Tax Day Survival, Local News, and the Data Center Dilemma

Peter Pappas: you Well, everybody, good afternoon and welcome to the Carolina cabinet. I'm your host, Peter Pappas in studio with Mrs. Laura Musler. Hello. Hello. We missed a week, but we're back. We didn't miss a week. Did we just miss one day? One day. You weren't feeling well. wasn't feeling well, whatever, but we're glad to be back. You're glad to be the voice of all conservatives of Fayetteville, Carmelin County and beyond. And today it's just, you got to deal with Laura and I today. You're stuck with us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But big day today. Yeah. Tax day. Did you file your taxes yet? Already done. Done? When do you do your taxes? Yesterday. Okay. So I shouldn't feel bad that mine's getting an extension, I guess. Okay. Yeah. I have a meeting with some partners next week and it was like, guys, if you want your taxes done on time, you need to call to, to the same CPA we share because I can't, I can't force them. But, ⁓ I don't think I've filed on time ever in the last several years. Yeah. Just too much going on. Now have a CPA to keep me out of jail. Why don't you just have them do it the beginning of the year when it, just said my things then it's just a lot of stuff. it's a lot of stuff between, pretty sure I'm to get a call from my mom after this show and say, why are my stuff not turned in yet? But I don't look good in orange. So I do keep this CPA. Okay. Yeah. So let's talk about, ⁓ federal tax. mean, ⁓ when is, have you ever heard of tax freedom day? Nope. No, that's pretty much the point in the year where Americans, we, Theoretically, we've earned enough to cover our total taxes. unfortunately, it gets later and later in the year as we get older. This year, April 16th. So we have to work until tomorrow to have earned enough money to pay the taxes. For next year. paying in. April 16th is three months and yeah, 14 weeks into the year out of 52. We got to work before we're break even on our taxes. Most taxes are bad, but some are not. Well, I mean, we have to work 106 days into the year before we cover the federal state local that we're going to owe. ⁓ That is a national average, but still that's a lot of work for. Yep. Just. It's funny because I was watching, what is that? A show on ⁓ Paramount 1842 or something like that, whatever it was, the Yellowstone thing. when they created this town and they started showing like the washing machines and stuff like that, he said, so I've been working for myself. Yes, and not only anybody money now you want me to buy things so I have free time But I've got to work to pay off the things that I bought that's what we do Yeah, we work to pay off. We work to pay other people. We don't work for to pay ourselves We're all working for the company store Seems like and the house always wins when it comes to taxes people want to fool around and say ⁓ I'm gonna get mileage here I'm gonna drive this I'm gonna it's like look you and I did discover that no tax on tip is bull You did? Why is it bull? I mean, that's pretty much a tenant of Trump's reelection campaign. Right. The IRS has not changed the forms. So there is nowhere to actually deduct your tips. So you do your income because tips count as income and they're supposed to have a spot where you can put your tips to be directly. Okay. Yeah. Nope. So it's not on there. I guess all these years, no tax on, I mean, cause he got elected in 24. Mm-hmm. So well just passed in the big beautiful bill though this past year Okay, so I'm gonna give them till next year and then I want to refund for my tips right the credit How much tips did you make last year enough? Okay? How much money did you make last year? I don't know not enough. It's never enough. That's never seemed like enough No, no matter what I mean, I'm not struggling to like be forced to eat beans, but it never seems like there's enough money Yeah, well hmm, so Why do we pay income tax? mean, isn't, is that a constitutional thing that we're supposed to pay income tax? Well, the federal reserve is not a really federal place. I was just watching a video on that today. All right. Which conspiracy website were you on? No, the federal reserve is not a part of the federal government. So, we're and, the federal, we, when we pay our taxes, we don't pay taxes to pay bills. The government actually borrows the money. We, when we pay our taxes are paying the federal reserve like interest. That's it. Yeah, we're barely we're not covering the principal on any of our national debts We're paying the interest right the government just keeps borrowing more and that's what they pay the money with it We don't pay any money to the government the government just keep they are a drunken sailor with our money. Yep I mean you think what was payday loans and car title loans like they have in South Carolina or bad? Yeah, no, yeah reserve. They just called it the Federal Reserve. So we think that it's Something but it's just a conglomerate of banks like Rockefeller owns it and they say if you own more than five percent of the media That you control the world while the Rockefellers own and started the Federal Reserve they own five point nine percent of CBS They own over five percent of like all of the media across the world Wow So that's pretty powerful. Yeah, I mean, I don't know they can come if they want to pay us they can come own us too if they want Sure, I'll work Whatever. I'll work for the man. That's right. Why not? So Federal Reserve, not really a federal agency. That's just the conglomerate of banks across the nation. I did ask though, and I did say, okay, well, how can