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**ALERT** State Senator Proposes NEW SILVER & GOLD LAWS: How it Could Affect Your Precious Metals · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD: Surviving Global Economic Shifts | RONS BASEMENT

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  And if you find yourself as one of those folks that are angry
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  about all the stuff that is going on and all the decline
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  that we're seeing in our culture, whether it's the attack
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  on our families or the the the corruption of our currency, I'm
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  asking you, I'm, I'm calling on on you on that third person in
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  in this conversation. Stay engaged.
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  Don't let go now because there's so much at stake and we're
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  surrounded by more folks that are going to need fighters who
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  have been in the fight for years now that can.
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  And those folks come in and say, hey, what?
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  What can I do? How can I help that they're
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  there to help them along? The Founding Fathers of the
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  United States put language into the United States Constitution
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  regarding silver and gold. Now, we have a growing number of
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  states in the United States that are forwarding legal tender
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  legislation. But behind each piece of that
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  legislation is an elected official, a driving force who's
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  looking out for the benefit of his or her constituencies.
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  In Missouri, we have Senator Bill Idol, and today we're
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  fortunate to have him here in the basement.
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  He's going to tell us about this legal tender legislation.
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  Bill, welcome to Ron's Basement. Hey Ron, thanks for having me.
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  And and hello to all the basement dwellers out there.
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  That's right. You know, I was going to, that
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  was my next line, Bill, that it's me and you.
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  But there's this third person with us who's most important,
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  right? The citizen, the voter?
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  And why is legal tender legislation so important for the
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  people that are joining us today?
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  Yeah, great. Great question and it's a great
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  place to start. So I I I I think a lot, maybe a
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  lot of your audience has watched the decline in the American Fiat
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  dollar with a lot of skepticism and a lot of hesitation.
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  There are moves now by governments, not just American
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  state level governments or federal governments but
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  international governments to push us towards a digital
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  currency which is effectively a a mechanism of control that
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  governments will use to to you know make take over control of
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  private assets. So the best thing that I think
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  that we can do to push back on that and protect our citizens is
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  to make sure there's an alternative that can be used as
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  legal tender that can can you can hold in your hand.
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  No matter what they do with all these digital currencies or what
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  damage they do to the Fiat, Usus Dollar currency, there's always
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  going to be something physical and and for me and for the
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  founders that wrote this into the US Constitution that's gold
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  and silver. So my legislation which was
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  Senate Bill 100 last year, it's now Senate Bill 735 would make,
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  would make golden tender legal or would make gold and silver
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  legal tender in the state of Missouri.
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  So it's a great place to start. Very few states have done this.
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  I think only a couple states have actually passed something
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  like this. So Missouri is really on the
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  leading edge here. OK.
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  And you you touched on this, but and obviously you operate within
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  the political sphere on a national basis.
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  Do you feel like we have a chance of ever getting out of
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  this $33.6 trillion debt that we've built up?
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  Is that is that part of the concern behind this that there
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  seems to be on a national basis kind of reckless spending that's
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  going on ever growing debts and deficits.
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  Is that is that part of the the motivation behind this as well?
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  Yeah. Yes, I think that when you you
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  use the term reckless spending, I think that's putting it
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  nicely, right. That's putting it mildly.
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  It's it's out of control, devastating spending.
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  That's just wasteful spending and it's not just happening in
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  Washington DC Remember anything that's appropriated in
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  Washington DC is also getting appropriated down at the state
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  level. And you know, one of my big
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  frustrations in Missouri government is that we have a lot
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  of so-called fiscal conservatives in city that are
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  saying they're for smaller, more limited government in campaign
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  season and then they just spend like drunken sailors once the
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  session starts and once they're in office.
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  So, you know, the results of that so far has been to see
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  increases in inflation like we've not seen since the 1970s.
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  So folks are feeling the effects of this every single day.
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  And as the dollar continues to weaken in terms of its purchase
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  power, we want to make sure that there's always is going to be a
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  physical alternative for folks to be able to store wealth in.
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  And again that's where that's where gold and silver comes in.
