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Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. President Trump has recently voiced support for mini cars in America. Automotive expert Lauren Fix discusses their potential impact on the car market. Entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-in Theater Susan Kochevar addresses Colorado taxing tips and overtime, even though Trump is getting rid of federal taxes on tips and overtime. President of the Center for American Values Henry Jones describes the important work of the Center. And we’ll talk with State Farm agent Roger Mangan. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs on KLZ 560 AM every
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured. You are valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Monday, Kim.
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They have locations in… Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora and great specials Monday through Friday for lunch or for happy hour. And of course the Broncos are doing very well. So great place to watch the games. And I thank them for their sponsorship. And I thank all of you for your support as well because we are an independent voice. on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate, and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not they’re rights, property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhoods, or lives we have forced. Force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. The World Economic Forum agenda and the globalist elites plays out through the United Nations, but also this legislature here in Colorado, the governor. And we’re seeing it all the way to municipalities and through land use codes and zoning regulations. And Colorado is at the tip of the spear on all that is going on here. And we’ve got so much work to do and we are doing it. I know it seems daunting. Sometimes I got a text from Holly early this morning. And it does seem daunting, but we must not give up, and we take great heart to be happy warriors as we are on the right side of these issues. And so do not give up, because that is what the… the radical activists want us to do. So remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues and mention the people, but we really work to stay out of the personality stuff. Regarding our word of the day, it is onerous, and thank you, Richard, for that. It is an adjective, and it could be involving, imposing, or constituting a burden, troublesome, or number two, having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages. And I would say that the public policy of the Public Utilities Commission is, is very onerous for everyday people and their property rights. And I’ll talk a little bit about the PUC, the Public Utilities Commission, here in a moment. Our quote of the day is from Alexander Shultzenitsyn. He was born in 1918, died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union. especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force with which he pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature. He said this, we have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. And again, that is Alexander Schultz-Needson. I wanted to give you an update on our campaign to call on Governor Jared Polis to release Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, by Christmas Eve. And I would really encourage you to make sure that you’ve signed our petition. You can find that at Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. There is a red banner at the top. Click on that. It’ll give you background information and also sign the petition. And then please share it with your sphere of influence. Ask them to sign and share as well. At this point, the game plan is evolving. I will issue a press release later today. In addition, I will every day from now until next Monday, which is when I will deliver the petition to the governor’s office. I will reach out to the governor every day and request that he release Tina Peters. And the petition, the signatures are robust. We want it really robust. So make sure that you do your part. So many people are so concerned about her. And we are coming at this from the humanitarian standpoint. Every year during this time, Christmas time, Jared Polis release or pardons or commute sentences of prisoners. Last year, he pardoned 22 people. He commuted the sentences of four people. Of those pardons, two were murderers, one was a rapist, and one was a bank robber. Now, Tina Peters maybe had a traffic violation before this whole ordeal. So the humanitarian, the compassionate, the kind, the merciful thing to do is to release her. We are calling for him to release her. by Christmas Eve. And so do your part. We are in this together and we do your part. So I would really encourage you to do that. We have many projects that we are doing here in Colorado to reclaim the Colorado that we love. And we are able to do that because I get to work with really great people. And we’re talking with Roger Mangan with the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And we’ve gone through this primer of 11 different things regarding auto insurance. And can we finish it up today, do you think? I think so, yes.
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Okay. Where do you want to start? Let’s start with uninsured motorist coverage. And today in Colorado, we have 20 to 30% of the people driving that have no insurance. So if you get hit by them… You’re not on your own if you bought uninsured motorist coverage with your own carrier, and you certainly should have it given those percentages, 20% to 30%. That means one out of five drivers doesn’t have insurance, so you get hit by that driver, and you’re… in the hospital for six months or you can’t work for, you lose your job in the process. It’s a critical coverage, but it’s very expensive in Colorado. If you had a $1,000 premium or $1,200 premium, uninsured motorists could be as much as of that $1,000. In fact, I’ve seen it as high as $500, just one line of coverage. Is that every six months? Every six months. So it’s like, wow, how did that happen? Well, we have laws on the books that say if you have no insurance, you can stop by a gendarme, a policeman. They have the right to actually… take your car and pound your car and give you a ticket. They don’t do it because it just is too cumbersome for them in that process. So what that does is it falls upon you to cover yourself. Now what does Uninsured Motors cover? Well, if you are injured, if you can’t work, it’s an economic return in the sense that if you’re making $100,000 a year and you can’t work for three years and you’ve got the appropriate coverage in your policy, you could get three years of income at $100,000 a year. So uninsured motorists think about it as a disability income policy related to an auto accident, okay? Okay. So, for example, if you have a car in the household and you have insurance on that car, let’s say you have three cars, let’s say you bought 100,000, 300,000 of uninsured motorist coverage, you would have it on all three cars. You don’t have to buy it on each car. So that $400 you’re paying every six months covers all three cars, okay? If you have a motorcycle, it would also extend to your motorcycle. Okay. What a lot of people might think about doing is stacking this coverage. If you had three cars and you put it on two cars, instead of having 100, 300, you’d have 200, 600, which is really… really depends on your situation, your ability to pay it, and your total value system. We have several people who have umbrella liability policies, and they have an underlying requirement of 100, 300 to qualify for an umbrella, or 250, 500, depending on where you are in that cycle with State Farm. So we have some people that have grandfathered in at 100, 300, New people coming in that want to buy an umbrella, they have to have $250, $500, $100 on underlying insurance. So I can get into more detail. Give us a call. We can go through it with you. It gets too complicated on the radio. That number is 303-795-8855. But you should definitely have uninsured motorists on one of your cars. And I would have $250, $500 to protect myself, my family, my job, my ability to put money away for retirement. It’s critical to have it on your car.
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Well, and that’s why people should give you a call. That’s why it is so important, Roger. to have an agent to have this agent that you have relationship with that you can give them a call have them look at your coverage and and you really care about your clients that’s why you’ve been in business for what 50 years yeah 50 years now and again that number is 303-795-8855 like a good neighbor the roger mangan team is there
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me Henry Jones. He is the president of the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And he and I become friends as we both work regarding the Center for American Values, which is nonpolitical. It’s nonpartisan. Henry Jones, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me here. How are you doing today?
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Well, I am doing well. And, Henry, you’ve retired from the Denver Police Force. And, in fact, you were the protocol officer. Do I have that correct, exactly what the title was?
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Yes, I was a community resource officer assigned at Denver International Airport, which included dignitary escorts and protocol for the police. Denver Police Department and City and County of Denver for all dignitaries arriving and departing from Denver International Airport. And that’s how you and I met.
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You and I have, well, you have met some really amazing people. But how did that work into you becoming involved with the Center for American Values?