we minimize some taxes? Because not everybody's got a PTA or a CPA to help them out with that kind of stuff. So some things that I came up with is you don't have to be exotic. You don't have to do things that are going to risk you wearing orange. to save money on taxes. if you lower your taxable income, you use credits you are to qualify for, you've got a standard deduction, but then you can itemize. If you do drive for Lyft, you can itemize all of your mileage. ⁓ Your mileage, your telephone. expenses. If you're truly doing Lyft, I think you have to do it a certain amount of time to be a legitimate business. Your phone, a percentage of your phone bill? ⁓ your mileage, so you can't, if you do mileage, then you don't do your old changes, your tires and all that stuff. That's part of the mileage. but, ⁓ if you have a home office that you use specifically for just lift, you can use that percentage of your household. caution there is if you use it too much, if you overstate too much, the IRS has a habit of using a microscope to crawl into your butthole and come. I took $45 for my phone bill. $45 for what? you mean just my taxes. Just claiming $45. Cause I did like, um, my, my, my monthly bill is X amount of dollars. So I, I did a percentage of that and it ended up being $45 of tax and whatever. And then like, you want a standard thing, if you wash your car, that's if you clean out your car, if you use cleaning supplies, that is also deductible. Not a trip to Disney is not deductible. And you don't know. So the other thing is to drives me nuts. People like, I need an LLC. No, you don't. No, you don't. All this, even if you have an LLC, the activity in that LLC still goes, if it's a sole member LLC, like there's nobody else, it still goes on your schedule C on your own return. Right. It doesn't, you're not doing the LLC is a legal type protection. It's not a tax thing. The only thing we owed money for on the Uber part. Self-employment tax was $75 and 95 cents after all deductions. Well, and if you do if you are self-employed pay your quarterly taxes So if you work for me at the restaurant, I give you a w2 because we're taking taxes every check But if you're self-employed, you don't get a check like that So you have to put 20 % or 25 % of your pay aside. Lucky you You know, that's nice. My quarterly is a little more now What about retirement? You can fund your IRA. You can put money in your ⁓ 401k to shield it from being taxed. ⁓ HSA, I've never, have you ever messed with a health savings account? have I. I heard they're great though. Like you just put money, instead of paying monthly insurance, you just put money into a savings account and when something happens, the money's there. don't, it just kind of scares me for something catastrophic. how, okay. So here's the thing. So I was a couple of months ago, I was on the whole healthcare thing, watching all of the videos and stuff like that. So a guy goes to the doctor and he says, have, they didn't think he had any health insurance. like there, your bill is $3,000. He's like, Oh, well, no, no, I have insurance, whatever. They build the insurance company, like $15,000. And then he ended owing like $4,500 because he hadn't met as deductible. He's like, well, wait a minute, the whole bill was $3,000 when I didn't have insurance. why is that? ⁓ because the insurance companies are in it to make money and they negotiate prices and they're not real prices. They're inflated prices so that the everybody can make money off of you. Where if you have a health savings account, now you're negotiating your cash price. Now you're taking your cash and you're paying it. So he pays his premium. He owes more than he would have if it would have been cash where he could have stuck that same premium amount in a health savings account and then gotten away. Well, so, know, who we have to thank for that is Medicare, Medicaid. Because they have the nerve if your doctor back in the day was young The doctor would bill them a hundred bucks for blood work and Medicaid and Medicare would just say no We're just gonna pay you sixty dollars for that right so then the doctor started charging 140 so that they so they would compensate for the mitt so our own government is responsible for inflating those prices and making it so that Insurance does get billed more. Yep, because the insurance is gonna deny Part of it said the hospital knows that so they inflate their price in it. It's it's a game for these people and in the meantime Americans suffer. That's right. We suffer ⁓ I was always curious about the HSA's though because they deduct the What the premiums for that's what is it a premium? It's not a premium. It's it's not a premium You're paying into a fund right where all this money is and then if you need it you pull it out So it's yes, you're paying into it's not like a nobody's gonna deny you Well, if you want to minimize your taxes, you can invest in an HSA. Uh, what else did I find here? Oh, Make sure you're claiming child tax credit, you know? So, uh, for those of you queens that are out there making more children just to have more tax credit, I guess that works. Um, yeah. Well, yeah, I've had employees that had like three or four kids that would get back like 12, $15,000, which I know they didn't pay in. So I was like, did you pay that much? No? Well, you're welcome. Those are my taxes. That's exactly right. ⁓ so I think the takeaway for the middle class is going to be, look, be disciplined, invest, put your money where it's going to be sheltered from tax and be disciplined. No gimmicks. There's nothing special about this. And if you do screw around, you'll be fitted with an orange suit because the government will find you. They will. They are the casino. The house always wins. They will get you. I love it how they say you only need to keep X amount at like five years worth of your paperwork from the federal government. You need to like maintain records for five years, but the government can audit you all the way. 10 years. So throw your, throw your paperwork away after five years and we're just gonna, I'm pretty sure they have it. I'm pretty sure they throw it away. Yeah, but they don't have your receipts. True. And so if you've thrown it away, okay, this is my five years. threw it away. Well, seven years later they come. Yeah. I just threw those away. You got to beg for forgiveness. That's not the way it works. you, it's, Hey, got an orange suit. You guys said only five years. So that's what I kept. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah. I'll call you when that happens. Okay. No, thank you. Don't worry. Don't call me. Believe me. My mother has good records and she won't let me throw anything away. So we're covered here. Well, I'm so thankful though, that our tax dollars are so well spent around the country. Yeah. What? Do I have to say freaking California? What's California? I was like I almost fell off my I was laying in bed when I read this I You take it from here. This this is just crazy to me. Okay, so everybody knows Nick Shirley He went around and he exposed the Somalis in Minnesota leering centers the leering centers. That's right Well, then he went on to California. Okay, and he found all these he went to these office buildings and they were hospice care and whatever but they're just empty buildings. So he went around and he was filming stuff or whatever. So California decided that that was wrong. All of this stealing from the government is gone. Oh wait, not the stealing from the government. What's wrong? No, Not the stealing. Right. That's okay. That's okay. The new, what is it called? The Nick Shirley Act is going to stop independent Reporters which would be people that find this stuff out from actually recording and reporting on anything of the site something about yeah being not transparent or something So yeah, so instead of attacking the fraud, that's right. We don't want you the journalist. That's right. It's not talking about it, right? Hmm. That doesn't sound like a First Amendment violation type thing and not only a not a first but you're going to spend tax dollars because you're ⁓ you people are employed by the people to stop people from talking about the money that people's money that you're stealing and let what I'm sure the Republicans in California are are all two of them ⁓ wait a minute this isn't a Republican state that's a Democrat state so I gee yeah but Republicans bad Yeah, well didn't something didn't somebody just ⁓ was it mr. Swalwell? Yeah Did I send you that video too? No, I don't think it was an eric swalwell He's running for wasn't he running governor governor of california. Okay, and he was he was in the lead this like happened last week He got he got outed for what hiring a hooker or something. No raping women Sexually that this was all in play. This has been no Eric Swalwell did something to somebody in the Democrat party and the Democrat party said, yeah, I got you. Because he's been raping women, molesting women, harassing women, sending pictures of his private parts for years. And now all of a sudden, all these women are just coming out right now when Eric Swalwell did something wrong. Because Eric, they, the Democrat party uses people. They used Eric Swalwell to go after Trump and to be the front man about all this. Raping stuff and going out there constantly taco Tuesday or whatever it was He was saying Trump always backs down or something whatever that was. I don't know chickens out. That's it Okay, they had him out there Well, I guess he did something to piss off a big wig because they all these women just now all of a sudden all these women came out all He was going to be he was going to be the next governor of North of California because he was like so far ahead now they got that crazy heavy set lady that's she's like And the one that yells and at people. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that lady. She's a nutcase. All these guys are not cases, man. I agree. I mean, well, I mean, I just shared something on my Facebook today. ⁓ was talking about ⁓ a preacher was going saying, ⁓ Not are we here to serve God? Which party is not serving God? That's all you need to look at. Which party believe it's a go to my web, go to my Facebook. I don't know if that's even a good problem because well, when you, when you start to insert like God serves us or God serves them, we're here to serve God. Yeah. But which, which party has, has the same beliefs that Jesus Christ did. don't know. Cause no matter how godless I think some of these people on the left act. Especially some of the cray cray. ⁓ I Still feel like the God is on both sides. He is on both sides. However, how are we serving God by mutilating children? How are we so you're not somehow they think they are and that's not that's my problem with religious application to the political party show me it in the Bible and I'll be out for it. Well, yeah, it's you're not gonna find it in the Bible, but God will forgive everybody. I do agree with that Everybody has a place in heaven if you've accept forgiveness, I'm just saying if you want to live a godly life Yeah cutting off wieners is not a godly life yeah, I don't think yeah or you know making the choices for under 17 year old kids ⁓ So let's bash on swalwell a little more. So