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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Vehicle Deduction | Allen Jackson NOW | July 16, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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There's been all sorts of reporting
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On the big, beautiful budget bill.
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The most of
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It has been on the washington politics side of things.
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Some media outlets report that it's truly a big
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And beautiful
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Bill, and others act as though the world is coming to an end.
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But now that it's been signed into law,
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Those of us outside washington
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Would like to know what does it mean
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For our family budgets right now, and what effect
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Will it have on the taxes that we file next april?
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Listen to the president's enthusiasm when those who pass
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The bill gathered for its official signing.
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This is the most popular
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Bill ever signed in the history of our country.
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Whether you're military or anybody else,
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This is the most single, most popular bill ever signed.
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Well, during the political debate,
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We had a guest on
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Who knows the ins and outs when it comes to taxes,
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And we promised to bring him back when the bill was signed.
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So for some news you could actually use,
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Let me reintroduce the executive vice
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President of national taxpayers union, brandon arnold.
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Welcome back, sir.
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Thanks for having me again.
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Well, let's start with some of the easy ones.
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Is it true that we can now deduct up to $10,000 a year
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For car loans?
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As long as the cars were assembled in the u.s.?
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As i read it, that's supposed to run through 2028,
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But there's an income phase out.
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If you make more than $100,000 or 200,000 is a couple.
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The car market's been a bit stagnant due to the high prices.
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So is this a good deal to take advantage of
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If you're thinking of a new car?
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Well, it's going to help a lot of people out i think.
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You know, we saw the inflation data
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Just come out this week that suggested car prices.
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Particularly used cars are getting more expensive.
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So people need some relief there.
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And this provision is actually retroactive
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To the beginning of this year.
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So that's going to help people right away.
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There's going to be some time in which the treasury department
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Is going
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To write the rules of this,
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Because there's a lot of, lines that need to be filled
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In some colors that need to be filled in.
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But yeah, this can benefit people
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Right away and help deal
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With the higher
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Cost of automobiles,
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The higher cost of living that we're seeing across the board.
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And provide some relief to the middle class americans.
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As you note, there is means testing,
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Which means there are income
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Phased out as people make more money.
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They're not eligible for this.
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And some of the other provisions in the legislation as well.
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Well, here's another one that
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Seemed easier for me to understand.
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I suspect for those who will benefit from it.
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The no tax on tips or overtime income.
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The only catch that i could see is the cap
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On the deduction is $25,000.
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The tip part is easy to understand,
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But who qualifies for the overtime?
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Part of this?
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Yeah, if you receive overtime pay, by and large,
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You should be eligible
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To receive this deduction, which can be pretty beneficial.
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You know, you're talking about
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About $12,000 in tax free overtime earnings.
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That's a good chunk of change
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Especially for blue collar americans.
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There are some income limitations.
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So wealthier people will not be able
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To take advantage of no tax on tips.
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No tax on overtime.
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But besides that there are some caps on on
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How much you can take.
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But a lot of americans, millions
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And millions of americans are going to benefit
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From these policies and see their tax burden
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Significantly lower as a result of these policies.
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Well, a big change is in the standard deduction.
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It nearly double to $15,750 for people who file a single
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And $31,500 for joint filers.
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Can you explain who
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Uses the standard deduction and what the other options are?
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Yeah, most americans use the standard deduction.
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So 91% of people take the standard deduction
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Rather than going through that lengthy process
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Of itemizing their taxes.
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And that's of course,
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Thanks to the 2017, all the trump tax cuts
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That passed about eight years ago.
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Now, what this does in the one big beautiful bill act
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Is make that larger standard deduction slightly bigger
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And makes that policy permanent because that was scheduled
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To revert back to its pre 2017 levels,
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Which would have been
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An enormous
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Tax increase and also would have
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Substantially increased complexity,
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Because if you have to itemize
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Your taxes, your taxes take more time
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And are more cumbersome to complete.
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So this is a win for simplicity.
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It's a win for lower taxes,
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And it's a win for millions of americans
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Who will see, benefit from this policy here.
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So one of the most important provisions
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In the entire bill, in my opinion.
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Well, two more important changes on the deduction side.
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The child tax credit was increased to $2,200.
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And there's now a senior deduction
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Of up to $6,000 for anyone over 65 years of age.
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Though it also phases out over a certain income level.
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Plenty of seniors are working well past 65,
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But this will certainly be a big help to those whose income
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Has come down in retirement,
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Or those who only or only on social security.
