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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday. Happy Valentine’s Day, Producer Joe. Happy Valentine’s Day, Kim. Yeah. And actually, Colonel Rutledge had reached out. He had said, hey, Friday is Valentine’s Day. Do you have somebody to talk to in Loveland, Colorado about Valentine’s Day? And then I got busy planning all these shows and I didn’t do that. So happy Valentine’s Day to all of you out there. And I can’t believe that we’re at the middle of February. It is fantastic. Just really going by quickly. So much to do. And when I say that we were made for this moment in history, I am not kidding. And check out the website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You will get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. Very important essay by Pam Long that we’ll roll out this weekend regarding what we can learn from the RFK Jr. hearings for Health and Human Services Secretary. He was confirmed yesterday, but it’s a really important piece, and I’ll talk a little bit more about that. how that can help you in your narrative when you’re talking with people. So sign up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you’ll get first look at that as well as all of our upcoming guests. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. Text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station. What that means is I purchase my airtime so we have full editorial control on guests and as well as subject selection. So thank you to all of you who support us in that. The show broadcasts 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. On all KLZ 560 platforms, first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night, and that’s on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. Within 24 hours, we’ve got the show posted on my website with a written summary. as well as the podcast. And then those podcasts can also be heard of the show on Spotify and iTunes. So we are everywhere. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, which that is a really important litmus test, because if something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate to take other people’s stuff, their rights, their property, livelihoods, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can be a weapon, policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum’s agenda, The globalist elites agenda, all these things are connected with the United Nations. You see it playing out at the Colorado State Legislature with this governor. Nothing happens down here at the legislature without his approval. And while he is trying to. say that he actually is a libertarian. That is not the case. And it’s important to understand that he is in control of all of this stuff. And just a quick little report. As of this morning, 457 bills have been introduced at the Colorado Statehouse. We don’t really need another law. We need to be pulling these bills. We’re getting rid of laws, which we do have some Republicans that have proposed things to get rid of some of these laws, but it’s out of control down at the Statehouse. But then land use codes and zoning regulations and forced fees and conservation easements and national monument designations. I should add in their enterprise zones. And the list has been getting bigger, although Trump is trying to trying to start to edit some of this stuff out of here. And he’s doing a lot of amazing work. I was talking with a friend yesterday who said every morning when you look at the headlines, it’s like going to the candy store to see what’s happening from a freedom standpoint. And additionally said, much rather watch the headlines versus sports these days because there’s a lot happening. And we are in the third founding of our country, reclaiming our country in this great American idea. And when I say we were made for this moment in history. It’s an exciting time. It’s a dangerous time. But indeed, we were made for this moment on the show. We focus on the issues and we will mention the people pushing those issues. But we’re trying to stay out of the eighth grade girl fighting that can happen in politics and stay focused on the issues and have discipline in doing so. This Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. on America’s Veterans Stories, we are broadcasting part two of an interview with Bob Chica. He was on the USS Pueblo. It was taken captive during the Vietnam War in 1968, held for 11 months by the North Koreans. It’s a riveting story. in interview. We have part one that broadcast last Sunday. And if you want to hear part one, that will broadcast on Sunday night, 10 to 11 at night. But then part two is three to four this Sunday. And it’s absolutely riveting. And Oh, my gosh. We so take for granted everything that we have here. And listening to these stories, we realize that these are everyday people that put their lives on the line for us. And that’s one of the reasons he’s a Marine. It’s one of the reasons why I so support the USMC Memorial Foundation and the work that they’re doing regarding the remodel of the Marine Memorial Institute. And just a little something this year, make sure that you get some money over to the USMC Memorial Foundation for the remodel of this Marine Memorial. And you can do that. