Mother of Mayhem - The Affordability Tax

Welcome in, folks, no intro. Whoops, it is the Mother of Mayhem and we are on episode three of The Mother of Mayhem, where we are essentially I don't know. Well, I was just telling the guests, Keith from Common Sense Practical Prepper, that I'm using this time personally to really stay on the coattails of the new administration here in Virginia, understand how unlivable they're going to try to make it in the state. And you know, I guess everybody has their own way of learning things. For me, maybe the high stakes live podcast learning is something that's you know, kind of fun. I don't know. We got a great guest for the night again, Keith of the Common Sense Practical Prepper, a fellow Virginian here to discuss these things. My goal in the Mother of Mayhem series is to talk to Virginians about r Ginia and what's happening, you know, and really get a feel for what's changing, because people a lot of things are changing. Okay, we started, uh, we ended fiscal year twenty twenty five with a massive surplus of money, and Keith, right before we hopped on the air said that he brought that to my attention, because I'm sitting here looking at bills, bills, but looking at ten different tax hikes from the Demo proposed proposed by the Democrats, And and he said, I think we ended the fiscal year with like billions of dollars. And he's one hundred percent right. He's one hundred percent right. In fact, Virginia ended fiscal year twenty twenty five with a general fun surplus of approximately two point seven billion with a B. This figure includes five hundred and sevent two million in revenues that exceeded the official forecast. Can you imagine five hundred and seventy two million over in revenues on top of two point one billion and surplus that was already incorporated into the state's biennial budget general fun revenues. This marked the fourth consecutive year of surplus is under Governor Glenn Youngkin. Now I have a I don't even want to do it. I do think we can all agree that the age of the surplus is probably coming to an end. Right, the age of the high tax is upon us, and the age of the surplus is probably coming to it. You could call it a prediction if you want, but it's kind of you know it is what it is, so real quick before we get rolling, folks, we got to talk about today's sponsor. Today's show is brought to you by the Hydronomous. Okay. For the duration of the show, you will see the high Dronomous information contact information down below. We're gonna bring up the website and talk to you about this all in one disaster relief device. Look, there are things that do things in the world of prepping and survival, Okay, And what I've noticed is there are devices out there that most people haven't heard of that are like doing amazing things. At the top of the peak right now is the Hydronomous. I mean, there's nothing like this thing that I've seen. 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And uh, the way the way the creator explained it to me is people come to his company when no one else can do a certain thing, you know, with metal or with you know, manufacturing like that. And he just employed his superpower to the you know, to the all in one disaster device there and that it's yeah, it's a thing. It's a it's amazing, really looks really cool. A lot of that tech out there. You know. I think he's out of I think they're out of Florida. I have a feeling that if the Hydronomous was uh was going to be created in Virginia never work, you know what I mean. I don't know rules and restrictions, but I'm sure it's not not good. But I wanted to thank you man for you really set the stage with the Surplus. I mean, the Surplus really kind of puts a bow on this whole entire show because it adds a layer that is, like why all the taxes were dealing with ten proposed tax bills here in the state of Virginia since twenty twenty six. And it's not pretty, man, it's not right. I mean, they're just getting started. What she was, what's sworn in what two and a half weeks ago. But I'm sure that as soon as she won, I'm sure that the Democrats, I'm sure they had these in their back pockets. I'm sure these are things they wanted to try to get passed under Yunkin. They're like, Oh, there's no way in hell we're getting this through. That's a great point. Still going to resurrect, resurrect this stuff for her, Yeah. That is a great point. They've just been sitting on them, waiting until the time was right, yep, to line the pockets, you know, more more and there's always the uh more taxes for schools. That's that's It's like a weakness that I've noticed since I moved to Virginia. It's like whenever they need money, they go, oh, we got this tax but don't worry, it's all going to the schools. It's going to be good. Well, it pulls at the heartstrings, you know who wants to say, you know, we don't get notice it. Yeah, yeah, we want kids to be smart when we go to school, get good grades, you know, go to college. Do you want that right? Oh yeah, If you say no, I don't want to raise tax, oh you're you know, you're for keeping our kids dumb and not not having our kids, you know, be successful adults. And that's that's kind of a catch twenty two. Well, yeah, I mean I'd feel really good about all of that if it wasn't handled by the government. That's my number one problem with schools. Doesn't that does it a lot? The lottery money? Does it? Has it like the Virginia Lottery, like giving up team bajillion dollars over the year. Doesn't it that goes directly to education, doesn't it? I think I'm pretty sure Virginia schools. Yeah. And then well, when I got down here, the big thing was the meal tax. The meal tax was new and O nine or it was relatively I don't know if it was that was the year, but it was new and people were mad, I mean, you know, and it was the same framework. Right. All the money we give from the meal tax is going to go to help the schools. And I'll tell you what. My kid's been out of school for almost seven school days, right, and he ain't going back tomorrow either. No, I just saw that. I just saw that. He'll be asynchronous learning, which is my favorite. I don't know. I've experienced a lot of asynchronous learning with my older son. And yeah, I don't think it's the