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Well, you know, it’s an interesting story. I think somebody upstairs likes me. So I’m a military brat, you know, grew up in Army bases and went to DOD schools, Department of Defense schools. And interesting thing, during the 60s, we did book reports on Medal of Honor recipients. So, you know, back then, all of us kids, we worshiped. uh, the medal of honor recipients. And if you would have told me back then, when I was a small child, that I would be meeting a medal of honor recipient, I’d say you were crazy, but you know, um, we did a, a lot of the book reports on the, the, the civil war, um, uh, recipients all the way through Vietnam. And one of those included, um, major drew Dixon fast forward, 2008, uh, Denver hosted the medal of honor convention. And, um, my commander tasked me to make sure that we took care of all the recipients arriving and departing Denver International Airport. And I got to meet many of the recipients, including Drew Dix. A friendship was started. And then a couple of years later, he voluntarily told me to be a member of the advisory board for the Center for American Values, which is based in Pueblo. And the rest is history.
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Well, and the Center just celebrated their 15th anniversary, which is amazing. And they are focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And they do several things that are so important. But first and foremost, I talk about the portraits of valor often. on a regular basis. I’ve had the great honor of emceeing a few of the events when the portraits have been released for some of these Medal of Honor recipients. And the Portraits of Valor, they’re very special. There’s something that changes your life with these Portraits of Valor, Henry Jones.
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Yes, there is. So we have 160 plus portraits that are displayed in our gallery. And the only other place where you could see those portraits are going to be in the Pentagon. And we all know how difficult it is to get into the Pentagon. But these pictures are displayed throughout our gallery. And under each one, there’s quotes of each one of the recipients of virtues, of certain virtues, of certain mission statements. And it’s something about when you walk into the gallery and you look at black and white photos, it kind of draws you in. And when you start reading their quotes, it’s very inspirational. And then I don’t know if a lot of the public knows that we also have a display of a Civil War Medal of Honor. And it’s from… The Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863, a Union soldier, William Chisholm, the family donated that medal. So that thing is also on display, and that’s pretty amazing to look at.
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Yes, it really is. And I just thought of the word that I was really looking for, and that was the unveiling of these portraits of valor. And I know, Henry, I know life should not be I wishes, but I really wish that I had known all of you even earlier than now and been part of this whole journey with the Center. And also, I wish that I would have gone to Normandy 10 years earlier and interviewed even more World War II veterans. Life isn’t I wishes. Life is what here and now and what we do. So with that, let’s just mention a little bit. Every Friday, I highlight a quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And I think that this is a lovely Christmas gift.
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Oh, it’s a wonderful gift. And we have plenty of books available.
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So people can order that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. But in addition to the Portraits of Valor and the book, you guys, the center, you’ve also created these amazing educational programs for kids K through 12 and also to help educators. So explain that just a little bit.
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Sure. So the Major Drew Dix Medal of Honor recipient and Brad Padula, Mr. Brad Padula, Pueblo, Colorado, they’re both co-founders of the Center for American Values. And we opened in 2010 on Veterans Day. So we just recently celebrated our 15th year. But Major Dix wanted to come up with an idea to inspire our educators and our children from K through 12, including adults, too, because we also inspire a lot of adults. But we came up, well, he came up with an acronym of HIP, Honor, Integrity, and Patriotism. Those are the virtues that are instilled in that Medal of Honor. And That is an inspirational teaching tool that the center uses to teach our young adults, our kids, our educators about the core values that each one of us have within us. And if we don’t, we can be inspired by others, including the Medal of Honor, not only the Medal of Honor recipients, but citizens, your teachers, your coaches, your parents, clergy, even your next-door neighbor. He may be a first responder, or he or she may be a first responder, or they may be just a regular working person that has those values, because we all have those. And it’s just inspirational just to watch these kids when they come down And after they attend one of our events, you can see where they start to get it. And then the follow-up, when you meet them later on and see what they’re doing as an adult or, you know, a young kid that’s going through the struggles of growing up and finding their way, and then eventually, you know, it clicks with them. And then it’s just a beautiful thing to watch.
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Well, my hope, and I’ve mentioned this conceptually to you and to Brad and Drew and also to Lori Gimmelstein, who has CPAN, the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. I would love to create a program that helped change your life, Henry, and that was these book reports. on these Medal of Honor recipients. And I would love to have every student in Colorado choose one of those Medal of Honor recipients each year and do a report on them. I think it would change things significantly for the better in our education system, Henry.
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Oh, I definitely would agree. And if you were to look at the – what’s interesting about the Medal of Honor recipients is the Medal of Honor recipient is you and I – It’s they represent America because, you know, you have Medal of Honor recipients of all religious backgrounds, of all social, economical backgrounds, of all education. You know, some have masters, some of high school dropouts. You know, they don’t you know, it’s just they represent America. And it’s just it’s really neat because I can look at some of these kids and talk to these kids. And you can see where they say, well, that guy’s just like me. You know, he wasn’t that, you know, he’s not that big. Well, look, this guy’s like me. You know, he, you know, there’s Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics, you know, Jews. I mean, it’s just it’s just interesting to see the whole dynamic because it’s just they’re part of America.
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Well, and the medal is awarded for actions taken to protect others, and I think that’s really important to understand. The other thing is the medal is awarded to these men who took action on one of the toughest days of their lives, and many times they don’t talk a lot about that day because it’s pretty… It’s pretty painful. They just did their duty. They stepped forward when they needed to. And we can take heart from that and do the same, I think, Henry Jones.
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Oh, we can. You don’t have to be in the military to be a hero. But what I learned about the Medal of Honor is the humbleness. It teaches one to be humble. It teaches one to think about others than yourself. Um, sometimes you have to go out of your comfort zone and, um, you know, you have to try something new, something adventurous. Um, it, it teaches you those virtues. And the most, one of the things that I get out of it is it teaches you love because, you know, I’ve talked to some of these recipients and you can tell that they have the love of their, you know, sailor Marine soldier. And that extends to, throughout the community. You see them when they interact with the kids. You can see how they show that love for the teaching, inspiring. It’s very touching.
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Well, it is. And funding, there’s no government money in this, right?
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There’s no government money. We rely on donations. So people that are listening to the Kim Monson show. We love you guys because every time I’ve been down there at an event, and I mean, every time I will go out and I’ll seek people that I don’t recognize. And eventually I always run into somebody that was inspired listening to your show, because I know you, you talk about us a lot and you, you, you know, you help us with the, with the fundraising. And it’s really neat to see somebody driving all the way from Denver to 110 miles to come down to the center just to see what’s going on, and they get inspired, and then they want to come back to some of the events. So it’s really neat, and we really appreciate it.
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Well, and that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. And, Henry, you and I would both encourage people to make a year-end tax-deductible contribution to the center. This is one of those ways that we reclaim this great American idea and these principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And, again, that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. Check it out. Make a contribution there. Henry, great to see you. I wish you a really Merry Christmas, and we’ll see each other very soon.