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And a riveting interview with Bob Chico. That will be this Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. on all KLZ 560 platforms. And it is my great honor to get to do these interviews. And the impetus for this was the trip that I took in 2016 with a group that accompanied four D-Day veterans back to Normandy, France for the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day landings. Each of those guys has passed on now, but it truly changed my life. And so again, the USMC Memorial Foundation, a great place to make sure that you support with your dollars. Word of the day is inculcate. It’s I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E. It’s a verb. And it could be to teach or impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions. And we have seen the mainstream media And with the help of a big tech, try to inculcate particular messages to the American people. The veil is coming off on all of that, but we still see it each and every day. And I’ll talk a little bit about that on one of these headlines here in just a moment. But since it is Friday, that is our Medal of Honor. a quote day. And I take that quote from this Medal of Honor quote book that is published at the Center for American Values. Highly recommend that you have this in your home on your Freedom Library. Sit down and talk with your children and your grandchildren about these different quotes, these different men here. I said to Drew and Brad, the co-founders, that I really think that we should have in Colorado that every student would take a Medal of Honor recipient, one of the quotes here, and do a report each year on one of these guys. I think it would really change people’s attitudes. I think it would change our education system. But that book, you can get that by going to the website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And our quote today is from James A. Taylor, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. He was born in 1937. He’s a retired United States Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions he took during the Vietnam War. The actions were November 9, 1967. And this is the citation. Captain Taylor Armour was serving as executive officer of Troop B, 1st Squadron, and his troop was engaged in an attack on a fortified position west of Quezon when it came under intense enemy recoilless rifle, mortar, and automatic weapons fire from an enemy strong point located immediately to its front. One armored cavalry assault vehicle was hit immediately by recoilless rifle fire, and all five crew members were wounded. aware that the stricken vehicle was in grave danger of exploding captain taylor rushed forward and personally extracted the wounded to safety despite the hail of enemy fire and exploding ammunition within minutes a second armored cavalry assault vehicle was hit by multiple recoilless rifle rounds despite the continuing intense enemy fire captain taylor moved forward on foot to rescue the wounded men from the burning vehicle and personally removed all the crewmen to the safety of a nearby dike moments later the vehicle exploded As he was returning to his vehicle, a bursting mortar round painfully wounded Captain Taylor, yet he valiantly returned to his vehicle to relocate the medical evacuation zone to an area closer to the front lines. As he was moving his vehicle, it came under machine gun fire from an enemy position not 50 yards away. captain taylor engaged the position with his machine gun killing the three-man crew upon arrival at the new evacuation site still another vehicle was struck once again captain taylor rushed forward and pulled the wounded from the vehicle loaded them aboard his vehicle and returned them safely to the evacuation site his actions of unsurpassed valor were a source of inspiration to his entire troop contributed significantly to the success of the overall assault on the enemy position and were directly responsible for saving the lives of a number of his fellow soldiers His actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military profession and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army. And as we read these citations, that obviously was a physical fight, but we’re in a battle of ideas right now. We need to take heart from this and engage in the battle of ideas every day on a regular basis. And this is what James A. Taylor said. He said, Hard work and sacrifice are all you need to succeed in life. Challenge a challenge and be ready to give your life if necessary to preserve freedom for future generations. And that’s James A. Taylor, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. A couple of things I wanted to mention. RFK Jr., was confirmed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. And I found this particular headline very interesting from USA Today. And of course, USA Today used to be, I don’t know if it still does, but if you were, when I used to go back to New York on a regular basis, I might find it at the door of my hotel room, and for free or included in the price of the hotel. And USA Today has really just look at this particular headline. It says, Kennedy is a dangerous joke. What comes next is on Republicans. And I find that headline super, super troubling because it’s really kind of like trying to push a particular narrative. And this piece went on to say, let me get to it here. Oh, gosh. It was calling it quackonomics was one of the things. And for some reason, it’s not giving me the whole story here. But you can see if this is the only things that people are hearing or reading, that their attitudes can be skewed. It’s important that we look at everything. And I would recommend that you check out Pam Long’s article that we’ll publish on Sunday. It’ll be in the newsletter. And she goes through the things that we can learn. And one of the things that Kennedy has said is that we have an epidemic of chronic disease in America. We need to get that turned around. The mainstream media is calling his his actions that that might be crackonomics because they want to continue to have people have to look to pharmaceuticals instead of things that we can do to make ourselves healthier. So I just thought that was a really important headline. Another thing is the Senate approves Trump’s FBI pick, and that is Kash Patel. It looks like he has moved on. And through this, this is from Politico. And so that’s going to be super interesting. It was a 1210 vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee. And