Pennsylvania’s Death Tax

Pennsylvania can feel like a place where you get taxed coming and going and then somehow taxed again after you’re gone. We get into that hard truth head-on, starting with the inheritance tax that can bite families at the worst possible time, turning grief into paperwork, bills, and forced decisions about land that’s been in a family for generations. If you’ve ever asked why it’s so hard to get ahead here, this conversation puts real names on the pressure points: property taxes, state taxes, and the kind of “fees” that act like taxes without the label.

Then we zoom out to the daily grind. We talk fuel tax and why the cost of filling a tank doesn’t just hurt drivers, it ripples into groceries, deliveries, farm work, and every job that depends on transportation. We also challenge Harrisburg’s spending habits, the growing budget gap, and the risk that “unsustainable” budgets always end with someone reaching back into your pocket. Along the way, we question whether lawmakers who’ve never run a business truly understand payroll realities like workers’ comp, unemployment taxes, and what it takes to balance a budget without punishing the people doing the work.

We also touch the political machinery behind policy: campaign money, outside influence, accusations of dark money, and why transparency matters when elections start costing millions. And we bring it back to opportunity, because Southwest Pennsylvania has real wealth in natural gas, agriculture, and industry, yet permitting delays and regulations can choke progress before it starts.

If this hits home, listen through, share it with someone who’s fed up, and then subscribe and leave a review so more Pennsylvanians can find the conversation. What’s the one tax or fee you’d repeal first?

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Hey everybody, this is Joan Marietta, and we're back at Podcast Studio. Uh recording today, our podcast slash radio show. Uh, I want to thank everybody for tuning in. I want to thank all the viewers. Uh, we started something new. Uh, so catch check us out. It's called Coffee with the Hillbully. We're gonna try to do it every morning and watch and see what you might learn and uh maybe give you a different take on the day. So, anyways, let's get started. I'll tell you what, gather around and listen close. We've got a heavy yoke laying heavy on the good people of Pennsylvania, and I'm here to tell you it's time to call it what it is. Straight up bondage. You work

A Tax System That Follows You

SPEAKER_00 1:33

your fingers to the bone, paying them state taxes, pouring your hard-earned money into ever-rising gas tax. Think about that. Ever rising gas tax in it, and guess what? It's going up again because the budget they passed won't won't be sustainable without another tax of some kind. Every time you fill up your truck, and every time you fill up your truck, scrapping things and scrapping things together, property taxes to keep a roof over your head and holding on to the land your granddaddy cleared with sweet sweat and prayer. Then when the Lord finally calls you home, they still ain't done with you yet. Inheritance tax in the state of Pennsylvania comes slithering in like a wolf at the funeral, sinking its teeth into what you aim to pass down to your children and your children's children. They tax your li they tax your living, they tax your dying, they tax your very dirt you're laid to rest in. Now I ask you folks, how long shall this wickedness continue? How many generations must be picked clean before we rise up and say enough? Remember what the good book declares in Ecclesiastics. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Yet here in Pennsylvania, even in death, a hard working man can't find rest because the tax man comes robbing his peace and stealing his legacy. Think about that. They're taxing you after you die. This ain't right. This ain't justice. This is greed, dressed up in government clothes. It's high time we cast it off. It's time for a change, folks, a righteous change. We need bold leaders with backbone who stand up and thunder. No more taxing a man's death, no more punishing his family for owning land, no more reaching into the pockets of the living and the graves of the departed. We ought to let a man keep what the Lord helped him build, pass it down in peace, and go home to glory, without the tax collector standing at the foot of his bed like some devilish debit collector. This is Hillbilly John's show. I'm gonna tell it to you straight. From the heart of Pennsylvania, where we still believe hard work should be rewarded, family legacy should be protected, and a man ought to die free. Stick around, y'all. We got truth to speak, burns to lift, and change to break today. Hey, I got Al Fucking with me. Al, I want to thank you for stopping in today. My place. And I know that I'm that that you feel the same way about all these taxes.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

Yeah, they're uh out on the trail um about a hundred homes yesterday, predominantly older folks, and uh they were not happy. My opponents had 12 years to make a difference. The difference is it's all gone up.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yes. So when she says the amount of money they're getting has stayed almost stagnant.