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Am i right in the way i read that?
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Yeah, that's absolutely right.
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There are income limitations on this provision as well,
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But millions of seniors are going to see a benefit
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From it in the form of lower taxes.
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At a time
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When so many people are struggling to make ends meet.
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We're seeing housing costs increase,
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Energy prices fluctuate, groceries have been up.
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This is going to help average seniors
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Deal with those higher costs quite considerably.
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And you mentioned the child tax credit.
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Another provision i like quite a bit increasing that to $2,200.
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And this is also very important indexing it for inflation.
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So if we do ever experience
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A scenario like we did during the pandemic
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And the time immediately after the pandemic
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Where inflation is through the roof.
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We won't see the value
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Of that child tax credit begin to erode significantly.
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So another huge win for working class americans.
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Well, brendan, i've got one more question
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Before we take a quick break.
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With all the changes in this
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Bill, would you recommend the tax
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Professional for those that are preparing their returns,
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Or can they still just use an easy form?
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Well, i think it does make taxes easier.
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The fact that you have the standard
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Deduction increase, that means more people
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Can take the standard deduction.
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But yeah, if you have a complicated tax situation,
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It is always better
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To trust a professional or use sophisticated software
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Rather than to do it on your own.
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The price you pay for, having to deal with the irs
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If you do make a mistake
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Is usually much, much larger than what it cost to hire
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Somebody who knows what they're doing
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When they complete your tax form.
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Well, brandon, stay for another segment, if you will.
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It's a big issue and we've got a lot
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More questions to sort out.
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In the meantime, i'd
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Suggest using your smartphone to check in on age now.com.
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You can even call it brandon's last appearance and much more.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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And we're back now with brandon
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Arnold, executive vice president of national taxpayers union.
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Some of the tariff deals still have to be worked out,
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Particularly the plan with china.
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And president trump is pushing hard on the fed chairman
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To lower rates.
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But before we go over more of the tax changes,
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Listen to how the treasury secretary describes
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The overall plan to fire up the economy.
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The trump economic agenda.
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As i've said many times, it's a three
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Many times it's the three legged stool.
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It's trade.
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It's tax and it's deregulation.
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So, you know, i also believe
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That the substantial amount of deregulation that we're doing
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Is going to accelerate economic growth.
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And the important thing, too, is we're going
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To have economic growth in a non-inflationary manner,
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Unlike we saw in the previous four years.
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Well, if it is a three legged stool,
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How important are the changes in the tax plans
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In terms of overall potential growth?
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Well, i think the biggest factor in this plan
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When it comes to growth is, this provision that incentivizes
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Things like research, development.
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It incentivizes manufacturing build outs,
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People building out factories, structures.
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This is all complicated tax provisions.
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But this is what happened in 2017.
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Unfortunately, some of these provisions
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Started to phase out, which i think really hurt our economy.
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But right now, as it stands,
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China is subsidizing its research and development.
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If you are conducting research and development in china,
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Developing new pharmaceutical products,
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Or you are developing nanotechnology or artificial
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Intelligence, leading edge technologies in china,
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They're effectively subsidizing that work in the united states
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Right now, we are penalizing those functions right now.
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So that puts us
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At a huge competitive advantage, disadvantage with china
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As well as a lot of our other global competitors.
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We need to fix that.
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This bill does that.
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It encourages american companies to invest in research
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Development, buy machinery,
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Buy factories by structures, farm equipment, you name it.
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I think that is an enormous improvement over the status quo.
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It's going to help our global competitiveness.
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It's going to create jobs.
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It's going to help to lower prices
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Rather than increase prices, because as we can produce things
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More efficiently on us soil, guess what?
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Prices will begin to fall.
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So that's one of the most important provisions.
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And i think that is the key
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Of the three legged stool that the treasury secretary
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Is talking about when it comes to tax policy.
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Well, this new bill also phases out
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The so-called clean energy tax credits,
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Which means that products advertised as clean energy
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Will have to be bought at their real value,
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Not at a government subsidized price.
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Do you think it's time that the solar panels
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Stand on their own, rather
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Than by promoting them with the money?
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We already pay in taxes?
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Absolutely.
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I mean, listen, i've nothing against green energy,
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Clean energy, however you want to describe it,
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But i don't think taxpayers should be underwriting it.