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I wish you and your listeners a very Merry Christmas. And, Kim, thank you very much, and I’ll be seeing you soon.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And if you need help with your own personal climate to be warm in the winter here, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, and all of the information for my sponsors is on the show. Pleased to have on the line with me Lauren Fix. You know her. She is at Car Coach Reports, also has a new radio show, The Car Drive Show. Lauren Fix, welcome.
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Well, thanks for having me. Yeah, The Drive with Lauren and Carl goes coast to coast. And if you don’t get it or you don’t have time to listen to it on the radio, you can always watch it on YouTube at The Drive Car Show. And you’ll find all of it. You get the video part of it, too. So it’s a little bit special.
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That’s awesome. You are a busy person, Lauren Fix. But let’s jump in here. I was looking at Car Coach reports. And I guess also, fortunately, I get your comments.
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information via my email as well how can people sign up to get that is that possible oh yeah very easy and it’s actually i’m working on the newsletter which will go out this week you can go to car coach reports.com and you’ll find everything if you don’t like to use youtube you don’t want to use rumble you just want to make it simple go to one website everything gets posted there and you can click through to whatever you want and sign up for the newsletter
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Perfect. Well, let’s jump in here. There’s so much going on. First of all, you have recently posted that experts reveal that Trump has a tiny car plan. I don’t like government having plans. Well, what is this?
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Well, this was basically and I just posted this last night and this story is on fire because President Trump and Sean Duffy is in charge of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They have just torched the past EPA regulations. And this is a good thing. And I know a lot of people think, oh, my gosh, the environment is going to get bad. It has nothing to do with destroying the environment. So don’t don’t let the left, shall we say, distract you from the facts. and i break it down on the video so you can welcome check it out on my youtube channel of course on the website but uh what it really covers is this is leading to opening up opportunities for you you the consumer to get to buy what you want so in the past under biden and under obama they were really pushing for the all-electric vehicle mandate now under trump’s first administration he didn’t get to trying to undo this thing maybe they thought it was going to be easy until literally late into his administration, and he didn’t have time to get it undone. And because of that, it went to the courts, and you know how the courts are these days. They’re leaning on the left. They stopped everything and left everything the way it was. So when Biden got into office, they were pushing for an all-electric car mandate across the country by 2030. So I guess we have to be grateful, especially when you live in cold weather. And I’m in Buffalo, and it was literally 10 degrees as a high yesterday. And it happens to be that I’m driving an electric vehicle. And it doesn’t make a difference what brand. They all have the same problem. Under the super cold weather, the guy that delivered the car to me said, hey, can you keep it in the garage? Because if you drive it more than a few miles, it’ll run out of power. So they brought it to me with a full charge, and it was down to 80% when he literally came from around the corner. It’s so crazy. I literally reviewed it in 10 degree weather and parked it in the garage. Luckily, I was able to do that. And what does that mean? That means limited range. And consumers didn’t like that. And that’s why they didn’t sell. But there was a massive pushback to the point that when President Trump got into office, the first thing he did was day one was remove the electric vehicle mandate. But they had been so good at it. burying that mandate into so many different policies that they had to be undone one by one. And the last piece of the puzzle is just about done. We’ve got there’s like 10 different pieces. One of them was the Congressional Review Act. You and I have talked about that passed by both houses because even the Democrats know if I live in a cold state, my people aren’t happy and I’d like to get reelected. So that’s why you saw that it became very bipartisan very quickly. President Trump signed that bill. That was undone. A bunch of executive orders undid all the electric vehicle mandates. And the last piece, well, the auto pen is also something. I have an article coming up on that this week saying all the auto pen signatures, anything that was signed is undone. That undid everything also, which is excellent. So what happened was with this signing of this bill, this Freedom for Cars Act, opens up for you getting full circle. I talk like Trump, I guess, full circle. Getting those vehicles that you want, what consumers want. Do you want gas? Great. You want electric? Perfect. Buy one. You want a plug-in hybrid, a hybrid? You want a diesel truck? You should be able to get all that. And you can’t do that when the government restricts what’s available. So when President Trump was in Japan with the new prime minister, thankfully leaned in our direction, he noticed that there’s something that they have there like Toyota Heluxes, which are little trucks for around the city and smaller cars. Now, these are not meant to be up on the highways driving at 80 miles an hour across Montana. I guess you could. maybe for one exit. But when you think about what you really want is around town. You’ve got a child who wants to go from your house to school to college, or you just want to run some errands, or you’re just going to go to work because you don’t live that far away. Why do you need to have a gigantic suburban or an expedition or a big truck? Maybe you just need something small. Or you own a company and you just want to deliver some local deliveries. Maybe it’s cakes or pies or bread or whatever it is. Those were not available here, but they’re available in other countries. That’s what they’re trying to bring here. So think more of the size of a Mini Cooper. Don’t think it’s a mandate because it’s not. It’s just allowing them to build them here. in North America, and they already have the tooling. And Stellantis, which owns Fiat, already said, we can do that. And so we’re going to see more production here, more jobs. UAW loves this, because that means more people working under their union. It also means that you’re going to have more product available to dealers, so the dealers like it, and you should like it, because you have choices.
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Well, why didn’t we have that choice? Because I know that, you know, it’s just the little Fiat’s or whatever. Why haven’t we had this choice before?
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Well, you had the choice and they went away and they bombed the administration because they did is they put something in called corporate average fuel economy. So what they had done, and this is out the door now with this new freedom for cars, it’s not completely undone. As a matter of fact, the next administration could make their rules very strict. I’m sure that knowing President Trump, he’s taking this apart piece by piece because of the way it was put together very, you could say creatively or evil. I guess you can pick your words. It is very much like a like a spider. You know what I mean? So you have to kind of work your way to the inside to get rid of everything. We’re almost done. We’re waiting on the Supreme Court to go through the final piece of the puzzle. And there’s a couple other little pieces that are going to go away. Greenhouse gases, which is or actually I spoke in front of Congress on that. So that is all being undone slowly. It’s going to take probably the full four years for all of this. stuff, I’m being nice in my word choice, to be undone. But the reason you didn’t have these choices is the government puts a mandate on the company and says, listen, you don’t bring us an average of every car you sell at 54 miles to the gallon, we’re going to fine you. Like, what do you mean? Well, we’re going to charge you billions of dollars through the EPA, or you can make cars that you take a loss on. So what do you do as a company? You have to look at a business plan and say, well, we’re taking a loss on every one of these cars. But the loss of millions is better than the fine of billions. Terrible. Well, they had no choice. That’s why you saw Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford there. You saw the new CEO of Stellantis there. Of course, Mary Barra was not there. I found that very interesting. She sent somebody who’s in charge of the Orion, Michigan plant, which is fine. But if you bring the CEO of the other companies and she’s not there, she sent a message. The message is, I don’t agree. I want to do whatever the left wants. So I think I think she’s a bit on the compromise side, because remember that Biden’s niece. has a position under DEI at General Motors, and a lot of people don’t know that.
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And the person you’re talking about is the head of General Motors. So, okay, Lauren, we’ve got a lot.
