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In a shocking revelation, a recent story about the Gaylord Resort in Colorado has left many wondering how tax subsidies got approved in the first place. The resort, which has been collecting millions of dollars in tax money, was voted on by a single ballot cast by a single company - the one that owned the land the hotel would sit on. This raises questions about the fairness of the system and the lack of transparency in how tax money is being used.

This episode delves into the world of transportation in Colorado, where a new train project, the Colorado Connector, is being proposed. The project promises to bring a high-speed train down the Front Range, but at a cost of $4.7 billion. The speaker questions whether this project is a pipe dream, citing the state's history of failed transportation projects and the lack of transparency in how tax money is being used.

The episode also explores the story of a family in Longmont who voted for a train project in 2004, only to be left waiting for 21 years with no train in sight. The speaker argues that this is a classic case of "build it and they will come," where the state promises a project but fails to deliver. He also points out that the train project is not just about building a new train, but about keeping the existing train moving and providing a subsidy forever.

If you're tired of being promised a train that never seems to materialize, tune in to this episode to hear the speaker's take on the Colorado Connector and the state's history of failed transportation projects. He'll also share a shocking story about how tax subsidies got approved for the Gaylord Resort, and what it means for the future of transportation in Colorado.

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Why you deal with listening to Armstrong and getting on demand? We're not boring. Lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. About something about a comedic tone. What? We have a winner? Yes. Listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand on the iHeart Radio app. Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth. Because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the iHeart Radio app. Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

What does Drew Barrymore reach for at home? A Minky Couture blanket. The ultra soft throw that stops you mid-sentence. Featured on her show and loved in real life, Minky Couture wraps you in premium plush fabric, signature stretch, and award-winning craftsmanship. The blanket that turns every couch into your favorite seat in the house. Drew Barrymore's blanket. Only at Minky Couture. Shop now at minkycouture.com. That's minky-m-i-n-k-y-couture. Co-U-T-U-R-E.com. Michael, Ken and Sarah Soda, Florida. On 9-11, I had a 10 to 6 shift at the Minky C-R-G-C-C. My wife and I watched NBC that morning and saw the planes hit the towers. I went to work at 10 o'clock and there were no airplanes in the sky in our coverage from Tulsa East to Bowling Green to South down to the Gulf. All those planes were on the ground and we did nothing for a week. Take care. I was going to move on.

That reminds me of just one thing that still sticks. Dragon remind me of something else that sticks in my mind. But that... So after we get back from the C-135 lands at Andrews, Secret Service picks us up. I think the FEMA director actually stayed there because he immediately got on the flight and went to Lower Manhattan. I went to the White House. And then when the meetings were finished, I went back to this little dump that I lived in, up on Capitol Hill. And I told my detail, I said, let me... You know, I stopped them somewhere on the south side of the US side of the Capitol. And I said, maybe I need to go walk. I've been in planes all day. I've been meetings all day. I've got to walk just to get some of the stress out. Get rid of some of the cortisol. And I remember walking maybe a mile, maybe a mile at the most. And what was eerie about it was, you know, how cities have just a hum, a noise? Just, you know, there's just things moving and...

A busy piece, yeah. Yeah, it's just the cities. But there was nothing because everybody had left Washington, DC. Everybody had escaped into their homes in the suburbs. Or if they were living on Capitol Hill, where I lived, they were just... They were... They were hungered down. And so it was eerily quiet, except for one thing. You can hear the fighter jets overhead. That was weird. That was really weird. And that flight from Bozeman to Andrews... I can smell that plane. I can feel the bump, you know, all the hitting. There's no first class seat from that plane dragon. I'm sitting on a bench. I'm strapped into a bench. But laying down in that hole and watching the ground pass by was fascinating because your mind would be looking at the ground and trying to make out where you were, looking at the mountains and the sections of land and the roads and everything. And then the caculate your ear from the headset.