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If people want to put solar panels on their roof,
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If people want to build
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Big solar farms out in arizona or wherever.
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God bless them.
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That is their ability. that is their right to do so.
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Taxpayers should be footing the bill for that.
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We should have a neutral policy
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When it comes to
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What type of energy people are creating, and we should provide,
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You know, it's
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Fair, reasonable tax policy, low taxes across the board,
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Whether those are fossil fuel based energies
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Or whether those are green energies.
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But right now, unfortunately,
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The water bill
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Does a good job of eliminate some of those provisions.
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There were some last minute shenanigans on capitol hill.
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There's a loophole that's going to really delay the phase
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Out of solar and wind tax credits.
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I think that was a huge mistake
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That they made at the last minute.
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In order to gather the votes
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That they need to get the bill through the senate.
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But at the end of the day, you know,
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We are going to eventually remove these from the tax code.
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We are going to move to
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A more neutrality and a fair treatment of all energy sources.
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It's just going to take a little bit longer
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Than i would like to see,
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Because the longer these products stand out there,
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The more they're costing taxpayers.
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At a time when we don't have a lot of resources to spare.
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Unfortunately.
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Well, one of the biggest parts of this new law
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Would seem to be the permanent extensions of the 2017 tax cuts
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And the jobs act, which brought down
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Both corporate and individual rates.
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How big a deal is it that this tax rate got extended?
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It's absolutely enormous.
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You know,
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The corporate tax rate was locked in
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And that was made permanent.
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But unfortunately the individual rates, the rates that families
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That are hardworking americans are paying those
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Who are temporary.
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So those rates were going
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To revert back to their pre 2017 levels
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At the end of this year.
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On top of that, the small business deduction.
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This is a provision that was inserted
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In order to equalize taxes between small businesses
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And large businesses that was scheduled to disappear as well.
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Not only were they able to make that permanent,
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But they were able to increase that small business deduction
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By a few percentage points, which is a big deal
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Given the fact that a lot of small businesses
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Have had to deal with higher costs across the board.
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Retailers have seen the products that they purchase
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And put on their shelves
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Go up in price, which has forced them
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To put higher price tags on those items.
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Our manufacturers have had higher cost of raw materials
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Of things that they use to manufacture things.
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So unfortunately, that's been the legacy
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Of the last administration.
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Hopefully we're turning the tide.
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And i think locking in these lower tax rates
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Is a big piece of the puzzle
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For our small businesses community,
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As well as, of course, for, for working families
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That are really struggling in this economy
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And are just starting to claw their way out of a pretty deep
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Ditch that was dug for them.
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Well, i read that if the bill had not passed,
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It could have meant as much as a $4 trillion tax increase.
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Is that an accurate report?
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Yeah, it could have been more than $4 trillion.
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That would have walloped our business community
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Or would have walloped american families.
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It probably would have.
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Pushed us into a recession as well.
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That was scheduled to take place on january 1st.
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Who would have been one of the worst possible ways
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You could think of to ring in the new year 2026?
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People would have been paying higher taxes,
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Thousands of dollars.
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Each family would have likely been paying thousands of dollars
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In higher taxes.
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Absolutely backbreaking at any time,
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But particularly again at a time
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When people continue to struggle and we're still recovering
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From a really down, post-pandemic recovery,
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In which prices remain elevated,
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In which the job market is rebounding,
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But not at the rate that we would like.
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So there's a lot more work to be done on the economic front.
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But, but averting that tax increase at the end of the year
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Was probably, about as important as, of a fiscal policy.
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And she could possibly have.
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That will be, really rein, bring in some major dividends
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For, for american businesses and families going forward.
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Well, i'd like to end on one of the happiest notes
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That i could find in this new bill.
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President trump is a family man
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And a very proud grandfather as well.
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So he worked into the bill, a new tax advantaged account
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For children born between 2025 and 2028.
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Parents will receive a $1,000 government
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Contribution each year.
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It goes into a special account
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Branded how can families access that?
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Yeah, that
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That those regulations
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Are still going to be promulgated here,
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But that's supposed to
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Apply to any american that's born on us soil. here
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You get this additional trump, babies, baby dividend here.
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And listen,
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We're our savings rate in this country is abysmally low.
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People don't have enough money to save
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If they have an unfortunate circumstance
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Like their air conditioning
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Broke or. or they had car trouble.
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We need to increase our savings rate.
