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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right

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podcast where we talked to our friend and sponsor of

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the show, Zach Abraham from Bulwark Capital Management. And Zach

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is very well acquainted with another friend of the show,

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Brandy Cruz, who we've had on our show before. And

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apparently there is some stuff going on in your crazy town.

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Speaker 2: Tell us all about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, yeah, no, so you know this report from

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the belly of the Beast, right.

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Speaker 4: So, so, Brandy's a really good friend of mine.

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Speaker 3: Actually it's funny because we met through a common friend

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of ours, a local radio legend, God Rest his soul,

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a guy by the name of Dory Monson who really

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took took a personal interest in Bulwark when we first

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got started, and offered to sponsor us because he was he.

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Speaker 4: Was the kind of guy that.

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Speaker 3: Saw love to love to find people that he saw

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potential in and and you know, kind of like sponsor them,

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you know what I mean. And so he literally sponsored

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us and put his name behind it and became a

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client of Bulwork and had a huge reason for our success.

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And I'll always love him for it. And anyway, he

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helped get Brandy her start in journalism. And so when

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he passed, it was kind of a natural coming together

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of Brandy and I and I started working with her.

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So I'm on her podcast once a week and that

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was I and I introduced you guys to her. Is

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that how you met her was through me?

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Speaker 1: It has been actually because we followed each other on

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X but I think it sort of took you being

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the connection point that finally got us together.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and she's awesome. She would become really good buddy.

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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, she's coming over my house

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for dinner I think in a week or two. But so, anyway,

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so we started, we got involved in this tax, this

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fight against the income tax, and I went out on

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her podcast and said that if this income tax stands,

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I'll be leaving. And that started off kind of a firestorm,

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and two local radio guys wrote One wrote an op

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ed for the New York Post, one wrote an op

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ed for Fox News, and they.

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Speaker 4: Both interviewed me for it.

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Speaker 3: About two and a half to three weeks after those

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interviews drop, I got hit by an audit by the state,

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and you know, at first, I went, boy, that's interesting timing, right,

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I've owned a business in this state for eleven years,

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I've never been audited. And one of the reasons why

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is because our business, as it relates the taxes we pay,

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is extraordinarily simple, meaning they can just look at our

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tax return and know exactly what we like. It's impossible

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for us to hide it, and it just is what

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it is, right, It's not for my particular business. It's

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not convoluted, and so there's just not a lot to

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dig in there. You can just did they pay it

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or not? Right, And so of course we always paid

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it and so we so first, the first thing that

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kind of tipped me off was when you opened the notice.

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It was postmark for April seventh, and I had to

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tell April thirteenth to respond with the documents.

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Speaker 4: Or I would be audited.

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Speaker 3: Like gosh, yeah, well, and we were gone on spring break,

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and so I got this notice on like April twelve. Oh,

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you know, you're like, and you're like, and then they're like,

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we've sent other things asking for these documents by certified mail,

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and I go, well, the funny thing about certified mail

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is there's a record of it, and we didn't receive it,

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so you're lying.

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Speaker 4: And then they said they called our office.

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Speaker 3: Multiple times, but got hung up on and I went,

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that's interesting, as we literally have a service to where

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a human being answers our phone twenty four hours a day,

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and we have call logs. You know how many call

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logus we look through the call logs, how many calls

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we got from the state?

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Speaker 4: None?

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Speaker 2: Zero, Right, So they're.

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Speaker 4: Lying out of the gate.

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Speaker 3: And then so then we get the actual requests for documents,

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and a bunch of them appear normal. And then you

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see payments to Brandy Cruz in there, and I go,

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that's that has nothing to do.

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Speaker 4: With my excise taxes.

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Speaker 3: And then there's another one to a friend of mine

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who also has a conservative podcast, and he is a

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Washington guy but moved to Idaho not too long ago.

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They want information on what I paid him. So quickly

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you went, okay, this is another lie. You're not looking

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into my excise taxes. This doesn't no matter what happens,

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no matter what I paid Brandy, it's not subject to

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my ex it doesn't it doesn't factor into my excise

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tax So what are we doing? So I finally called

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my CPN. I said, don't send him another document. They

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could talk to my attorney and and so and right,

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when this audit happens is when Brandy gets sued by

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a non affiliated of course they're not politically connected group,

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alleging that all of her appearances for this group, Let's

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Go Washington, that I'm that I'm involved with, that I'm

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the chairman of fundraising for to Fight the Income Tax,

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that every time she appears at one of our events

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or talks with one of us, that that should be

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considered campaign contributions.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, well.

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Speaker 2: For what campaign? Right exactly for.

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Speaker 3: Let's Go Washington. They're saying that we should be paying

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for her involvement. But if that's the only legal way

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for her to be involved, then what they're asserting is

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that she does not have freedom of speech right right,

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and so, so this has been adjudicated in the state before,

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and it's been deep six.

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Speaker 4: They know that it's a loser. They just want to

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jammer up with.

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Speaker 3: Warfare, and they're trying to use my tax information to

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do it.

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Speaker 2: They're pretty good. This is what they do best, right

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it is.

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Speaker 3: And you guys call me naive, but as a law abiding,

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tax paying citizen who has lived here all my life

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and to watch the government illegally a coming after you

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and illegally going after your friends.

