Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - February 01, 2024


Episode 147 LIVE: Welfare In Drag – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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In this episode, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAetz) delivers a blistering attack on the uniparty, and lays out the facts behind the tax bill that passed the House Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Jason Smith (D-Wash.) and Sen. Wyden (D -D., D-N.Y.C.) work together to pass the Tax Relief For American Families and Workers Act, a bill that will restore three key provisions from President Trump's 2017 tax reform that have a proven record of creating millions of jobs and sparking more investment and economic growth right here at home. The Tax Relief for American Families & Workers Act is pro-growth, pro-jobs and pro-American. It will create over $70 billion in new R&D investment and over 900,000 new jobs, increase small business investment by $400 billion, and generate $58 billion in additional take home pay for American workers. This package raises the expense cap for small businesses beyond the limit set in 2017, and updates it for high-pensions, taxes, and interest rates. Not only are we helping businesses at home, but also ensures America is standing with our key economic partner, Taiwan, by ending double taxation on American workers and families affected by the tax relief package, and by ending the penalty on child tax benefits. It s both pro-family, and affordable housing, and it s both a safe, man-made and affordable disaster recovery. We ll take this country back, and we are being crushed by high prices and high taxes. Firebrand. Thank you for joining the Firebrand Firebrand! Tweet me to let us know what you thought of this live stream! Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you think of this episode? 5:30 - What would you like to see in the next episode of Firebrand? 6:20 - What are your thoughts on the Tax Cut and Jobs Act? 7:15 - What is your favorite part of the Tax Bill? 8:10 - What was your favorite piece of legislation? 9:40 - What kind of tax relief that you would like to be implemented? 10: What are you looking for? 11:00 12:00- What's your favorite tax relief? 13:30 15:15- What is the worst tax relief you ve gotten so far? 16:30- What s your biggest tax relief plan?

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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:04:29.000 *music* Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives.
00:04:49.000 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?
00:04:52.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.
00:04:56.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00
00:05:02.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.
00:05:06.000 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.
00:05:08.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around.
00:05:13.000 It's that simple.
00:05:13.000 He's so tough.
00:05:14.000 He's so strong.
00:05:15.000 He's smart and he loves this country.
00:05:18.000 Matt Gaetz.
00:05:20.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.
00:05:25.000 We will save America.
00:05:27.000 It's choose your fighter time.
00:05:28.000 I'm sending the Firebrand.
00:05:30.000 Welcome back to Firebrand.
00:05:37.000 We're broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives has just passed legislation reforming the tax code, and it is no bueno.
00:05:50.000 It is not a tax bill.
00:05:51.000 It's a welfare bill.
00:05:53.000 I am going to expose in this episode how the Uniparty worked together to great effect against those of us who are trying to advocate for regular Americans and not the ones that the lobbyists and the special interests are paying off to do their bidding.
00:06:07.000 So, unfortunately, they are uncorking the champagne on K Street right now at your expense.
00:06:13.000 We're going to go through all of that.
00:06:14.000 Thanks, everyone, for joining the live stream on X. B. Sully says, happy to be here to connect with fellow patriots.
00:06:23.000 Let's take this country back.
00:06:24.000 Fully agree.
00:06:25.000 And Dr. Hardcore on Rumble wants everyone to Google Blinken-Morrell CIA collusion.
00:06:31.000 And I remember that.
00:06:32.000 I remember the Blinken-Morrell CIA collusion.
00:06:36.000 That was during the Trump campaign against Biden, where you had Blinken as a senior Biden campaign official working to try to get these 51 so-called intelligence experts to discredit all of the corruption that was being exposed regarding Hunter and Joe where you had Blinken as a senior Biden campaign official working to try to get And it was, in fact, someone at the CIA telling folks that they might not get their manuscripts approved for their books.
00:07:03.000 They might have to go through more difficult red tape if they didn't do what the Biden campaign wanted them to do.
00:07:09.000 That's what you'll find out if you'll Google it.
00:07:11.000 And I remember being in those depositions.
00:07:13.000 And there should be greater consequences in terms of not funding the very enterprises that were misused for politics.
00:07:21.000 In the 2020 election.
00:07:23.000 And that's why I have to break this cycle of continuing resolutions.
00:07:26.000 So, I'm going to get now into this tax welfare mess that we are in in the House of Representatives.