But the, you know, this is, you know, what if their call sign was, whatever they were, you know, their tail number, however they do it. We're in... We're in sector such and such. And we just cleared that sector and we're down moving to another sector. What would they do if the fighter jets flying all over the country, looking for stuff? And of course they were announcing us all the way over about, you know, here's... This is, you know, C-135, whatever, flying, you know, in routes and rooms, carrying, you know, VIPs. I didn't feel like a VIP at all. I felt like... Idiot. And the dogs. You mentioned the dogs. So when I walked out of here, you know what, hit my mind after I thought about the dogs you mentioned. What, what, dragging the, dragon says here, he remembers one year that I talked about at the Pentagon on that Wednesday, afternoon, I went to the Pentagon and walked into the bowels and looked at everything going on and saw some of the teams. And then I walked back out, which is where they told me about Barbara,

also having been on the plane. And then I walked over to where the, the task force kept the dogs. And I walked over and just walked, I don't even know what it was, task force one out of Virginia or Colorado, I don't know where they were from. I don't remember 25 years ago. All I remember is the dog, who was so happy to see me. They've been working and to get them relaxed, to get them ready to go into a shift again, you spray bowl. There I am in the middle of this horrific thing, throwing a tennis ball. There's mounts, mounts, mounts. And I suddenly understood exactly what dogs like it. It's just the repetition. It's the, you know, the joy of chasing the ball, bringing it back, knowing it's going to get thrown again. And I'm sitting there just like the dog. Can we just keep doing this for the rest of the week? Can we just throw the ball? Because I don't have to think anything about, except just watching the dog.

That here's the sad part. And everyone those dogs are not dead. It's 25 years. Yeah, they're all gone. They're all gone. I want you to think about a family up in Longmont. All right, let's just random family in Longmont. I don't care whether they live in Longmont. That makes no difference. It's the fall of 2004. This family standing at the kitchen counter, and they've got a ballot. And on the ballot is a question about trains. A regional sales tax. Oh, it's another government promise. A rail across the metro out to the suburbs, a line that runs up to the corner, their little corner of the world, and in Longmont. Bolver Longmont, the Northwest edge that always gets left off the map. The pitch-nave hurt is a really good one. Get out of your car. Get off the highway. Ride the train downtown. Read the newspaper. You can bury your phone in your screen while everybody else drives. It's clean. It's modern.

It's the future. And it just cost you a few pennies on the dollar. So this family in Longmont all voted yes. And all the neighbors voted yes. The whole region voted yes. We call that fast tracks. That family has been paying that tax every time they've bought a tank of gas or pair of shoes for 21 freaking years. They're still waiting for the train too. They're still waiting for the train. They're sick. They got their little, they got their statue. They got their backpack. Dad's got the briefcase. And they're standing at the corner. They're standing to the depot. Waiting for the train. They've been waiting for 21 years and still not there. The Bolver and the Longmont line, the one they voted for in 2004, the one they've been funding since 2005, now has a projected completion date. Write this down. 2050. 2050. So a kid born the day those parents voted.

Will the 46 years old before that train is supposed to arrive. And they call that a transit plan. That's a layaway program. And there's nothing to lay away. This November, there's a new train on the ballot. Yay! And before you vote on it, you should know the story about the last train that was on the ballot. It's the same story. It's about to cost you a great deal more money. And the new one has a name and Dragon loves this name. Because Dragon himself is Cuckoo for Coco. You can't wait for the train to be built. You're going to be, you know, you're going to be in a nursing home by the time this train's built. If you're still alive. Right, you'll be dead. So that's right. You've got to be dead and you'll be in a nursing home. So it's not going to make any difference. Cuckoo. The Colorado Connector. A permanent sales tax increase of one third of one percent in 30 communities all the way from four colors down to Pueblo to build passenger rail along the front range.

The front range passenger rail district voted 14 to one to put it in front of you. November three. Now when they sell it, they'll talk about 33 cents. As then, well, it's only costs about 33 cents and every $100 you spend. Tax the number they went in your head. Who can't afford 33 cents? I want a different number in your head. The train that they're asking us to build costs $4.7 billion. Today, and as far as I can determine, this tax never expires. It just runs forever. 33 cents at a time. About $295 million a year, apparently forever. Now let me tell you why I don't believe the $4.7 billion. And if you do, I think there's something wrong with you. Because we don't have an idea of problem. We've got a delivery problem. It's like today is Sam Speck's birthday. Happy birthday, Sam.