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  And I'm not confident, Ron, I'm not confident that any of the
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  politicians, no matter who they are in Washington DC are ever
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  going to come to the realization that all this spending truly
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  needs to come to an end. So this is a great way that I
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  think that we can protect the citizens of Missouri in the
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  short term from just the the out of control, out of control
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  fiscal policies of our government.
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  Yeah, I would. I would agree with you on that
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  Bill. It feels like we are you know,
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  and I'm 53 years old. It it just feels like in the
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  last 20 years the spending has gotten gotten out of control and
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  and nobody seems to care. Very few people seem to care.
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  I sense that you care that I care and I imagine our viewer
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  here because they are gold and silver enthusiasts that they
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  care as well. So this legislation kind of
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  facilitates for Missouri residents, but again it's going
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  on in a number of other states as well.
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  But it facilitates the ability to help protect these citizens
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  and protect their right to use gold and silver as legal tender.
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  Are there any other details that you can share with us in terms
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  of what it what it might provide for the citizens?
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  prices, quality, and service. I think Pinbex is best, and you
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  will too. And be sure to tell him that
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  you're from Ron's basement. So.
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  It also eliminates income tax, capital gains taxes on the
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  transfer and sale of gold and silver.
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  So you know when you exchange your currency from 1 currency to
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  another. So if you transfer dollars into
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  euros or or back and forth, you know you don't pay income taxes
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  on that. Now, gold and silver is also a
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  form of currency under this bill, so it'll exempt sales of
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  precious metals, the gold and silver from being subject to the
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  income tax. So you can transfer your assets
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  into precious metals and back out again as you see fit without
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  having to pay the government a charge for that.
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  So there's a little bit of a tax cut in there.
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  It also, and by the way, even though it allows for gold and
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  silver to be legal tender in the state, it doesn't force anyone
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  to to to accept gold and silver. It doesn't force anyone to have
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  to use gold and silver. It does require that the state
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  government is going to have to accept gold and silver for the
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  receipt of its tax obligations. So, but I've never been hesitant
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  about putting restrictions on government.
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  But as far as the people of this state, it's an option, it's a
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  tool that they can use in order to make sure that their assets
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  are set up way that they want them to and it provides a
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  possible hedge against all this government interference and the
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  government spending that we see going on.
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  Yeah, interesting. And you know I'm, I'm, I have a
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  degree in accounting, so I understand how taxes and capital
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  gains work. And the example I would use is
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  it would be like if my wife handed me $100 worth of quarters
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  and I went to the bank and said I want to exchange this for $100
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  bill, that they would say, well, we have to charge you a tax for
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  doing that, right, that we wouldn't stand for that.
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  But silver and gold are well as it says in the constitution, you
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  know, real money. And the fact that we convert it
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  from Fiat paper back and forth, there really should not be a tax
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  associated with that. So it's good to hear that you're
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  providing for that. It feels like there's
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  grassroots, grassroots support. I think you and I have a common
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  friend, Pat Holland with the Missouri Freedom Initiative who
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  works tirelessly on this and other legislation.
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  How can people help support the legislation from your
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  perspective and how can they, how can they help support you as
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  well? So first let's talk about the
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  legislation. So last year we passed a similar
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  bills, one of the first bills that actually passed out of the
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  Missouri Senate last year that went over to the House and
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  basically died over in the House of Representatives.
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  The Speaker of the House, Dean Plocker was opposed to this
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  legislation, refused to support this legislation.
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  And then when he had an opportunity, even at the end of
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  session after sitting on it the entire session, he finally had
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  an opportunity to move it forward and he chose not to.
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  So you know, here this is a guy, Dean Plocker, he wants to become
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  your Lieutenant governor in the state of Missouri.
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  So I think that folks should be pretty bold about letting him
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  know that if he wants to be in tune with actual Republican
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  voters and folks that are interested in protecting their
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  rights, you know, this is a pretty easy thing that he can do
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  that has overwhelming support in both chambers and get this done.