SPEAKER_03 4:31

When she says that she voted to reduce taxes,

Daily Taxes And The Gas Pinch

SPEAKER_03 4:38

I don't want her to do anything. We would probably be better off because those reductions that they voted on have actually resulted in increases. And it just goes back to she doesn't know what the hell she's doing. Bottom line. I mean, that is the bottom line. She ran a quickie loop place or whatever it is, might have had one employee or two. I mean, nothing.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

I I would probably say that uh if the truth be known, the family probably run it in order to keep it uh keep it profitable because um that's how it was. I mean let's let's think about it. Um we you get taxed tax on your income. Taxed on your income. Then then you take that income and you go buy groceries, taxed, and you and the groceries aren't taxed, the clothes you buy aren't aren't taxed yet in Pennsylvania yet. And then you then you go buy a cake of soap and some shaving lotion and there's some deodorant, and there's tax on that. So you're paying taxes at the grocery store, no matter what anybody says, and if you buy a cooked chicken, they tax that.

SPEAKER_03 5:44

So okay, so we're now now we're now we're getting you, I'll send you every tax that the average person in Pennsylvania gets. There's 30 of them, there's 30 taxes, and it starts out just like you said for sales tax. Every tax down here, there's 30 taxes that you pay.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

But the abomination, the true abomination of taxes. I mean, our forefathers, right? They would have been out of powder by now. Oh, yeah. I mean, we we would have had to been they just would have. It's but, anyways, it's the fuel tax, it's 58 and a half cents. And from what I gathered, I got and I got some information from a couple different sources uh today. It's the highest in the nation right now.

SPEAKER_03 6:34

The highest in the nation. It might be it flip-flops with California.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

But right now we're hired in California.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

Yeah, it was that way about three or four months ago, too. It was higher. Um, it's just irresponsibility.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

The poor farmer, I know I know he doesn't pay tax on his fuel, but he pays taxes on everything too. But uh he pays taxes, road taxes, uh, on a diesel that he uses to get the crops to wherever it's wherever he has to sell them, whatever he has to do, and to go get the fuel that he needs for his tractors. I mean, we're we're and that's even higher than uh over over road taxes, even higher.

SPEAKER_03 7:11

Yeah, I uh I have tractor trailers and and it's high. Um, my biggest thing is, you know, these people that are in office, and I talked about this. I was on a show in Philly um over the weekend, they don't know what the hell they're doing, number one. And why is that? Well, most of them have never had any real business experience. So my my thing is we need to make an amendment. These people running for anything, Senate, state, um, uh even your school boards should have some business experience, not just you know, working for somebody signing the back of the check, but actually signing the front of the check, knowing what 941s are taxes. I mean, you know, unemployment compensation tax, workers' comp tax, you know, knowing what all these taxes are. And they don't. They don't know how to balance a budget. Hence, back to your point, we don't have a balanced budget. We won't. This budget now is gonna be 3.26 billion more than the last budget. That was 3.3 billion, and it's gonna be 7 billion uh in a hole.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

7 billion in a hole.

SPEAKER_03 8:22

My opponent says it was the responsible thing to do to vote for that.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Why? Why is that responsible? But she also voted for Act 77. So I'm gonna throw that out there. That's but that's not nothing to do with taxes.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

That's totally against the Save America Act, again, you know, against Trump, but you know, and then she voted to to uh confirm Rachel Levine, Rick. I mean, so she voted to confirm somebody, she's fighting for women's rights, but yet she votes up for a guy that thinks he's a woman. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. So, where is her morals at? You know what I mean? Um, she justified that by saying, Well, that's

Budget Gaps And Unqualified Leadership

SPEAKER_03 9:00

what everybody else did. I don't want somebody in office that's gonna do what everybody else did.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

I want somebody that has their own backbone and has the power to make a difference.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

That's why, yeah, that's why America is well, we can we can buy a Ford Chevrolet's Dodges, and we we actually uh uh I uh I mean, I know there's Toyota plants in the country now, and there's a Mercedes plant in the country now. So uh I mean we have to try to support uh the people that are working in working for living in the United States.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Hey, bring them all in, bring all these plants in.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Well, that's what our president is trying to do.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

You know, we bring these plants in and uh, you know, jumpstart this economy. Um, you know, I I just think that we have people again, it just goes back to these people who do not know what they're doing. They don't. Um they're in there for a paycheck. Here, here's the thing my opponent is gonna spend probably three billion dollars or three billion, three million dollars, somewhere between 1.726. That's what she's gonna spend to try and beat me. Where's that money coming from? Large portion of it came from the P A G O P, which I will never donate money to ever again. Um, the biggest portion of it is coming from uh Win for PA. That is a pact for the casinos. Now, why is it so important? Why would they spend so much money to keep this woman in there?