fault of the teachers. I think it's a bad design to begin with, to take particularly like second through fourth graders and sit them in front of a laptop and try to get on a focus on the laptop. You know, bad enough in a classroom. But you're right to your. Point, though, I'm sure a lot of these will be uh. And the only thing I didn't get the research on was proposed use. I guess that would have been good to see an overview of of where all this stuff's going, right. Well, wasn't a lot of it. A lot of supposed to go up to, like public transit and light rail and stuff up in Nova. I think a lot of that is is proposed that's where it's gonna go, you know, of course, you know, I'm sure the folks in Southwest Virginia. The folks down in Hampton Roads are really they're really keen on their taxes getting raised so they can have light rail and buses, and you. Know, yeah, it looks like that. It definitely looks like that. It looks like Democrats argue the taxes are mainly to target high earners and currently untaxed services, because haven't forbid we have any service untaxed to fun priorities without broad tax hikes. But I don't know, I gotta do some research and see what the priorities are, because I don't understand what priorities. We can't handle a two point seven billion windfall of in the state of Virginia. I mean, that's that's a lot of money. But then again they I mean they could spend that in one afternoon. One crappy project, and it'll swallow that up in some Yeah, absolutely, like the rail like you're talking about, right, Yeah, I mean California lost on godly amounts of money on their high speed rail that I don't think is traveled anywhere. No, they didn't even lay one rail. It was so the you know, of course, any government project, you know it's going to be you know, under over budget, by you know, ten de Yeah, twenty years and twenty years you know past due. And yeah, now that that that high speed rail thing just did not get off the ground at all in California. What a surprise, right shocker. Yeah, that's a lot. That's I hear that a lot. That we're pushing to be the new California. And I heard that years ago, you know, And that's a nerve wracking. I love this place, man. I really don't want to have to leave. I'm be very upset if I have to leave, you know. But there are limits, there are there are. Yeah. My plan initially was to when I retire the second time, maybe in you know, twenty twenty eight or twenty nine, you know, to move somewhere else East Tennessee, Florida, something like that. But gracious, some of these taxes kick in and stuff it. That may speed up my exodus for the Comonwealth of Virginia. We'll see. It's a great segue. Let's talk about some of these taxes. Now, some of them do sound like they are I don't know, I don't I guess it depends on how you look at it. Right, They say high earners, and I'm not downplaying earning a million dollars. I'd love to be earning income over a million dollars. But at the same time, people earning over one million dollars are a really important part of your economy, you know what I mean? Oh yeah, the business owners, oh my gosha. Yeah. And of course you know the average, you know the average you know Joe Schmoe. Oh, they're going to tax people making more than a million, And you know, personally, I'd be like, well, okay, on the surface, I'm like, it doesn't affect me, And I think that's what a lot of folks in Virginia, Well, it doesn't affect me. Well, you know you hear, you know, pay their fair share and all little catch phrases. To that's my favorite one. I see you on cars enrichment. But the devil is in the details. It's it's not just this simple. And for the folks that make a million plus, you know, they have the accountants and the CPAs and everybody else to take advantage of the tax code. And if I had to nickel the bet, you know, they said, go ahead and tax me. And there's going to be all sorts of loopholes and the fine print, and I'm sure, oh yeah, it's going to be the people making a lot less than one million are also going to see the at tax increase. That's how it goes. My dad's been telling me that my whole life. You can't make the rich people money and you can't take the poor people's money. There's only one group you can take from. So this HB one eight eight, we're gonna go through these bills high level and just talk about them a little bit. Establishes a new ten percent income tax bracket on income over one million dollars starting in twenty twenty six. Dedicates revenue and here you go fifty percent to public schools, thirty percent to childcare subsidy program, and twenty percent of Virginia Housing Trust Fund. Uh And this was proposed on the seventh in House Finance Committee. Is where it's sitting. So that's that's where that ten percent is. No nothing to bad an eye at. By the way, that's a lot of money. That's a lot of money. But I see childcare subsidy, guess where my head goes immediately goes to Minneapolis. Yeah, I see that, and I just you know, I just I you know, my my eye starts twitching because I'm like, oh, raout Minneapolis. And that's a weird one. That is a weird one. That's a really good point. I didn't think about that. Childcare subsidy is certainly, and it's it's it really stinks to be in this position. And this is where corruption puts good people like us. Keith is like, you see what happens in Minnesota. Nobody in their right mind would sit here and be like, we don't want money to go to childcare subsidy, right, But then you see what happens in Minnesota, and you can't help but think that way and say, I really don't want to dump all my money into some other fraudulent subsidy program, because you know it ain't just Minnesota. Oh my gosh, no, oh my gosh. No. Nick Shirley, he's out in California. I think he's in California. So he's like, yeah, Storm, oh lord, yeah, I mean imagine New York, maagine Chicago, imagine Baltimore, Like you know, there's money going in all kind of crazy places. Yeah, So I'm sure it's the same right here. I'm sure it is. So house built three seven eight imposes a three point eight percent net investment income tax on individuals, trusts, and estates starting in twenty twenty seven. So this gives gifts some rich, real rich people time to get out of here, I guess for tax and