00:07:34.000 In the House Ways and Means Committee, they have jurisdiction over tax policy.
00:07:39.000 And so, you had the chairman of that committee in the House, a Republican, Jason Smith, work at the behest of the Democrat lead on tax policy, Senator Wyden, And they came together with this bill, and I'll give you the opportunity to hear how Republicans and Democrats work together to pass it first.
00:08:00.000 So here's Jason Smith introducing this legislation.
00:08:04.000 Take a listen.
00:08:06.000 The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-American.
00:08:14.000 The legislation locks in $600 billion in pro-growth tax policies by restoring three key provisions from President Trump's successful 2017 tax reform that have a proven record of creating millions of jobs.
00:08:31.000 Raising workers' wages and sparking more investment and economic growth right here at home.
00:08:38.000 This bill restores full R&D expensing, interest deductibility, and 100% expensing.
00:08:46.000 Each of these policies will help American businesses grow, create jobs, and sharpen their competitive advantage against China.
00:08:55.000 This will create over $70 billion in new R&D investment and over 900,000 new jobs, increase small business investment by $400 billion, and generate $58 billion in additional take home pay for American workers.
00:09:13.000 Today, America's small businesses are being pummeled by high prices and interest rates.
00:09:19.000 This package raises the expense cap for small businesses beyond the limit set in the 2017 tax reform.
00:09:28.000 And it cuts paperwork for those small businesses by updating the IRS form last changed when Eisenhower was president.
00:09:37.000 Not only are we helping businesses here at home, but this tax relief package also ensures America is standing with our key economic partner, Taiwan, by ending double taxation on American workers and businesses operating in both countries.
00:09:56.000 The child tax credit provisions reflect the same structure established by the 2017 tax reform.
00:10:04.000 We maintain work requirements while enhancing the benefit to support families crushed by today's inflation and remove the penalty for families with multiple children.
00:10:16.000 It's both pro-worker and pro-family.
00:10:19.000 The reforms include meaningful tax relief for those affected by natural and man-made disasters and encourage more construction of safe, affordable housing.
00:10:31.000 At the end of the day, we are replacing bad tax policy with good tax policy by cutting off funding for the Employee Retention Tax Credit, a COVID-era program that costs six times its original amount, It is so riddled with fraud that the IRS put it on its dirty dozen list of the worst scams in America.
00:10:52.000 This will save America- We are back live.
00:10:57.000 And did you notice that the way they said they're paying for this tax cut is by repealing COVID dollars?
00:11:05.000 So there's all this money stacked up.
00:11:07.000 That money that is pulled back in a rescission is not actually a pay for because it doesn't continue.
00:11:15.000 So they're using...
00:11:17.000 Non-recurring savings in order to drive up the debt long term.
00:11:22.000 This bill will increase America's debt.
00:11:24.000 So it's really funny to hear Jason Smith talk about interest rates.
00:11:28.000 We know, we've covered extensively on this program, that the highest interest rates that you are paying right now for home loans, car loans, on credit cards, all of that is driven by the debt and federal spending.
00:11:42.000 And when you engage in a Tax cut, which isn't really a tax cut.
00:11:48.000 It's just a giveaway.
00:11:50.000 That's going to drive up the debt.
00:11:52.000 There's no question about it.
00:11:53.000 Then, this argument, well, we have to pass this bill for China.
00:11:57.000 We have to be competitive against China. 0.98
00:11:59.000 This is going to be the new drumbeat every time they want corporate welfare. 0.97
00:12:04.000 Every time some big business has the right lobbying firm, has given out the right bribe money and campaign donations, and they want your money for their goals to reduce their risk profile, it's always going to be, oh, well, you know, we have to...
00:12:19.000 We have to beat China. 0.93
00:12:21.000 We don't beat China by becoming more like China.
00:12:25.000 China has fused government and industry.
00:12:28.000 That is not what we should do in the United States of America.
00:12:30.000 Matter of fact, following the China playbook, We'll inevitably lead to us losing to China. 0.99
00:12:37.000 They'll run the China playbook better than we do. 0.95
00:12:40.000 So we have to run the America playbook with more free enterprise and a flat tax code.
00:12:45.000 Not a tax code with all these jagged edges and special giveaways and nooks and crannies for the powerful.