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Well, the same month.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

It makes you wonder, right? Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

It makes you wonder then they then they get on uh in and and this this is one of the problems uh that we're seeing over in Fayette County, and I'm sure it happens here too.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

They uh they get on they get on boards of these uh um she's on the board of the LSA, yeah, of the casinos, but she's accusing me of being funded by dark money, dark gambling casino money. And I've only been into a casino, I think, one time, and that was to have dinner with her about trying to get funding to our area, which she neglected. And that was it. I don't know anything about the casinos, don't care. Pay your taxes, pay your bills, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Um so we we gotta keep I will I want to get you're right, pay your taxes, but uh the this is where these uh non-government agencies come into and the money gets hid and it gets and it gets and you know what it these people make the these people make the um uh the mafia look like look like Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts. Yes, exactly, because for sure because the the they know they can they know how to skirt the law, they know how to do all these things, and this is what happens. Uh uh, but anyways, let's get back to the taxes because that taxes, taxes, taxes, this is what this is what people affects people on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

So I was at an event this morning down in Washington, um, in Cannonsburg, and I was going around, it was an event to um for for different organizations that help with you know disabilities, um, mental awareness and stuff like that, you know. Um, their funding's the one guy said his funding for his organization has been cut by 40 percent over the last 10 years. So their um service that they can put out is

Where Tax Money Goes And Who Pays

SPEAKER_03 12:29

going down and down and down, and what's on the rise? All of our you know, autism, all the rest of the stuff. So where is your tax money going, really? I mean, it's supposed to be going to you know, social service programs like that to help out. And I told him, I said, but yeah, we can spend our tax money about two billion dollars on two hundred thousand illegals in this in this state alone.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

One more time.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

Two billion.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

Two billion dollars on two hundred thousand illegals. Oh, that's that's insanity.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

It is insanity, but I mean it's real easy to figure out. You know, your schooling, twenty-three thousand four hundred dollars, your health and welfare, they're all getting free medical. They get phones, they get subsistence, cash, snap. I mean, you go down the line. You're talking a lot of money. And these aren't American citizens.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

No, these are just I I showed up on a television.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

Look at Charleroi. Though those people down there are on it, they're on subsistence, and we're paying for it. Which is another that's another story about her, you know, saying they're all doctors and lawyers and stuff. But it's our tax money. So they keep finding ways to generate revenue off of our backs. That's what they do, because they don't know how to stop the spending, they don't know how to cut the size of their government. These taxes, this death tax, we touched on that before. That's a horrible thing. There's only five states, I think, that have it. Um it's bad. It's bad for the people, it's driving people out. That I think that's their goal is to drive everybody out of the state. The population's declining here.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Yeah, um, I don't know exactly how much, but uh the 84,000 a year. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

That's what we lose.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

I had a somebody uh I heard somebody break it down to per day. Yeah, and and it was and it pays me.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

I said, and they said and uh it would be more than that if the census didn't put in the illegals that are here. So that was from 24 and 25. So I don't have 26 yet. It would be way way more.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

And yet, and yet industry will not come here because taxes, taxes, taxes, and and the regulations.