see what else you did. What a crazy dude he is So he's 45 years old and so but there was a video that came out Like last weekend with him on a bed with somebody And he was trying to kiss her and she like fell off the bed or something that yeah, I didn't see that. Okay. All right. So, all right. Well, he won't be the governor. will not be the governor. He's actually withdrawn and he has stepped down from Congress. And so since he stepped down, then the Republican from somewhere also stepped down because the Republican wouldn't step down because then it would make it uneven. There would be less of a majority or whatever. since Swalwell stepped down, then this Johnson guy, think his last name is how appropriate is that? No pun intended. But he stepped down to your house named Johnson. Yeah. So this is, yeah. We need better people in office. One of the funnier posts I've seen was like, well, you see what Mr. Swalwell did. He stepped down when he was accused of trying to then tie that back to the president, accusing him of things and how he should resign because he's been accused of things. But his, but Swalwell studying the example of a good elected to step down. Okay. But originally he wasn't stepping down. Right. Originally. Right. And then when more and more women, when the fifth woman, the critical mass hit. Right. And, and it wasn't from, you know, 15 years ago in a Bergdorf's dressing room, was, you know, six months ago. Well, were any of these women good looking? I mean, did he get the chance to say, Oh, like Trump did that one. He was like, yeah, she was not attractive enough for me to sexually harass. I don't know what they are California five what I find attractive. Maybe other people do yeah, you probably not on the women the same way I am ⁓ I can spot a beautiful one. Okay, ⁓ you know I But okay, don't Don't let's let me just let me just preface this by saying hey, honey, you want to go back to my hotel room as a woman I'm gonna say no not because you know, whatever but ⁓ I don't want to put myself in a predicament where something bad can happen to me. I'm the one that doesn't drink because I'm watching all my friends to make sure my friends will be like, yeah, I'll follow you up to your hotel room to go ahead and use your bathroom. Nope, there's a bathroom right here. We're good. you go. ⁓ you see you're that girl. Yes. You're the block. I'm the cock blocker. That's exactly right. Because I don't want anything bad to happen to me or my friends. Right, right. So, but just saying, if you're downstairs in the hotel room having drinks with somebody and they're like, yeah, you can use my restroom in my hotel room. Probably not. Yeah, there's a there's there's lot of victim shame, but it's like look common sense will get you pretty far right? You know and it's not not that women have done nothing wrong They're just not necessarily using their and of course drinking is involved so that maybe they've lost a little bit of their sense ⁓ For that moment, but the woman is never wrong when she's been no not at all I mean, that's not questioning or it's just like what what's not? Let's avoid the situation all together try to put yourself in you can wear whatever you want to act however you want You can do whatever you want, but if you end up in that situation by your own accord, it's not okay It's never okay, but perhaps in the future, you know to make better choices, right? So I'm gonna get such what I'm get I'm get that's all right. Let them bring him You know, I am, I am a rape advocate. do go to the hospital and help the victims and stuff like that. Nobody's saying to go out there and be rapey. I want, I want women to keep their head on a swivel. Yes. be around douchebags. Me too. You know, although they just kind of, are a lot of douchebags out there. The sound of vinegar and water hitting each other is loud in this town. so yeah, so I wanted to bring something up. I'm looking at my notes and I'm like, what the hell happened to it? But, ⁓ there was an announcement from. ⁓ representative Wheatley, her, well, her legislative assistant, Mr. Wheatley, ⁓ posted just before we went on, ⁓ came on the air, ⁓ the North Carolina legislature, they are working on a property tax, a constitutional amendment to limit, ⁓ how our property taxes are, can go up, like how fast our taxes can go up. Now there's two sides of that. First of all, you're going to have the local county commissioners raising hell. because that's taking power out of their, out of their bailiwick, I guess, and putting it up to the state. At the same time, how about be fiscally responsible? But also that doesn't stop evaluations from going up. we can only, so that's, that's what there, there's always a workaround. Okay. So you can only go up by X amount of percent. Let's say we say it's 5 % in, in, a four year period of time, whatever it is. Okay, well let's go send our evaluators out there and increase the cost 20 % so that that percentage they're going to max out every single time. The more government gets involved in your daily life, the more government gets involved in your daily life. Agreed. No snowball. So even if it sounds like a solution now, there's going to be another way around it. There is always another way around it. If they're going to get your money. It's like you here in this country, you never own your own, your property never. You can work for the rest of your life. You do not own your property ever. You could have paid off the mortgage. You don't own it. You're leasing it from the government and the government, anytime that the government wants to take your land, they will because they'll just increase