00:12:53.000 It wasn't just Republicans who were in favor of this bad bill.
00:12:57.000 It was able to pass with an overwhelming majority because Democrats loved it too.
00:13:01.000 Here's the Democrat lead on the Ways and Means Committee, Richie Neal.
00:13:04.000 Take a listen.
00:13:07.000 The gentleman from Massachusetts is recognized for 30 seconds.
00:13:10.000 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:13:11.000 We've heard the arguments here.
00:13:13.000 This is what's possible.
00:13:15.000 And despite what some have said here, this does expand the child tax credit.
00:13:19.000 It's clear.
00:13:21.000 No legislation that comes to this floor is perfect.
00:13:24.000 We tried very hard and we succeeded on the Democratic side in improving this legislation.
00:13:30.000 So what's in front of us tonight is pretty simple.
00:13:33.000 Sixteen million children will benefit from the improvement to the child tax credit.
00:13:39.000 That's a fact.
00:13:44.000 We've got a few other facts to share about how inflationary this bill is, and the real stinker is that this legislation is going to be a massive giveaway to illegal aliens.
00:13:56.000 The point was made brilliantly by my colleague Chip Roy of Texas.
00:14:00.000 Take a listen.
00:14:03.000 I do rise in opposition to this legislation, and I do so reluctantly because I know of the significant amount of work by my friend from Missouri, by those, frankly, on both sides of the aisle to reach agreement, my friends on ways and means, important provisions in this legislation that are critical for job growth, for economic growth, critical for the well-being of our country.
00:14:29.000 Numerous businesses I know in Texas and around this country that understand the importance of the expensing provisions, interest provisions, research and development.
00:14:40.000 But unfortunately, as happens in this town, this legislation comes with provisions that, frankly, the people I represent are tired of.
00:14:51.000 And it's provisions that would continue to expand the welfare state, as the Wall Street Journal editorialized about, by expanding the child tax credit in ways that will continue to fund people directly through refundable credits, which we find to be problematic.
00:15:09.000 And we think undermines the kind of economic activity and incentive to work and incentive to, you know, produce value that we think is critically important for economic growth.
00:15:19.000 But importantly, that that provision is also available to parents who are here in this country illegally of children born in the United States.
00:15:29.000 We think that's a problem.
00:15:30.000 We think that is not just allowing essentially birthright citizenship anchor babies, but funding it.
00:15:37.000 That's a problem.
00:15:38.000 Now, my colleagues on this side of the aisle rejoin that that was a product of the 2017 bill that was pushed by and passed by Republicans, including President Trump.
00:15:46.000 To which I say, right.
00:15:49.000 So what?
00:15:50.000 It's still wrong.
00:15:51.000 It's still bad policy.
00:15:53.000 We shouldn't do it.
00:15:54.000 And we should not be perpetuating it now.
00:15:57.000 All through the 11th hour last night, I worked hard trying to find a way to come up with a provision that might be palatable on both sides of the aisle, this side of the aisle, to find a way to say, let's get that provision pulled off so we can move the pieces that will be good for economic growth and prosperity that I think has bipartisan support and clearly support on this side of the aisle.
00:16:16.000 Unfortunately, we have not done that.
00:16:17.000 And I'm getting a lot of correspondence from people that I represent who are sick of the same old game in this town.
00:16:25.000 Who are sick of saying we're just going to keep doing the same thing and we're going to in this case again continue to expand the welfare state and in this case do so in a way in which it entices people To be in the United States illegally, benefit from being here illegally,
00:16:41.000 and do so at a time when we have a heightened level of illegal traffic into the United States, 300,000 people crossing the border in December, millions who have crossed under this president, and we're now, in the middle of that crisis, going to continue to fuel the fire.
00:16:58.000 I think that is a mistake.
00:16:59.000 I think it is a mistake for the country.
00:17:01.000 I think it is a mistake on policy.
00:17:03.000 And I think it is a mistake politically.
00:17:05.000 I reserve.
00:17:09.000 We are back live.
00:17:10.000 Grammy McGee on X. Complaints about the big corporations being all that matters to far too many people.
00:17:17.000 I agree that's why you had the glue for this bill to pass because there was such a giveaway to corporate America and we don't stand for that.