SPEAKER_03 14:52

You name it down the line. Everything is like the Crown Act they just passed. What a waste of time. That's the wokest bill, and it was obviously predominantly Democrat introduced, and my uh opponent voted for it. Obviously, she votes for almost all the Democrat stuff. And it's a bad bill, it's gonna drive up the cost of doing this because you're gonna start seeing a lot of frivolous lawsuits coming out. Hey, John, you can't have your hair that short, or hey, your hair's too long, or hey, those dreadlocks are gonna get stuck in that lathe. You can't do that, you know what I mean? So if we pull you from that lathe and we try to put you somewhere, you're gonna say, Okay, you're discriminating against me. But there's a clause in there that says, for safety reasons, you're still gonna end up in court, and what's gonna happen? You're gonna end up settling. So these people don't understand how this stuff works. Bad, bad deal.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Okay, so we get taxed, we get taxed from almost the moment almost the moment.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

You're taxed before you come out of the womb.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Yeah, I mean from birth, I know, and and then and get and guess what? They can't figure out how to tax us, you can't figure out how to tax us before we're born. So now they're taxing us after we die. That's right. Uh which which I tell you what, well, we're we're in a community down uh the whole and uh I can include Fayette County and Somerset and Bedford and all these communities in this uh southwest corner, um, Washington County with that you're representing, um in um Butler, right? Beaver, beaver, beaver, uh, and beaver. I mean, this is farming communities. I mean, these are the this is rural communities. I mean, yeah, we have some big towns, but not not I mean, I mean, Greensburg's probably the biggest town in in in that that that's not even in yours, but I mean right in in our area.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

Uh you got you know you have Uniontown

Rural Communities Feeling Squeezed

SPEAKER_03 16:50

and you have um uh uh uh I'm trying to think what it'd be the Washington, but the city of Washington would be a yeah, population, population-wise, you're you're Cannonsburg, Peters, those are your big areas, Trinity and Washington, the the city would be kind of like fourth.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

So I'm looking at this, and I'm looking at your your your running, and uh uh what uh what I see the same thing, and it's reflecting different parts of the state, especially in the rural areas. Um, it's the very elitist.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Uh the the that and I and I don't want to even call them elitists is wrong. They think they're elitists, right? But they're they're in such disarray because they are scared they're gonna lose whatever little bit of power they have with the Republican Party, yeah. And and it and it looks like these I see these patriot groups all over the and it's just they're growing, they're growing, they're growing, and it went in I was at I was at a town hall the other day, um and the talk at that town hall was starting a fourth party.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

Actually, they said third party. I said, wait, there's already three, you need to start a fourth. There was a lot of talk about that, and then the weirdest thing, the very next day I was at another event, they were talking about it there too. Yeah, you know why? The Republican Party has left everybody. Well, it's political cannibalism, yeah. That's exactly what it is right now, and you know, when you have the Republican Party giving her $750,000 of our money, Senator Rothman, using it against me, another Republican who's way more qualified for that job than she would ever be. I don't care if she spends the next two terms in there, she still wouldn't get it. It's not about her, it's about you, kids, the elderly, the constituents of the 46th district. We the people, we the people, and sure, and that's what it's all about.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

And I've I've said that I've said that said that now for years. Um and actually, uh it's the it's the grassroots, and I want to say really the grassroots, we the people, people that are that are they're gonna have to step up and take over. And you're right, we need a fourth party.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

They got to get pissed off, they got to get out and vote. Yeah, they have to. Yeah, I mean, they gotta get motivated. If you really want to make a change, get out and vote.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

I can see a split. I can see I there's uh the the Liberty Caucus uh part of the Republican Party is they're they're they're doing what they need to do, and they're and they're growing. They're growing. Uh and uh they're they're good people. Um I really believe that that's what we have to keep moving forward with.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

We we do. We have to push forward, you know. We're we're constitutionalists, I mean we are conservatives. Um, when you start going down this path, this dark road, you know, with all this dark money and all this stuff, that that's not you're trying to buy an election. That's what my opponent's trying to do. And you're and you're pretty sure that she's gonna spend over two million dollars easily, easily. Um, we're we're looking at about $240,000, $250,000 a week in TV ads. They've been running for two weeks. Um, you're looking at about, I think we're about $400,000 just in flyers. So you're already at a million bucks, not counting the other stuff that she's doing. So it's easy to track. Um, I can't wait to see your financials when we have to May 8th, we have to have everything in, and then 24 hours before May 19th.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Well, it'll be it'll be it'll be a real uh all the lying.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

She's saying that I'm lying and I'm being you know bought by all these uh you know casinos and this and that. It's the Vilde Weiss criminal playbook. That's exactly what it is. It's the Democrat playbook. Look over here, but I'm gonna be doing what I'm telling you and I'm accusing you of. Yeah, it's what they do, it's what they do every time. So, but we we we're in it, we're in a great spot. Um, we just gotta keep pushing forward, getting our message out. Um, I like, and it this is gonna sound weird, but the more she attacks me, the better my numbers are.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Well, I and it's strange. Uh I've been I've been privy to your numbers and I see them, and I and I tell you what, uh um and right you're far beyond the plus minus range.