that’s why elections really do matter, because if the Republicans were not in control of the Senate, then that that would have had a different outcome, I think. And so these elections really matter. I am dedicated to continuing to work. on to to build on the work that we did with our colorado 2024 election project thank you to all of you for raising the money for those two lawsuits and we are morphing this into reclaim colorado 2025. so want to stay tuned on all that i thank the harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show it’s because of these great sponsors that we do all of this And I also wanted to mention the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I do want to hear from you. The text line is 720-605-0647. And wanted to mention this headline from the Denverite. It’s like Mayor Mike Johnston just does not give up on trying to run Denver into the ground. Denver is dirty, it’s dangerous, sanctuary city. And so we want to get on this early because we were able to work to defeat his sales tax increase proposal last November for affordable housing. Now, it says the Denver mayor wants voters to approve millions in new debt for citywide projects. It says voters could decide in November whether to keep higher property tax rates to pay for playgrounds, roads, and more. They always put these things in that they think people… care about and boy the roads in denver they’re terrible and again it’s because they don’t really do what they say they’re going to do with the money and of course they’re putting different streets on road diets with those goofy barriers uh for between um bike bike lanes and uh bus lanes So anyway, recreation centers, libraries, playgrounds, roads, bridges, that’s just a snapshot of what Denver Mayor Mike Johnson envisions the city could finance with a proposed new vibrant Denver bond package, which could allow the city to take on hundreds of millions of dollars in debt to pay for new projects. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I do want to just mention that property owners are having to pay a sidewalk tax. for sidewalks and so um anyway uh so they’re digging property owners over there for that but anyway they want to keep the higher property taxes as well and this is what johnston said this is a chance for denver to control its own destiny and make sure the things that make this city joyful and vibrant are on the front of our priority list And he says and he announced the proposal on Wednesday at here. Let’s get down to the rest of this at the Carla Madison Recreation Center on East Colfax. The city was setting wasn’t random. The Carla Madison is Denver’s newest recreation center and its forty four million dollar construction was funded through a 2007 bond. Johnson said it’s the right time. to launch a new debt spending program since it has nearly wrapped up its current bond packages. How about pay those off and let people keep more money in their pocket? And this is the thing that they say, says the bond won’t raise taxes, but it will keep them higher. So the package would be funded through general obligation bonds, which are repaid over years using property taxes. So what they want to do is they want to keep these taxes there. If the taxes went away, your taxes would go down. And this is one of those smoke and mirrors kind of things that you see with these politicians. And, again, we will go to work on it. Recommending a no vote on that already, and it would keep these taxes at the current property tax rates. And I wanted to just mention, this is… let’s see here where i’ve got it at the cut board meeting the other night the colorado union taxpayers board meeting we talked about this house bill 25 11 34 which the prime sponsor on that is representative scott bottoms and as the president on friday evenings i go through and look at all the bills that are scheduled for hearing for the next week and we’ll select bills from our cut pledge which you can find that at the colorado union of taxpayer website our pledge and we look at these bills on how they affect taxes or Tabor Colorado’s taxpayers Bill of Rights school choice property rights I did not select this bill for us to look at because I didn’t see government coercion or force in it and again it’s House Bill 25 1134 insect production for human consumption and And as we talked more and more about it, certainly this could be a camel’s nose under the tent to push people eating more and more insects. And I was thinking, okay, free market, as long as people have informed consent, as long as they understand what’s going on, then I thought it was a free market question. Although some of the board members said, well, maybe we might want to take another look at this because there might be some real health concerns regarding insect stuff in our food. And so we wanted to just kind of revisit that. And so I think that we will do so. But that again, that’s House Bill 25-1134, Insect Production for Human Consumption. And we’d love to hear what you guys all think about that as well. Because where I was concerned is if, in fact, we would regulate a food source, insect production, which is something that I don’t like, could that mean that also that you might have government trying to regulate production for things that I do like, such as beef production? And so that’s where I came down on that. And So we’ll continue to have more and more discussions about that. So the next thing I wanted to mention regarding headlines, let me get to this. And this is that the Biden-Harris, these bureaucrats, this has really been highway robbery, what these folks have done. And this is a top Biden HHS official funneled billions to migrants through her nonprofit Connections. And this is from the Tampa Free Press. And it says a watchdog report revealed Thursday that a top official in the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services