Tom Bilyeu

This is insane.

The one thing that troubles me about this is that you'll notice that California has far more than 18.75 million people in it, but only 18.75 million people pay taxes.

That's a big part of the problem.

When roughly half of people pay no tax, they don't give a shit.

Not their money.

but it is so wild to me.

If we weren't leaking all that money in tax, the things that we could do for infrastructure, the things that we could do with means-tested programs would be incredible.

We have really got to get people to understand

Fraudsters are not making your life better.

They are making your life worse.

They are not making things cheaper.

They are making them more expensive.

They are not making America more livable.

They are making it worse.

We have to be efficient with our money.

You live in an inflationary environment precisely because we allow people to deficit spend.

And when we allow them to deficit spend because of fraud, you're letting fraud make things more expensive.

Even if it's not taking your taxes up, it's still making everything more expensive and more out of reach.

But if we cannot get people to be absolutely outraged by fraud, we are cooked.

Dude, I really worry that my growing hypothesis that there is a huge contingent of Americans that want to see America plundered are behind this, that there is an attitude of nihilism, of hatred for the country that makes people just like, yeah, fraud away.