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I know it’s a lot, but I have to talk full circle to get everyone to understand this is bigger than we think.
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Okay. And we got that whole buttoned up, right? I think we have that one. Yes. Very well put.
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Thank you.
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Okay. Next one, automakers want to control what you hear in your car. And Tesla’s involved in this, and that’s frustrating. So let’s talk about that.
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Well, interestingly, Tesla, of all brands, has just added Apple CarPlay. Now, I’m sure he’s hoping that that will lead to additional sales. So in the past, whatever vehicle you buy, you plug in your phone, Android, Apple, whatever your choice is, and you can listen to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Tesla never had that. They wanted you to listen to, you know, through your phone, which is great if you have less than two bars, which happens in a lot of places around this country. You don’t have two bars of service. Your app doesn’t work for whatever it is you’re listening to, a podcast, I’m listening to KLZ, whatever it is. You can’t listen to it, so that’s a problem. Well, in the past, they tried to remove AM radio. And bipartisan support across the board. People want it because it has emergency broadcast system. It has local sports. It has local news, local weather, local traffic, local problems, whatever is going on. What’s the first thing you do? You turn on AM radio. What’s going on? I need to know. Because you will get forget you can’t be on social media when you’re driving. Right. So, I mean, these are the kind of things that give you access to information. immediate information, especially the emergency broadcast service. It goes all the way into Canada. So they were going to remove it out of all of cars. And they started to do that. There was a massive pushback against Ford. They put it back into a software update so they can literally take it off and put it in that quickly. Well, then they got a little crafty and they realized, you know, we’re spending money on Apple. So when Apple puts in Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, they pay a fee and then you get that little Apple logo and you plug in or Android or whatever it is. They want to remove all of it. AM, FM, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto. And they want you to listen to the Google based music. software that they’re paying to have put in the car and the first company that jumped on that was general motors maybe that’s why mary borrow wasn’t there i don’t know it’s very interesting thought process maybe there’s a tie in there somehow but maybe i’ll have to look into that um But when you think about that, it’s like, why would you do that? Well, they want you to listen to your phone. Oh, you can get whatever you need off your phone. No, because if they limit what you have and not just save the money from having to pay the fee for Apple and Android, but it also means you can’t listen to local talk. And what’s on local AM and FM? It’s conservative radio show. Right. It’s all the conservative talk, which in many years of the country, and I’ve learned this because of my radio show, we simulcast AM FM. For example, Buffalo has 1270 The Patriot. It runs on AM, but it also has two FM stations. But if you remove that, I can’t listen to it, can I? I forget about it. I can’t tune into it. Oh, yeah, maybe I can use my phone unless I’m driving somewhere. Oh, I got one bar of service. I can’t hear it. So they’re limiting that. But it also limits the emergency broadcast service, sports, weather, news, whatever. And a lot of people like to listen to their college or high school sports. I remember when my kids were in high school, they would put all the football games on the local radio. It was really nice. If you couldn’t be there, you could at least listen to it. they want to take that away and so this is all about control of what’s in your car massive pushback on this it was a very hot subject and still is on my uh on my youtube channel if you want to learn more it’s also on my website this is interesting and we need to start telling these elected officials what are you doing why are you not mandating at least am because they put am in they got to put f in there and it’s free so if it’s free and the federal government pays through the federal communications commission why would you take it off your car Maybe it’s what you’re saying, Kim.
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Yeah. So Elon Musk and Trump have a close relationship. Why would Tesla do this? Tesla’s never had radio.
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He’s never had radio in his car. We are a tech company. That’s how he’s been able to bypass a lot of these rules. And so that’s also… Smart in his case because he’s been able to, shall we say, work the system to his advantage. That he’s very good at. And what’s interesting about that is he added in Apple CarPlay to try and appease… The buyer, and he’s way down in sales. And mind you, if you’re looking at electric cars, Tesla’s still the number one seller. They own about 65% of all electric cars that are sold. It’s hard to beat the leader. So I think he’s not going to be impacted in this case. People that buy his cars know what they’re getting. They understand the whole concept. And they don’t want to buy either a regular car or they don’t want to buy somebody else’s car. They don’t want to deal with the dealership experience and all that. and by the way i have covered the change in the dealership experience that’s coming our way thanks to amazon not necessarily good by the way uh and i covered that on my channel but i i think The reason they want to pull it out is they don’t want you to listen to what you want to listen to. They want to control what you listen to because then they can collect that data and sell that data. And that’s your information.
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Oh, absolutely. And they’ve been conveniently stalling it. As a matter of fact, right now, I am in the midst of monitoring. Every day I hit reload on my screen to see that the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, which would include FM because it is free and it does report the information that we need, emergency services, has been sitting and not been voted. It’s HR 979 since November 12th of 2025. We’ve been pushing, pushing. We got them to put it on the calendar, but no vote date. And it’s bipartisan support. You think that they want this? to make their constituents happy, come back to their hometowns during Christmas break, and have everyone say, oh my gosh, thank you for that. Look what we’ve done for you. But they haven’t brought it on the calendar to vote. And I’ve been monitoring for both the Senate and the House. So once it passes the House, it’s all set to go. The Senate’s going to vote on it also. And I keep hitting, like I said, I just hit reload a second ago, and it’s just sitting there, both House and Senate. waiting to go on the calendar and that is not not still still sitting there not hasn’t moved so we need to get a hold of your representatives and say hey listen i know that it’s called am radio for every vehicle act of 2025 it’s also senate bill 315 in case you want to go after your senator and say hey listen we need this to pass This is our communication to you, Kim, everything you have to say and your station and every FM radio station across the country. And if we don’t act now, they’ll just ignore it. It’ll just sit there like many other bills. Oh, we’ve made action. But they haven’t. All promises. That’s it.
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Okay. So we have about five minutes left. Lauren Fix, I’m going to throw it over to you. I saw a headline that just stopped me in my tracks about our data and that if you accessed it, you could go to prison or something. But what do you want people to know? Because you’ve got your finger on everything out there.
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Yeah, I’ve got a lot going on. It’s amazing that the automotive industry usually has no news. What’s new? What’s hot? Oh, maybe there’s a recall. But this is lately it has gotten so involved with politics. And I blame the past administration. And I thank the Trump administration for undoing all of this. It has gotten really bad. One of the things and I think it’s politicians that get arrogant. They have decided now that. They can literally put an ankle bracelet on your car and you pay for it and for the monthly service of it. So if you have an issue with speeding, you get a ticket. That’s between you, your insurance company, police officers. I mean, obviously you need to slow down and stay within the rules. But what they’re deciding to do instead is they’re going to start charging you to install something in your car. Now, that doesn’t mean to say that you might have more than one car, but maybe they’ll put it in all cars. It’s $250 if they decide that you’re going to get it and $4 a month. That may not sound like a big deal, but it collects the data. And if you’re speeding, they’re going to keep sending you tickets. They’re going to limit your speed. That’s great unless you’re trying to pass a vehicle or maybe you’re trying to escape a bad situation. So in this case, it doesn’t care. It’s just a governor or a nanny or an ankle bracelet to control your speed. Again, anytime you let the government get involved and control everything you do, whether it be what you listen to in the car, how fast you drive, or where you go, which is what all this big data is about, They’re controlling you. And that’s really what this, I just had this conversation yesterday with somebody about electric cars. Why would you buy a car that when you fill it up like a gas tank and then the morning you go out and there’s three quarters of what was left of what you either charged or put in, why would you want that? Because it’s about control. The whole thing’s about control, limiting where you go. When you stop to charge and you’re plugged in for hours, I know where you are. Your car is there. It’s connected. And if you didn’t pay your tax bill, maybe you were speeding. Maybe I need to find you for some silly reason. They can come find you. I don’t like that. There’s no freedom in this at all.
