Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right
Speaker 1: podcast where we talked to our friend and sponsor of
Speaker 1: the show, Zach Abraham from Bulwark Capital Management. And Zach
Speaker 1: is very well acquainted with another friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Brandy Cruz, who we've had on our show before. And
Speaker 1: apparently there is some stuff going on in your crazy town.
Speaker 2: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, yeah, no, so you know this report from
Speaker 3: the belly of the Beast, right.
Speaker 4: So, so, Brandy's a really good friend of mine.
Speaker 3: Actually it's funny because we met through a common friend
Speaker 3: of ours, a local radio legend, God Rest his soul,
Speaker 3: a guy by the name of Dory Monson who really
Speaker 3: took took a personal interest in Bulwark when we first
Speaker 3: got started, and offered to sponsor us because he was he.
Speaker 4: Was the kind of guy that.
Speaker 3: Saw love to love to find people that he saw
Speaker 3: potential in and and you know, kind of like sponsor them,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And so he literally sponsored
Speaker 3: us and put his name behind it and became a
Speaker 3: client of Bulwork and had a huge reason for our success.
Speaker 3: And I'll always love him for it. And anyway, he
Speaker 3: helped get Brandy her start in journalism. And so when
Speaker 3: he passed, it was kind of a natural coming together
Speaker 3: of Brandy and I and I started working with her.
Speaker 3: So I'm on her podcast once a week and that
Speaker 3: was I and I introduced you guys to her. Is
Speaker 3: that how you met her was through me?
Speaker 1: It has been actually because we followed each other on
Speaker 1: X but I think it sort of took you being
Speaker 1: the connection point that finally got us together.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and she's awesome. She would become really good buddy.
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, she's coming over my house
Speaker 3: for dinner I think in a week or two. But so, anyway,
Speaker 3: so we started, we got involved in this tax, this
Speaker 3: fight against the income tax, and I went out on
Speaker 3: her podcast and said that if this income tax stands,
Speaker 3: I'll be leaving. And that started off kind of a firestorm,
Speaker 3: and two local radio guys wrote One wrote an op
Speaker 3: ed for the New York Post, one wrote an op
Speaker 3: ed for Fox News, and they.
Speaker 4: Both interviewed me for it.
Speaker 3: About two and a half to three weeks after those
Speaker 3: interviews drop, I got hit by an audit by the state,
Speaker 3: and you know, at first, I went, boy, that's interesting timing, right,
Speaker 3: I've owned a business in this state for eleven years,
Speaker 3: I've never been audited. And one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: is because our business, as it relates the taxes we pay,
Speaker 3: is extraordinarily simple, meaning they can just look at our
Speaker 3: tax return and know exactly what we like. It's impossible
Speaker 3: for us to hide it, and it just is what
Speaker 3: it is, right, It's not for my particular business. It's
Speaker 3: not convoluted, and so there's just not a lot to
Speaker 3: dig in there. You can just did they pay it
Speaker 3: or not? Right, And so of course we always paid
Speaker 3: it and so we so first, the first thing that
Speaker 3: kind of tipped me off was when you opened the notice.
Speaker 3: It was postmark for April seventh, and I had to
Speaker 3: tell April thirteenth to respond with the documents.
Speaker 4: Or I would be audited.
Speaker 3: Like gosh, yeah, well, and we were gone on spring break,
Speaker 3: and so I got this notice on like April twelve. Oh,
Speaker 3: you know, you're like, and you're like, and then they're like,
Speaker 3: we've sent other things asking for these documents by certified mail,
Speaker 3: and I go, well, the funny thing about certified mail
Speaker 3: is there's a record of it, and we didn't receive it,
Speaker 3: so you're lying.
Speaker 4: And then they said they called our office.
Speaker 3: Multiple times, but got hung up on and I went,
Speaker 3: that's interesting, as we literally have a service to where
Speaker 3: a human being answers our phone twenty four hours a day,
Speaker 3: and we have call logs. You know how many call
Speaker 3: logus we look through the call logs, how many calls
Speaker 3: we got from the state?