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This is certainly going to help in that regard by providing
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Every baby a starter account of sorts,
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That starter for one k of sorts with a thousand bucks in it.
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That money will grow accumulate over time.
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Hopefully people will be in a position
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Where they have
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Additional resources that begin to throw into those accounts
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As well, and really create that nest egg that we all need
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Heading into retirement
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Or preparing for unfortunate, unforeseen circumstances.
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So, let's increase our savings rates.
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Absolutely necessary for, for our economy
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And for our economic security going forward.
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Well, brandon arnold, big thanks for your time again today.
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Please come back again when there's more to discuss.
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My pleasure. thanks for having.
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Me. in a moment.
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More signs of hope.
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And later, your emails.
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You might even hear your own name called out.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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There are items in this budget bill that are worth celebrating.
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The bill includes language that not only removes taxpayer
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Funding from the abortion giant, planned parenthood,
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But it also cuts funding for organizations that
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Participate in gender mutilation procedures for minors.
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There's no excuse
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For forcing taxpayers to prop up an evil industry
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That would probably prioritize abortions or gender mutilation.
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And here's another recent significant step forward.
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The irs issued a ruling that churches would no longer
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Be forbidden to talk about candidates political candidates.
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It's a decision. it's long overdue.
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It's a carve out from the johnson amendment,
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Passed back in the 60s by president lyndon johnson.
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Let me put it in context, because i think it's a far
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More significant
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Ruling than just talking about political candidates.
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One of the significant prohibitions against free
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Speech has been taken down with this irs development,
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Because what we've recognized is that under the general notion
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That you can't talk about candidates,
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There was a great deal of pressure
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To not talk about our culture.
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So if we said that marriage was between a man and a woman,
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There were people
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That would undoubtedly say, you're being political.
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Well, i wasn't trying to be political at all.
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It's a biblical value.
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We talked about the sanctity
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Of human life and why we're pro-life.
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It's not a political discussion.
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It's a biblical worldview issue.
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But because of the threat and the bullying from the irs
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That's been in place for more than 60 years
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To the johnson amendment,
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Churches have been deafening in their silence.
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And with it, negative outcomes have come to the entire nation.
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I believe the silence of the church
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Resulted in a great deal of the immorality,
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The lawlessness and the things that we see
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Is pervasive problems in our culture.
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So the focus now, it shifts towards us as christ followers.
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We have the courage to stand for our convictions
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And speak the truth into our culture
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From a biblical worldview.
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We'll do that.
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I promise you, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending some time with us today.
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Just a reminder, if you ever miss an episode,
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You can go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive there.
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Watch any program you like.
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Makes it easy to share with a friend.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Our franklin from mississippi
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Wrote in last wall, now suggested to eric stackelberg
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That pastors liked johnson's irs ruling
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Because it's allowed them not to have an opinion.
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They can tell the people we're not allowed
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To get into politics, therefore
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They're obeying the law and they're good citizens.
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Well, i agree with lance,
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But i think it's probably even more pervasive than that.
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I think the people in the churches
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Have counted on there not being a discussion
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Of current events or political activity.
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That way, we didn't have to bring our real values to bear.
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We could sit in our churches and talk about political values
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In the first century,
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And act like we were immune
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Of responsibility in the 21st century.
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It's time for the church to grow up.
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We're supposed to tell the truth no matter what the law says.
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We got to find the new gear and be more courageous.
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Jay barth from palmdale noted.
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Thank you for the interview with nan gurley
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And her experience playing corrie ten boom.
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Corrie was the first christian
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Who just captivated me when i accepted christ.
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Then repeating the story about the former prison guard.
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Great episode.
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Thank you.
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Well, thank you for the encouragement.
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If you've never read corrie ten moves, book the hiding place.
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I strongly recommend it.
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It's a game changer.
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And finally, holly from maryland. question.
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We're having a hard time understanding
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Why so many children were swept away
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In the recent flood while at christian summer camp.
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God could change the weather
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In the water, just as we've seen him intervene in our lives.
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We walk by faith and trust him, but were shaken by this.
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Then he comments.
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Well, ali, it's a tragedy.
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But the reality is we live in a broken world.
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Sin still exist.
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And until the lord returns and establishes his kingdom,
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We're going to walk through
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A fallen world and our lives are still buffeted by evil.
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We need to pray for those families
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That have been so touched by this tragedy.
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God's not absent. he's right in the midst of it.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us this evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful night.
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