I tell Sam that his gift that I bought him for his birthday is on a Amazon prime plane at the end of a runway in Florida. And it's still there. So I'm not sure when you're going to get it. So speaking of delivery problems, we get delivery problems everywhere. Let's start with a pattern. Colorado does not have a shortage of rail dreams. There are a bunch of wet dreams. We've been studying trains up and down the front, rains and into the mountains front. There are probably two decades now. In 2010, the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority finished a big, a serious study, a serious feasibility study. Real high speed rail, electric trains running up to 220 miles an hour on two corridors. Interstate 25, although the 25 from four columns to a club load. And the 70 from the airport into the high country. Now the recommended version carried a price tag of about $21 billion. The options range from $16 billion to $37 billion.

The study projected the system would carry nearly $35 million passengers by 2035. How much of it's been built? Hmm? Hmm? What? I can't hear you. How much of it has been built? That's right. Not one foot of track has been built. The study got put on a shelf and it's got some company up there on the shelf. It's not the only one up there. The Colorado Department of Transportation ran follow-on studies in interregional connectivity study. An advanced guideway system study. Same result. Put it on the shelf. See what color I was very good at? We're very good at voting for trains and studying trains. And we really suck at building trains. Now fast track is more than just a sad story. I think fast track, if we're going to conduct an experiment, if we're going to do a,

we're going to do some sort of test here, this is the control group. Because we've already run the experiment with real voters, real money, and we've got the results. In 2004, Metro Denver approved a 410th-to-1% sales tax for the regional transportation district, the RTD. The promise was 119 miles of new rail, 57 stations, tens of thousands of parking spaces, all to be finished by Chex Calendar 9 years ago, 2017. Since 2005, RTD has collected about $4 billion from that tax of your money. Now they did build some of it, some lines open around 70 out of 119. Miles is what got built. Took him credit. Wow, that's, I don't know, do somebody do the math. Is that a C-plus? Did they get a C-plus?

But the rest ran into the cost overruns immediately. By one accounting from the free market common sense institute, which does great work, RTD has been about $5.6 billion through 2020, finishing the program, because anywhere from 2-to-2.35 billion on top of that, leaving the whole thing about $3 billion over the budget that the voters were sold. Now remember the North West line, the family from Longmont, both of Longmont line they got promised? That turned into a bus and a completion date in 2050. You mean you can't even get a freaking bus between now and 2050? A 2024 study paid construction to that line, a bus line at $650 million. Plus 12 to 16 million a year just to operate three round trips a day. Wow, a bus line. If you pay me $650 million, all by the best damn bus you could possibly find,

all get some really, in fact, I'm dragging you and I got new jobs right now, bus drivers. Hey, it's more than this for sure. I'll pay a million bucks a year. I got $650 million. I'll pay a million bucks a year and you can just drive the bus between Boulder and Longmont, back and forth, back and forth. Pretty much what you do here, just mindless crap all day long right there. You could listen to me on the radio. Not a chance. Yeah, I don't listen to you live. That's right. That's right. Now one of the people that helped design fast tracks admitted all of that out loud, promising those communities both buses and trains. He told Colorado Public Radio. Was a mistake. 20 years and $4 billion later, it's a mistake. So now the same state, with that exact record comes back and says, trust us. We got a new tax for a new train. We learned our lesson from fast tracks. They'll tell us this time, this time, the financial plan is transparent. Clearly, a Boulder County Commissioner and a district board member put it this way.

They wanted, quote, a very transparent financial plan so that people would have confidence that a yes vote would actually provide the funding to do what is being promised. That's the oldest line of bull crap in the book. Clearly, the is full of bull crap. The fast track voters were also told it was all planned out. And we want these projects is transparent and it's affordable and it's carefully budgeted right up until the day the bills land higher than the brochure told us. You see, the estimates are never the ceiling. The estimates are always the basement, the floor. And here's the trick. There's a trick inside Coco. And once you see it, I promise you you'll never, you'll never unsee this. There are two trains in this plan. And they pull themselves in opposite directions. The Northern Train Denver up to four columns is already funded. It's happening about $332 million paid out of the money that already exists from RTD

and the Colorado Transportation Investment Office. Those are the people that send you the tickets, you know, that you can't contest. The CTIO and a couple of 2024 state transportation bills. If scheduled to start running in 2029, whether you vote yes or no on this new tax. So that train is not in question, which then makes me question the most attacks for. Oh, the Southern Train. Denver down through the springs to Pueblo. That's the expensive one, $1.7 billion. And it only gets built if you agree to tax yourself. If you do, I'm going to divorce you. I'm done with you if you vote for this. Now, there's a third phase after that. A long-term buildout that brings the total to $4.7 billion over something like, I don't know, 20 years or something. So you can see the play going on here. They put the popular already paid for train in front in the front window. The one that is basically free to you because you've already paid for.