00:17:26.000 We want the middle class of the country to succeed and we believe that corporations ought to be successful but the best way to make them successful is not to give them these targeted Opportunities to not pay taxes.
00:17:38.000 It's to have a fair, flat tax across the board that everybody pays and then everybody makes a contribution and everybody can thrive.
00:17:46.000 And you don't have government putting their hand on the scale.
00:17:50.000 A lot of comments in the live stream also.
00:17:52.000 Yes, sir.
00:17:53.000 Ski says, Gates, air these traitors out. 0.80
00:17:56.000 Rizzy on YouTube says, Matt, time to make sure government is hated but our country is loved.
00:18:01.000 And then Rizzi on YouTube also says that Roy is a rhino for Ukraine.
00:18:06.000 That is actually not true.
00:18:08.000 Chip Roy is in the fight against the efforts by the Uniparty to send more money to Ukraine.
00:18:13.000 So I think his voting record on those matters has been pretty closely aligned to what you've seen from myself, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, Tim Burchett.
00:18:21.000 There's a good group, Andy Biggs.
00:18:23.000 There's a good group that stands against The inflationary act of sending money to Ukraine and I would count Chip Roy among that.
00:18:31.000 So on this tax bill masquerading around the floor, really it's a welfare bill, the feistiest debate The most tense back-and-forth exchange was between myself and Drew Ferguson.
00:18:46.000 Now, you'll remember that Congressman Drew Ferguson is from Georgia.
00:18:50.000 He has announced that he is not seeking re-election to the Congress, and he was one of the 20-plus members who refused to vote for Jim Jordan at the end of Jim Jordan's campaign for speaker.
00:19:02.000 Here's my debate against this bad welfare bill and my exchange with Congressman Ferguson.
00:19:07.000 Take a listen.
00:19:10.000 To the extent that this is a tax bill, there are good provisions in it on business expensing for economic growth.
00:19:17.000 But my friends, this is not a tax bill.
00:19:20.000 This is a welfare bill masquerading as a tax bill.
00:19:24.000 The Wall Street Journal was correct to identify the ways in which this legislation vastly expands the welfare state.
00:19:32.000 And so this is how the bipartisan agreement came together.
00:19:35.000 If the Republicans were willing to give the Democrats what they wanted for illegal aliens to get massive subsidies and welfare, then the Democrats were willing to give the Republicans what they wanted on a bunch of business welfare. 0.62
00:19:48.000 The child tax credit, as currently contemplated, will be a massive pull factor to bring people into this country illegally. 1.00
00:19:56.000 And we could have, as the majority party, demanded constraints to stop them from being able to use the money that way, but bipartisanship was more important than good policy.
00:20:07.000 And as my friend from Kentucky, Mr. Massey, noted recently, If you aren't paying taxes and you get a refundable tax credit in the form of a check, that's not a tax cut.
00:20:20.000 That's not even tax policy.
00:20:22.000 That's just welfare.
00:20:23.000 That's just giving people money that didn't initially pay it in and a bunch of them Are here illegally. 0.98
00:20:29.000 But it is not just a welfare bill in that respect.
00:20:32.000 It's also corporate welfare.
00:20:34.000 These R&D tax credits that they've put in there are so targeted, they're bought and paid for by the lobbyists who fund their campaigns and give them donations, and it is entirely wrong.
00:20:45.000 We should have a flat tax code, and the R&D tax credits that they're putting in Are deeply misguided.
00:20:52.000 They continue to distort the economy.
00:20:54.000 And frankly, it's just another flavor of a lot of the Green New Deal tax credits that you act like you're against.
00:21:01.000 But indeed, Mr. Speaker, that is not the case.
00:21:04.000 This is not a tax bill.
00:21:06.000 It is a welfare bill in drag.
00:21:09.000 And that may be appealing to some of the proponents.
00:21:12.000 I yield back.
00:21:13.000 The complete mischaracterization about the child tax credit is the most intellectually dishonest conversation that I have heard on this floor in a very long time.
00:21:24.000 This is about making sure that people that work And their families have the ability to get ahead.
00:21:32.000 But let me tell you something.
00:21:33.000 We all believe on this side of the aisle that you should work in order to receive federal benefits.
00:21:38.000 That is something that this bill does.
00:21:41.000 And I find one — 15 seconds, Mr. Chairman, because I think it's important to recognize — 15 seconds.