Speaker 4: None?
Speaker 2: Zero, Right, So they're.
Speaker 4: Lying out of the gate.
Speaker 3: And then so then we get the actual requests for documents,
Speaker 3: and a bunch of them appear normal. And then you
Speaker 3: see payments to Brandy Cruz in there, and I go,
Speaker 3: that's that has nothing to do.
Speaker 4: With my excise taxes.
Speaker 3: And then there's another one to a friend of mine
Speaker 3: who also has a conservative podcast, and he is a
Speaker 3: Washington guy but moved to Idaho not too long ago.
Speaker 3: They want information on what I paid him. So quickly
Speaker 3: you went, okay, this is another lie. You're not looking
Speaker 3: into my excise taxes. This doesn't no matter what happens,
Speaker 3: no matter what I paid Brandy, it's not subject to
Speaker 3: my ex it doesn't it doesn't factor into my excise
Speaker 3: tax So what are we doing? So I finally called
Speaker 3: my CPN. I said, don't send him another document. They
Speaker 3: could talk to my attorney and and so and right,
Speaker 3: when this audit happens is when Brandy gets sued by
Speaker 3: a non affiliated of course they're not politically connected group,
Speaker 3: alleging that all of her appearances for this group, Let's
Speaker 3: Go Washington, that I'm that I'm involved with, that I'm
Speaker 3: the chairman of fundraising for to Fight the Income Tax,
Speaker 3: that every time she appears at one of our events
Speaker 3: or talks with one of us, that that should be
Speaker 3: considered campaign contributions.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, well.
Speaker 2: For what campaign? Right exactly for.
Speaker 3: Let's Go Washington. They're saying that we should be paying
Speaker 3: for her involvement. But if that's the only legal way
Speaker 3: for her to be involved, then what they're asserting is
Speaker 3: that she does not have freedom of speech right right,
Speaker 3: and so, so this has been adjudicated in the state before,
Speaker 3: and it's been deep six.
Speaker 4: They know that it's a loser. They just want to
Speaker 4: jammer up with.
Speaker 3: Warfare, and they're trying to use my tax information to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: They're pretty good. This is what they do best, right
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: And you guys call me naive, but as a law abiding,
Speaker 3: tax paying citizen who has lived here all my life
Speaker 3: and to watch the government illegally a coming after you
Speaker 3: and illegally going after your friends.
Speaker 4: It's shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 4: And like I told you.
Speaker 2: Too a little bit. I mean it's going to be
Speaker 2: scary in a way, right, I mean, you got the
Speaker 2: right people.
Speaker 5: But I know, because I've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't
Speaker 5: be scared. And I know I get that notion, I
Speaker 5: get it. But the government is so powerful, which it
Speaker 5: shouldn't be, but it's so powerful that it's like we
Speaker 5: can ruin your life if we want to.
Speaker 2: Ye, this is why people get to get to freaked
Speaker 2: out about taxes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, scared is not I'm pissed. I'm pissed. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: look I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be like some like macho like
Speaker 3: like hero type or anything like that. But fear is
Speaker 3: one of the things that got us here, right, People
Speaker 3: an afraid, people being afraid to stand up and call
Speaker 3: bullshit what.
Speaker 4: It is is what got us here.
Speaker 3: And if if everybody is constantly afraid of them being
Speaker 3: able to take away what we have, then will end
Speaker 3: up with nothing anyway, like and and so for lack
Speaker 3: of a better and I'm not saying that I may
Speaker 3: not regret this as some point, but I don't think
Speaker 3: I will, because even if they could take everything from me,
Speaker 3: at least I can look at my children and sashad
Speaker 3: on principle, Yeah, and there's things more important than money,
Speaker 3: you know, And I just and then remember, and it's
Speaker 3: not just what they're doing economically, it's what they're doing
Speaker 3: with the money too, Right, how many children are going
Speaker 3: to have to be injured by their you know, how
Speaker 3: many kids are going to be taken from their parents?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I was watching more stories of the school recently almost
Speaker 3: fully transitioning a kid over the course of six months
Speaker 3: and lying to the parents about it the entire time.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, and you know you're not going
Speaker 1: to get any help from your mayor because she's a
Speaker 1: complete lunatic.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. No, It's just it's really sad.