trusts and estates raising effective top rate on passive portfolio income to nine point five five percent. So they're playing with that ten percent, which is gets a lot of coint It doesn't tell you where where that one's going. Yeah, it does it, but we'll just have to see. Man HB nine hundred expands. This is the one that really bothers me. I think this is the new services that are untaxed expand sales tax to services, professional services exempt, but others like accounting potentially affected indirectly, includes digital products. Also authorizes sales tax increases in transportation districts and new re tail delivery tax in Northern Virginia e g. Amazon Uber Eats. I'm pretty sure that's the same one that Oh no, I'm wrong, that's another one. Okay, there's another one coming on tax on services that even taxes gym memberships, which I just can't wrap my head around the value. Yeah, I've read about that one too, that that's just that doesn't make any sense. So we want you to be healthy, but we want you to pay more to be healthy. So the more people that go to the gym, the higher you're bunthly because it you know it. Yeah, that's that's a weird one. I think that's a there's a lot there. We'll go. We'll jump to it because it is a really weird one. Man HB nine seven eight. Every one of these is Democrats sponsored. So the only the best I can tell you is when it's who it's sponsored by, when it's a certain person. But this one is Democrat sponsored. They all are. This one expandsens retail sales and use tax to services like recreation and fitness facilities, non medical counseling, dry cleaning, laundry companion, animal care eged like dog walking and grooming, home repair. I don't know what Abigail has. Abigail must have had many a morning in Virginia where she was woken up by lawnmowers, and in the back of her plans is just I don't want to hear another lawnmower for the rest of my life. And that's the one thing while I'm in power that I'm gonna make happen because she's again taxing the landscaping, cleaning, vehicle repair, storage, delivery, shipping, travel, event planning, and digital services and products. That's a big one. I mean, that's a lot. That's covers a lot of things. So the guy that cuts your grass, So if you have a guy that comes and cuts your grass or does your mulch, there's gonna be a there's gonna be a tax added on. Is it on his bill to you or is it on the bill? That's what I don't know. Is it Is it something that he has to pay. It's got to be something that we have to pay because it's sales tax, So you're gonna pay like a like a service tax. I guess something like that. But he would that they tacked it onto the bill. So instead of fifty bucks, he has to charge you fifty five because he has to cover the tax. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Dog Walkers. Dog walkers, Yeah, oh my gosh, coming after my kids, Well, they are my dog my both of my kids actually walked dogs in the neighborhood for money, and I remember the irony of that. They've been doing it for years. They started really young, and the irony of that was they were getting paid through PayPal, you know, from neighbors. And yeah, I remember the year that I had to start paying taxes on it because I I do some invoicing through PayPal too, so we you know, blew through the old six hundred dollars taxable limit. And I remember sitting there going like, man, I gotta pay taxes on my kids walking dog. I can't. I couldn't imagine telling my father, a great grandfather or a grandfather rather like, yeah, I was out shoveling or raking leaves, and now I got to, you know, hand my tax money into the government at eight years old. I don't want to give anybody any ideas that might be listening, but landscaping. So your kids are walking dogs, now they want to go, you know, with this snow. They want to go like shovel the neighbor's driveway in the neighbor of ven mos them ten bucks? Yeah, uh oh oh, where's that landscaping tax? Can you imagine? I kind of would like it. Actually, I really wouldn't mind having a phone call with with a state individual over my kids dog walking not being paid pay their taxes up, you know what I mean, Oh my gosh, what really is What really doesn't make sense from the Democrat side though, is the recreation, fitness facilities and non medical counseling. Like these are health, this is health and wellness, this is mental health. This is it's the cornerstone of like the Democrat wellness program. So it just makes no sense. How could they be so hungry for a tax dollar that they're gonna you know what I mean, it's it almost seems like these are things they'd want to subsidize, Like the Democrats should be the party that says we want to make we want every Virginia to have a gym membership and access to a counselor. They're the ones that put them on the road with the cops, right, they were like, oh, we don't need more cops, we need counselors out there dodger bullets. So yeah, it's it's a crazy one. It affects so many things. Yeah, hey, storage, vehicle repair and storage. Yeah, so it's like your local garage, like you you know, get an oil change or get your you know, so you got to you know, you pay obviously tax and you get tires get an oil change fifty bucks, it's fifty three, you know, you know tax and everything, sales tax and all that, and they want to throw like an extra couple dollars on for a vehicle repair tax or storage. True, yeah, you know what we probably need. We probably need to get a CPA on, get a Virginia CPA on one of these shows and have them sit here and go like, Okay, tell us how you're managing all the you know, because they're the ones that really got to understand it. Yeah, because that's yeah, these get passed. If these get passed, oh yeah, oh, you know, they'll be you know, turbo tax and all H and R block whoever does these taxes, they'll be coming out with you know, save this receipt or this how you know, potentially could affect you. And like travel and event planning, event planning, so like digital service. I think event planning is probably like uh, like concerts and all that stuff. Don't you think travel an event or maybe it's maybe it's events coming to Virginia something like that. You know, they want a piece of that traveling events. Oh like concerts