Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, October 22, 2024

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

Trump in North Carolina, FBI revises crime data, assassination attempt report, and New York WNBA team wins the championship. Plus, the Message of the Day, where the candidates stand in the closing part of the campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, sponsored by Tax Network USA. America's number one choice for tax resolution. Please go to TNUSA.com slash bill or call 800-245-6-0-0. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, 13 days until the election. Here's what's happening today in America.

Trump and Asheville, new crime numbers, assassination report, and WMBA champions. It's all come up. The bill's going to be here with your message of the day before it's Donald Trump spent some time yesterday in Asheville, North Carolina, meeting with people who had their lives have turned by Hurricane Helene. Kamala had a sit-down conversation with Liz Cheney. Today, Kamala has nothing on her agenda and also nothing on her schedule on Friday. We're two weeks before the election.

Two days, nothing on the campaign schedule. Yikes. Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden this Sunday. Five o'clock Eastern, he said tickets sold out in three hours. And all the left has in response to this is the Nazis held a rally there in 1939. They got nothing. It's great. The FBI quietly revised their 22 crime data. When they released their 2023 data on page 11, there was a footnote that said the 2022 violent crime rate has been updated. It turns out David Muir that from these new news, numbers, the crime rate did not drop by 2.1%, but rose 4.5%. The FBI missed out originally on reporting 1,699 murders and almost 8,000 rapes. But these numbers aren't even accurate anyway, because these are only reported crimes. Most crimes aren't even reported. A more accurate measurement is from the Department of Justice, the National Crime Victimization Survey. They do an annual survey of 240,000 people. And the question is, have you experienced any crime in the last year? According to these numbers in the last three years, violent crime has risen by 55%.

A House panel of seven Republicans and six Democrats issued an interim report on the first assassination attempt of Donald Trump saying it was preventable. No kidding. 53-page report said that there was inadequate planning and coordination before the rally, noting that there was no meeting between federal and local law enforcement on the day of the event. There was also no uniform command post for communication between Secret Service and local law enforcement. Witnesses who participated in walkthroughs before the event called it disorganized. The New York team won the WMBA title. Do you know the name of this New York

WMBA team? It's the New York Liberty. It's their first championship. We'll see if anyone shows up to the Canyon of Heroes ticker tape parade Thursday 10 a.m. Meanwhile, WMBA star Angel Reese said she can't pay her bills on her WMBA salary of $73,000 a year. She says her rent is $8,000 a month. That's just 96K on rent. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver. through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.

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On this Tuesday, as we have reported, The Atlas poll seems to me the most credible this election cycle. I recently interviewed the CEO, and his methodology looks clean, unlike other polling outfits who tell their paymasters what they want to hear. Anyway, Atlas has Donald Trump up by three points nationally and winning most of the swing states by very small margins. That survey came out Sunday. So we are in the closing part of the campaign.

Let's take a fair look at where we are. Vice President Harris lost some momentum doing the Fox News interview, simply because she did not directly answer any of the ten questions posed. Even the foggiest voter had a notice. Instead of seizing the opportunity to display some problem-solving vision, she fell back to verbal nothingness. Donald Trump has some momentum, despite his forays into Twilight Zone land. Arnold Palmer? Why? But Trump's Pennsylvania McDonald's great adventure was a very successful

populist display. Atlas has him up in the Commonwealth right now. Momentum, of course, can shift quickly, and both candidates need to introduce something fresh into the campaigns. Kamala is doing a CNN town hall this week, but that's just Cupcakeville. Trump has a big rally set for Madison Square Garden next Sunday, which could help him if he stays on policy. We are all over the last two weeks. This is the place to be. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Linda Garfit, Fort Saskatchewa. Canada. Okay, Linda. I watched the Fox News interview with Kamala Harris. I was disappointed

in Brett Baer. I felt you should have done better. I wish you could have interviewed Harris. I thought, we have a poll. How did Brett Bear do on Bill O'Reilly.com? Give you the results in a smart life tomorrow. So you get one more day to vote. I thought Bear did a good job, but he missed a couple of opportunities. Harrison never said across for me. Got to give Barack Obama credit for doing it three times. Harrison never did it. And Biden wouldn't do it either. Karina, Bear did a great job. She exposed Kamala Harris, who I don't trust at all. There was some of that, because you wouldn't answer any of the 10 questions. by the way I oh by the way I can't believe it I have to give another donation I use the

cliche by the way I got me my column is on a fictional interview between O'Reilly and Kamala you got to read this call now I got to give another donation Letitia, I felt exhausted after the interview. No problem solving, no positive message. In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter,

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Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might, not know. 38 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan signed a new bill into law called the Tax Reform Act. The legislation slapsed. corporate and personal income tax rates for nearly everybody.

For some comparison, here's how much tax the average citizen paid back in 1986. A typical worker sent just about $4,000 in wage tax to the feds. The average property tax is 1%, sales tax 4% to 6% depending on the state. The corporate tax rate ranged from 15% for small. small companies, to 46% for those earning more than a million dollars back in 86. All in, the average American gave 20% of his or her paycheck to the tax man. Ronald Reagan's total federal budget for 86, $990 billion. National debt, $2 trillion.

38 years later, things have changed. Today, a middle-class working person pays $14,000 in income tax, $1,000 in income tax, Another 4% goes to the state on average. Property taxes in many areas have exploded, sales taxes higher than 8% in many states. In total, the average American worker now gives half their paycheck to the government, half. The federal budget today, $7 trillion,

national debt, $35 trillion. That's a 2,000% increase from Reagan's second term. And here's something else you might not know. Despite the massive tax burden, America remains one of the least tax nations in the developed world. People pay the most in Sweden, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland. Number one on the list, Denmark. Personal income tax rate, 55%. Value added tax, that's stuff you buy, 20%.

Health care, 8%. Every single Danish worker gives Copenhagen 80% of their income. In exchange, they receive state-funded welfare from birth to death. Even funerals are covered. Could that kind of socialist system happen here? Well, Bernie Sanders and his crew, perhaps including Kamala Harris, wanted to. Back in a moment. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics.

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