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Yes all governments are corrupt (here's how) · Inside Strategic Relations

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  Speaker 1: There are times I wonder if there's an audience for
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  Speaker 1: the background knowledge how government works, how people work, how
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  Speaker 1: corporation works. But this background knowledge is very often hidden
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  Speaker 1: below the surface and not something that corporations and lobbyists
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  Speaker 1: want to be out there. So again, if there's an
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  Speaker 1: audience for this, let me know, because these insights can
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  Speaker 1: help you navigate through these systems. So, for example, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about how bribery works
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  Speaker 1: in government and how it actually deteriorates civil liberties and
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  Speaker 1: reduces the efficiency, and why small government's actually better. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I'm justin hitting this is inside strategic relations,
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  Speaker 1: where we talk about the nuances of influence, the nuances
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  Speaker 1: of how do you get things done. Now, in the
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  Speaker 1: case of bribery, you can get things done because it
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  Speaker 1: greases the wheel. So bribery is where you give a
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  Speaker 1: little gift or consideration to move to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the pot in a bureaucratic system where governments, laws, rules,
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  Speaker 1: and regulations. By the way, I have a background in
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  Speaker 1: risk management, and I've worked for large corporations, and a
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  Speaker 1: large corporation will do this by lobbying, and so they'll
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  Speaker 1: form a lobby organization, and they'll buy into certain political campaigns,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll provide suggestions and they'll write reports very much
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  Speaker 1: to influence political decision now in your day to day life.
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  Speaker 1: And I've experienced this in my local community, and I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten in a lot of trouble by revealing this is
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  Speaker 1: that in order to get a permit, sometimes you've got
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  Speaker 1: to get in the pile, get in the line, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you've got to make it worth their while to
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  Speaker 1: move you to the top of the list. Now, of
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  Speaker 1: course that makes everybody else's stuff take longer. But if
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  Speaker 1: you need to get something done, you offering an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: or shopping at their establishment or helping out their brother
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  Speaker 1: in law gets things done because it cultivates a certain
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  Speaker 1: time type of relationship that shows that you're in the
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  Speaker 1: in crowd, that you're part of the group. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff is horrible. It creates bureaucracy and government.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there's the permit itself is a mechanism government
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  Speaker 1: uses to control individuals. It creates an artificial delay. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you have to get a permit to open a
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  Speaker 1: business if you can serve customers and you have people
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  Speaker 1: in the marketplace that need something. There are very few
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  Speaker 1: businesses that require a large amount of education, Like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: a law firm can't be opened by a non legal professional,
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  Speaker 1: and it's because that industry lobbied that you can't. You
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  Speaker 1: have to be a lawyer to open a law firm.
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  Speaker 1: But is a lawyer really the best qualified individual to
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  Speaker 1: run a law firm. Not necessarily the lawyer is the
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  Speaker 1: best qualfied individual will be a lawyer. But when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the office, back office, comes to the marketing,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the day to day operations, the
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  Speaker 1: lawyer is the least valuable person. In fact, the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: doing those types of activities is distracting from the good
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  Speaker 1: service they can provide as a lawyer. However, their industry
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  Speaker 1: lobbied so that you wouldn't have a consolidation. For example,
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  Speaker 1: so there are strategies where you might go into and
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  Speaker 1: you have like sixteen injury attorneys, and you might bring
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  Speaker 1: them under one organization, and then under that one organization,
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  Speaker 1: they're now being commoditized because they're not setting prices, they're
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  Speaker 1: not in charge, they're simply lawyers. And so their industry
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  Speaker 1: decided to keep in a profession and to limit access
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  Speaker 1: to the profession. They would lobby government to create permits
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  Speaker 1: and requirements in order to establish a professional LLC or
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  Speaker 1: some kind of legal structure that protects their interests. Now,
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  Speaker 1: again that is not at all efficient because there are
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  Speaker 1: some legal elements such as forums and basic estates that
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  Speaker 1: really don't require a lawyer. In fact, in many states,
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  Speaker 1: you can just fill out a form and file for bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 1: You don't really need a lawyer to help you with that,
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  Speaker 1: but the presentation, and again there may not be interest
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  Speaker 1: for this topic. You may want to wander through life
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  Speaker 1: not knowing how things actually work, and in that get
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  Speaker 1: screwed over and miss out on opportunities and not be
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  Speaker 1: able to leverage. Now, the problem is is that when
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  Speaker 1: government requires a permit, the government now takes a position
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  Speaker 1: of control and they want to get paid for that.