Then they use it to sell a permanent tax for the second train. The one that has a real bill attached to it. Is the free sample at Costco. Except here, the free sample is a commuter line. And the thing they want you to buy is a billion dollar tax with no expiration date. Now, the numbers, numbers don't close. That at all. Even the $4.7 billion is standing on a trap door. A meaningful chunk of the full buildout assumes what happens. When you assume, yes, you're making hast of you and me. It assumes that federal money that nobody in Washington has committed. We're assuming that Washington is going to pay part of the bill. So watch what happens when cost climb. And they will climb. They always do. The federal check won't show up. Or it doesn't come in full. It comes in yours in dribs and drabs. A little bit here.

If any at all. Now you got a gap. There are only two doors out of the gap. Door number one, they come back to us, the taxpayers, and ask for more money. Or door number two, they shrink the train. Less line, fewer stations, service only twice a day instead of what you pictured. Smaller, emptier, later, maybe, maybe they'll show up. Maybe it won't show up. I want to Jim Huley on KDVR this morning talking about. He said something about that. They're the A line out to the airport. You know, the main thing about art. You know, the A line, right, Dragon? The one that gets you to your plane on time. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Jim, Huley's out there talking about, if you're thinking about taking the A line, you might want to check the schedule. Right, Rob. Because we're going to shut it down for the umpteenth time. This is September. So let's say nine months, they probably shut it down at least twice a month for nine months or more. And Huley's out there telling everybody, that's not Huley's fault. He's just telling you the news. You better check before you use it.

Oh, so they can't even run the train from the United Station to the airport. Now, here's the number that they never leave with this number. You know why? Because they don't want you to know this number. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary sugar. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children in there. Can you tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told. If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least, and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth, because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color.

Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the My Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Michael, 25 years ago this morning, I was getting ready to board a plane at DIA with my mom, having just watched the first game in the Broncos New Stadium in Biscoe Field at the time. We traveled from Central California to make this trip to see the game, and we didn't end up flying back. We ended up driving back a few days later. So many road cars in the Sumi different places around the country, because they're all one-way trips, one-way trips. No, I've seen you play in Lee Greenwood. I don't know what he is, contract is with the record company, or what his royalties are on that song, but Donald Trump has made him sensible to change. I don't know how much, but sensible to change off that thing. I bet at least a million just Trump alone. Oh, probably so. Probably so. All right, back to Cocoa for Cocoa, Cocoa for Cocoa, whatever it is.

Let's do some math. Almost everything that you're taxed. Listen to this. This is when I put this in my notes, I thought, this way you get to stop for a moment, and make sure people truly understand what you're saying. Almost everything that we will be taxed does not build a single new mile. So if you vote yes, idiot, November, you're not buying a new mile of track. You're simply keeping the trains we already have moving. In fact, the General Manager Saul Pace said the quiet part out loud, and I quote, he said the priority is ridership, not revenue. Translation, this train will need a subsidy forever.

And you already know who's what? While the subsidy comes out of hours, and one more honest note about that 79. There, these are not the bullet trains from the 2010 study. The Colorado connector tops out at around 79 miles an hour. You know what that is to me? That is a wayward stop on the way to 85 miles an hour on the highway. I don't need to train to take me 79 miles an hour. On tracks, it has to share. Yes, somebody on the text, I said, wait, not, I heard the mayor say there's going to be an existing track. Yes, on tracks, it has to share with Union Pacific and the NSF rate. So we were studying 220 mile an hour high speed rail 15 years ago. We've now quietly downgraded that to a 79 mile an hour train on borrowed track, and it still costs $4.7 billion. And you wonder why this thing is f'd up?