SPEAKER_03 21:13

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

I mean, you're far beyond that. So and I and uh and that's a good thing. And if they're spending, oh yeah, and if they're spending, if they're they're spending a quarter million dollars a week to run for a state senate seat over a quarter million dollars a week to run for a state senate seat, is supposedly, let's get this right. I hope I got it right, pays a hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

Okay, they pad their pockets more because they they say, put me on this committee, put me on this committee. It's an extra six grand, six grand, six grand. Her salary, and she let me just tell you this she said, I will never vote for a pay raise. Well, no, you didn't have to because they're automatic. She gets them automatic, she got nine pay raises. Since she's been in office, she makes 129,000 changes.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

How long has she been in office?

SPEAKER_03 22:04

This will be her 12th year. 12th year. So, and then they get the per dam, which could be a $50,000 tax-free. Tax-free. So, in all, if you add everything in with all their benefits and everything, well over $200,000. Plus way over.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

Plus, the state's paying for a couple offices.

SPEAKER_03 22:22

Well, we are, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, we are. Taxpayers are paying for a couple. Yeah. Couple offices at probably $50,000 or $60,000 a year. Easily. And then how many how many employees on top of that? Lots. I mean, I mean, there's stats.

SPEAKER_03 22:36

They could have, they could have way, they could have 20.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

They could have up to 20. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

And that and I think that her office in Washington cost us about $150,000 a year. That office.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

That's just the office. That ain't all the employees. No, just that office.

SPEAKER_03 22:51

How many employees are? That's all the, you know, everything.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

So your goal is you're going to window them.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

You're going to I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to really push to consolidate this stuff where we can redistrict and try to get it down to where we don't need as many legislators on both sides, House and Senate. Um, cut down this staff, cut down the buildings that we have. I mean, we really need to do that. We need to start thinking about being fiscally sound. It's it's killing everybody. You can't afford to live here anymore.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

One time we had the biggest legislator at Harrisburg.

SPEAKER_03 23:25

Well, ours are all ours are all full-time jobs. Yeah. Well, there's only 11 states that have full-time legislators.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

I'm pretty sure even Texas doesn't have full-time jobs. No. No. 11 states. And why is that? I bet they're all blue. They are. I bet they're all blue.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Yeah, I think there's one red one, but it it was it was like a swing. It was black.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Like like in North Carolina.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

Yeah, Nevada or something like that. It was. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean it's doable when you have, you know, three quarters of the seven-eighths of the whole country that is just temporary.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Well, I I know one thing. And that this is this is positively true. One thing I do know that we need railroads, we need steel mills, we need coal mines, and we need natural gas. And we can and we have all that right here in this southwest corner of the state. Richest counties. I mean, there's the richest in the place. We shouldn't even be paying taxes right now. We shouldn't be paying taxes. But we're the but

Energy Wealth Blocked By Permits

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Green County and Fayette County, uh, I think uh I think we're uh Green County might be number two, and Fayette County might be number three to uh the poorest counties in the state.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

We we're eighth poorest. We are Green County is the richest. We are the eighth poorest. Washington County is the 22 22nd poorest. And they're the um second or third richest. This whole this whole corridor, you're right. I mean, we we're the Saudi Arabia of the freaking state.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

We are not only that, we are the Saudi Arabia. We we could be raising more corn, more soybeans, yeah than anybody in the state right now, and you see farmland going to waste. Yeah, we you see farmland just laying idle.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

And you have you have all these people that you know wondering why we're not drilling, baby drilling. That there's there's a few things. Um we need it, we need transmission lines, and and the people you know are fighting that. You know, you're disturbing the bats and this and that. You know what? Listen, you're gonna be a third-world country if you don't progress. We need progression.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Well, here's my theory. Let's mine it, let's mine it here. Let's pull, let's let's take the natural gas out, let's send it, sell it, sell it to wherever it needs to go. Let them build a power plant and let them build the power, make make the power there. I'm with you. That that's with you. That's what that's my thing. That's how I look at it. My my thing, too, just there's a drilling rig that I don't know if you know this or not. Did you know, did you hear this? There's a drilling rig that came left Texas on April the 2nd or 3rd.