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  Speaker 1: So they either want to collect fees, additional tax revenue,
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  Speaker 1: or other things to pay for the structure that maintains
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  Speaker 1: the permit. Now, very few governments are going to ask
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  Speaker 1: is the permit even necessary? Now, there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of businesses don't require permits. So, for example, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a consultant, in the majority of jurisdictions, a business license
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  Speaker 1: is not required. Why because it's not your primary thing.
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  Speaker 1: So that can consulting work itself is done as a
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  Speaker 1: contractor a ten ninety nine contractor. It might be done
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  Speaker 1: as an employee. It might be done as a corp
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  Speaker 1: to corp. But where the corporation itself is a professional corporation,
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  Speaker 1: it's doesn't have a storefront, it's not selling product. The
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  Speaker 1: liability is maintained within the consulting advice under errors and
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  Speaker 1: omissions insurance. And so the vast majority of jurisdictions don't
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  Speaker 1: require consultants to have business licenses, but when they do,
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  Speaker 1: very often they don't understand the consulting business itself and
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  Speaker 1: they want to collect sales tax on reports. So we
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  Speaker 1: sell special reports. And I had to describe these reports
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  Speaker 1: as either done for you information, it's processes, procedures, and
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  Speaker 1: then in the back end we answer questions or done
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  Speaker 1: with you, which you were delivering as a service, or
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  Speaker 1: we do all the work for you, which is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent service because I don't have to pay sales
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  Speaker 1: and use tax on services. I do have to pay
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  Speaker 1: sales and use tax on products. But again I'm delivering
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  Speaker 1: a PDF file and my personal instruction to help me
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  Speaker 1: implement it, and that you know, so maybe you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in a group cohort and you're going to receive training,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know you're gonna go do the work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not selling a book at Amazon. And again, even
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  Speaker 1: if I do sell a book at Amazon, I'm selling
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  Speaker 1: the book in a different jurisdiction. Therefore I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to pay sales and use tax. Again, that structure itself
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  Speaker 1: is part of that bribery. It's part of that corruption
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  Speaker 1: that is causing to slow down the economic value. If
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  Speaker 1: a person has knowledge to offer, and then one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that we help clients do is translate your
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  Speaker 1: knowledge into income. So if you've been a professional for
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  Speaker 1: the last five to twenty years, you know things that
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  Speaker 1: can help people solve problems. That's an economically viable offer
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  Speaker 1: in the marketplace, and it has a significant amount of
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  Speaker 1: value on the other side, because for example, I'm helping
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  Speaker 1: clients solve million dollar problems, the government wants to take
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  Speaker 1: They want a percentage of that. And it comes back
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  Speaker 1: to it's a pay to play program. And so what
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  Speaker 1: ends up happening is in order to remove delays, you
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  Speaker 1: need to have bribes. You need to have pressure, you
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  Speaker 1: need to have influence. You're now buying access, you're buying attention,
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  Speaker 1: You're buying the ability to get things done. But again,
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  Speaker 1: that government, as it grows to manage the licensing system,
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  Speaker 1: to manage the permitting system, is now requiring additional income,
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  Speaker 1: and so it increases your taxes. The trade Association might
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  Speaker 1: believe it's protecting itself by limiting access to the industry,
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  Speaker 1: but the real matter of fact is the problems is
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  Speaker 1: what protects yourself. So if you have law firms that
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  Speaker 1: can't win cases, those law firms will go away. There's
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  Speaker 1: no protectionism for that because the marketplace has decided that
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  Speaker 1: firm isn't when in cases, let's stop buying from that firm,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to somebody else. Now, the licenses also create
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  Speaker 1: a barrier to entry, and so again it's like a
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  Speaker 1: toll booth. It's like a troll and a toll booth,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to pay the play. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: buying access, you're buying attention. The little gift shows respect
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  Speaker 1: moves you up the list a little bit. But as
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  Speaker 1: that happens, those simple bribes start becoming lobby groups, they
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  Speaker 1: start becoming you know corruption. So I have had political
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  Speaker 1: figures in my community come to me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to need to do X, Y and Z.