Because a stupid crap like this. And you know what, you know what scares the crap out of me? The idiots, including maybe some of this audience, who will vote for this? If you wouldn't know where this road ends, we don't have to guess. Let's look west. 2008 California voters approved high speed rail. Beautiful pitch. San Fran, LA, and under three hours, 220 miles an hour. The whole Shabang finished by 2020 for approximately $33 billion. Wait, did I say 2020? I did. Finished by 2020 for about $33 billion. The voters put up roughly $10 billion in seed money. It is now 2026, checks calendar, it's correct. That system is estimated now to cost about $135 billion, not $33. They've spent something like $15 billion over 16 years.

And here's what all that money's produced in actual high speed trains carrying actual passengers. Nothing. Not one high speed train has carried one single rider. That single stretch they're building in the Central Valley now costs more all by itself than the entire statewide system was supposed to cost back in 2008. And this past summer, the Federal Railroad Administration looked at the misdeadlines. The ridership numbers they called overstated. They found a $7 billion whole no plan to fill it. And so they pulled $4 billion in federal funding off the table. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary said it's a train to nowhere. That's not ancient history. That is this year to the exact same kind of project. So with the exact same kind of promise, fund with the exact same kind of voter approved tax.

Now, California is not just a warning from some far away place. California is the polar light of Colorado's future if we keep voting the same way. Oh, I can't believe, yes, I can't. I was going to say I can't believe we're stupid. But there are people in this state who are that stupid. The people who propose this. Now, I guess the people who are not stupid are all the consultants, the engineers, all of the people who get paid with the train gets built or not. They don't care that they're making their money already. They don't give a rat's ass whether it gets built. The stupid people are those who believe what the Democrats tell us and will go vote for this and then wonder when they're 95 years old. Where's that train? I need the train to get to the hospital. No, sweetie, you can do it. It's not going to do it. Now, let me be honest about something. I love trains. I've said, I've said on the 25, dead stopped.

You have two. I've made the drive to Colorado Springs and back and wanted to put the car in a ditch half the time. Particularly between, say, Castle Rock and Monument. I'm not a guy who hates trains. I don't want to be stuck in traffic. A fast, clean, reliable train down the front range would be a wonderful thing. But this is not about whether the dream is realistic. We can dream all we want. It's not realistic. This is about whether these people with this record can deliver that dream for anything close to that price ticket. And I'm saying they cannot do it. And we've got the proof. We screw California. We don't have to look at California. Look at Colorado. Go back to that family in Longmont. They're still standing out there. They're like the three Spudges standing out there waiting on the train. It's not coming. Gang, go back home.

Get in your car. We also forget that we live in a different kind of geography than the urban packed East Coast. And for that matter, the West Coast. We have three open spaces. Build more roads. Oh, that's heresy. Michael must hate the planet. Vote no in the Colorado connector. Not because we're against trains. Vote no because you're that family in Longmont. You've already bought the ticket once back in 2004, 22 years ago. And the train they promised you now shows up maybe in 2050. If it ever shows up at all. And they are back at your kitchen camera. They've got a new ballot. They got a new promise. They got the same 33 cents asking you to do it all over again. You don't have to hate the train to refuse to buy the same ticket twice. Come on, don't do it.

Did you vote yes on fast tracks back in 2004? I know that I did not. Have you ever once ridden the train they promised you? I know you have not. You know what? Just be truthful with yourself. This is a pipe dream. They're selling you a pipe dream because they're going to make money on it regardless. The train will never be built. A shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. Someone opened the door and was the primary shooter. Is it possible you could do that and then suppress the number? A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story the United States government wants to keep buried. How can you not know? There were women and children there. Can you tell us here that you don't know what happened that day? Based on thousands of pages of previously classified documents and over a hundred hours of secretly filmed video, the truth about one of the most infamous crimes in Marine Corps history can finally be told.