like a yeah maybe yeah. I think this is just a reason I read something early here about this is all these different proposals are our ways to generate revenue without increasing the personal property tax. And I'm curious to know, and I haven't read all of these. I'm curious to know if the car tax is going to come back or what was it? What was that? It was Gilmour, right, that was Governor Gilmour back in the day. I don't know that. Yeah, that the the we already pay a car tax, don't we. H yeah, we the personal property tax and stuff like that. But it's I forgot. I think it was Governor Gilmour. Gosh for administrations ago was he after like Wilder? I can't remember, but yeah, I wasn't here. Yeah, the personal property tax for vehicles was inredibly high and he ran on but me in office and I'll get rid of the personal property tax when it comes to vehicles. And he got rid of a huge chunk of it. Because I remember I was. I would get my bill from the account and it would show what it would normally be, and then under it was like you know minus you know, personal property reduction, and then it would show the amount that I was like I was saving, and of course you know it was it was a good chunk of change, and that was a ton of money. And to this day, when I talked, I tried to explain to people that don't live in Virginia what personal property taxes. They just look at me, you know, like they cocked their head to the side, and I'm like, I know, I know it. You know, they a punished and the manipulation the personal property tax is not on the up and up. Because I bought a car in twenty two and they tried to tell me that in twenty from twenty two to twenty three, my car went up in value by nearly five thousand dollars that I was paying taxes on. That's weird. And I was like, this doesn't happen. There's no car in existence that is like, oh, rand, now that we've ran it around Richmond a while, it's really worth something. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, that would be great. But these are the things that smart states are doing. And I think where a lot of people who aren't so invested in living in Virginia are going like, yeah, I'll go there because I think they just got rid of it in Florida or something, didn't they one of those states. Yeah, DeSantis is talking about. I think I'm not sure if it's passed, but there's been a lot on the news in the last several weeks. He's really pushing hard for that. See, they don't have what they don't have sales tax, or they don't have income tax at Florida. Right, no income tax, Yeah, no income tax right yeah. I mean, my play, my power play, if if we could get a governor with any balls at all, would be to go to the data center people in northern Virginia and tell them all the money that you're going to rake in with AI. Supposedly you're gonna pay the taxes. We don't need taxes anymore, you know what I mean. You could cut the cost of electricity and pay the tax. I mean, if it's success as successful as everybody says it could be or should be, or it's going to be, I'm not really too sold on it, to be honest with it. I think people are. I think the disgust reflex is kicking in big time with AI. So I don't know if it's going to be. You know all that it is. I mean, how it's a lot like the drone. It's a less radical version of a drone strike. To me, it's like, how many martyrs are you going to make by laying off ten thousand people who are going to go out into the world and say, dude, I had a great job and AI took it and now I don't have any money. And to have people you know, raw raw about it. Now it's happened in AI. I mean I could talk about that for days. But yeah, that's a that's I mean, it's gonna make things a lot simpler, a lot more efficient. But you know, but with you know, more efficiency, you know, comes people getting laid off. I mean, you know, the AI and every you know, it doesn't stop, it works twenty four to seven, works as fast as it wants to work, doesn't call in sick, you know, doesn't bitch and moan, doesn't get paid, doesn't health care, no health care exactly. The real problem, though, is the same problem with solar and sustainable energy is that it never gets cheaper. How's it not? You know what I mean? Like, energy isn't getting We put all the solar panels up, wind everything all across the country. Energy is more expensive than ever. Same thing with these companies. I didn't hop on Amazon and go like, Wow, look how cheap everything is now that they laid off ten thousand people, you know what I mean. So the cost savings go direct to the bottom line, I guess, and we just sit there and go, Okay, well, I'll just spend the same amount of money or more for the same crappy Chinese products I've always bought. Yeah, our power bills are never going to go down because now you know solar wind or whatever. Yeah, it's never never going to go down. It's amazing, isn't it. It's like we can get limitless power from the sun if we put these panels up. That's all we got to do. Ye. And then they went up and you went where I thought you said it was free when you get it from the sun. How come I'm still paying for it? True? Nothing changed? No, nope. Yeah, so the same you know, same concept. Though with that, I think that the whole AI thing. Now it looks like there's some bills in here that are about deduction tax deductions, which I didn't know about. HB nine seventy nine, sponsored by Delegate Vivian Watts. This might just be Fairfax County, though I don't know. Increases standard deduction to ten k single household, fifteen K head of household twenty k married Starting twenty twenty seven, exempts food hygiene products from local sales tax. That's kind of cool. Food from local sales tax is really cool. Creates new brackets eight percent on six hundred k to one million ten percent of the same sort of similar thing there. Dedicates fifty percent of new bracket revenue to public schools. There you go, barum chi. Yeah, many time there's a Yeah, that's on the surface, that sounds kind of cool, but then you know you're adding the dog walking and the event. Yeah, what are you saving. It's just just the it's just a wash if you're gonna end up. Yeah, I mean, on the surface, that's great, but oh, you know it comes to all the other taxes that just