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  Speaker 1: So I was hiring landscapers directly from a staffing agency,
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  Speaker 1: which is very cost effective. I was hiring them as
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  Speaker 1: part of my company to maintain the property that I
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  Speaker 1: was at that I used for an office space. But
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  Speaker 1: I didn't actually have customers ever come to the office.
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  Speaker 1: There was no I would fly to the clients. They
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't come to me. But again, I would hire staff
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  Speaker 1: direct to do landscaping and to do tree services and
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  Speaker 1: to mow the grass and all these different things. And
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  Speaker 1: I got a personal phone call, which they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: I'd record all the phone calls, suggesting that I pick
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  Speaker 1: a certain landscaping company rather than hiring direct because I
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  Speaker 1: was likely violating a law hiring household employees. Now they
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  Speaker 1: don't need to know the structure of how I'm hiring people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually a company is hiring staff to do work.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked at many a corporation where well, actually when
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  Speaker 1: I was doing computer repair, where I would go to
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  Speaker 1: a senior level executive's home and I would set up
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  Speaker 1: their home computer. Now this is a corporate provided home computer.
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  Speaker 1: I'd set the computer up, I'd show them how to
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  Speaker 1: use the computer. They would use that computer when they
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  Speaker 1: worked remote And so it's not unusual for a company
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  Speaker 1: to cover these expenses. And it's not unusual for the
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  Speaker 1: company to send landscapers or repair people or maintenance folks
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  Speaker 1: to come take care of the house because they want
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  Speaker 1: that executive to be able to focus on results. I
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  Speaker 1: was able to focus on results because I outsourced my laundry,
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  Speaker 1: my housekeeping, my land maintenance, my mowing and landscaping, all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to who took the trash out was
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  Speaker 1: being done by someone other than me. My job was
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  Speaker 1: to wake up, do podcasts, duke coaching calls, do actual
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  Speaker 1: work for clients, and nothing else. The only thing I
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  Speaker 1: did outside of that is mostly cooked my own food
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  Speaker 1: and bathed. But again, the political person who needs, who
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  Speaker 1: feels they need you need their permission to do things,
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  Speaker 1: is jealous of this, and they even went as far
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  Speaker 1: as to pull my tax return. Now, to be fair,
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  Speaker 1: they pulled a lot of people's tax returns because it
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  Speaker 1: turned out I wasn't the only one getting this kind
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  Speaker 1: of abuse. But their mind was is that he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve this, And to see a crew of five or
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  Speaker 1: six people out there doing yard work or to clean
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  Speaker 1: the house or whatever is going on, they're jealous. They're jealous,
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  Speaker 1: and so they asked for money. They said, you hire
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  Speaker 1: these companies and we're gonna let you do that, or
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get a special use permit. And
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  Speaker 1: I checked with my lawyer. There's no such special use
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  Speaker 1: permit necessary for what I was doing. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: way I had structured things, I had rental properties too,
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  Speaker 1: so that it's not unusual for a landscaping crew to
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  Speaker 1: come out and work a rental property. Now I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get additional rental property. So I was building
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  Speaker 1: my own team, and that's not unusual either. What is
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  Speaker 1: unusual is that entitled attitude that many political figures have.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was asked by city council members, I
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  Speaker 1: was asked by a treasurer, I was asked by other people,
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  Speaker 1: and actually have recordings of those things that I turned
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  Speaker 1: over to my lawyer. And then ultimately the lawyer sent
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  Speaker 1: out a cease and desist or he called somebody through
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  Speaker 1: a network. Now where's the lesson in this? Well, First off,
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  Speaker 1: I had the state Attorney General reach out and check
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  Speaker 1: on the business practice, because number one, the business practice,
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  Speaker 1: the practice of requiring random licenses in order to operate
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  Speaker 1: within the city limits is an I legal activity, and
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  Speaker 1: so I raised the flag to have somebody look into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good friends with these people. I'm not connected
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  Speaker 1: to these people. My lawyer just happened to know or
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  Speaker 1: be in the social circles of this, and raise the
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  Speaker 1: flag that there's a city that is requiring fees, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars in fees, which I never paid any