taxes so that you can't afford it. And then they take it anyway. So you own nothing. So, I still, I sort of do have, I have a problem with the state taking over, which is to be contrary to Our people here locally that watch ⁓ you know, because we did take a big property tax increase We our values went up 83 % for residential 27 % for commercial But what our County Commission did was even though the values went higher they lowered the rate So but they're still getting more money. Well, they can legitimately say we lowered your tax rate. That's exactly what I just said, but It's been it's statistics damn statistics, you know, it's It's how you look at it. It's how, um, you know, the net difference is still, got more money out of us. they did. Um, a significant amount. However, wouldn't you rather be able to go and yell at your County commissioners versus having to drive to Jones street in Raleigh? All that's my issue with moving this up because it goes from a council of where we have seven commissioners. they're saying is that the weight, can still yell at your locals because all they're saying is you can only move it up. X amount of dollars. So if they move it up or max it out, you can still go yell at your county commissioner. How about the county commissioners? Be nice to your county commissioners, okay? Don't go yelling at them. Just talk to them. Luckily, our county commissioners recently are a lot more fiscally responsible based on what I've seen. I don't know exactly how they've been in past, but I do know that right now they appear to be more fiscally responsible. So my hat is off to those people that are currently there. I hope this trend continues. But if they're being fiscally responsible and they're saying, the max you can raise it is X amount of dollars, you don't necessarily have to raise it that much. you still have. Yeah, but name me a government that's going to not go to the maximum amount. Because they still answer to those of us locally. I have a friend in another county. He's a tax assessor and he was frustrated early on in his career because the like the manager, whoever of the tax department, would say we need to raise more revenue. And my buddy would get frustrated. He's like, what do you mean revenue? This is tax. This isn't revenue. We're not giving anyone a better service. We're taxing people. you get the people in these silos that treat it, oh, it's revenue. no. Revenue is when I sell sandwiches. That's correct. I'm giving you something in exchange for your lunch money. But wait a minute. You are getting things for your tax money. You get the police, get the trash picked up, get roads. There's basic services that we are given. I do think that they get a little too much. I don't think that we should be in the social services business. Over 50 % of our taxes on nationwide basis go towards social issues. More than 50%. We had Chairman Devereux a couple weeks ago, you know, and he was talking about the federal, was it federal mandate or the federal shortfall basically of them. Medicare Medicaid falling now on the local municipalities. That's another gap unfunded mandate he called it You know all of a sudden this is thrust upon us at the local level so we're gonna have to pay for it somehow. Yeah, so Or we Let the local people Take care of our neighbors and get back to a community and stop relying on the government who does nothing. Well Does not spend our money. Well Stop relying on the government. Let me do it. I can spend your money better than you can Nobody spends my money better than me. I do it Yeah, whatever ⁓ I do want I do want to bring up a ⁓ Locally hot topic. Mm-hmm. The data the data centers. No, have you seen anything about that? I have not okay I know enough to be dangerous. So I feel a little bit. All I know is I don't want it here. It does not appear to be anything that seems to be good for the community. can't say it's jobs because it's like a man. It's not a job creator. It it sounds it appears to be something that just sucks your ⁓ water and power, water and power, your resources. And then you as a taxpayer, so I was a gong. Yeah. You as a tech. Hey, I like that when somebody does something. ⁓ You as a taxpayer end up footing the bill now I would consider it more and they can't say well they recycle the water they put so many gallons and actually no as the chips get smaller This runs hotter or the the so what happens when water heats up it does what it evaporates? Well, it can't stay in there if it's evaporating they're gonna let it wear out Through an exhaust come back his rain. It's okay. No, no, no when it goes out and exhaust you know what it's doing All those forever chemicals are now going to be in the air above us. So they're already in our water. They're already above us. I'm just saying. They're already there. Yeah, but at exponential rate. Okay. So, so for all the crazies that have been at city council and county commission thinking you're doing something, let me explain something to you. First of all, we have zero rules for data centers at all. Whether somebody's knocking on our door or not, which we've been told over and over, we don't have a bunch of people knocking on our door to open a data center. But here's, here's the risk that I think a lot of these guys are not talking about if we have an open field, we have no regulation, no idea of what we'd want a data center to do to behave, to fit into our community. The company, if it's a real bad actor can come in here and say, well, in the absence of a rule, we're going to make them for you. Right. And they'll sue the out of us until they get what they want because we have no rules. So