
hotel Queen. The author of a book on the Helmsley
says the couple had it all.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
It was a very successful marriage and as a team
they worked well.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But things went downhill. The Helmsleys were indicted for not
paying their taxes, and while Harry did not have to
face charges because of his health, Leona did, I.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Am not going to jail. I've done nothing wrong. I
have done nothing wrong. I'm innocent. My only crime is
that I'm Leona Helmsley.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Newspaper headlines blaired that she once told a maid only
the little people pay taxes, something she always denied.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
She said, we paid.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Three hundred and forty four million dollars in taxes.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Of course I didn't say it. The US Supreme Court
turned down an appeal for Helmsley, and after a federal
judge ordered her to serve a four year prison sentence,
Leona Helmsley collapsed and was rushed to the hospital where
she was treated for a heart to regularity and hypertension.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Only a month later she was off to jail.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
The author of the Helmsley book believes that Leona forgot
about the priorities of life.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're not here just.
Speaker 17 (27:19):
To make money, and we're not here just to accumulate power.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And coming in at number three on the five most
famous tax chief cases, the Star of White Men Can't Jump,
The Blade trilogy, and Major League Wesley Snipes, who served
three years in prison and was fined nine and a
half million dollars for failing to file tax returns from
nineteen ninety nine through two thousand and one. He was
(27:47):
acquitted of a more serious felony tax fraud and conspiracy charge.
He argued he was a non resident alien and that
the IRS was an illegitimate agency, but the jury didn't
buy it. After release, he was played on house arrest
the Associated Press with that story.
Speaker 13 (28:03):
So he Snipes gets three years behind bars. He was
sentenced Thursday on misdemeanor tax charges.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
But this is a man of integrity.
Speaker 13 (28:12):
Snipes's lawyers offered dozens of letters from family and friends
attesting to his good character and asking for leniency.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh what I did is I just answered the question
straight up and down. The brought.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
Fellow actors Willie Harrelson and Denzel Washington also wrote letters
on his behalf. The judge, though, said Snipes showed a
history of contempt for tax laws and granted prosecutors the
maximum three year sentence they had requested. Jess government alleges
Snipes Ow's nearly three million dollars in back taxes.
Speaker 14 (28:44):
For over eight years, he engaged in numerous steps of
tax defiance conduct everything from submitting bogus bills of exchange
to the government to accusing the government that the actual
tax prosecutors are at risk if they go after him.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
To filing frivolous documents.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
For years on he claimed he didn't have to pay taxes,
still arguing the government has no right to collect. He
was acquitted in February of five additional charges, including felony,
tax fraud and conspiracy and number.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Two on our list. In nineteen ninety irs hit Willie
was seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes. Assets were seized,
but not before his daughter hand delivered his famous guitar
trigger to him In Hawaii, Willie struck a deal for
six million dollars which included him recording an album titled
the Irs Bool By my Memories, I passed that sprinkle
(29:43):
with the blues, A few ol dreams inside I can't use?
Who buy my.
Speaker 17 (29:52):
Memories of things that used to be? There were the
smiles before the tears with a smile little some better years?
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Who by my.
Speaker 17 (30:10):
Memories of things that used to be?
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
When I remember how things were.
Speaker 15 (30:23):
Mine?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
The Moores all Lea.
Speaker 18 (30:26):
Heard the seventeen million dollars in unpaid taxes was covered
with an asset seizure, but dedicated fans purchased a lot
of those items.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And gave them back to Willie. That was also true
of John Connley when he when he was hit with
a tax fraud case many years earlier. The nineteen ninety
case would be settled in nineteen ninety three after Willie
struck a deal for six million dollars which included him
recording an album titled the Irs Tapes? Who Buy My Memory?
(31:03):
Bringing us to the number one most famous tax cheat case,
and that was gangster in mob boss Al Capoune, likely
the most notorious tax evator in all of history. Because
we love to tell the story. They didn't catch him
for being a gangster. They caught him for not paying taxes.
He famously said, the government can't collect legal taxes on
(31:25):
illegal money. How are y'all going to tax me on
things that I gained illegally? Nineteen twenty five to twenty
seven he's convicted on five counts of tax evasion twenty
eight to twenty nine, willful failure to file to file,
Sentenced to eleven years in prison an eighty thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 15 (31:43):
Talk about excitement at the county jail. It mainly come
to pass. And here's the proof. But Draul Fons Capo alias,
but there Al Brown alias the Big Shock has met
the enemy, and he is there and is made to
the Bearburne Street station with a nast guard that had
DoD matter to us self. It won't be long now
before the world's most notorious gangster will be only an
(32:05):
offensive memory. And if he behaves himself while he's a
guest of Uncle Sam in Atlanta, he'll be out again
in only seven and a half years. And so up
until nineteen forty, mister Caport will be mister forty thousand
and eight eighty six. Now for the change, they're taking
him for a ride. Let that be a good lesson
to you. Always be sure and pay your income tax.
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