SPEAKER_03 26:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Okay, it got to the Pennsylvania line just because of permits and things. And people say, how come it took so long? But you had to have it. This is a huge drilling lake, right? Rig. It got to the Pennsylvania line on April the 13th. Until yesterday, now I hope I got this right, but somebody can correct me. Until up until yesterday, it was sitting at a rest area, uh, was sitting in a parking lot, rest area 14 days because of the permit process in Pennsylvania to move it across where it needed to go.

SPEAKER_03 26:40

I just was on the phone with a guy that does trailer installations, and he was having the same thing with PA D O T trying to get oversized permits, and it was a nightmare. We get them too to haul some of my dozers. Yeah, they're a nightmare, and they rob you on that too.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Well, I mean, I mean, we've all done it.

SPEAKER_03 26:58

Tax.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Yep, yep. We that's another tax. It it does they don't call it tax, but it's another tax. But but I mean, every everybody that's been in business, and I and I've helped load dozers, and we moved them on Sunday morning at 6 a.m. Yep, because we went we they were only going 15 miles, right? But I mean, you know, I mean, we did it. We had to. You had to. I mean, uh same way with uh moved a big excavator one time that way too, because you know, yeah, take the boom off of it and move it. But I'm with you. But you have you have to do this.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

This state, you know, it's just it's just so bad. It's so not business friendly. And that's the reason we don't have the booming economy that we should be having.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

I blame a lot of it. I mean, a lot of it has to do with our state legislature. Oh, yeah, there's no doubt about it. But our county commissioners need to step up and and be a voice instead of instead of sitting back and waiting for something, but they won't because they're wanting to get re-elected, and they and it's all about votes. It's all about votes. Let's let's do the nice things. Let's let's let's let's build let's build uh public uh projects where you know in recreation areas. Nobody uses the no that very few people use that don't generate any money.

SPEAKER_03 28:13

No, I mean it cost those those types of projects, the the public works projects are great. Once you're established where you have a dominance of industry and business, then you get your infrastructure. That would be your second phase of your infrastructure because your population is going to start going. You want people to come in because it's an uh uh amenity then. So you have some amenities to get some people in, not only through business, but you have that. You have to have the business first, you know, and getting a Taco Bell and this and that, you know, and and giving a half a million dollars to in grant money to facilitate these people to buy a piece of property, you're never getting it back. You're never getting it back because they're gonna get an abatement. I mean, it's just this is it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Well, I don't I don't know if we'll we might get you on one more time before the election. Yeah, I'd appreciate it. I hope so. And uh uh the taxes is a big thing, and um I just wanted to one just last thing.

SPEAKER_03 29:18

We filed a suit against the casinos, so we're gonna really people are gonna see who's funding who.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Well, let's just talk about it for a couple minutes. Sure.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

You've been in court how many times just to keep yourself on court three times to be on a ballot, and now I have a lawsuit against the PAGOP and one against the casinos that are funding my opponent that are saying that I raise taxes, which I never did. Everybody

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SPEAKER_03 29:45

knows that, but they're putting out defamatory statements and stuff like that. So um, we won Superior Court, we won, they appealed, we won it to Supreme Court. Then the county of Washington tried to illegally Nick Sherman and Elector Janice and those they tried to illegally hold a hearing to throw me off the ballot down there for state committee. So we called the um uh Secretary of State, and he's like, No, they can't do that. They don't even know what they're doing, they're trying everything they can to get me off the ballot. Well, now they know they're not getting me off the ballot. So, what's the next thing? Let's create all these lies, fabricate all these stories.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Well, I'll tell you what the next thing after the election, and you win, then they're gonna then they're gonna go to court and say that you won illegally. They're gonna say that you you wouldn't supposed to be on the ballot. Yeah, that's gonna be well, I I forget the word name of the word, but it's it's uh it's afterwards. It's that's what they're gonna try to do, and they they can do whatever they want. I just and they'll spend it, they'll spend, they'll spend three or four they're spending our our money, yeah. They're spending our tax money fighting. Whether people realize it or not, they're spending and that and that's that's that's what they do, they spend tax money to fight you instead of just doing the right thing.