00:21:50.000 The gentleman from Florida just characterized this bill.
00:21:53.000 The Child Tax Credit piece, which is something that President Trump signed into law, is giving people that are here illegally a check. 0.99
00:22:03.000 I hate to see that mischaracterization from my colleague from Florida about President Trump's signature bill.
00:22:09.000 The gentleman from Florida is recognized.
00:22:09.000 I yield back.
00:22:11.000 If my characterization of the child tax credit is intellectually dishonest, I'd love to hear the warrant behind that claim because none of my colleagues can state how a huge sum of this money is not going to hand up in the hands of illegal immigrants. 0.93
00:22:25.000 And when it comes to evaluating that context in the era of Trump versus the era of Biden, it is somewhat embarrassing that I would have to remind a Republican colleague that it's the Biden administration that's let in 10 million additional people, which vastly blows out the cost of this particular endeavor.
00:22:44.000 Under Trump, you didn't have an open border, so there was less a concern about drawing more people here illegally through this child tax credit.
00:22:51.000 I yield back.
00:22:55.000 DK on X wonders how people can just lie with a straight face.
00:22:59.000 Dennis on YouTube says that the swamp creatures don't like a flat tax.
00:23:04.000 Go shopping on YouTube says flat tax only.
00:23:07.000 And on Getter, Unsheepled says that a flat tax will never pass.
00:23:12.000 Because the well-connected get too much out of a system like the one we have organized.
00:23:17.000 And you know what?
00:23:18.000 Yes, under an ideal circumstance, I would want our tax policy to broaden the base and lower rates and be a flatter system.
00:23:27.000 And while the system we have right now is certainly not ideal...
00:23:32.000 We should not advance bills that make it worse, that go in the wrong direction of a flat, fair, easily-to-comply-with tax code.
00:23:43.000 This is going to be inflationary, this is going to drive up interest rates, and it's going to put a ton of money in the hands of illegals who didn't pay the tax in, but are going to get the refund.
00:23:54.000 And here's the answer, Congressman Ferguson said.
00:23:58.000 Anyone can get this child tax credit with an employee ID number, not a social security number.
00:24:05.000 And all these people who are coming across the border illegally and getting this phony asylum status, they get a tax ID number.
00:24:12.000 So they're going to get the checks on all of this.
00:24:16.000 We easily could have written into this bill that you have to have a social security number that is valid in order to receive the benefit.
00:24:24.000 But you see, they didn't do that because they wanted the Democrat votes, and so they were willing to do a massive giveaway to illegals in order to facilitate their corporate welfare.
00:24:37.000 Further debate on The Point was made by Kentucky's Thomas Massey.
00:24:41.000 He was a guest on this program recently.
00:24:43.000 Take a listen.
00:24:47.000 Look, there's something in this bill called tax credits, but they're also called refundable.
00:24:52.000 So what is a refundable tax credit?
00:24:54.000 It's welfare by a different name.
00:24:57.000 We are going to give cash payments, checks, to people who don't even pay taxes. 0.99
00:25:02.000 The hard-working constituents that I represent in Kentucky are tired of getting up at 6 a.m., driving an hour or two to work, working their hind ends off, To watch their neighbors collect these checks, of which there will be more of after this bill.
00:25:24.000 It's just wrong.
00:25:25.000 Now, does anybody find it interesting that the Democratic leadership has not even claimed time in opposition to this bill?
00:25:35.000 Why is that?
00:25:37.000 Why aren't they opposed?
00:25:38.000 Now, there are a few Democrats opposed.
00:25:40.000 Maybe some don't think it goes far enough, or some are opposed to what they call corporate welfare in here.
00:25:46.000 But by and large, the Democrats are not opposed to this because this is an expansion of the welfare state.
00:25:53.000 That is what it is.
00:25:57.000 So here's my concern about that.
00:25:59.000 You know, is it mean to give away money?
00:26:01.000 No, it's not mean.
00:26:02.000 Oh, we could consider it compassionate.
00:26:05.000 Until you think about the implications.
00:26:07.000 Now, this tax bill, they say it's paid for.
00:26:10.000 What does that mean?
00:26:11.000 What does it mean when it's paid for?
00:26:13.000 There's some gimmicks in here that are not going to reduce the debt.