a moratorium and all that stuff. That's, that's, NIMBY type reactionary It's just not it's not efficient for anybody NIMBY and not in my backyard. Okay, the nuclear industry went through this back in the 70s ⁓ And what happened with the nut in my backyard mentality? We fell behind in energy dominance. We need nuclear We do now the thing about Fort Bragg, know They're bringing a nuclear reactor some self-contained thing and I'm like I was on Facebook like hey bring three of those damn things 100 % Let's get up off of Duke's tit But so the thing about our city council and our county commission having rules about data centers is more protectionary for us because if some company comes in here and says, well, you guys don't have any rules, so we're going to buy 500 acres of land. now the same people that are losing their minds, I will say this did not pay attention to the, the, uh, presentation you and I attended at economic development. I don't know if you remember what the gentleman from the consultant said, but he said, look, when a data center wants to locate it's incumbent on them. They are required to figure out how to get the power. They are required to figure out how they're going to impact the environment. We just want more controls over how they're going to impact. Right. Okay. We have to do something now. So we have, have to put some guard rail in place. Here's perfect. Okay. We have, Duke energy here or whatever. have to create your own power. and or build on your own dollar, not government subsidies, because government subsidies mean we're paying for it, a power plant to, and then you have to build a water treatment plant because all this water that you're going to be putting using and stuff like that needs to, if it's going to come back out, needs to be treated. Agreed. You're done. Not our time. Do you remember the state of the union this year? Yes. So president Trump and I got in trouble for this yesterday at the chamber. So you didn't go to government relations with me. No, I didn't. You me unsupervised and I get in trouble. I believe you. So, I mentioned, well, Trump's state of the union, he says data centers from a federal level are going to have to provide their own power and water. They're going to have to figure that out before they locate. And yesterday in the meeting, when I mentioned that actually chairman Devere came in like the last 10, 15 minutes and, he says, well, has anything been legislated or laws passed? I'm like, No. So he's right that, you know, cause I'm, I'm looking at it like, look, the federal government should be regulating these big, massive consumers of our natural resource. They should be monitoring that kind of stuff. What does that say that in the, ⁓ constitution? missed that. It doesn't. That's part of the EPA's function, that's a, that's a made up government entity to take it away. Well, we have it right now. So let's just let them do their thing. Let's let them take the big people's money. Or get rid of the federal government other than outside with exactly what the Constitution says. it down small enough to kill it. Okay. Okay. We'll drain more of the swamp. so I was, I'm banking on, well, Trump said, ⁓ Chairman DeVere was absolutely right. He's like, well, has anything been legislated? Has anything been passed? No, they've only passed one bill in two years. Yeah. Yeah. The big, beautiful bill. And, know, I did refer to some of the activist people as crazies in the room. then, ⁓ one of the crazies spoke up. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. It was just funny. I said that. then the chairman of GRC, ⁓ after the chairman get in the room, he's like, ⁓ I'm going to try to rephrase this. So it's not, I was like, just say it was me and just, everybody knows I'm going to say what's on my mind. That's okay. but you know, I also had, so what else did we talk about yesterday? ⁓ the downtown tax district for there's like an extra tax on the downtown businesses. Cool Springs. Cool. Well, Cool Springs benefits from it, but it's a, I can't remember municipal district or something. It's MDU, NUD something. Okay. I want to get Cool Springs on here too, by the way. Okay. Somebody for fourth Friday. Okay. ⁓ They talked about some of our, like what government relations is going to work on this year. And that's one of them. We're going to talk about that extra tax down there. ⁓ I suggested to get into the data center thing, but they kind of want to shy away from that right now. ⁓ It is a hot topic. It is very charged emotionally, the data center thing, but I'm concerned to at least have some guideline. Okay. And that doesn't mean we rubber stamp anybody that comes, but we have to have some, some framework in place. Now I was told, ⁓ that city and county, they're not starting from scratch. They are using, hired a consultant. No, no, no, no. There's so like, asked like, you guys getting the league of municipalities involved? Like, are we doing this blind or they're trying to do best to breed what fits our community? Because every, every community is different, has different needs, wants, whatever. ⁓ but they're not, so they, there is a way to have a policy come out relatively quickly. Okay. We don't have to wait years and years. We don't need to put a moratorium on anything. We have smart enough people in the city and county government management. aspect of it to get us a viable zoning or ordinance about I think they should come up with some ideas and have the people vote on it. Why? We elected them to hire the people to do it. We can't vote. We don't run a government like that. I'm just saying that it's going to be a huge effect on the