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No. And freedom of mobility is really what is under assault here. This is the headline that I found. And this was just came out. Oh, I guess it was three days ago. Automakers push to make accessing your own car’s data a crime punishable by three to five years in federal prison. This seems unbelievable. This was from kind of an offline survival world is where I found that, but it was running through my feed this morning. So what’s your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I have not seen that article. As a matter of fact, if you could send it to me, I would appreciate it because that is a story, and I will do some deeper research into that. Very interesting that they’re going to make it illegal for you to get your own information. It’s your information. It would be like you going to your doctor, can I have a copy of my medical records? You’re like, yeah, sure, we’ll give it to you on the way out the door. No, you can’t have it? You’re going to access that? And we’re going to send you to prison? What? You’re in prison next to the guy. What did you do? I murdered someone. No, I just wanted my data. I mean, come on. Seriously? It is crazy. You’re a bad person. You just wanted your own data. You’re an evil person. Come on. This is way out of control.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I’m going to send this over to you. And, you know, the other thing, hopefully I didn’t get caught by some clickbait on that. So maybe that’s the case. So we’ll talk about that next.
SPEAKER 03 :
I always investigate those. If anybody finds articles, you can email me through my website. I’m always looking for good articles. I have quite a few people that send me some really great stuff to research. But I have some interesting things over time. Sometimes it’s AI created, so you have to be really careful these days that when you see an article, whether it be about cars or anything that Kim’s talking about, and you’re like, geez, that’s not what she said, or that’s not what I heard. Do your own research and don’t use AI to do the research. Literally go and start reading research, talk to people. And sometimes it’s not true, which is why I put out the stories that I do, especially like on the EPA, because I had some commenters saying, oh, now the skies are all going to be black. You know, cars that are on the road today, what goes out the tailpipe is so much cleaner than it ever could have been thought of in the 70s. And then here we are. That was a different time. Cars are clean. What comes out the tip of what comes out of diesel vehicles is cleaner now than gasoline vehicles. But no one talks about that. And these are the things that I try to bring to light. And when I talk to you about, Ken, helping people understand the real facts, because there’s a lot of disinformation out there. I don’t care if you’re listening to a podcast or you’re just reading some random article. There’s so much AI-created things, and AI is not always correct, because I don’t care whether you’re using grok, perplexity, or chat GPT. There are times it’ll spit out something to me, and I will reply, that’s incorrect. And I’ll go, oh, yes, you’re correct. So why did you give me the wrong information?
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Lauren Fix, our freedom of mobility to be able to go where we want to when we want to is so totally under attack, as other things are as well. 30 seconds, wrap this up, and it always goes pretty quickly when we have you on, Lauren Fix.
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s a lot going on. You can find me at Lauren Fix on the website or Car Coach Reports. If you go to YouTube, put in Car Coach Reports, you’ll find all of my news. I post three times a week. Even through the holidays, I will be posting. If you’re looking for car reviews, I have a lot of the coolest new cars. We’re already driving 26 and 27 models. I can’t believe I’m saying that. You can find that at carsmarts.com. That’s plural, car smarts. That’s all my car reviews and the Drive Radio Show. You can put that into YouTube as well. We have a website we’re just working on right now, but we are all over the place trying to give you information so that you are smarter and you make good decisions and you don’t let the government control your life.
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I love it, Lauren Fix. Hey, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas. We will talk again in the new year.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Happy Hanukkah. All of the above to everybody.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s drive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And really a lot of great information with Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports, and Hour Number One. And again, if you missed that, you can catch it 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Or after that, the podcast will be on my website. Also, you can catch that at Spotify and iTunes. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And while you’re there, make sure you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter. 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It puts us in a very onerous situation. And last week, I testified out in Elbert County regarding this industrial transmission line that Excel wants to put across both Elbert County and El Paso County, taking land in doing so, which is very onerous for property owners. And there were three people that were there for the Public Utilities Commission. And I had never researched it. I thought, hmm. Are they one of a bigger board? My friends, there are just three people on this Public Utilities Commission that make all of these decisions. They’re unelected. They’re unaccountable to we the people. But what’s interesting is they can push this bureaucracy over here, and it looks like the idea that we would have any right-of-center commission organizations or media that would, and they have been doing this, saying that Jared Polis is a libertarian is really disingenuous. And it plays into him trying to act like he’s a libertarian. But you look at what the PUC is doing. And in fact, Excel was just in front of the PUC meeting in November asking for a $356 million rate increase. So I’m thinking, okay, is this a big, it’s not a big board. The commissioners, and you can just go to the puc.colorado.gov commissioners, is Chairman Eric Blank. And he was appointed chairman of the Colorado PUC on December 11, 2020, by Jared Polis for a four-year term. And his term expired, said in 2025, but he must have been reappointed. Then Commissioner Megan Gilman, she was appointed March 6, 2020. and commissioner tom plant and he was appointed all of these by jared polis january 13 2023 and they have enormous power enormous power over us and this is not the way representative government is supposed to work So our quote of the show, I went to Alexander Shultzenitsyn, was born in 1918, died in 2008. He was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union and especially the Gulag prison system. 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Yes, well, one of the things I find is that they don’t understand percentages. A lot of people are kind of confused about percentages, I think, and how to figure that out in your head. But essentially, when there’s a 10% tax on your money, that means that 10 cents of every dollar that you have goes to pay the tax. So when you walk into a business with a dollar, you only have 90 cents to spend on yourself. And you can quickly understand how sales tax is eating your disposable income, your money you have to spend to buy groceries and other goods and services. So I don’t think people understand how quickly their money gets eaten up that way. If you have $100 to spend somewhere, $10 of it is going for taxes. It’s an incredible amount. And that’s leftover, the money you have leftover from all the other taxes and fees that you pay. We are paying a tremendous amount of our money in taxes and fees. And it just gets taken out in little bites. So it’s harder to see, you know, much like how you get your paycheck and you have all those little bites taken out of your paycheck before you ever even get your money, before you ever even get that paycheck. And a lot of people don’t see that. If you were… If you were just given your pay and you had to pay the taxes out of that, each individual had to pay their own taxes, I think things would change. But it is illegal for companies to give people all their pay and then take back the money that goes to the taxes that the business pays for them. i also like to tell people especially young people no matter what you do you’re always working for yourself even when you work for somebody else you are contracting with your employer for your time and services and in that contract they pay you and they also pay your taxes they take your taxes out of your pay and send that off to whatever entity it goes to Things might begin to change in the way we allow people to be taxed.