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Huckabee Today | Mike Huckabee: January 14, 2025 | Huckabee Today | January 13, 2025
- Be. and good evening, everyone.
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- I'm mike huckabee, and welcome to little rock.
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- We're going to be discussing both big
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- And little issues today.
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- It's economics.
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- And i would say for most of us, economics is always big.
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- It's about money, politics and of course your pocketbook.
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- I don't often praise the wisdom of folks who veer off
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- The conservative path.
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- But i'm going to make an exception today.
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- I got to admit that james carville was actually right
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- When he famously said, it's the economy, stupid.
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- Those words took on fresh meaning on election day.
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- The economic numbers were up, but public trust
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- Was certainly down.
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- The proof was in the ballot box,
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- But at the economic indicators were so good.
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- Why do americans feel so bad?
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- Well, fortunately, we've got an expert
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- With us tonight to help answer that question.
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- Doctor art lever has been contributing
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- To the study of economics for decades.
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- President trump called him one of the most influential
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- Economists in american history,
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- And awarded him the presidential medal of freedom in 2019.
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- He even has an economic theory.
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- It's named after himself.
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- It's called the laffer curve.
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- Most everybody in politics is well familiar with it.
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- It's heralded as one of the most brilliant understandings
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- Of the link between taxation and government spending.
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- He's got a brand new book.
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- It's called the trump economic miracle
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- And the plan to unleash prosperity again.
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- One other thing about art laffer.
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- Two times in my lifetime, we've seen presidents
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- Who did significant things in transforming the economy.
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- One of them was ronald reagan.
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- The other was donald trump.
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- What a lot of americans may not realize
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- Is that while ronald reagan and donald trump
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- Got credit for steering the spaceship,
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- It was the engineer who put that plan together
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- That had a big hand in making it work.
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- The same engineer for ronald reagan and donald trump
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- Was our guest today. doctor art laffer.
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- All right.
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- I'm glad you're with us, because we're going to dig into
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- Some of the more difficult parts of the economy to understand.
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- And i think one thing is to ask this simple question.
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- During this recent campaign, the biden team kept
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- Telling us, things are great.
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- They couldn't be better.
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- Everybody's happy.
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- Everybody is doing better.
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- They just don't realize how good they have it.
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- Why did they say it?
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- Because most americans did not feel it.
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- Well, i don't know why they said it.
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- And not only do most, most americans not feel it.
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- It's not true.
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- I mean, if you look at the inflation
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- Under biden, it was extraordinarily high
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- By any standards.
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- I mean,
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- There may have been a few moments there in the
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- In the late 1970s before reagan took office,
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- When we had higher inflation.
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- But it was one of the highest in all of u.s.
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- History.
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- If you look at the recovery since since the pandemic,
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- The recovery
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- Never did catch up to where the trend lines were before.
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- And i could go on and on.
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- But the economy was not in good shape
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- And they did not do good policies.
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- And i think trump, in every major area of the economy,
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- Is going to do a much better job than they did.
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- And they just,
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- I guess, spoke like all politicians do.
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- Anything they can say that makes themselves look good.
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- They'll say it.
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- You know,
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- You've been a trusted advisor to both reagan and trump.
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- As donald trump assumes his second term in office
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- With this in a room of joe biden in between.
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- What should americans look for that
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- He will do economically
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- That will get us back on track, cut inflation down,
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- Make our dollar stretch a lot better than it has been under
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- Joe biden's,
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- Inflation with high energy prices, high grocery prices.
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- What's the advice you're giving to president trump?
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- Yeah,
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- But a lot of a lot of what
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- He did in his first term, i hope he will continue doing
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- In his second term.
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- I mean, d control of oil is really important.
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- That will lead to an increase
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- In the production of oil and petroleum products,
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- The lower energy
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- Price of gasoline at the pump,
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- That will have an enormous impact on
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- Not only energy independence of the us,
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- But also on inflation like it will have a great effect there.
