Mark J. Kohler
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first heard Apr 2019
last heard 10 Jul
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Yeah. Now, thank you. It's a wonderful question. And I don't want any of the listeners here to think I'm just out on the Trump campaign trail. I am not. I am all for Main Street America. And whether it's Democrat or Republican, let's pass good tax legislation to help small business owners and real estate investors, because that's the backbone of this country. It's not the big corporations.
It's 90% of our economy are small business owners with less than 100 employees. And so I'm with you. We are... going to hope that this new legislation this year will have the best and the most impact on that segment of our, of our country and that economy. So, well, what's kind of fun here is we've got Terminator one. Now we get Terminator two. What did we see in the first movie?
You know, in the first movie, that's exactly what we got. We've got Bonus depreciation for equipment and real estate investors. The opportunity zone provisions. Better deductions for autos and mileage. Better tax rates. We simplified the tax rates and lowered the tax rates across the board for the wealthy and the middle class and the low. Everybody got a tax cut.
And so that Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was about 500 pages, I used to carry it around with me for a year or two as I was on the road explaining it, wrote a second edition of my book to explain it. It was packed with a lot of stuff. But here's the interesting point. The guts of it was, we're going to offer all these tax incentives for the middle class, lower tax rates and these tax strategies.
How in the hell are we going to pay for it? He brought... foreign corporation, U.S. corporations doing business abroad, they had to bring their revenue back to the U.S. He slammed all the foreign bank account issues going on in Switzerland and multiple countries. He was tough on the corporations. He said, bring your money back to the U.S.
And in turn, I'll give you a 21% corporate tax rate, but I want all this money brought on shore. So that's what a budget has to do. So when he passes this bill, everybody, last point, When you pass a budget like this, or bill, it's got to balance in 10 years. It's legislative required. So it's got to balance in 10 years.
So where the government giveth all these great, cool tax strategies, he's got to show how we're going to pay for it. And I'll tell you how we're going to pay for this round. But your first question was, did the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act really do that? It did. And we saw it. And we saw the economy flourish. Will he do it again? We're all crossing our fingers.
And the promises he made this week say he is. So we can get into how he's going to pay for it.
Ryan, your skepticism is completely valid and millions of Americans are frustrated by this. They turn on mainstream media or listen to a C-SPAN cut hearing, throw it out on social media, and they're like, what the hell? Trump just said he's not going to tax tips. He's not going to tax Social Security. He's not going to tax overtime. We're going to keep our tax rates up.
That's what he campaigned on. That's what he followed through before. And he says, I'm going to do it again. Then how in the hell can I turn on my social media feed and Bernie Sanders or some other congressional senator or congressman says, Trump's evil. He's really going to get breaks to billionaires. You're like, how do I reconcile this?
I... It frustrates the hell out of me. Someone that's read tax legislation my whole career from the left and the right side. Here's the only way I can make sense of it, Ryan. And two years ago, I'd sound like a conspiracy theorist. Now you're like, holy crap, maybe this is true. And that is, and look at the USAID issue right now.
And when we see the USAID budget funding mainstream media, not only in the U.S., but all over the world, sending out disinformation, wanting to censor so that they can control their narrative, so they can keep spending this money however the hell they want. And we're just getting to the tip of the iceberg.
Maybe the left and some of these folks running all of these NGOs do have an agenda to villainize Trump and make him look stupid. Maybe they are so brainwashed as well, and these NGOs and others have lobbied these political representatives on the left to just say, Trump is crazy, Trump is bad, the syndrome of this focus that everything he says is evil.
Maybe they are doing it unconsciously, unknowingly, but there's some evil stuff going out there. And maybe that's the message we have to go. Let's just see what Trump does. And when he pulls this off and we see tax savings, maybe for once. some of these folks will wake up and go, all right, I was fed a bunch of bullshit.
I think it's a little, there's never one thing, right? You're smart enough to get that. I love the way you're analyzing this, but I think it's a combination of both of those. And then you blend in their lobbyist money, the cyclical rotation of the unelected officials that are in Washington on the left as well. And that's a big money train for them.
And they're going to feed Elizabeth Warren and others the narrative that benefits them. And I have to believe, I think some of those political representatives have been bamboozled
tricked fed so much information they are literally in that little bubble of a different reality and then i have to believe i think some know exactly what they're doing yeah they're scared to death that when any id or when when usa id comes out with the real story of who's got paychecks under the table, it's going to be ugly. It is going to be crazy.
And I think there's going to be Republicans as well on that list. For sure. So why Elizabeth Warren can get up? How she can get up and say, we don't want Doge to forgive us. Why? Why not? He doesn't have check writing ability. Holy crap. He just wants to go in there and go, let's see where all the money went. I love that James Stewart was doing an interview the other day.
And even the Democrat talking heads are like, let's get to the bottom of this. Holy crap. What's there to fear? And I just think it's unauthentic. Absolutely. Or just they're brainwashed.
Okay, this is probably my biggest message, and I held a live on this last week, and it blew up. And this is super important. Okay, so let's just... Just for a minute, if you can, folks, let's assume whether you love Trump's style or not. We can go there and all that crap. But with the Tax Cups and Jobs Act, we all kind of felt some cool stuff.
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