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  So I would encourage folks to call Dean Plocker's office
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  that's where the breakdown was last year and ensure that he
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  knows that if he continues to defy the will of the grassroots
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  and the people of this state that there's going to be
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  political consequences for that. So I think that's that the
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  number one thing. As far as supporting me, Ron, as
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  you said, people have been supporting me tremendously not
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  just for this legislation but in my overall efforts to become the
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  next governor of the state of Missouri.
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  You know, for folks that are interested in that, I would
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  encourage them to check out my website billeichel.com.
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  You know we're we're doing a lot of good or trying to do a lot of
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  good things with with the swamp that we have in Jefferson City
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  not just past protections on gold and for gold and silver to
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  become legal tender. We're working on getting rid of
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  personal property tax in this state.
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  We're working on protecting our Missouri farmland from being
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  bought out by foreign entities. So but as I mentioned there's a
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  big swamp there. So this this requires A
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  tremendous amount of grassroots engagement which I've been very
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  fortunate to get the support of thus far.
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  So the session, which is starting here in a few weeks, is
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  a good time for folks to start reaching out to their
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  legislators and talking to them about issues like gold and
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  silver. Or if you're interested in the
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  the primary issue of who's going to be the next governor, which
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  we could probably spend a lot of time on that, go to
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  billeagle.com. Check it out.
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  OK, OK. Yeah, I I sense that you are
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  supporting initiatives, the three that you mentioned, legal
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  tender, foreign ownership of land and and reduction or
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  elimination of certain personal property that you are working
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  on. Initiatives that are for the
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  people and and that and correct me if I'm wrong, 'cause I always
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  say this is not a political show, but my my sense is that
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  for those types of initiatives to really gain the traction that
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  they really need, that grassroots support is
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  imperative. Is that a, is that an accurate
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  statement? First Mining Gold is a
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  development company advancing two of the largest gold projects
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  in Canada, Spring Pool in Ontario and Du Parquet located
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  in Quebec. Each already has 5 million
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  ounces of gold reserves, but exploration initiatives are
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  underway at both projects to find even more gold.
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  First, Mining is well financed, has zero debt and owns an
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  interest in four additional Canadian Gold Development
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  projects. 100%. In fact, the so just two of
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  those items, the gold and silver bill and the elimination of the
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  personal property tax. What makes those two bills
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  unique from the hundreds of other bills that are that just
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  got filed this week in Jefferson City is that there isn't a
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  single registered lobbyist that is fighting for those two bills,
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  not one. So the hallways of power in
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  Jefferson City don't really have a whole lot of interest in these
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  two particular bills. They don't really care if gold
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  and silver becomes legal tender and they don't care if we get
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  rid of personal property tax or not.
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  On the other hand, when you talk to everyday people all over this
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  state, those are two of the items that I hear about the most
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  getting rid of personal property tax and and making gold and
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  silver legal tender. So because we have, we're going
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  to have to beat the entire swamp here.
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  We've got to have a ton of grassroots engagement.
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  And believe me, it makes a difference when you have a
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  senator that may not be passionate about an issue like
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  gold and silver, but suddenly he gets 50 or he or she gets 50
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  phone calls from his district saying, hey, this is the
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  priority for us. We'd like you to support this
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  bill that can have a huge impact.
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  And if we do that, then I feel like we're going to be able to
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  beat the swamp, not just in an electoral sense, for the
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  gubernatorial primary next next August, but in the upcoming
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  legislative session. So don't underestimate the
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  influence of folks reaching out by phone in person to their
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  legislators and encouraging them to do the right thing.
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  Yeah, I heard a statistic the other day.
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  I was talking with a gentleman named Daniel Diaz.
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  He's with the Citizens for Sound Money.
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  They're doing legal tender legislation work across the
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  country. And he pointed out a statistic
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  that, you know, a phone call is the equivalent of like 50 votes
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  a letter. A handwritten letter is the
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  equivalent of 200 votes. And if you can go see your
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  representative or state senator in person that that's worth like
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  1000 votes. So yeah, I mean if people need
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  to realize that that that that that they can make a difference.
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  And you know, and I think it's important what you pointed out
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  as well that these initiatives that are for the people are not
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  going to be supported by the big lobbyists.