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- What trump also did was the big tax cutter.
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- The tax cuts and jobs act was a phenomenal policy
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- Where we cut the highest marginal tax rate on on
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- Corporations from i forgot what it was, and 36% to 21%.
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- We, we got the, personal income tax rate down
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- From 39.6% to 37%,
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- 100% expensing of capital purchases.
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- We reduced the inheritance tax quite substantially.
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- That really got the economy booming and growing in there.
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- The numbers confirm everything here about trump success.
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- He also did one thing that was amazing, mike.
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- When not when covid 19 hit.
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- They expected the vaccine to be approved
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- In about eight years.
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- He did it in ten months by operation warp speed.
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- It was just astounding how well he did that.
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- Also, the supreme court appointments that he had made,
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- And i'm not talking about social issues,
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- But here the chevron decision was that
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- Regulatory agencies are not allowed to make law.
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- They have to be passed by congress
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- And signed into law by the president.
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- And they rolled back all these
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- Regulations, restrictions and requirements
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- That had been inhibiting the us economy for a long, long time.
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- And lastly, under trump, we had very low inflation,
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- And it bounced back from very high inflation under biden.
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- So i would expect trump
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- To take a very serious look at the economy.
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- I think he's going to continue, price transparency,
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- Which could
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- Transform the us economy into one of the best health systems
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- In the world.
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- Under biden, integrated dramatically health,
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- Life expectancy has declined and costs increased.
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- So all the way across the board, whether it be a tax policy,
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- Spending policy, monetary policy,
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- A sound money regulatory policy or trade policy,
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- I would expect my outcome to move in the right direction,
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- The exact opposite of what biden did.
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- I'm very excited about that.
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- And i'm very excited about the,
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- About what the new ambassador to israel is going to do
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- To make us even closer to that wonderful nation under.
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- I appreciate that.
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- And if i can get through the u.s.
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- Senate and get there, i hope to, represent as well.
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- I'm going to ask
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- One more question before we go to break in.
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- This has to do with the fact that donald trump
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- Did do extensive tax cuts.
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- The net result was that every american family was better off.
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- Some estimated by $4,000 a year.
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- That's actual money, better off.
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- But the biden people have continued to say
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- That his tax cuts were only for billionaires and millionaires.
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- Now, that's simply not true.
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- Everyone benefited from the tax cuts.
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- And with a republican senate and house and a president.
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- Will we see the full extension
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- Of the trump tax cuts when they come up for renewal?
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- Yeah,
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- I don't understand these people because facts are facts.
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- You know,
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- You should care less about my opinion or your opinion.
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- And this is about facts, not how you feel.
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- With the tax cuts, a job that, us economy,
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- Which had been growing right along with the level
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- Of the european union all of a sudden took off
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- Relative to the european union after two years.
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- Us real gdp was 2.5% higher than it would have been
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- Had it grown at the european
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- Union rate, which is a huge, huge amount of dollars.
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- In addition to that, the poverty levels for the poor,
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- The minority, the disenfranchized,
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- The overall pattern of were lowest levels in history.
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- I mean, it's unemployment rates
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- For blacks, minorities, hispanics.
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- It's just
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- It couldn't get any better and it didn't get any better.
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- And and lastly, just to put the egg in the beer,
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- Us revenues, tax revenues, federal tax revenues
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- Grew by more in the two years, including the tax cuts
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- And jobs act, than they did in the prior two years.
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- There by a substantial amount, by more.
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- The increase was by more than it had been
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- In the prior two year period.
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- So they paid for themselves in spades.
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- And that's not even counting state
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- And local government revenues, which rose even more.
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- But it's all just acres
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- And acres and soap suds and horse manure.
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- And i don't know why anyone would let them get away
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- With telling those things that are just not true.
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- These are facts.
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- Now, i go on a lot and i know how to read them,
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- And these guys don't.
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- And they don't care about they know
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- They don't have any integrity in the way they report data.
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- They will pay virtually anything to try to make biden better.
