Glenn Beck is back with a new show on his radio show, "The Glenn Beck Show," and today he's talking about Bitcoin, the progressive income tax in Virginia, and the gun control debate in Hawaii. He also talks about the "Crowd versus Justice" movement in Minnesota, and why you need to be a part of it.
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00:04:16.000They have introduced bills now that will expand the sales tax space to include services like landscaping, gym memberships, vehicle repairs, food delivery, home repairs, raising the revenue beyond the traditional goods.
00:04:35.000They are now proposing creating new tax brackets, higher tax brackets, meaning with people with taxable income over a certain a certain threshold.
00:04:44.000They're saying six hundred thousand will pay higher rates than those with lower incomes.
00:04:51.000This one I really love federal employee tax.
00:04:55.000The federal employee will get a tax break versus everybody else.
00:05:00.000There are proposals now that will give special tax subtract subtractions for retired federal employees and incentives for federal retirees.
00:05:10.000While you who didn't ever work for the government, you'll see a broader tax increase.
00:05:41.000We used to have a gun rack in the back of our truck and it would be in the back window and you'd have, you know, three rifles there and you'd pull up into school.
00:05:47.000You'd leave your doors, your your car doors or your truck doors unlocked and nobody would say anything was not a problem.
00:05:53.000But who's leaving it unattended in their vehicle?
00:05:56.000I mean, unless it's locked in your your trunk or locked in your glove box.
00:06:03.000Also, a state firearm purchaser license licensing system.
00:06:09.000And 11 percent tax on ammunition and guns and civil liability for the gun industry participants for crimes committed using guns that they sold or built.
00:06:26.000I've got a few things to say about that.
00:06:28.000Also, there is they're trying to enact, you know, more DEI and ESG stuff.
00:06:35.000And in this one have to be really, really careful because they want to expand the racial bias and diversity training for professionals, nurses, nurses, real estate agents and law enforcement.
00:06:51.000Now, why does the real estate agent need diversity training, law enforcement and nurses?
00:07:03.000Let me lay down the biggest warning I could possibly lay down and I'm not going to dwell on it or spend time today on this.
00:07:09.000The scariest people in Nazi Germany did not wear the black uniforms.
00:07:30.000OK, but I want to concentrate here for just a second on taxes because there is a quiet lie, a quiet lie that we have accepted in America that the same dollar that is earned by two different
00:07:44.000Americans is not the same dollar at all, that if one man earns it after years of sacrifice and years of risk and failure and another one earns it with less risk, less responsibility.
00:07:57.000The first man's dollar is someone somehow or another less his own.
00:08:02.000This is really dangerous because this is the the moral foundation of the progressive income tax, not the government should be funded.
00:08:50.000See, fairness always breaks down because of the stories we tell ourselves around it or the stories we've allowed others to construct around.
00:09:00.000That's why the Constitution is common sense.
00:09:03.000That's why progressivism breaks down once you really start thinking about it, because you can't follow the common sense.
00:09:42.000You know, our founders understood this better than we understand it today because they lived under a system where the crown decided who could be squeezed and who, who could not be squeezed and how much to squeeze.
00:09:54.000And they knew that once the states gained the power and they could gain the power to decide which citizens would owe more than the other citizen, that liberty would become conditional.
00:10:51.000The federal government had to raise money through tariffs.
00:10:54.000We didn't have an income tax up until 1913 because Americans knew this would become unfair because you're choosing who to tax, who to squeeze and not and who not to squeeze.
00:11:49.000And once, once you can take somebody's time, somebody's labor and take more of it from one guy than another, and not for what they did, but just for what they achieved, you're no longer dealing with justice.
00:12:03.000It would be just to say, I'm going to tax people who do poorly more than the people who do well, because the people who do well, let me make this argument just quickly.
00:12:50.000You've accepted the reverse in this country because we have been taught over and over and over again that you're not going to be able to make it.
00:15:48.000It's not going to happen because it never does because they'll find a way out of it.
00:15:53.000And every single time you start to expand the income tax, it always expands downward.
00:16:01.000And history is relentless on this point, because once you accept that rights are proportional to income, there's no logical place to stop.
00:16:09.000You know, we, we didn't, we didn't fight a revolution so we could be free on a sliding scale.
00:16:14.000They thought that citizen meant something, the same thing meant something.
00:16:18.000And it was the same thing for everybody.
00:16:20.000So the question is not what the government costs.
00:16:24.000The question is who owns you, your time and your labor and whether success in America is still something that we look up to and say that should be earned.
00:16:35.000Or is success in America something that should be really shamed?
00:16:39.000And then if you give us enough money, we'll forgive you.
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00:19:14.000But part of our history and tradition.
00:19:16.000So you can't use, you know, that part of the house.
00:19:20.000Now, as crazy as that sounds, that's what's happening right now at the Supreme Court.
00:19:25.000Hawaii has passed a law saying gun owners can't carry on private property open to stores and restaurants and churches unless the owner explicitly allows it.
00:19:39.000That means your constitutional right only exists if somebody else says yes.
00:19:45.000And and the judges are like, I'm sorry, how are you doing the math on this one?
00:19:50.000And Hawaii steps up to the microphone says, yeah, your honor.
00:19:59.000It's not the founders, not even early American practice.
00:20:03.000But we found in 1865, Louisiana had a black code and it was a law written after the Civil War.
00:20:11.000And what it was meant to do was to disarm newly freed black Americans so they couldn't defend themselves from mobs or the clan or corrupt authorities.
00:20:20.000Now, this is when Gorshitz stopped and said black codes.