people of the community. would, I don't know. just, okay. Then relegate all the votes to people that own property. Okay. I own property, so I'm down with it. Cool. Cause if you want skin of the game vote. Well, we can't even get people to show up to vote for anything. So, so the Democrats are going to take over the entire country and we get to go all back through all of this. some friendly Democrats. I mean, I know, I know, know. I'm talking about on the national level. We're just, well, they're just loon jobs. But yeah, so we're going to start all of these impeachments and all of that. I think one of my favorite memes lately is instead of bitching about the Republican party, tell me what you're so proud of at the Democrat party. Truly. You know, you had a, you had a non-functioning elder care person as president for four years and you're you're really proud of that. And of course they'll attack us. Well, you've got Trump. Yeah. Well, at least he can put together a sentence. certainly can. ⁓ but you the he's awake for more than four hours a day. Yeah. But the whole shut up, Peggy thing, stuff like that. I'm like, come on, bro. That's disgusting. Yeah. But see, that's the difference with him posting a picture of myself as Jesus Christ. wasn't supposed to be Jesus. It was supposed to be the. He says a doctor, but I think it was more, it was a Pope thing and he was taking a crack at the Pope for the Pope. But what people don't know is about that on April 9th, some people visited the the Obama administration. And that's after that visit is when the Pope started interjecting himself into political immigration affairs. How about the Pope stay in charge of the religious affairs and we'll let our elected officials stay in charge of elected things. So Pope know your place. the us born Pope Leo, what is he Leo? Yeah. His brother's a 14th. ⁓ you know, just like all the other eggspats of this country, you got a lot of balls to go over to Europe and then run your mouth about how our country works. Yeah. You know, I he and the Dixie chicks can take a lesson, I guess. He wants open borders and stuff. I like I thought Vatican City Hold them there's something around Vatican City so that not anybody can't walk in. What is it? ⁓ There's something all it's tall. ⁓ yeah Yeah, we don't just let anybody into Vatican City. There's a wall There's way and they you they check to see who's coming in. I wonder why that is To those of you watching welcome, you can say hello. You don't have to be shy. Yeah, I an idea who one of them is So, you know somebody's watching somebody from out of state. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Am I in trouble? Did I say no? at all. Not at all somebody's a very attractive person out of state Is she from South Carolina? She's from Myrtle Beach. Yeah She could allegedly be watching right now. Yeah, see I look forward to meeting you. Yes, you do and you gave him the bubbles I did. Yes, those are from me Don't let him fool you. All right. Well, so we talked about the Pope stepping out of his lane. We talked about the North Carolina legislature trying to take away my local rights of property tax ⁓ hikes and lows and stuff. ⁓ And today? The Learing Center guy. He's in some hot water. Yeah. Nick. Nick Shirley. You should get him on the show. It'd be fun. Yeah. Surely he'll come. Surely. Yeah. Don't call me Shirley. And then of course, Tax Day. Hopefully all of you. If you haven't made it to the, um, you've got till midnight. Yeah. Is it going to be, well, it's gotta be postmarked by Post office is going to be open that way. don't think. On day they are. usually are. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Is this like the post services like Superbowl? Like this is the big deal. This is the big day. is their Superbowl. Okay. Uh, well we didn't ask like, what have we been up to? So we had Kaylin Suarez last week from Dogwood festival on Wednesday. what kind of trouble did you and I get into in the last week? I brought my motorcycle out. You did? Okay. ⁓ my gosh. I forget how much I love my motorcycle until I ride my motorcycle. And then I'm like, why haven't I been riding my motorcycle? Went out to Diane Wheatley's 75th birthday. birthday, Diane. Happy birthday, Diane. ⁓ Let's see. have our, ⁓ we've got our, of the Fayetteville Republican Women's Club. We're, we've got ⁓ car wash certificates for sale, a $30 car wash for only $10. I got my ticket. Yes, you sure did. It's a nice place out there on three or no, I hate it They call it Gillespie. You think the less be is like in Center City, right? We're talking to less a woman by the Walmart on 301 right by the airport you go out there It's a beautiful it's got a good car wash. They got free vacuums. They got wet rags So when you like a lot of places you have to like buy the rags you go through this up for $10 You get a $30 wash plus you get free vacuuming plus you get the little wash the wash as pollen is slowing down I think it's time You need to stop by or give us a call here at the resource center. We've got tickets. We've got tickets. You who wants tickets? Yep tickets tickets and then we have our I'm gonna mention this every time our fundraiser for Mother's Day slash Kentucky Derry. It's not on Mother's Day. It's the eve of Mother's Day. So if you don't want to take your mom out on Mother's Day because the lines are ridiculous and you end up waiting hours for food you can have your mom dress up the night before. doesn't she just cook? Why are you going to go anywhere mother? I just let her cook. And anyway, have your mom dress up. having a best dressed contest. You've met my mother, right? Yes, I have. You