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- And having them misreporting numbers does not make biden
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- Bad for the country and for them and for all of us.
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- I never thought i would argue with you,
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- But i've got to disagree with one thing you said.
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- You said you're off. wrong.
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- My experience with you, you're never wrong.
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- My gosh, i listen to you and just take it in like a disciple.
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- Argument, would you?
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- Why? he is the.
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- If you talk to my wife about that.
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- I will let her know.
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- She needs to respect what they say.
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- Doctor art lever is the author of the book
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- The trump economic miracle and the plan
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- To unleash prosperity again.
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- It is out now,
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- And we are going to continue our conversation
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- With doctor art laffer right after this.
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- Stay here.
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- We are back with one of the
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- Leading economists of our time, doctor art laffer.
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- The infamous laffer curve that you created.
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- The rumor is you actually kind of developed it on the back
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- Of a white house envelope during the reagan years.
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- Explain what that is. and why.
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- Now, for almost 50 years,
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- People have embraced the laffer curve
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- As one of the most significant economic theories
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- For economic growth.
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- Yeah.
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- Let me let me just say, if i can make
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- I didn't invent it.
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- It it's been around for
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- Thousands of years, to be honest with you.
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- And i didn't even name it
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- The lap record that was done by dude witness.
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- The only thing that that i did was i really introduced
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- That curve into the discussions in the ford administration,
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- And,
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- They were always looking at if you raise tax rates by 10%,
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- You're going to get 10% more revenue.
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- You know, by raising tax rates by 10%,
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- You do collect more revenue per dollar of tax base.
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- That's true.
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- But it also by raising tax rates, you incentivize people
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- To produce less and the tax base shrinks.
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- These two effects the arithmetic effect, the tax rate effect
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- And the output effect or the economic effect
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- Always work in the opposite direction.
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- And sometimes tax rate increase will raise more revenue,
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- But sometimes they cause revenues to fall.
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- So when
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- Government spends more money, some people say that's great.
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- Government is going to help me go to college.
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- Government is going to pay off my truck.
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- Government is going to fix my home if i have a repair.
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- What's wrong with the idea
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- That government is our best friend
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- And that we ought to depend on uncle sugar to take care of us?
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- Because for every dollar the government's government
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- Spends on you,
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- They have to take from someone else,
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- And that person's going to be worse off.
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- Let me imagine something without going into too much detail.
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- Imagine we have a two person world,
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- Farmer a and farmer b.
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- If farmer b gets unemployment benefits.
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- Mike,
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- What do you think pays for him?
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- Is it farmer eight?
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- Yes it is everyone. yes.
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- You heard someone else.
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- Now let me take it to the full extreme.
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- Let's say we gave farmer b 100% of all output.
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- So that
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- Farmer got nothing whatsoever.
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- How much do you think farmer eight would continue working?
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- He wouldn't.
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- The economy would fall to the floor and be worthless.
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- Let me just say that you cannot tax an economy into prosperity.
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- It's stupid.
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- And you, a poor person, cannot spend himself and the wealth.
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- That's even dumber yet.
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- And these guys who say that, you know, straight up
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- From second.
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- Say what i think people love about you
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- Is that despite your being one of the most academically
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- Capable economists in the world, you make it simple
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- So that even guys like me can clearly understand it.
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- Economists typically make it sound like that.
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- Only the economist can understand it.
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- I sometimes i have compared economists to lawyers.
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- They create a language that only they speak.
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- So everybody says, boy, those guys are smart,
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- Even though everybody says,
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- But i have no clue what they just said.
- 00:14:15.948 --> 00:14:17.716
- What you just said, everybody gets it makes perfect sense.
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- So we've got a good point.
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- Let's approach the economy.
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- I want to hear it. let's hear it.
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- It takes a phd in economics
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- Not to be able to
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- Understand the obvious.
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- I totally could see that.
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- But why is it that members of congress.
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- And let's be fair, republicans sometimes
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- Are as bad about this as democrats are.