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  Speaker 1: of these fees because they turn out to be bullshit anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that is where the corruption comes in. The
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  Speaker 1: bribery comes in. Now, can we leverage these systems understanding
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  Speaker 1: they exist in order to get results? And I yes,
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  Speaker 1: you can, but there's a caveat. If you feed the bribe,
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  Speaker 1: they will always ask for more money. I'm getting a
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  Speaker 1: haircut one day, I'm sitting down and a city council
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  Speaker 1: member comes over and says, hey, justin I heard you're
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  Speaker 1: having a little problem with zoning. And I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having this problem with zoning. What can you do
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  Speaker 1: about it? How can we get this resolved? And he says, well,
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  Speaker 1: these types of things are very expensive to get resolved,
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  Speaker 1: and my political campaign is coming up. I'm go up
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  Speaker 1: for reelection and I need a little hand. I said,
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  Speaker 1: what are you looking for? I'm thinking one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars. I'm thinking maybe up five hundred dollars, and
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  Speaker 1: he specifically asked for fifteen hundred dollars. Now, I pulled
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  Speaker 1: their campaign contributions, and nobody contributes fifteen hundred dollars to
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  Speaker 1: their campaigns. In fact, very few people contribute to their campaigns.
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  Speaker 1: So in my mind, being the risk management professional I am,
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  Speaker 1: they are receiving contributions that they're not filing. So I
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  Speaker 1: didn't pay. I didn't pay. I said, look, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars seems like a little much. Give me your campaign
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  Speaker 1: information and I'll see what I could do. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything, because, again, when I looked into the paperwork,
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  Speaker 1: if they're getting even one hundred and fifty dollars from
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  Speaker 1: people here and there, they weren't reporting it to the
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  Speaker 1: election board, and therefore it would make me look bad
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  Speaker 1: because paying a bribe is illegal. By the way, it
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  Speaker 1: would make me look bad if I were to pay
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  Speaker 1: a bribe in order to get something worked out. But
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  Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred dollars was a lot cheaper than the
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  Speaker 1: twenty or thirty thousand dollars. It cost me legal fees.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to be a first aware of the
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  Speaker 1: situation because you can get baited into an illegal activity.
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  Speaker 1: But also it's better to do structure. That structure is
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  Speaker 1: a political action committee. Your contributions to that political action
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  Speaker 1: committee can be tax deductible, depends on what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: When you understand that there's this corruption economy, we want
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  Speaker 1: to play the game from a position of righteousness, a
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  Speaker 1: position of results. Now my approach did not work so
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  Speaker 1: well for me because I ended up filing complaints with
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  Speaker 1: state and federal agencies and only now have that stuff
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  Speaker 1: come out that there's issues, and of course if they
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  Speaker 1: found out, they did find out I had filed these complaints,
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  Speaker 1: and then my situation just got worse because that local
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  Speaker 1: government can put pressure on you in ways that are
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  Speaker 1: pretty negative. In fact, they put so much pressure on
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  Speaker 1: one of the neighbors that he killed himself. And now
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  Speaker 1: these are just claims. This isn't factually evidenced. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: blaming any individual people. In fact, this could be an
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  Speaker 1: entire work of fiction. But the point being is that
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  Speaker 1: this is not something to mess around with. Someone who's
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  Speaker 1: willing to accept the bribe, no matter how small, has
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  Speaker 1: an unethical behavior, and they're going to create a system
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  Speaker 1: around that in order to reinforce them getting more bribes
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  Speaker 1: because most of the time they're not paying taxes on
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  Speaker 1: these things, they're not reporting it to election committees, They're
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  Speaker 1: they're just pocketing the money. I had another instance where
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at buying a piece of land and
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  Speaker 1: the person I was i get from turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be on a board of zoning and they assured me
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  Speaker 1: that I could change the zoning to whatever they wanted
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  Speaker 1: because they had three votes on the board. And so
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  Speaker 1: they're literally omitting. By the way, these aren't the smartest
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  Speaker 1: people in the in the book, but they're literally admitting
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  Speaker 1: a criminal conspiracy to change zoning based on personal interests.