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Speaker 4: It's shocking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's shocking.

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Speaker 4: And like I told you.

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Speaker 2: Too a little bit. I mean it's going to be

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scary in a way, right, I mean, you got the

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right people.

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Speaker 5: But I know, because I've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't

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be scared. And I know I get that notion, I

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get it. But the government is so powerful, which it

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shouldn't be, but it's so powerful that it's like we

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can ruin your life if we want to.

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Speaker 2: Ye, this is why people get to get to freaked

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out about taxes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, scared is not I'm pissed. I'm pissed. Yeah, And

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look I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be like some like macho like

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like hero type or anything like that. But fear is

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one of the things that got us here, right, People

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an afraid, people being afraid to stand up and call

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bullshit what.

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Speaker 4: It is is what got us here.

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Speaker 3: And if if everybody is constantly afraid of them being

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able to take away what we have, then will end

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up with nothing anyway, like and and so for lack

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of a better and I'm not saying that I may

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not regret this as some point, but I don't think

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I will, because even if they could take everything from me,

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at least I can look at my children and sashad

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on principle, Yeah, and there's things more important than money,

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you know, And I just and then remember, and it's

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not just what they're doing economically, it's what they're doing

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with the money too, Right, how many children are going

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to have to be injured by their you know, how

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many kids are going to be taken from their parents?

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I was watching more stories of the school recently almost

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fully transitioning a kid over the course of six months

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and lying to the parents about it the entire time.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, and you know you're not going

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to get any help from your mayor because she's a

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complete lunatic.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god. No, It's just it's really sad.

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Speaker 3: And so we're we're we're in it, though, I'm I'm

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throwing money and resources at the fight.

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Speaker 4: And sometimes sometimes.

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Speaker 3: You wonder, if it's one of the things that I've

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kind of battled with, is is.

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Speaker 4: This all for not?

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Speaker 3: Meaning, if we success fully beat the income tax, are

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we just prolonging the inevitable?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 4: Meaning until the voters in this state wake up and.

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Speaker 3: Realize that, hey, guys, you don't need to put a

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Maga hat on, and you don't need to love Donald

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Trump to not do things that are insane in the exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and people go illegal, what are you talking? This

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income tax?

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Speaker 3: There is a line in our state constitution that says

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you cannot pass a tax on income or properties selectively

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to any group. Meaning the interpretation is if you do that,

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it must be uniform against all people and cannot exceed

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one percent. Okay, so the tax that they are putting

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up is an I mean, it's not even close, right,

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I mean, you know what I mean, there's no interpretation.

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Speaker 4: You can't do what you're doing. That's that's what the

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constitution says.

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Speaker 3: And then everybody's like, well, the State Supreme Court want,

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I'll pulled it, and I from the very beginning I said,

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yeah they will. Who Bob Ferguson is the State Supreme Court.

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He appointed half the people on there, right, like, of

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course it will. And sure enough Supreme Court basically they

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haven't ruled on it, but they they ruled on it

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to the point where it they it made us go

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the most difficult, most expensive route we had to go.

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The referendum route as opposed to the initiative route in Washington,

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and so basically the state rubber stamped it and all.

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Speaker 4: And it's illegal and that's the other part.

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Speaker 3: And they're and and all of this. They're defending democracy. Yeah,

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they're defending democracy from.

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Speaker 5: Troll right, It's like it's allllegal. We're seeing illegal stuff

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like this happen all that. Like, we're seeing a lot

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of crap in California right now, I know where. It's

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just like, we're going to do all these things that

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are blatantly illegal, and what do you do about it?

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Speaker 3: And guys, like the sad part about it is that

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I said this regarding the state coming after me and

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coming after Brandy, that I'm not surprised that there was

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somebody in the room that was good with that. What

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I am surprised and shocked by is that nobody in

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the room wasn't you know what I mean? Like where

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where was that thing? Because if the roles were reversed,

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we'd never do that. We'd say, no, we don't agree

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with them, but we're not going after private citizens.

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Speaker 2: That is illegal.

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Speaker 3: It is wrong and it is anti democratic. And it's

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like I always think about the ACLU when they went

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up to Skokie, Illinois and defended the right for the

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Nazi Party to march through the streets. Right, that is democracy.

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That is the defense of freedom of speech. That I

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will stand up for your right to say something that

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I find a port.

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Speaker 4: That's like the best of America, right, like in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: And now you look at it and we're celebrating the

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absolute inverse.

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Speaker 4: Of that, and it's just it's terrifying.

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Speaker 3: Like you want to look at people and go, guys,

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if you get what you want, but in the process

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torch the constitution or torch or have to break the

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law in order to get it, we all lose.

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Speaker 4: We all lose.

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Speaker 2: They don't care. They just want power. That's all they

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Speaker 5: It's all power and no kings and right, king, that's

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right exactly.

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Speaker 2: But you can be a king of your retirement. Oh

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my god, look at our guess right.

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Speaker 4: You missed your cal you missed your.

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Speaker 2: But even I am embarrassed. I'm embarrassed.

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Speaker 4: And now if you call that, Wait, there's more.

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