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- And they go into the same levels
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- Of high government spending giveaways, earmarks.
- 00:14:52.451 --> 00:14:56.388
- Why don't they get it?
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- Do they not want to get it?
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- Are they just not understanding?
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- I don't really know what you have to talk to some shrink
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- Or psychologist or some,
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- Someone who gets into the minds of people.
- 00:15:07.099 --> 00:15:09.968
- But the obvious thing is, if you understand that
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- Spending your own money means you have less left.
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- The same thing should be with congress.
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- If they give money to someone,
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- They've got to take it from someone else.
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- And the people that are helping are all at the expense
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- Of the people they're hurting.
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- And it's a it's a tragedy that they don't understand.
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- That might be that's the truth.
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- And the example i gave was that
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- If we gave everyone in the u.
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- Who doesn't work, everything,
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- And we took away
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- Everything from the people who do work,
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- What do you think would have happened
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- To total work production and output in the economy?
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- It'd go to zero.
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- People quit working. yep.
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- And everything would be at zero.
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- So government spending is taxation, pure
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- And simple.
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- You know,
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- I so appreciate and it's just a delight to have you here.
- 00:16:03.955 --> 00:16:06.525
- I hope people will get the latest book by doctor art
- 00:16:06.525 --> 00:16:09.594
- Laffer called the book of the trump economic miracle
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- And the plan to unleash prosperity again.
- 00:16:14.566 --> 00:16:19.071
- As you can see, you'll understand
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- What you read in doctor livers book.
- 00:16:22.007 --> 00:16:25.343
- Well, stay with us.
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- I'm going to visit our inbox soon.
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- Share some emails and things you're saying to us.
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- We'll do that right after this short break.
- 00:16:31.516 --> 00:16:42.005
- And welcome back.
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- Don't you just love doctor art laffer?
- 00:16:42.795 --> 00:16:45.198
- My gosh,
- 00:16:45.198 --> 00:16:46.132
- Every time i listen to him, i feel like
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- I've actually learned something.
- 00:16:48.434 --> 00:16:50.236
- It's refreshing.
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- Let's go to your emails.
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- This comes to us from linda.
- 00:16:53.005 --> 00:16:54.207
- She lives in opelika, alabama and says,
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- I congratulate your nomination as ambassador to israel.
- 00:16:57.243 --> 00:17:00.880
- I know you will do an amazing job in that capacity.
- 00:17:00.880 --> 00:17:03.783
- However, my heart is sad that you will no longer be able
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- To do this show.
- 00:17:07.487 --> 00:17:08.955
- Linda, as sad as your heart is, mine is even sadder.
- 00:17:08.955 --> 00:17:13.292
- Somehow the federal government kind of looks down on their
- 00:17:13.292 --> 00:17:16.762
- Ambassadors having a side hustle like doing a television show.
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- So yes, this one, like my weekly show, has to come to an end.
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- Thank you.
- 00:17:25.104 --> 00:17:26.372
- Kay from mississippi asks why is lobbying legal?
- 00:17:26.372 --> 00:17:30.910
- You know, it may seem like that lobbying has no useful purpose.
- 00:17:30.910 --> 00:17:34.013
- I may surprise you with what i'm about to say.
- 00:17:34.013 --> 00:17:36.682
- Good lobbying is very helpful,
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- And lobbying is disclosed.
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- So we should know who they are, who they work for,
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- And what they're advocating.
- 00:17:46.092 --> 00:17:47.793
- So lobbying is actually more transparent
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- Than somebody
- 00:17:50.630 --> 00:17:51.764
- Sending a thousand letters to a congressional office.
- 00:17:51.764 --> 00:17:54.534
- Good lobbyists tell both sides of this story.
- 00:17:54.534 --> 00:17:57.637
- They not only give some indication of what
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- They or their company is asking government for,
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- But they say here are the people who will be against it.