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and I was at a meeting, and a woman who has her own company said that she takes the pay stub for her employees and prints it out so that they can see each pay period, just how much is going to taxes. And I think that that’s a creative way to at least take a step in the direction so that people are informed about how much is being… taken out of their paychecks for taxes, then when they buy something, another 10%. And I think that we’ll start to move the needle if we would start to communicate in that manner. And I know you’re doing a great job with these young employees. It’s their first job, but you’ve really used this as an opportunity to teach them And I think it changes their lives. You know, I think if people have a teacher or a parent or an employer or all of the above that takes time to explain things. For example, my father and I was riding around with him in western Kansas as we were going doing different things on the farms is he explained inflation to me. and how it’s a silent tax. And so all of these ways to talk with young people, I think is so important. And I really love the fact that you give so many of these kids that first chance, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think that it’s super important to explain how this stuff works to these kids. I even take the sales tax forms and I show them what happens with the money that comes into my snack bar and how that gets divided out between the state RTD all of the different entities and depending on what jurisdiction. you’re in, there can be a lot more of those. So they start to understand where that money goes. The other thing I frequently see is people who are in the service industry, they’re waiters or waitresses, and they get their pay and then they want more tips. A common thing going around on social media is, oh, well, you need to tip us like 40%. And then the other comment under that will be, Well, if the employer would pay more. Well, the problem is they don’t see what’s preventing the employer from paying them more. You know, they don’t see, for instance, you know, we’ve talked about this a few times. Two years ago, my property taxes went from $13,000 to $40,000. You know, that it takes a lot to overcome that kind of a jump in taxes, which we all saw in Colorado. But they don’t see that I have to pay that just to keep my property and my business. Without paying that, I lose all of that. So that money is just going to property taxes. That’s money I cannot invest into the business. That’s money I cannot invest into my employees in either training, which they take with them lifelong, or just increasing their pay. And then on top of that, all these other bites are taken out of… The money that I pay them in Colorado. Now we have family leave. That’s also taken out. And I have to match that. And I also have to match the Social Security and Medicare. They do not see any of that. So it’s easy to make the employer. the business the bad guy and this is the thing we really need to stop because it’s also a huge barrier to entry to any of these young kids who go out and say they get training to be a welder or any other kind of trade like that and they want to set their own business they’re going to face all of these things
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and so many of our kids are being taught in the education system that capitalism is bad. Well, capitalism, there’s no coercion in capitalism. It is a free exchange between two entities. For example, an employee, an employer, an employer says, you have these skills, I will pay you X. The employee may say, I have these skills, I think I can go out into the market and be paid more. And then the market will figure out what that equilibrium is between the two of them. But then you insert government into all of this, and you get then cronyism. So, for example, I was talking about the PUC, the Public Utilities Commission, all three commissioners. I didn’t realize it. Susan, the PUC was only three people, and these three people have enormous power over our lives. They want to say whether or not we can have a gas range. They can approve these huge increases of Excel regarding our energy bills. They could make a decision regarding imminent domain on these transmission lines at Elbert County. These are unelected Unaccountable people. Who they are accountable to is the governor because the governor appointed them. This is not the way the representative government is supposed to work in America.
SPEAKER 19 :
Absolutely not. And that’s the other thing. When you start talking about utilities, our utilities, the cost of utilities in Colorado has really exploded. Employers also have to pay those utilities as well. That’s another thing that eats up paychecks.
SPEAKER 18 :
So I want to connect this dot. When our kids have been taught capitalism is bad, what they’re really talking about is cronyism, where government and business gets into bed together to try to stifle competition and influence. These interested parties, they have this influence. That’s cronyism. That’s not what we like. Capitalism is good. But when they are then also taught that the owner of the business is greedy. Well, you know what? You could actually improve your skills, go get a different job. But with government, they have force. If you don’t pay your taxes, they can take your property. You can end up with fines and in jail. And so which one is the greediest, the one that wants to take your money via force or the one that is working to try to create jobs for people so that they can have jobs to take care of themselves and their families? I think we’ve got to talk with our kids about that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, the president. I agree. The president talked a lot about the need for financial literacy among our kids. And I think talking to them about and changing the focus to make them understand you really are your own small business. You’re just contracting with an employer and you can take that contract and go somewhere else. you know, and how you present yourself is your brand, your image. And, uh, I think that would, um, the other thing I think that would help is if we start to teach them how to manage their money better. Um, when you, uh, when you prefer to, you know, be employed rather than have your own business, uh, your own, the own entity, own the entity, um, you, uh,
SPEAKER 18 :
I lost my point. I’m sorry. Okay. Well, you were saying that you were basically your own business, your own brand. Yes. And I think it’s important to understand that.
SPEAKER 19 :
If you want to keep your debt low, because the higher you keep your debt, the harder it is to change jobs and move around. I mean, you really have to look at… you know, financial literacy and managing your money. And I just think we need to change the way people view money and finances.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and you’re doing great work with all of your employees. Let’s go to break so that we don’t break into this next thing that we wanted to talk about, and that is taxes on tips and overtime. We’re talking with Susan Kochavar. She is the owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, truly an entrepreneur. also a great sponsor of the Kim Monson Show for many years. I did want to mention these two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis, and that is the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. We had the president, Henry Jones, on in the first hour. They don’t receive any government money whatsoever, and they’re doing amazing work with these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism through their portraits of valor, through their educational programs. Great place to make a year-end tax-deductible donation. And then also the USMC Memorial Foundation, which is we have the official Marine Memorial here in Colorado, and the foundation raises the money to take care of the memorial and also for a great remodel. And to make that tax-deductible contribution, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And pleased to have Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins with Spartan Defense, which is a firearm store in Colorado Springs with firearms that you may not be able to find other places, but they created the second syndicate to work to protect our right to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves. And so very pleased to have them as a sponsor of the show as well.