If you've got five players and one of them is guilty of murder at least and you offer immunity to the other four, you better be right about the fifth because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Listen to Fault Line Haditha on the My Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 25 years ago, I was sitting in my small town, high school, in rural Nebraska, in humanities classes towards the end of class, when stuff went down and then going on to second period, which was language arts or like English. And I can remember writing about it in our daily journaling. And I remember looking back, not knowing how to spell Osama bin Laden. Now that that for a name there, who's that guy? UBL? UBL, UBL, UFA bin Laden. Yes, I told you about the gay lord resorted out by the airport, and I put it up on the sub stack heck of a job.com.

I call it the hotel you'll never sleep in. And the $1.3 billion of our tax money that's, it is on track to collect. If you missed it, go back and read it. If you missed yesterday's segment on it, go back and listen to it. I thought yesterday's story was the end of it. But a really sharp listener sent me something that sent me right back to the research, because it sounded too weird to be true and it turned out to be true. Here's the question I never thought to ask. How did those tax subsidies get approved in the first place? Now you would, I think, assume like I assumed that somebody voted, you know, maybe a neighborhood, at least a neighborhood, or the people who would actually have to be paying the tax. That is how it is supposed to work in this state. Under cable, tax payer bill of rights, you cannot raise the tax without putting into the people

who are going to pay for it. So who voted for those gay lord taxes? Grumrow, one voter, one voter, not a precinct, not a neighborhood, a single ballot cast by a single company. And that company was the one that owned the land that the hotel would sit on. So the land owner voted to put special taxes on his own dirt. Well of course he did. Those taxes flow right back into the project, so the only person allowed to vote in that election was the one party that stood to collect the money. So they voted yes. The final talent, the final talent, one to zero, one to zero. No, it wasn't a soccer game. It was a voter raising taxes, one to zero. Now I've seen the name for the individual. I'm not going to say it on air because I cannot verify that it is that individual. I have not held the election record in my own hands.

So I'm not going to put a private citizen's name on the program that I can't prove. That's the difference between just being honest with you and just gossip. The company however, I will name the company, L-N-R-C-P-I-Highpoint. L-N-R-C-P-I-Highpoint. The person, not until I've seen the paper. Now here's what I can prove because it's in a court order. Two Aurora residents looked at this the same way you and I are looking at it right now, and so they sued. February 2015, an Adams County judge named Ted Toe agreed with them. So he threw the election out. He ruled it a violated table. Where's that judge now when we need him? And he wrote one sentence. You got to hear this. The entire story. Quote, not one person who may ultimately pay the tax was permitted to vote on this tax increase. Not one person who may ultimately pay the tax was permitted to vote on this tax increase.

Not one. The people who would carry the load were locked out of the room. The company with pockets of benefit was handed the only ballot to exist. And here's the part that amazes me. That ruling came down in 2015. Well guess what happened? They gave Lord Resort opened anyway in 2018, and the money's been flowing ever since. So a judge looked at how this whole thing got started, called the vote that authorized it unconstitutional, and guess what? The money did not slow down for a single second. So think about what that happened. What happens next? This is the same operation at the same hotel, coming back this month to ask the state for another round of money. More of your money for a bigger water park and another tower of rooms. Wait a minute. Before anybody in a position of authority says yes to round two? I'd like for somebody to explain to me round one.

Explain how a company voted to tax its own land, collect the proceeds from that tax, and how even after a judge called that vote unconstitutional, not one dollar ever stopped moving. We've already paid for a ticket to a hotel that will probably never enter. It turns out you bought it in an election you were never allowed to vote in. Holy cow, and I thought this state was screwed up. I didn't realize just how badly this state was screwed up until I started digging into this story. You want socialism? It's no longer commy Colorado. It's socialist Colorado because they don't yet own the means of production. They just own the means inside your pollot. Yeah. It's not in all honesty. It's really not communism yet. It's pure unadulterated socialism. And in this case, it happens to be corporate welfare. Why are you dealing with listening to Armstrong and getting on demand?

We're not boring. Lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? What? We have a winner? Yes. Listen Armstrong, you get a on demand on the iHeart radio app? Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I believe that whoever was in that room and did that was a murderer. A new podcast series, Fault Line Haditha, tells the story of a shocking crime and a cover-up at the highest levels of the United States Marine Corps. If you've got five players and you offer immunity to four, you better be right about the fifth. Because if you're not, then you've just given immunity to your color. Fault Line Haditha on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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