totally just nagate that. That's a good point. HB three point thirty four authorizes all county cities to impose up to one percent additional local sales slash use tax via referendum for school capital projects maintenance. That. Yeah, this is that weird one where counties and cities just via referra random can raise tax and just say sort of same thing, schools, school capital project slash maintenance. And I don't understand how the one percent fits in with the two point seven billion dollar surplus. Why can't a county city just ask for that money? Can we get a little bit of that money instead of taking more from people who don't have it? Yeah, the one thing to consider. I didn't know this, and it's so weird how things just pop into your life on like YouTube. But before I was watching, and I should find this for you guys, we're watching Keith. You'd probably really like it too. I just threw a video on before I got on and it was called how Virginia is Turning and this is very bad news, How Virginia is turning into America's next mega region. And the video is who's this guy? Archive? This video is all about how like the Northern Virginia and the Appalachian cities are running together like they're connecting, you know what I mean, into this big mega region. And what the video goes into is like all the infrastructure, transportation roads that need to be really upgraded really fast. Oh yeah, and uh yeah, it's going to take billions upon billions. Well, it's bad enough that Northern Virginia it's been you know, it's been creeping down south for the longest time, and you know, very very soon. Gosh that probably the next five years Fredericksburg is going to be the new Fairfax. You know. That's a really good point. Well, that's part of it. Yeah, Oh my gosh, you should go north on ninety five. You know, it used to be you got Richmond, Ashland, Inn a long stretch of nothing, and then Fredericksburg. Then you had the then maybe you know, nothing, then the outlets Quantico, but pretty much once you get north of Fredericksburg, now it's just you look off to the left, to the right, it's just mall and all these condos and houses and it just you know, carmacks and all these different businesses and it's just gonna be one big metroplex like Dallas Fort Worth or something like that. You're not gonna be able to not be able to tell the difference where you're at. I think that that's kind of it. And that's the big concern, which is like, what is this a lot is well, I guess my big concern is are they even planning for this at the political level, because I don't trust that they are, and if not, then is this like round one of state tax increase, it's going to turn into round two, which is, oh, we have to now like before we were just helping the schools out, but now we have to increase the roads. We have to increase you know, we have to redo all the bridges through all those areas. I mean a lot of that's like mountainous terrain. And if it's going to see I think they said something like, well, let's watch it real quick, not the whole thing, but I'll just show you guys the intro of the video so you can go watch it yourself if you're interested at oops, because I think it's pretty cool. And if you're here because you're in Virginia, then you definitely should know that this is on the table. Let me turn this on. It's well done. The video's really well done. On top of it, also, all right, that looks good. Yeah, let's have a look. This is Virginia, with a population of nearly nine million. It rarely gets attention as a single place. That's because Virginia doesn't have one dominant city. Instead, its population is spread across several regions that have historically developed on their own. Well, northern Virginia developed around Washington, d C. Richmond grew as a standalone capital and logistics center, and Hampton Roads formed around ports and military installations. We don't need to hit. For decades, these. Regions were clearly separate, but that separation has recently been shrinking. Over the past several years, population growth, housing development, and infrastructure have been expanding outward from each region. At the same time, growth hasn't stayed contained within metro boundaries. It is followed the same corridors, gradually filling in the space between cities. It looked like independent growth up close begins to look more connected when viewed at a larger scale. Virginia's major regions are no longer expanding away from each other. They're expanding toward one another, and that shift is quietly changing how the state functions. For most of the twentieth century, Virginia's regions grew slowly and independently. The state industrialized later than the Northeast and never developed a single economic core. Agriculture, military spending, and government work were spread out rather than centralized. That pattern produced several mid sized regions instead of one dominant city. Development stayed compact and largely typical north along the same corridor, smaller cities and counties. OK, well, I think you guys get the idea. You probably got the idea before we started watching. But the the YouTuber's name is archive A r k Ive. Just type in archive in Mega Region Virginia Mega Region into YouTube and you can watch the whole thing. It is kind of state history heavy, but it's it kind of tells the tale of like what we're gonna what either this round of tax money is going to be needed for or what I think probably is more like it, what the coming tax greater tax increase is going to look like, because you know, that just seems like the thing that's going to have to happen. And when you think about that, Keith in perspective, all of a sudden, that two point seven billion don't look so big anymore. Oh my gosh, No, it does kind of look scary. If you've got to connect massive metropolitan areas together with new roads and new services and knew this and knew that, so you know, this round of sort of whatever, it's gonna build onto some kind of tax fatigue. And I wonder what happens if enough people leave that Now, all this growth can't be funded the right way, you know what I mean. Well, like northern Virginia. I mean that's how she got elected. I mean, you know, the folks up in Nova and to some extent Richmond, what was