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And on the line with me is Susan Kochivar. She is an entrepreneur. She is the owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. And Susan, I wanted to talk with you about Trump and no tax on tips over time. In fact, this is an article from KDVR. By Shaw Turner, it says, as the end of the year approaches, many workers who rely on tips and overtime pay may face some confusion as they prepare for the tax return season. President Trump’s bill passed by the legislature provides a temporary tax break for tips, but that doesn’t apply on the state level. so the new federal tax break for tips allows employees to deduct up to 25 000 of tip income and is effective through the 2028 tax year but colorado will not follow suit now we hear all of these pbis politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that talk about making Colorado more affordable, but they are not going to adhere to this. They’re going to tax tips and overtime. Now, one thing about it is I really don’t like different groups being treated differently. I really would love just across the board tax cuts, but this is something that Trump had promised on the campaign trail, and this is what he delivered, but Colorado’s not following suit. What’s your thoughts on this, Susan Kochavar?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think it helps some of the poorest among us, and these are people who certainly work very hard. And then with overtime wages, it encourages people to work that overtime and to make more money. And it’s nice because in order to make more money, then they don’t feel like, well, I can’t work any overtime here because it’s going to be tax harder, so I have to go find another job somewhere else so that I can get all of that. without having to pay all those taxes on it. So there’s that. I just think it’s a really terrible thing that our Colorado legislature has done. There was a state, a little provision put into a tax bill earlier this year. uh so when it comes um which decoupled from federal law historically uh colorado followed what was in the federal law regarding taxes so they so they typically align with the federal tax law so if there are tax exemptions at the federal level they would apply to the state levels but in this case the state has now decided to break from federal law if so um And you can think Rep. Lorena Gonzalez-Democrat is the lead sponsor of that bill that caused the decoupling. So now the exemption on overtime wages only applies to workers who must pay a time and a half. Sorry, that’s a different provision to that. So now all of that stuff gets added back in. So, unfortunately, Colorado employees won’t be able to make use of that tax exemption. I think that’s really sad.
SPEAKER 18 :
It seems kind of greedy to me, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 19 :
Greedy, and it’s also… You know, the other thing I think that they want to do, people that don’t follow the legislation closely and don’t understand how all this stuff comes about, and in fairness, it’s very hard when you’re working to follow all of this stuff. It makes it look like, oh, Trump is really not making the economy better. Things are really not getting better for me, certainly in these blue states. And this is how that’s done. It’s very devious and… disappointing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. They put in the policies and then they blame Trump. And this is a good spot to mention the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, because this is an all-volunteer group that I’m involved with that since 1976 have been watching legislation. And I did want to say thank you to this team that I get to work with. That’s Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, It’s an all-volunteer organization. And as Pam Long said, it is your shortcut to know what is happening out at the state legislature. We took positions on 261 bills. Our ratings report we just mailed to our members. So if you would like a hard copy on that, you join us at coloradotaxpayer.org. And when you join us, you will also get the weekly email that we send out with positions on bills during the legislative session. Because, Susan, it is really difficult. to stay on top of what is happening and we get obviously we get mixed messages from the democrat party and this democrat party has been taken over by radical activists this is not the democrat party of jfk or your grandpa and grandma And so you really need to take a look at who you’re voting for. But we have Republicans that are not necessarily standing for these foundational principles either. And so this ratings report will just give you a clear look on where… everyone in the legislature where they came down on these bills that we took positions on. And we have to be engaged because if we’re not engaged, they’re going to take more and more of the money in our pocket. And the more money they take, they take away our financial freedom. And so that’s why these discussions are so important. Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 19 :
They really are, and I think one of the best places to tackle the issues that Colorado is having politically right now is to take our elections all the way back to the local level so that our county clerks actually have true control over the voter rolls so that we go to our… caucuses, meet our neighbors. That’s the best way to know these people. And when they vote like they shouldn’t, then you know them personally, they’re your neighbors, and then you call them and discuss that with them. But bringing all the politics back very locally and taking the state control away from elections, I think is the very best place to start that fight.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and it really should be. The more you centralize something, the less freedom for people. I’ve heard, let’s see, a couple of different things. One, this was a headline. Let’s see if I can… Governor Jared Polos calls for replacing the Colorado Department of Higher Education with a new one-stop shop agency. Just the headline is of concern. The more you centralize something, and many times they’ll say, well, we want to streamline processes or we want to reduce costs. Well, we’ve seen that actually when government gets involved in things, ultimately the price goes up, the quality goes down, and the supply becomes limited. And that’s pretty much across the board. I’ll have to think if I can think of something that that’s not the case. Anything come to mind for you, Susan Kochavar?
SPEAKER 19 :
No, certainly not. There wouldn’t be enough examples to support that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Okay. So Colorado, they talk about affordability all the time. And the word affordability, affordable housing, that’s what i now think it is a big land grab where we’re seeing municipalities the state they’re taking land and building affordable housing affordable housing is subsidized housing subsidized housing is government housing and we’ve seen how that works in other municipalities for example in chicago There became more and more crime in government housing. We’ve got to reclaim property ownership. If people want to rent, they should have the choice, but they shouldn’t be coerced and forced to rent into that. And I tell you, Susan, as I drive by, I was out to the airport a few weeks ago. These big apartment complexes look almost like Soviet block houses. apartments to me. And I’m a bit troubled. I’m not quite sure how we get this turned around because so many of these municipalities are buying into this housing or affordable housing shortage and playing right into this whole government control of where we live. And I’m super concerned about that, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I’m not really even sure I buy into the housing shortage argument either. They make it tougher maybe for builders. But just since COVID, the number of lives lost has been tragically high. And we’re also now getting rid of all of the people that the Biden administration brought in. and um i’m not you know and and elon musk talks all the time about how few children americans are having we are not even replacing ourselves so uh i don’t like when i hear that stuff come out nationally oh affordable you know affordability crisis there’s a housing crisis i’m not so sure that’s true
SPEAKER 18 :
I’m with you on that, Susan Kochavar. It just doesn’t match up. So if, in fact, these apartment buildings could stand on their own from an economic standpoint, okay. But there’s all kinds of government subsidies. There might be special permitting. Each of them may be structured a little bit differently. But when I was on city council, I thought, I need to learn more about this. So I went over and I looked at one of the affordable projects at that time. And the county commissioners at that time were basically holding it over developers. They said, if you want to build single-family homes, then you need to build this affordable thing over here. But then what I also learned was is that with some of these projects, these apartment projects, that the developer gets the market rents. What happens is the taxpayer will subsidize the rents for people that are income adjusted. Their rent is income adjusted, which I don’t think that that’s the business of the government either. But then the taxpayer will come in and subsidize the amount that that individual is paying up to market rents. So the developer… doesn’t have the risk really on that. It’s really the taxpayer. Again, when we talk about money being taken out of people’s pockets, that’s where it’s going. And then it’s picking winners and losers. And then what happens is some of the projects, if the individual who is getting that subsidized rent would get a raise or get a different job and make more money, they might get kicked out. of this subsidized housing. So then it disincentivizes people to do better. It’s very diabolical when you really look at it. And it’s when government centralizes, gets bigger, takes more money, then that’s where the problems occur. But it takes away people wanting to do better. And the American idea has always been that we do better, that we can keep more of our property. And all that is what’s under assault right now, Susan.
SPEAKER 19 :
It really is. Yeah, I feel it. forced into these, you know, ridiculous situations, the apartments and things. I just, it’s super tough. It is super tough. Because the government has mucked around in it so much.