00:26:17.000 This is actually going to cost.
00:26:18.000 Now, by Washington, D.C. math, it's paid for.
00:26:23.000 But when you look at the debt, when you look at the national debt, it will go up as a result of this bill.
00:26:27.000 Everybody in here knows it.
00:26:29.000 We know these are gimmicks when you call it a pay-for.
00:26:32.000 This bill will increase our debt.
00:26:34.000 What's that going to do?
00:26:36.000 It's going to cause inflation to go up.
00:26:39.000 That's going to affect everybody, including the people you're trying to give the money to for having kids.
00:26:44.000 This is bad policy.
00:26:45.000 I'm opposed to it.
00:26:47.000 And I urge a no vote.
00:26:49.000 And I yield back to the gentleman from Texas.
00:26:54.000 We get the feedback from Getter, Cher, saying Thomas Massey is right.
00:26:58.000 We are tired of that in Missouri as well.
00:27:01.000 So this was the debate.
00:27:02.000 I've shown you what Jason Smith had to say about the bill, what the Democrat lead Richie Neal had to say about the bill.
00:27:08.000 I showed you our arguments against it overwhelmingly on the live stream.
00:27:14.000 You are not for this madness.
00:27:18.000 Trigger warning on YouTube.
00:27:20.000 End the madness.
00:27:21.000 We should figure out a way to do live polls on this stuff, Joel.
00:27:23.000 But in the meantime, I have to report to you that this legislation passed with 357 yes votes and only 70 no votes.
00:27:35.000 So I'll break that down by party.
00:27:40.000 169 Republicans voted yes.
00:27:43.000 Only 47 Republicans voted no.
00:27:47.000 188 Democrats voted yes, and only 23 Democrats voted no.
00:27:54.000 So if you look at the yes votes, the 357 yes votes, 188 of those came from Democrats, and 169 of them came from Republicans.
00:28:04.000 So we passed a welfare bill yesterday that we dressed up like a tax bill, but it's really a welfare bill in drag, And we passed it with more Democrat votes than Republican votes.
00:28:19.000 It's a Democrat bill.
00:28:21.000 And they got the Republicans to do their bidding even when we were in the majority.
00:28:26.000 It's disgraceful.
00:28:27.000 Now, I want to also preview the work that's coming up next week on tax policy.
00:28:33.000 There's something called the SALT debate around taxes.
00:28:36.000 And no, that's not sodium.
00:28:38.000 SALT is an acronym for state and local taxes.
00:28:42.000 And there was this big deduction that people got in blue states for their state and local taxes off of their federal income taxes.
00:28:50.000 And one of the ways that we actually paid for Part of the Trump tax cuts was to remove that deduction.
00:28:58.000 And as a Florida man, I supported that because if you have some crazy high taxes in New York or Connecticut, sorry New Yorkers and people from blue states, I love you, but I don't think people in low tax states should have to subsidize people in high tax states just because you guys have a bunch of goons in your state legislatures and on your We're good to
00:29:30.000 people in Arizona, Florida, South Carolina to subsidize the high taxes that other people are paying.
00:29:39.000 And so the New Yorkers, the New York Republicans, who special breed of cat, they want to introduce a bill to increase the extent to which married people can claim that deduction against their federal taxes with their state and local liabilities. they want to introduce a bill to increase the extent I will oppose this.
00:29:59.000 I call on all Florida representatives to oppose the efforts to degrade, erode, or even take one grain of salt away from the Trump tax policies.
00:30:13.000 It is the obligation of every Florida representative to defend those Trump policies on salt.
00:30:20.000 And not to go back to subsidizing people in high tax states.
00:30:24.000 And if Floridians vote for the advancement of this type of legislation, then they are betraying the people of the Sunshine State.
00:30:34.000 It's that simple.
00:30:35.000 We have a demand that we're making of the leadership.
00:30:38.000 If they want to bring that salt bill to the floor, we want legislation on the floor that says that you don't get welfare unless you have a valid social security number.
00:30:48.000 So if they're going to get a salt vote, we want to vote to make sure that illegals are not just raping the system. 0.98
00:30:56.000 Because they're able to use a tax ID number instead of an actual social security number.
00:31:01.000 Those negotiations are ongoing and I will be participating in their continuation as soon as we conclude this program.
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