Sean Duffy
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And part of the problem is Democrats say they want one thing and they promise one thing.
I think you said the bullet train through Napa Valley is beautiful.
But what the deliverable is, is garbage.
And people don't get what they bargained for with the government when their liberal is in charge.
So it's dead in the water per DOT's perspective, but if California can come up with another $100 billion,
and build a project on the backs of the California taxpayer, they have every right to do that.
They can build it, but the federal taxpayer is not gonna fund this project, and Adam, it's not gonna be built.
There's just, I don't see a pathway forward that it would be built in the next 10 years, and I don't think they even match the number of 130 billion that it's estimated to cost right now.
Again, a really bad project run by, I think, bad politicians.
It's reminiscent of the old Soviet Union.
This is what you get.
You can't comply with all the rules and regulations and the cost goes up.
Listen, and not only the cost of building, if you can build, but the tax cost, the tax burden on productive people in California, which is the exodus from the state is a beautiful state.
It's an amazing place.
which is why people move there and wanna live there, but it's why good businesses who love the state are like, we can't be here anymore.
I can save 10 or 15% off the bottom line if I just go to Texas.
People are packing up and leaving for that very reason, which is, by the way, I'm surprised, Adam, you're still there.
I don't know when you're packing up and moving.
You are a trooper, man.
You're a believer.