directed millions in migrant assistance grants to nonprofits where she previously held senior positions. Robin Dunn-Marcos led the HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, that’s ORR, under former President Joe Biden. She oversaw $22.6 billion in grant distributions since 2020, with her former employers emerging as top beneficiaries. i talk about interest of parties politics um pbis politicians joe biden bureaucrats robin dunn marcos and interested parties the office of refugee resettlement and it goes on to say this um the international rescue committee irc where she spent 23 years as a senior director received five hundred ninety eight million dollars while church world service her employer of four years was awarded three hundred and fifty five million dollars according to an open the books report It says, consistent with the ethics pledge, Robin Don Marcos is recused from participating in particular matters involving specific parties in which IRC is or represents a party. A spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families, ORR’s parent agency, told the outlet, the recusal obligation lasts for two years from her date of appointment, which was September 11, 2022. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And pleased to have on the line Dr. Brian Dimitrovic. He’s an economic historian. He’s the Richard S. Strong Scholar at the Laffer Center. He holds a PhD in history from Harvard University, where he also did graduate work in the economics department. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University studying history and mathematics. As a former associate professor and chairman of the Department of History at Sam Houston State University, he’s written for numerous scholarly and popular publications. And he is the author of Econoclast, The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity. He co-authored with Larry Kudlow, JFK and the Revolution, A Secret History of American Prosperity, and most recently, author of The Emergence of Arthur Laffer, The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago in Washington, 1966 to 1976. Dr. Brian Dimitrovich, welcome to the show.
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Hi, Kim. Good morning. It’s great to be here.
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Well, a lot’s happened since you and I last talked. We’re into Trump, too. And what’s your thoughts about Trump, too?
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Well, Kim, yeah, it’s really a great development. We were we were flirting with a disaster if we had gone the other direction in the election. I mean, you know, but Biden, President Biden was fooling around with, you know, blowout spending that was enhancing the deficit, the debt, the national debt without getting Any kind of economic payoff. When Ronald Reagan increased the debt in the 1980s, we won the Cold War, dispatched inflation that had been double digits and went from constant stagflation into 4.5% per annum growth for 20 years. So you can buy good things with deficits if they come through marginal tax cuts. They come through welfare spending. I mean, that’s the road to ruin.
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Brian, I have been shocked as I’ve seen these totals that have been coming out of information regarding Elon Musk and Doge and United USAID, the amount of money that they’ve been spending. I had just talked about one of Biden’s top officials. She was Robin Dunn-Marcos. She had been with the Health and Human Services Association. over the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and had moved $22.6 billion, and the organizations she’d been involved with, had one of them received almost $600 million. This is like fleecing the American people, I think, and it’s shocking to me.
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At least since the 1950s, there has been a complete bipartisan consensus that that waste, fraud, and abuse should be rooted out of government. And those three terms have been used literally since the 1950s in bipartisan fashion. And it’s finally happening. I mean, that is a sea change in the development of American political economy. If we actually are rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse, wow, we really have reason to believe it might be morning in America.
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Do you think that Elon Musk can get to a trillion dollars in all this fraud, waste, and abuse? He seems like he’s making great headway on that.
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Yeah, I mean, I’m with a vast majority of Americans out there, Kim. I mean, I have no idea what’s in the budget, so I don’t know if he can get to one trillion. The only thing I know is… is that the headline number is absolutely gigantic. I mean, with a $6, $7 trillion budget, I mean, you can just – that is far beyond what any kind of reasonable organization, I don’t care how sprawling it might be and how important it might be, could spend in an efficient manner. So I think even if it’s in a lower than that fraction, if it’s in the hundreds of billions, even $100 billion – The effect on the economy would be immense in that there would be this kind of multiplier effect whereby, whoa, we’re shrinking government, and then there’d be more investment by the private sector into the real economy. And so there would be this kind of double growth. And that’s when you really vanquish your debt. I mean, when you have economic growth – that is making government spending redundant. That’s what happened in the 1990s. We’ve been growing for 15 years so well. The people said, I don’t want this government spending. The private economy is too exciting. The demand for government spending collapsed. We went into chronic surplus. And the debt was getting eliminated. And we’re embarking on that kind of road right now.