SPEAKER 18 :
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. We’re talking with Susan Kojavar, who is an entrepreneur, owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, and a great sponsor of the show. And she was talking about financial literacy. And if you want financial freedom, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. They’re an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary. They always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for a meaningful relationship. information sharing, a network of smart strategies, and a thoughtful advisor who puts you in control. No cookie-cutter plans. Everything is tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080. 303-285-3080. Susan Kochavar, I want to talk with you about this whole Somali thing in just a moment. But as you know, we have created a petition to call on Governor Jared Polis to do the humanitarian thing and release Tina Peters, former Mesa County clerk and recorder, from prison before Christmas Eve of this year. And we’re calling on him to do that because he could exhibit mercy and kindness and compassion. Tina is 70 years old, and she’s concerned there might be a reoccurrence of cancer that she fought and defeated a number of years ago. But she needs medical care. And then her mother is 97 years old, and Tina would like to visit her. It is the kind, compassionate, and merciful thing to do Susan, he commutes sentences or pardons people every year. And last year, he pardoned 22 people, commuted sentences for four. Of those 22, two were murderers, one was a bank robber, and one was a rapist. It sure seems like releasing a Gold Star mom who probably maybe had a traffic ticket before this whole ordeal just makes sense. What do you think about this?
SPEAKER 19 :
I think so, too, especially for someone who potentially thinks he’s going to run for president. No mercy doesn’t look good.
SPEAKER 18 :
And so people can, I agree, they can sign the petition by going to kimmonson.com. And at the top, there’s a red banner. And just click on that. It gives our reasoning to sign it. This is what I think the strategy is going to be, is I’m going to issue a press release later today. I will be contacting Governor Polis every day up until the 22nd. The deadline for signing is 9 a.m. on Friday. Monday the 22nd. I will then go down to his office at 2 p.m. on the 22nd and present the petition. I will only include first name, last initial, possibly the state, and all of this information is coming in directly to me. There’s no third-party petition gathering organization that is seeing your emails. And so it’s a safe place where you can actually sign the petition. I will not sell the list to anybody. So we are just focused on calling for Tina to be released by Christmas Eve. It is the humanitarian thing to do. Moving over to… Oh, go ahead. Sorry.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don’t know if the governor realizes how… impactful keeping Tina in a Colorado prison has been. As you know, I spent a good portion of my time in Texas and everywhere I go, people ask me about it, how terrible, what’s going on there? What is that governor doing? So this issue is nationwide. I don’t know if he realizes how many eyes are on this situation.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, he can do something to appear very humanitarian, which from a political standpoint would be positive for him. So he can do that, and we’re calling on him to do so. And Americans are very compassionate people. And what we have seen is that compassion, that generosity is being used against us. And we’re seeing this in this whole Somali thing in Minnesota, where it looks like just in Minnesota, people that were running nonprofits, and nonprofit doesn’t mean that they don’t make money, it just means they don’t pay taxes, they’ve been able to use nonprofit status and basically built the American taxpayer and the Minnesota taxpayer out of almost a billion dollars under this guise of generosity of feeding schoolchildren. Of course, that makes me think about this whole thing here in Colorado about healthy meals for all schoolchildren as well, but we’ll leave that over there. What’s your thoughts about this whole Somali thing in Minnesota, Susan Kochavar?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, it looks like… Billions of our dollars, of course, are going to Somalia. And that is a good portion of Somalia’s gross domestic product. They are sending back so much money. And it looks like there were a few programs that they were using to launder this money, essentially. There was the Medicaid housing stabilization. There was an autism services program. organizations and then food programs feeding our future so um these were monies that were supposed to go to children but they have but most of that money got sent off to somalia and um It’s pretty terrible, as I understand it, to live in some of those areas in Minnesota. They have an area called Cedar Riverside where most of the Somalis that were brought in by the Biden administration in 2022 settled, and it’s called Cedar Riverside. A lot of the… People that lived in that area for a long time are trying to get out. And over the weekend, I was looking at some videos of that area. Some of the Somalis were quite arrogant and nasty to the American citizens and saying they are going to take over the United States. These people do not have good intentions and need to be sent back to their country.
SPEAKER 18 :
They do need to be sent back. And again, they are taking advantage of our generosity and our compassion. And as I’ve mentioned before, I was on the board of Lutheran Family Services for many years in the early 2000s. It took me a while. I served on the board, I think, for six years to connect the dots that I thought it was a faith based charity. But then as over the years, as I started to look at the budget, I realized that a lot of the money. coming in was coming in from grants from the federal government for refugee resettlement. And so I asked the question, are we assimilating these people into American culture and are we talking about the gospel? And the answer was basically no, that we can’t talk about the gospel because we’re taking government money. And I saw this headline that just stopped me in my tracks. I think I’m pretty troubled about this. And it’s the Christian Post. It says, Lutheran group leading the Somali outreach in Minnesota warns against sharing the gospel unless a person is dying. And so when we get government involved in all this, it opens up all of this stuff. And that is, it’s a wealth transfer is what it’s been, is a wealth transfer from the American people to these bad actors that said that they were helping people and they weren’t. They were putting the money in their own pocket or sending it back to Somalia. And there are some reports that some of this money even made it into terrorist organizations. So that’s some of the reports that are out there, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, some of the worst terrorist organizations. I think it’s the al-Shabaab who was kidnapping children in schools and murdering them and things and holding Christians hostage. So some of the worst. This looks to me like it’s a Like what has been set up is a pipeline for fraud. So, you know, in 22, the Biden administration brought all the Somalis in and I think they pushed this pipeline. So they set up all these. fake organizations and just funnel money through, much like they do with the NGOs, the non-governmental organizations. I think President Trump and Vice President Vance have also talked about not giving money to NGOs anymore and simply, if we’re going to give the money to the government, to a country, just to give it to the government. I’m kind of against that anyway. It’s just created a pipeline to siphon billions of dollars out of the American economy.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and so what this is, this is this huge wealth transfer, which Karl Marx talked about in the Communist Manifesto. And this is playing out, and they’re using nonprofits, they’re using our compassion to do so. So the first thing in all this is to shed light on it. And we do that at the Kim Monson Show. Susan Kochovar, you are a dear friend, and a great sponsor. We’ve got about a minute. How would you like to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I think the most important thing for people to recognize is that this pipeline that’s been created with these types of quasi-government organizations, NGOs, is going on in more states than just Minnesota. Ohio, California, Colorado, these things need to be – it’s not welfare and it’s not compassion, and these things need to be ended. This is one of the reasons why our young people can’t afford anything.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, that’s an important point. And it’s a wealth transfer from our young people to these these bad actors is what has happened. So, Susan Kochavar, I know I’m going to get to see you over Christmas. I’m excited about that. I thank you for your sponsorship and your support on a consistent basis. And I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you and all the listeners.
SPEAKER 18 :
And our quote for the end of the show is from Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He said this, you can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this, let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph, but not through me. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t say
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