know she's going to cook on Mother's Day. She probably is. She would. Yes. That's just my mom. Right. But if you were a good son. Thanks a lot. Yeah. Okay. You would like bring her food so that she doesn't have to cook. Yes. I would be happy to bring my mother food on Mother's Day. Or you could bring her to the Run for the Roses fundraiser event, which means she gets to dress up. And I've never seen your mom dress she have to wear a floppy hat? She does not have to wear a hat at all, but she couldn't yeah, well, it's kind of a thing. It's kind of day. Yes Yeah, it's like the Kentucky Derby. What do call those fascinators? Fascinators. Yes, we're gonna have a fascinator contest a best-dressed contest So please come show up get dressed in your floral best if you purchase your ticket Before April 30th, it's $75 On May 1st, it ends up being $100. There's an all you can eat buffet. We've got you get one drink ticket to have an alcoholic beverage or free, I mean, all unlimited non-alcoholic beverages. We've got a band, we've got a red carpet, we've got a photo wall. It's going to be an upscale. And realistically, there's not too many places and things you can do in Fayetteville, North Carolina that are upscale. This is going to be an upscale nice event. Where, where's it going to be held? Anchor Alley on Rag Boulevard. she is- to see Anchor Alley on here. Cause I, I, I've been, I to her once in a while on Tik TOK. She was on the roof the other day. She was talking about, was up on the roof doing electrical. I'm like, why the hell were you on the roof? She phenomenal human being. was in the Navy. Yeah. Um, she is a veteran. She is a phenomenal human being. She's very smart. She's a go getter. I like her. should bring her on. She's difficult to look at too from the videos I've seen. You're funny. She's an attractive woman. She is attractive. Not just on the outside either. She seems like a really nice person. She is. She's genuine. And I that hands on. like, what are you doing on the roof? She's like, I had to fix something. So that's what she does. She does a lot of her own stuff. There was a lot of stuff to be done. That is what we talked about the other day when we were on that call about having like local restaurants and stuff, bring some food. Let's, let's taste their food online. Let's like see things. And I have to say the last meeting we had the, uh, the Republican women's meeting, was what was the last Tuesday. It was okay. So last Tuesday, I of course showed up Greek timey late and I didn't order food, but she's got like elevated coffees like the, you know, big mug of cappuccinos and stuff like that. I, I just want to go there just to have a dessert and some coffee one day. Yeah. I don't think people realize how, what her menu's like. Right. I got a lot of complaints. It's so expensive. It's like $23. your mouth, man. Look, we can go there. and spend twenty bucks or i can go spend twenty five at the logan's roadhouse and smell sewage so i okay enough that's okay people hate change lord that's right they can't stand it he drives him crazy and you know i i'm really tired of how about yet did a good job it was nice it was different now i tell you all the time stop expecting you from other people i i'd like to give compliments as i do not like seeing my office mate upset over stuff I try to tell you stop expecting Laura out of other people. like I give lots of compliments Yes, I like to get them and and I'm always distrustful because I don't accept compliments very well But people don't give people don't get you see and also people some of the people just live to be ⁓ Me and agree. Yeah, they're all vinegar based We do have a vinegar based barbecue system here in the south and I don't understand it because there's... There's Dee! Hi! That's the gorgeous... You should see that picture blown up. anyway, not to embarrass her. Is that the one that you showed me? ⁓ I haven't shown you that one. No, no, no, no. But she's a good looking woman. She looks like she's good looking. I hate that I missed her this past Friday. Pretty lucky. Take care of this man. I love this man. So take care of this man. She'll take care. She yeah, she she cooked lumpia already for me No, I don't know what that is. So those egg roll thingies. Yeah, I don't need a girl things spring rolls. I don't need spring rolls either It's pretty good stuff. It's got green in it. I don't like green. That's true You don't like green. Okay, except it was money and like I was just gonna say that yes that green. All right So, uh, what are we gonna? Plan to do I know. Let's see if let's see if the anchor alley will come Okay. Her name is Allison. Anchor Allie. want a cool spring. I still definitely want cool. So and I want city manager Doug Hewitt and I want County manager, um, County manager Greer. And I would like Hope Mills manager, Chancellor McLaughlin to come on too. Schedule them up. And by the way, we're missing Jessica. Where's she at? She did not even log in today. I'm going to have to get on her too. Oh well. So next time. Well to everybody joining us, thank you for joining and watching the Carolina cabinet today. I'm your host, Peter Pappas, along with Mrs. Laura Musler. and we appreciate it having everybody. Please go to our website, thecarolinacabinet.com for newly revised things Laura and I will be working on. And you can find all of our links, videos, and you can even leave us a voice message. Did you know that? No, I did not. a little red thing in the corner. can leave a voice message. We're even open for pranks, so you know, have fun with it. So until next time, we're the Carolina Cabinet. Have a good afternoon.