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  The big lobbyists are generally going to be supported by larger,
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  big, big business type interest and that if we want what's for
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  the people, we need to have the support of the people.
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  I think it's safe for me to say, Bill, that you absolutely have
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  my support. And I can't speak for the third
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  person, that voter who's with us right now, but I'm real
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  confident when I say that you have their support as well.
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  A lot of them are in Missouri and a lot of them are all
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  throughout the country. And I know you're running for
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  governor for Missouri, but hey, you never know.
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  Maybe someday we'll have Bill Eagle for president.
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  So it's. I think I just got another Gray
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  hair when you said that you got, you got enough on here.
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  I certainly appreciate that. And you know we're seeing a
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  level of engagement right now from the Republican electorate
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  that we've not seen before. And the reason that we have so
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  many people getting involved, whether it's an issue like gold
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  and silver, whether it's an issue like personal property
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  taxes, You know, government's never been as big as it is right
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  now. And it's never been as
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  destructive as it is right now. Not just in the in the dollars
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  that it's spending down in Washington, DC and in Jefferson
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  City, but look at what happened in the COVID environment yet.
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  I don't think that you can point to a more tyrannical moment that
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  we've had in America than the COVID environment in a in a
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  long, long time. So the folks are coming out and
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  many times they've never before been engaged in the political
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  discussion. But they recognize that things
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  are deteriorating in this country and in this state and
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  they're frustrated. They're angry.
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  And if you find yourself as one of those folks that are angry
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  about all the stuff that is going on and all the decline
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  that we're seeing in our culture, whether it's the attack
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  on our families or that they the corruption of our currency, I'm
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  asking you, I'm, I'm calling on on you on that third person in
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  in this conversation. Stay engaged.
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  Don't let go now because there's so much at stake.
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  And we're surrounded by more folks that are going to need
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  fighters who have been in the fight for years now that can
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  when those folks come in and say hey what what can I do, How can
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  I help that they're there to help them along.
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  I remember when I first got involved in politics.
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  This was in 2015, 2016, before I ran for office.
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  I had no, I mean, I I was upset and angry because of Obamacare.
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  You know, Obamacare doubled our premiums.
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  It it, it reduced our benefits. It was devastating for small
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  businesses. I was running a small business
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  at the time, and I didn't know where to go or who to talk to.
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  So I started reaching out to groups and I found the first
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  thing I found is that I wasn't alone.
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  You know, and and if you're alone and frustrated with
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  politicians in Jefferson City, I get that.
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  But you're not alone. There's people all over this
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  state that are as angry as you are and are starting to change
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  the results, the expected results in our Republican
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  primaries from what the Swamp Wants down in Jefferson City.
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  So don't let go, don't give up. And you're not alone.
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  We've we we're building coalitions that are going to
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  take not just the state back, but this country back and folks
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  are getting on board. Well, thank you very much, Bill,
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  for sharing your information, your time.
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  It's going to be exciting to watch the gold and silver legal
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  tender legislation work its way through the legislative process.
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  But I think I can speak on behalf of a lot of our viewers.
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  It'll be exciting to watch you, you know, run for Missouri
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  governor and who knows where we could go from there.
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  But you, you know, you, you strike me as a quality, honest
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  person who really is looking out for the best interest of the
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  average person. And like you said, a lot of the
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  average people in Missouri, but not just in Missouri but around
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  the country, I think are angry, frustrated.
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  And I think in some ways a little sad too about what is
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  going on, whether we're talking about the, you know, the feels
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  like to me and I'm the one saying this, the plundering of
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  the country with this out of control spending.
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  And people want to, you know, want, want, want change and they
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  also want a way to protect themselves, which for us here in
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  Missouri, this legal tender legislation could provide.
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  So we'll look forward to watching you.
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  And I know you said earlier how people can can find out more
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  about you, but again, on behalf of everyone, thank you and
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  hopefully we'll see you again here in the basement soon.
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  Awesome. Well, Ron, thanks so much for
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  having me. I hope everybody has a great
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  week and we'll talk real soon.