Well, how do you get the permit, and how do they block this from happening?

Well, correct.

So the last several years, uh, under HB 1143, a permit was required to, uh, to purchase a firearm in Washington, but we've had it on our website for free, and 550,000 people have done it.

The change now under HB 1163, which, which goes into effect May 1st on all purchase and transfers of any firearm, is that you have to have Washington State Patrol permit, issued permit to purchase, which requires $126 fee to Washington State Patrol, about a $30 fee to your local law enforcement agency to get fingerprints if they're doing them or scheduling them in time, plus you have to get live fire training by a Washington State Patrol certified training and instruction program.

So another $150, $300.

So you... we're looking at about $400 to $500 to get a permit to purchase in the State of Washington, uh, coming up, and it goes into effect May 1st.

And there basically are no exceptions.

Yep.

Would you mind telling my audience about Spokane Freedom the Restoration Project and how it's going and how they can help out?

Uh, yeah, so some good friends of ours, uh, up there in Spokane, uh, the, the longtime family business sharpshooting, uh, indoor range, uh, up there, the ball family, um, they lost their home in the fire.

They got a 20 minute notice and, uh, they got their, their kids in a couple of basic things out of the house before their entire neighborhood burned to the ground.

Um, their parents and their brother also lost their homes, uh, in the same basic neighborhood.

And so myself and a few other people from the Second Amendment community, we wanted to do something to help them out.

But they kind of they said, you know what, we're going to be okay.

There's other people here that have far more need than we do.

Should they just look for Spokane Freedom Restoration?

Is that the offer they've made?

Correct.

It's any safe that's been through the fire.

They'll recover it and open it.

And then, you know, obviously sometimes items survive other times they don't, uh, or they're, they're damaged when they're in there.

So really great service that they're, that they're doing.

And, and.

If some of the people listening are hearing this and they want to get this information, what's the best way for them to connect to this program?

Where does the 20% national tax estimate come from? Without the cost of the bureaucracy of IRS, we should be able to make it much lower, 7% to 10% or lower.

Well, the IRS is a very big bureaucracy, but even once you factor in even the non-IRS tax compliance costs that the government has, you're basically dealing with a maximum figure of $10 to $13 billion, which, considering that we have a budget of, what, $1.8 trillion, frankly, just getting rid of 95% of the IRS, which a good tax reform plan could do, isn't quite, in and of itself, going to save enough money to allow a noticeably lower rate.

Now, there is another aspect to this, though, which is the fact that you're going to get rid of all the compliance costs imposed upon the private sector.

The Tax Foundation here in Washington estimates that the compliance costs of the income tax alone exceed $150 billion.

That's the lawyers, the accountants, the man-hours, and so on and so forth, that it simply takes just to get your tax return to Washington.

That's not the money that you actually give the government.

That's simply what it costs you to give the money.

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Would you agree? I

agree 100%.

And let me give you an example that I've used in some of my work.

There is no question that creative destruction is what makes us richer as a society.

However, there is a destruction side of creative destruction.

If you worked in a typewriter factory when the personal computer came upon the scene, you may have lost your job.

If your job or if you were an entrepreneur and you ran a candle factory and all of a sudden the electric light bulb was invented, you may have lost your fortune.

So is mass immigration something that people who are free market libertarians, is this something we should be reexamining as a liberal, whether or not it's actually a libertarian principle at all at all?

What are the current trends that you're seeing in, in county lines activity, specifically when it comes to the exploitation of young girls?

Yeah.

So, so, um, so sadly, uh, we, we see for women and girls, but for girls particularly, in the data that, uh, we have reported of who's involved, they're, they're, they're really underrepresented.

And, and I think, um, you know, one of the reasons for this is there's just a real challenge for policing to be able to, uh, see and understand and identify those that are, that are being exploited.

So we're, we're asking for help really from parents and carers, you know, community members, if they, if they know of, uh, young girls, um, particularly women, women and girls generally being groomed.

Um, so that could be some sort of emotional ma- manipulation by criminal gangs, um, where they've built a relationship, um, that sort of mimic affection, but actually it's fake and they're just then being used for overlapping sexual exploitation as well as criminal exploitation.

Um, and they might be given, uh, they might be given gifts, money, they might be given some alcohol or some drugs, um, to try and draw them in.

Hmm.

That mostly supplied drugs just seven miles away in West Bromwich.

When we started, eighty, ninety percent of drugs lines were coming out of one force area and going to another, so were traveling some distance.

Now it's less than half.

That is a little bit of the Whac-A-Mole that you're talking about, where criminal gangs are saying, "What's policing's focus?" Well, it's on the cross-border drugs lines.

You know, you've been to court, you've seen the types of evidence we present, and we'll present maps and say, "This telephone started in this big city.

It ended in this smaller, more rural location.

Here's all of the points of movement, and this shows that's a county line." When you've made twenty-seven thousand arrests and you've shut nearly nine thousand lines and you've presented evidence in all of those cases, it's gonna be the case that criminal gangs are thinking, "Well, what do we do differently?"

Instead of texting out offers, they use social media or encrypted apps.