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  Speaker 1: So again, you want to establish a political action committee,
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  Speaker 1: you want to put a campaign committee together, and then
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  Speaker 1: you're going to influence these people by making them beholden
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  Speaker 1: to you through the support and contribution. So I've been
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  Speaker 1: on an organization, I've helped several organizations. I've been involved
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  Speaker 1: in different advocacy groups or nonprofits, where we essentially bought
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  Speaker 1: access to political figures, and through buying that access, they
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  Speaker 1: became dependent on the decisions of the organization. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: the larger federal circles, there are organizations like APAK. There's
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  Speaker 1: organizations like the Rifle Association where they essentially lead bank
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  Speaker 1: role politicians and when the politicians fail to vote in
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  Speaker 1: their favor, they limit funds. This is what happens. However,
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  Speaker 1: it's completely legal. It's completely legal. Now. I'm also an
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  Speaker 1: advocate for campaign transparency because I do believe that we
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  Speaker 1: need to know who's influencing who. So if you go
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  Speaker 1: out the Open Secrets, you pick your favorite politician, you
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  Speaker 1: can see who's contributed to their campaign. That kind of
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  Speaker 1: transparency helps the voter make a better decision. But all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff is creating a big government system that
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  Speaker 1: now requires lobbyists in order to get anything accomplished. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm always conflicted whether I should play the game or
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  Speaker 1: I should blame the game. But the bottom line is
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  Speaker 1: is that you need to play the game above the board.
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  Speaker 1: So in the case of like Open Secrets, I can
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  Speaker 1: go to it's a website OpenSecrets dot com. I can
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  Speaker 1: go there and I can see who's funding who. I
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  Speaker 1: can make a decisions as a voter, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: there's a better result. Now, are there under the table
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  Speaker 1: bribes going on? Are there quid pro crow favors? You know,
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  Speaker 1: cousins and brother in law? You know, if you look
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  Speaker 1: into the federal government, you've got politicians on one committee
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  Speaker 1: who have relatives working for the companies that will benefit
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  Speaker 1: from that committee. That information is readily available, but people
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  Speaker 1: aren't doing anything about it. So I would like again
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  Speaker 1: transparency into campaigns. Don't ever pay an under the table bribe.
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  Speaker 1: Always make it public, Always have receipts, Always have recordings
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation, because again, paying a bribe is illegal,
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  Speaker 1: and so at the point where you are no longer useful,
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  Speaker 1: they now have evidence that you paid bribes and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get a slap on the hand, but you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get jail time. And so we want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we understand the system. We work within this system,
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  Speaker 1: but we also look to improve the system, which is transparency.
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  Speaker 1: It's reduction of regulations, it's smaller government, it's transparency when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to campaign finance, it's limiting terms, congressional terms,
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  Speaker 1: so that people can't make a living collecting money from
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  Speaker 1: making things difficult and slow and overregulating or making one
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  Speaker 1: one industry have no You know, you can become a
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  Speaker 1: So this is a complex issue. The underlying factors are
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  Speaker 1: that it exists in all levels of government and that
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  Speaker 1: it's harder to do when you have a small government
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  Speaker 1: because the smaller the government is, the less likely they're
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  Speaker 1: going to organize in order to defend themselves, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be more at the will of the people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the it's a whole other podcast episodes of whether the
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  Speaker 1: the gist of what we're talking about today is don't
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  Speaker 1: pay the bribes, no matter it's gonna hurt. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm financially in a bad situation because of it,
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  Speaker 1: the right thing is transparency, the right thing is is understanding.
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  Speaker 1: The right thing is structure. The right thing is positioning.
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  Speaker 1: And again, those folks that are cutting corners are always
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