- 00:18:04.477 --> 00:18:07.413
- And that's really a service to the people
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- Who are looking at various pieces of legislation.
- 00:18:10.183 --> 00:18:13.753
- So it's not inherently wrong.
- 00:18:13.753 --> 00:18:16.022
- It sometimes can be that way.
- 00:18:16.022 --> 00:18:18.257
- When the members of congress who are elected
- 00:18:18.257 --> 00:18:21.861
- Let themselves get, i guess, run by the lobbyists.
- 00:18:21.861 --> 00:18:26.132
- That's never a good thing.
- 00:18:26.132 --> 00:18:27.967
- And this from elizabeth. she lives in virginia beach.
- 00:18:27.967 --> 00:18:30.203
- She says every night i begin my prayers
- 00:18:30.203 --> 00:18:32.104
- With the same prayer that i said as a child.
- 00:18:32.104 --> 00:18:34.774
- Then i began my prayer tree.
- 00:18:34.774 --> 00:18:36.409
- That always, always includes the jewish people
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- And the hostages.
- 00:18:39.378 --> 00:18:41.047
- But at this moment, i'd like to send up a prayer for you
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- That your ambassadorship hears the whispers from god
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- And that you return home safely after your return.
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- Thank you, elizabeth, and god bless.
- 00:18:51.791 --> 00:18:54.527
- I've got some final thoughts to share with you.
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- I'll do that right after this.
- 00:18:56.629 --> 00:19:06.005
- Every once in a while, the baptist minister
- 00:19:06.072 --> 00:19:08.674
- Part of me might show up in this program, like tonight.
- 00:19:08.674 --> 00:19:12.511
- I so enjoy doctor art laffer interview.
- 00:19:12.511 --> 00:19:15.014
- And i learned a lot about money and economics.
- 00:19:15.014 --> 00:19:18.351
- And it stimulated some
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- Reflections on biblical views of what we call money.
- 00:19:19.518 --> 00:19:23.623
- The bible calls it treasure.
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- And the gospel of matthew.
- 00:19:26.225 --> 00:19:27.326
- Jesus tells his disciples to lay up for yourselves
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- Treasures in heaven and not on earth.
- 00:19:31.564 --> 00:19:35.134
- He explains that what we value reflects how we live,
- 00:19:35.134 --> 00:19:39.138
- And that our heart will actually be where our treasure is.
- 00:19:39.138 --> 00:19:43.976
- In the new testament book of corinthians, the apostle
- 00:19:43.976 --> 00:19:46.312
- Paul refers to the gospel of jesus christ
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- As a treasure that dwells in human beings.
- 00:19:49.548 --> 00:19:53.286
- In the sermon on the mount.
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- Christ tells us where your treasure is.
- 00:19:54.754 --> 00:19:57.823
- There your heart will be also.
- 00:19:57.823 --> 00:20:00.660
- He's talking, of course, about our treasure in heaven.
- 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:04.363
- So the big question is this where is your treasure?
- 00:20:04.363 --> 00:20:09.035
- Check your heart, not your bank account,
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- Because your heart will be more accurate.
- 00:20:12.204 --> 00:20:14.707
- I hope you've enjoyed our show tonight.
- 00:20:14.707 --> 00:20:17.009
- And if you do, tell some others,
- 00:20:17.009 --> 00:20:18.844
- Because we'll only be doing this for a few more times.
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- Until then. i'm mike huckabee.
- 00:20:22.248 --> 00:20:24.183
- We're on the air from little rock
- 00:20:24.183 --> 00:20:25.518
- Every weekday evening, at least for the rest of this month.
- 00:20:25.518 --> 00:20:29.588
- Then it's off to israel.
- 00:20:29.588 --> 00:20:31.257
- That is, if the senate signs off on it.
- 00:20:31.257 --> 00:20:34.060
- Thanks for watching
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- And stay right here on tbn for alan jackson.
- 00:20:35.061 --> 00:20:38.364
- He's coming up next.
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- Good night. and god bless.
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