SPEAKER_03 31:05

So, I mean, the only way you can win is obviously win the election, but you hit them in a wallet. I'm I mean, I'm going after everybody. They think that they messed, they mess with Trump the same way they're messing with me. I mean, I won't stop. That's just the way I am. Yeah, so they got their hands full. Let's just say that.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

I uh I I really appreciate you. You don't know how much, and uh, I want uh I thank you for stepping on the phone. I'm hearing the people, and and that and that's the main thing. And I know you're listening to everybody, yeah, and it and it's hard, it is it's it's it's tough because you know, I mean, the phone starts ringing at 6 30 in the morning or seven o'clock. Five, yeah. Well, I just don't answer it until 6 30 or 7 o'clock. And and if my wife gets a hold of it before me, she'll she'll she'll hide it. So but but uh she gets up during the night, she'll hide my phone. And the but you you think about it, and and and it's just everything. I mean, the the the mess that's going on. I mean, you know, the funniest thing, you're gonna laugh about this. The first time I got elected to the recorder of deeds office, the first phone call I got was from a little elderly lady who will say, and uh she was she was actually from uh Dawson. She said to me, She says, John, are you gonna be able to fix the price of gas for us? And I'm thinking, I said, Well, I get elected to recorder of deeds, but I said, I said, I will definitely make sure everybody knows that the tax in Pennsylvania is wrong. And she and she said, I said, that's the best I can do for you. Then I got stopped today. I told you when it was coming out, I got stopped today. Uh girl came up to me right on the sidewalk in Uniontown, and she said, she said, I want to hug you. And I said, Well, I said, Well, we can shake hands. How's that? And she shake but shook my hand and she said, You just keep doing nobody would notice stuff's going on, and people don't know.

SPEAKER_03 32:49

We're trying to educate people, yeah. We're trying to, we're trying to get people pissed off, educate them, get them out the vote.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

And it's not about how smart we are, it's about how smart they are. We have to, we have to, yeah, we have to help them understand that.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

They really need they need to look through the voting records of whoever they're supporting, they need to look through what they're all about, what they stand for, conservative, um, liberal. Uh, they really need to see where they stand on things. I I I just I really wish that people would really do in-depth research on a candidate. Um, and you know, I've helped people all my life.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Well, if this isn't about the money for you, I know. But anyways, it but the thing of it is it is about the money for her. Oh, there's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it.

SPEAKER_03 33:40

Without a doubt, you're gonna spend three million dollars to for a hundred and twenty thousand dollar job. Yeah, this is about the money, strange, right?

SPEAKER_00 33:49

Yeah, and and and I and I always get a kick out of it when President Trump says follow the money. When when you start following the money, you find out they have offshore accounts, they have they put they're putting money outside of the United States, they're investing it it it that ought to be uh it should be legal.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

Uh yeah, but I get it. Yeah, you I mean there's insider trading going on, there's a lot of things that even at the state sense, and these people are tempted because I mean, obviously, like my opponent, she was just about bankrupt when she's when she ran the first time.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

And now look well, anyways, I I want to thank you again. I appreciate you, and I and then we'll we'll get you back on one more time, maybe maybe a couple more times before the election. But yeah, I really appreciate you. And uh, we need to get this message out there, and uh we're gonna we're gonna uh do everything we can to help you out. Um, I'm gonna sign off now. I'm gonna thank all the people that are tuning in. Thank you so much for tuning in. God bless each and every one of you, and God bless America. I am John Marietta, and I am the Hillbully. On this road called life, you have to take the good with the bad. Smile with the sad, love what you got, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. People change, things go wrong,

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SPEAKER_00 35:07

but just remember the ride goes on. God bless each and every one of you, and God bless America. I am John Marietta, and I am the Hillbilly.