she a delegate, she was in the Senate, right, Yeah, she took but ed ed Bratt ed Bratt, I think, I think so. I remember the I remember the race down here. It was pretty big deal. Yeah. But then yes, she's from him right west end to hin Reiko, I think. And then you got the folks in Hampton Roads. But you know that's basically you know, up in northern Virginia, those are the folks, you know, those are the folks that elected her, and all the big donors, all the big donors up there and stuff. And I think, you know, these taxes and if it, you know, if it causes an expansion out you know, Appalachia and the Shenandoa Valley, I mean, those people are going to be not happy at all. You don't you don't make you don't piss those people off, you know. Those yeah, yeah, generation Virginians who've been there forever. They like their independence. They just want to be left alone, you know, want their guns, they want to go hunting, they want to do their things, getting their big Bubba trucks and right around it. Those yeah, those people, those you just yeah, they just want to be left alone. She Abigail is, from what I can tell, like she really is an elite level like politician at the game of politics. And I don't think that's a good thing, but I think that has that has a lot to do with her success, and I think she's she's going to continue to exist in that way, which is what it looks like to me anyway, is you know, behind closed doors, I'm going to do this, this, and this for you and you get me into a better position. One hundred. It would not surprise me if she's being groomed as you know, the Hillary two point zero. You know, whether it's you know, in twenty eight or thirty two or whenever it happens to be, it would not surprise me in the slightest. S Youngkan and Spamberger go at it for the presidency, wouldn't it. Well, I mean, I mean, if she's got Nova locked in, I mean that's tough that that's a tough nut to crack up there. I mean, that's yeah, it's it's d C light. I mean, that's you know, basol, this DC auditors annex, you know, Fairfax and Alexandria and everything else, and just and just take it. I wish they would. I wish they would and become a state and then we could have a separate tax, you know, bracket for those guys as a state. Oh but then they get Oh but then how many senators would they get? And then oh god, well that's a good point. Yeah, that would be a big problem. That's the end. You're never getting that voter based back. Oh, you know, she was in the CIA and whatever whatever she did now whatever or she did not. I don't know if she worked in the field or an analyst or whatever. But I can't remember who we had on, but they were remarking about her. It may have been Dave Jones and it wasn't anything super impressive. It was in office. I don't want to say it was data entry because I don't think it was that. But we talked about it on one of the shows, and it wasn't. You know, she wasn't like no, she wasn't like Jason, you know what I mean, Like yeah, but I mean it is what it is sure. I really think if you're gonna be elite level politician, CIA's perfect for you to come from. You know what I mean, who do I have to be today? What do I have to say? Who do I have to lie to convince? It's perfect training. Yep, that's it. Yeah, go in behind enemy lines, you know the whole thing. So so we do any Oh go ahead. No, are there any what about any firearm laws? Are they trying to take our guns and all that stuff from us? Well? We did, We did a whole Our last episode was all firearm loss. It was a bunch. Last Monday. We released that one. This one is the tax one. But there don't see now that you mentioned it is I thought there was a like nition and gun tax and I don't see that one. I blew past it. Yeah, there you go. You got it, which one HB eleven percent tax on gross receipts from retail sales of firearms and ammunition by dealers, manufacturers or vendors. Yeah, so that's going to hit the both ends, right, And. Do you know where that money is? That money is earmarked for a reduction in gun violence. Oh yeah, that'll do it. That's how gun violence is reduced by taxes. We're going to charge We're charge you more for the gun and for your ammo. Yeah. And of course, as someone you know, I'm not a big gun nut, but you know, it's it's the old you know, criminals don't care. They're going to get their guns anyway. It's really weird how they're going to raise the price of a firearm tax of firearm ray ammunition, and then that money is going to go to like defeat gun violence. And it's it's just just another buzzword, political buzzword that makes absolutely no sense. They don't understand violence, you know what I mean, Like they think guns are violence. That's like the big disconnect from what I can tell you know what I mean, Oh, it's guns equal violence. So if we just get rid of guns, there's no more violent people equal violence, Yep, you know what I mean. Like, and it's not it's it's hardly even demographic. It's like people are violent. Yeah, that's the deal. But yet it's it sounds good. We're gonna raise taxes and we're gonna take the money there, you know, you know. Go to nobody's gonna shoot anybody anymore because bullet costs more. Yep, yeah, okay, yeah, I'm not going to shoot that guy because phoo man, ammunition's way too expensive. What's really funny to me is that it's an old punchline to an even older Chris Rock stand up comedy routine. I mean, he had an old stand up comedy routine where he talked about making bullets cost one thousand dollars apiece, and the Democrats literally turned that into policy for like most of my life. Like it was a laugh line, you know what I mean. It was like, maybe we could just make bullets one thousand dollars each. We still have there's still plenty of criminals who are rich enough to afford a one thousand dollars bullet and put it into somebody they want out of here. Anyway, when you said Chris Rock in the skit, that the one I immediately thought it was, how not to get your butt kicked by the police. Do you remember that one? Yeah? Hell yeah, Oh my gosh, I could watch that thing all that is so funny. Head Yeah, he was good. Oh that stand up with him in the leather jacket is the black leather jacket. I don't remember what it was called but that Yeah, he