Speaker 3: And so we're we're we're in it, though, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: throwing money and resources at the fight.
Speaker 4: And sometimes sometimes.
Speaker 3: You wonder, if it's one of the things that I've
Speaker 3: kind of battled with, is is.
Speaker 4: This all for not?
Speaker 3: Meaning, if we success fully beat the income tax, are
Speaker 3: we just prolonging the inevitable?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Meaning until the voters in this state wake up and.
Speaker 3: Realize that, hey, guys, you don't need to put a
Speaker 3: Maga hat on, and you don't need to love Donald
Speaker 3: Trump to not do things that are insane in the exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and people go illegal, what are you talking? This
Speaker 4: income tax?
Speaker 3: There is a line in our state constitution that says
Speaker 3: you cannot pass a tax on income or properties selectively
Speaker 3: to any group. Meaning the interpretation is if you do that,
Speaker 3: it must be uniform against all people and cannot exceed
Speaker 3: one percent. Okay, so the tax that they are putting
Speaker 3: up is an I mean, it's not even close, right,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what I mean, there's no interpretation.
Speaker 4: You can't do what you're doing. That's that's what the
Speaker 4: constitution says.
Speaker 3: And then everybody's like, well, the State Supreme Court want,
Speaker 3: I'll pulled it, and I from the very beginning I said,
Speaker 3: yeah they will. Who Bob Ferguson is the State Supreme Court.
Speaker 3: He appointed half the people on there, right, like, of
Speaker 3: course it will. And sure enough Supreme Court basically they
Speaker 3: haven't ruled on it, but they they ruled on it
Speaker 3: to the point where it they it made us go
Speaker 3: the most difficult, most expensive route we had to go.
Speaker 3: The referendum route as opposed to the initiative route in Washington,
Speaker 3: and so basically the state rubber stamped it and all.
Speaker 4: And it's illegal and that's the other part.
Speaker 3: And they're and and all of this. They're defending democracy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they're defending democracy from.
Speaker 5: Troll right, It's like it's allllegal. We're seeing illegal stuff
Speaker 5: like this happen all that. Like, we're seeing a lot
Speaker 5: of crap in California right now, I know where. It's
Speaker 5: just like, we're going to do all these things that
Speaker 5: are blatantly illegal, and what do you do about it?
Speaker 3: And guys, like the sad part about it is that
Speaker 3: I said this regarding the state coming after me and
Speaker 3: coming after Brandy, that I'm not surprised that there was
Speaker 3: somebody in the room that was good with that. What
Speaker 3: I am surprised and shocked by is that nobody in
Speaker 3: the room wasn't you know what I mean? Like where
Speaker 3: where was that thing? Because if the roles were reversed,
Speaker 3: we'd never do that. We'd say, no, we don't agree
Speaker 3: with them, but we're not going after private citizens.
Speaker 2: That is illegal.
Speaker 3: It is wrong and it is anti democratic. And it's
Speaker 3: like I always think about the ACLU when they went
Speaker 3: up to Skokie, Illinois and defended the right for the
Speaker 3: Nazi Party to march through the streets. Right, that is democracy.
Speaker 3: That is the defense of freedom of speech. That I
Speaker 3: will stand up for your right to say something that
Speaker 3: I find a port.
Speaker 4: That's like the best of America, right, like in my opinion.
Speaker 3: And now you look at it and we're celebrating the
Speaker 3: absolute inverse.
Speaker 4: Of that, and it's just it's terrifying.
Speaker 3: Like you want to look at people and go, guys,
Speaker 3: if you get what you want, but in the process
Speaker 3: torch the constitution or torch or have to break the
Speaker 3: law in order to get it, we all lose.
Speaker 4: We all lose.
Speaker 2: They don't care. They just want power. That's all they
Speaker 2: care about.
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