Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - BONUS: Bill O'Reilly on the Latest New York Budget Proposal

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

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So the budget, you know, I'm a boring guy. I am, and I appreciate you guys listening to a boring guy. It's almost like some kind of help network here to help boring guys like me. And the reason I'm a boring guy is because I got to pay attention to budgets and to politicians and what they do and why they do it. Now, you don't have to do it because I do it. And then I report to you. But it takes a lot of my time.

I could be doing fun stuff, but I'm not. I'm doing budget stuff. So the latest New York State budget proposal is $254 billion. Right? There are 20 million New Yorkers. So if you do the math, it's not even close. So it's $254 billion. The state wants to spend this year.

year, but there's only 20 million people, and half of those people are kids and old people who don't work. So how are we going to fund this? Well, we're not, and we go into debt and all that. So I asked my staff to, look, give me Florida, Texas, California. Let's compare. Florida, where hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are moving, has a $115 billion budget. New York, $255,000. Florida 115. Florida's got more people, 23 million to 20. And their budget is 60% less than ours. How does that happen? Well, it's because Florida's bare bones. Okay, they're not giving out all kinds of stuff free, and New York is. And that's what it's all about. every social program, every this, every that.

And that's how the Democrats in Albany keep their power. We will give you stuff if you vote for us. We don't care if it bankrupts the state. Let's look at California, biggest state, $39 million. California has a $323 billion budget. More substantially than New York, but it's got 19 million more people. pro capita, New York is the biggest spender. Even more than nutty California, which are paying for dancing lessons, cooking lessons,

you know, you name it, giving undocumented aliens, Medicaid, California. We do that in New York, too, but I don't know the extent of it. Okay. So this is a Ponzi scheme. this whole tax and spend stuff is a Ponzi scheme. These people want to get elected. They want power. The Democratic Party controls New York, California.

The Republican Party controls Florida. In New York, the way Democrats get elected is promising the folks, many of whom are poor, particularly in New York City. entitlements. We will give you as much as we can give you if you vote for us, and the mean Republicans will not. It's as simple as that. And the Ponzi on it is the politicians have to know they're bankrupting the state, and they have to know that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are leaving because the taxes are too high, and they're going to go up. It doesn't, it don't matter what Hockel tells you. Believe me, this real ID thing, it's all about money. It's all about getting you to pay more money for something. It's what it's about. And this is nationwide.

So you're living in a state where you are paying an enormous amount of your take-home pay to the government to bribe people to vote for them. That's it. And the catastrophe, of it is not here yet, but it's coming, whereby the state would go bankrupt, their investments and bonds would be worthless, all of that, because they can't possibly cover their expenditures. Just the MTA in New York City is such a scandal, billions of dollars wasted on a public transportation system. That's what the congestion pricing thing is all about. Here, here's more money so you can waste it or steal it. Nobody watching the MTA.

Who's watching it? Nobody. So I'm sorry to report it. It's not good. A lot of great things about New York. That's not one of them.