00:20:55.000And just as Alito says, weren't these laws designed specifically to stop black Americans from defending themselves, to leave them at the mercy of the clan and the racist law enforcement.
00:21:21.000They've already rejected racist jury laws, even though they had history because history rooted in oppression cannot justify limiting constitutional rights.
00:22:46.000Therefore, it can define our tradition.
00:22:48.000But I mean, are we really down to these are the lawyers that are the smartest to argue in front of the court?
00:22:58.000I mean, this seems to me to be like a four year old argument, you know, and not I don't mean like something that people have been thinking about for the last four years.
00:23:07.000I mean, an argument made by a four year old.
00:23:09.000It's not how constitutional law works.
00:25:07.000If Hawaii's theory were valid, then I could stand up in court and say slavery was part of tradition for nearly a century.
00:25:14.000It deserves weight in constitutional interpretation.
00:25:17.000And do you think anyone in their right mind would not laugh you out of the room and rightly so?
00:25:26.000Of course they would because history is filtered through moral and constitutional judgment.
00:25:31.000The constitution is to correct those things that man has done for a very long time that were immoral and say, no, that violates human rights.
00:28:30.000If that's, if that's what our best law firms are churning out and saying, you know what, you should go to the Supreme court and make that argument.
00:28:39.000If the, if that's the best you can do, holy cow, Hawaii, you should talk to that Congressman that thinks that islands can capsize, uh, because he's got a, he's got a boatload of stuff to sell you.
00:28:53.000Do we have an update Ricky on the pilot situation?
00:29:51.000That makes me feel much more comfortable because I mean, we've never had anything where individuals came up in and trained in small little planes and then did anything with those planes that nobody could imagine.
00:30:43.000Apparently that a lot of money in that.
00:30:45.000Um, meanwhile, the NGOs left wing NGOs, um, are planning an economic blackout across Minnesota.
00:30:55.000And what they're doing is the democratic party has aligned with dark money NGOs.
00:31:01.000We've known that left wing militia groups and anti-Trump, uh, labor unions.
00:31:07.000And one of the big labor unions in Minnesota is the, is the, uh, not just the teachers union, but the nurses union.
00:31:13.000And the nurses union is, is saying that you need to go out on a general strike and you need to get involved in this.
00:31:20.000Um, because quote, it's time to suspend the normal order of business and demand immediate cessation of ice actions in Minnesota, accountability for federal agents who have caused the loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene.
00:31:35.000And you know, I was, I was thinking about all of this, um, yesterday, last night and talking to a friend of mine and, and, and I'm like, I've seen this before.
00:33:52.000And the, the two choices are the slower hope of Jesus that demanded repentance and true change in everybody's life or the faster hope of the revolutionary Barabbas.
00:34:03.000Barabbas, the people always want to go the fast way.
00:34:06.000They chose revolution, not repentance because they hated Rome more than they hated sin.
00:34:14.000They, they let what they were against lead them instead of what they were for.
00:34:20.000And so they lost the ability to see, uh, the truth of the situation because of their anger.
00:34:47.000And there's no way the Democrats in power didn't know about it, but no one's talking about that.
00:34:54.000No one's talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying Barabbas, how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government and the local government was giving money knowingly to people who were abusing the system.
00:35:14.000And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution and they're shouting for it because of the leaders, the same leaders who likely allowed the fraud know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins.
00:36:13.000But there's a line and it's quiet and it's invisible where distrust becomes devotion, where you stop evaluating the facts because you're devoted, where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn't matter what you're now defending.
00:36:40.000When, when people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn't blind faith in the government.
00:37:00.000Show me the evidence that person does that match up with what you say.
00:37:04.000And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up, who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing at a knife's edge, cliff's edge.
00:38:08.000And it's the ability to distinguish between a righteous cause and a righteous person.
00:38:13.000This is where the blindness becomes really lethal because once you lose the habit of judging separately, once you refuse to say, wait a minute, this government action may be wrong.
00:38:24.000And this individual over here may be dangerous.
00:39:32.000It turns ordinary people into shields for causes that they, they don't, they don't fully understand for actors who don't love them back for criminals who are not going to hesitate to burn your neighborhood down or the neighborhood that fed them.
00:39:50.000I mean, think of, they already burned down Minneapolis once and people were putting signs on the door.
00:40:08.000When the inevitable violence arrives, when the bad guy you excused becomes now the bad guy you can't control, the state has to respond harder and the crackdowns get uglier.
00:40:25.000And the liberties you thought you were defending begin to shrink.
00:40:42.000And the ones who light the fuse, the first fuse, like the governor and the mayor and some of these that are being arrested today, they're never the ones who stand closest to the blast.
00:40:58.000It will not be their house that is burned down.
00:43:03.000And the opposite, refusing to separate, leads to a very specific kind of national ruin.
00:43:10.000And not just disorder, but moral inversion, where people can no longer tell the difference between justice and vengeance, between liberty and license, between courage and chaos.
00:43:20.000And when that inversion becomes a habit, society becomes really easy to govern by fear because it's forgotten how to rule itself or govern itself by truth.
00:43:33.000The crowd at Pilate's platform thought they were choosing freedom.
00:44:02.000Demand accountability with every breath.
00:44:05.000But do not go blind because the moment you cannot name evil, especially when it's standing right beside you, cheering at the same volume, you've entered a new level of trouble.
00:44:15.000Not political, but spiritual trouble, the kind that follows you home and sits with you in quiet until you're asking that one question when the moment came.
00:44:25.000Did I choose justice or did I choose the chant?
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