was good. He was good in that one. But yeah, you know, a stand up comedian's job is different than a politician's job. Who's trying to actually improve a state and you know, decrease crime, and who cares about decreasing crime if you know, your first order of business is make sure that ICE can't get in this state and work with our state police. Oh, that was her first executive order, wasn't it. It was actually their last on the list of ten. It was the tenth executive order that show was. That was the grand finale. The grand finale was get Ice out of here. Or it was really more like, don't allow the state police and ICE to work together. That's going to be very interesting because Jeff Katz was well, he was a police chief down in Florida and he retired and he came and he was a police officer or was a police chief in Chesterfield, so he when I was a cop, when I was a cop in Chesterfield, so he was one of the chiefs when I was there. He left me. Yeah, I left about four years ago and then went to Quantic go to their the FBI Academy, and it was I believe it was an instructor there for the last two or three years, and he just became the superintendent of Virginia State Police, I believe, just within the real yeah, within the last few weeks. Yeah, and I don't know that he was all in radio and stuff. No, that's thegether Jeff Cats you're thinking about guy. Yeah, there are two Cats. Yeah, yeah, I think he was a cop too. He was way back in the day. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I get. Jeff Cats from WR Yeah. The other Jeffcats is yeah. Yeah, he was the police chief and then Esterfield and Quantico and then. Now I was a little confused when you were saying all that. I said, I didn't know that the radio dude was in the FBI and all that. He never talks about that. Definitely Cats, was it Jeff Ooops? Now I got to look it up. See, I never when I was a police officer. I was the police officer that I didn't want the chief to know my name. It's kind of like in high school, you don't with the principal to know who you are. Yeah, just walking down you know, the principle looks at you, nots. That's the kind of cop that I was. Yeah, Well, you know, just smart. Oh yeah, they I'm back. Don't want the principal were the chief of police to know my name. I think it's Jeffrey Katz. I think, yeah, that's Katz. They both had the spelling of the same name. Yeah, yeah, but he's what the Virginia State Police is superintendent. Now, yeah, that'll be interesting, that'll be an interesting thing. And then to see how that affects Virginia's ability to get federal funding. And you know, with all this that we're talking about, with the regions growing in such a rapid rate, it's yeah, because you know how Trump is man, you know what I mean, He's allowable to get all upset and say, you ain't getting nothing. We got to come in there and do what we do or whatever, and then we got that problem to deal with. But yep, yeah, I mean that's that's ten new tax bills, proposed tax hikes, tax bills, whatever you want to call it, built into the very near future. I think every one of these is that nothing's proposed beyond the twenty seven fiscal years, so it's you know, it's right around the corner of the majority of them, twenty twenty six. So I don't know what that takes. It does look like they're in varying status, right Like some are in House Finance Committee hearing scheduled for February January. Some are just in committee, some are in House Finance Committee. So we'll see the House. The House did pass this one percent tax. It looks like already seventy to twenty eight on January twenty seven, twenty twenty six, referred to Senate Finance and Appropriations on the twenty eighth of January. So, yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I mean, you know, they have you know, the Dems have. You know, both what is Yeah, there's nothing House. Yeah, the House of Delegates in the Senate, right, I can get so they've got it both, so they could they could ram anything through that they want. I just you know, some of these things, you know, what a new governor comes in, a new elected official, a lot of these folks will sponsor something just to kind of get their name out there. Because half these people I've never heard of, so I think they want to put their name on it. Oh, I sponsored it, and you know, and you know when Mike over there, he's the co sponsor. And I think it's just to get their name out there. That and I don't think the governor. I don't think she's really come out in support of too many of these. I think she's kind of treating it, playing it kind of cool, you know. And then you know, there's talk about vetos and I think that. So she ran as a moderate, which I didn't believe for a second. But ran on affordability too. Yeah, the folks that believe that, Okay, I get it. But I think that a lot of these things, in my opinion, are very extreme. And I think you would probably got somebody you're going to raise the taxes, you know, ten, twelve, thirteen percent whatever, if you combined all these things. I think that a lot of these, if they pass, I think even though she's not a moderate, but she ran as a moderate, I think she's gonna probably pump the brakes on a couple of them. It would make veto it. It's kind of a sacrificial lamb. I'll look, you know, look, Linda, I really like I really like this, but I'm gonna have to put the kaibosh on this because I got people breathing down my neck and we're not gonna you know, so she'll be like, whoa, you know, that's just a little too much. Now. Then two years from now, she's like, look, I'm a moderate. The Dems came with all these crazy tax increases and oh yeah, and everyone's like, hmm, maybe she is. It's just look employed. I think, like I said, I think that this woman is a master politician. I really do. Because when you first hit the scene, I saw her and I was like, she's not gonna win at any level, you know what I mean. And now that I've seen her work in this state for a while, it's like she learned a lot in the CIA and she's employing it and and yeah, I could see her going all all the way up to running for president for sure. A few years. A few years in Virginia. She gets the right people looking at her, talking about her, that kind of stuff, I agree. I mean, if you're willing to cart out Kamala Harris, Abigail Spenberger is a dream. Right, that's right. Yeah, she doesn't get much better than that, and we're still hungry for that first female president, so that's true. Yeah, I don't think she's gonna I don't think she's gonna do anything to shoot herself in the foot, but so much as cove point. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think she's gonna try to try to play it in middle of the road, but it's not you know, that's really not where she's she's actually coming from. But we'll see, we'll see, younkin, you know, whether he decides, you know, vance it's it's gonna be interesting come come twenty eight, I guess. Although to your point, I mean, you talk about candidates, you look at Gavin Newsom, the guy blew up an entire state, one of the biggest states, one of probably the most beautiful state in the whole country. Ye, and uh, I don't see really anybody pumping the brakes on him for president, you know what I mean. He is so he is so extreme, and I know he's just he's again a typical politician left right. You know, he's a master too. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, all the waste, the fraud, everything going on in California, they don't deny it, and it's just you know, you call him out on forward, they just they just ignore it. That's all it is. It's amazing, no shame whatsoever. Like this is the key element of being a politician. I think at the highest level you have to have zero shame in what you've done to the country or state. Is she like, is it Pelosi's nephew or something. Isn't he like married to her? It's just it's all incestuous. I can't he's she's related. They're related somehow, I think. Oh, I didn't know that nephew. Yeah, yeah, they're related somehow. It's just Pelosi and span burd No, no, no Newsom Oh Pelosian Newsome. Yeah. I think they're related, cousins or son in law or so. I don't know. There's because she's out there in San Francisco one of her thirty homes or wherever she's staying these days. But yeah, that's where I think her home of record. It said, is Gavin Newsome, the nephew of Nancy Pelosi. But I don't. I don't know. If it's red, I wouldn't be surprised. Look, you need a lot of help to take a giant state like that and gut it, destroy it, burn it down halfway, you know what I mean, get everyone to leave. You know, that's a big job. Imagine if you woke up tomorrow and they were like, all right, Keith, all you got to do is burn half of Virginia down, get the other half to leave the state, and then run for president. Yeah. Yeah, I mean he's you know, he's right out of central Casting. You know, he's got the hair, he's got the nice suit. You know, he's very articulate. You know, even though I have to thinks he says a probably he lies. You know, plenty of people just look at him and not and yeah, but anybody, you know, not to insult people with half a brain, but if you got a half a brain to lim in California, how you think he could ever? Maybe they're maybe they want to get him out of California. That's a great cause that run Gavin anything to get the hell out of here. Yeah, that's a good way to look at it. Who would have thought? But I mean they're doomed anyway. Who's going to come in behind him? But somebody worse? You know? Oh yeah that Yeah, that California's so far gone. I don't think there's really really any hope. I have one hope, and that's that enough people leave that the state just goes into total collapse and then you know, in twenty years or something thirty years red people start rolling in and fixing things because that's the pattern. Yeah, the pattern is like blue for destruction, red for repair or whatever. Blue for the old, red for repair or. The old adage. Just you know, the Sanataria's fault, he just breaks off and you know, it floats out towards him or something. It can be its own island or something like that. That would be something that would be something. I love it though. I think it's an amazing place, and it's just it's turned into Europe on me. It's like I don't even want to go. You got northern California, you know the oh, just you know, Southern California, San Diego, La Jolla. I mean, just it's a beautiful state and it's just unfortunate that just these little pockets of just just pure disaster. I remember I was managing a pretzel bakery in Philly and Soft Pretzel Bakery, and a lady used to come in all the time from San Diego. I don't know why she lived there, but she was in Chad'sford, Pennsylvania, and she was like, yeah, I lived in San Diego for years. It would rain about once a year and every other day it was like seventy three degrees and sunny. Yeah. The La Joya Laoya is a small area outside of just beautiful, yeah, beautiful city, San Diego, La Joya and Catalina Islanders like an island off the coast of San Diego. Again, just picture asque just beautiful. If you just if you pretend you're not in California, Yeah right, nicer, close your eyes. I guess you would just like bum it and live on the beach as a homeless and it'd probably be a pretty decent life because I'm sure there's a ton of great subsidized services and such. You could eat, you know, whatever you need, get. Your broken down RV and just leave it parked on some residential street and they're not gonna I'm not gonna mess with you. There you go, There you go. Well, here's to hoping that this is not the beginning of our very own sort of California style collapse in Virginia. But you know, it is what it is, right, it'll be tough. It's gonna be tough. I appreciate you coming on tonight, folks. Common sense practical prepper Keith check his podcast out look him up. He's Everywhere podcast can be had as well, and uh, stay tuned for episode four of the Mother of Mayhem. I don't know what we're gonna do next. I have some ideas. I mean, there's plenty to go over, and I'm sure there's plenty more to come. So uh yeah, I appreciate you, sir, Thanks again for coming on. No, thanks for having me. I really do appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah no pro and don't forget down below. Hydronimus dot com the supporter and sponsor of today's show. Check them out hydronomus dot com. I'll see you tomorrow, folks. This is only Tuesday. Talk to you soon, Keith. All right, Sea