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Well, that’s really exciting. As I see these headlines, Brian, on the micro level, seeing people that are losing their jobs on a micro level, there is part of me is like, oh my gosh, they have rent, they have families, they have house payments. What would you say to that on the micro level on these people being rooted out of government positions?
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Yeah, well, that’s a good sympathetic point, Kim, and we should remember that, and we should remember that feeling just so we resolve that we never do it again. I mean, let’s make sure, again, we don’t bloat government because, of course, that’s what it does. It pulls people out of the real economy, out of the real sector, into something they really ultimately shouldn’t be doing that gives them a false sense of accomplishment and all that stuff. When you have tax rate cuts and reduced government spending, there is an enormous amount of new investment in the economy. We saw this with Reagan. The layoffs in the Reagan era were just unbelievable. I mean, Motorola was laying off 10,000 people a year. W.R. Grace laid off 60,000 people in the 1980s and 1990s. I mean, the Fortune 500 laid off people like crazy. And there were 40 million new jobs between 1980 and 2000. That’s what happens when you have these incredible transitions. When you move from one model, the government model, to the private sector model, you’re moving from a model that is more deadened and wooden economically to a much more dynamic and prosperous model. And there’s this wrenching transition where people lose jobs, but almost always the result is a dramatic increase in net new jobs. So I would… I would tell those people, you know, let’s bid the current efforts, including a forthcoming tax rate cut, especially at the top. Let’s bid them good luck. And you just may be able to find yourself in the new economy.
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Okay, that’s great to hear. So we’re in a total shift. This is tectonic, wouldn’t you say?
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Yeah, that’s a good word.
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OK, so next question, then tariffs, Trump’s tariffs. People have all kinds of different opinions about it. He really seems to be using it as a tool from a political standpoint with these other countries. What’s your overview of these tariffs?
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Yeah, I am. I mean, I’m watching with the same kind of awe that the rest of the nation is. The one thing I like about President Trump’s rhetoric on tariffs is that he’s very nostalgic for the era when we did not have an income tax at all, back before 1913, when the tariff carried the vast majority of the revenue load of the United States government. He’s nostalgic for that. So if we could, like, have a revenue tariff in exchange for getting rid of the income tax, like he has contemplated, I mean, that gets me going, I have to say. Now, that said, there are a lot of dangers. I mean, if you have tariffs and an income tax, you can really kill the economy, like Herbert Hoover did in the early 1930s. As goes negotiation, one of the things that income tax rates and value-added taxes, Europe and Canada have these value-added taxes, one thing they do is They are an engine of domestic tax revenue. You’ve already captured the taxpayer. They’re the domestic inhabitants, and so you milk them through income and value-added sales taxation. And you have a surfeit of revenue. Then you don’t feel like your own tariffs have to raise any revenue. And so these countries end up having protective tariffs, tariffs that are way higher than they would be if the government actually cared about getting the revenue. And so President Trump is contemplating trading partners who have these tariffs. They’re not even trying to get revenue from the United States. They’re just trying to keep the goods out. And he’s like, look, guys, you have to lower those. And he’s using leverage, and I understand that.
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So, Brian, so the other countries have been charging tariffs on our products going to them. Is that what you’re saying?
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Yes, and in such a way that if they lowered the tariff rate, they would get more tariff revenue, duty revenue. It’s a Laffer curve prohibitive range, and that’s what happens when you get domestic taxation. You don’t need the tariff revenue. And so then lobbyists come in and make you raise tariffs that are revenue unproductive because I don’t need the revenue. I’m getting it from my income tax. That happened in the United States. I mean, in the United States right now, most of the tariffs in the United States are not revenue tariffs. That is to say, if you lowered the duty rate, they’d get more money. The government would. And that’s because we have income taxes and the wage taxes that are just engines of revenue. And then that means that we don’t care that our tariffs are protective. And that’s an epidemic globally.
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Okay, well, what about him using these tariffs to get what he wants, for example, with Canada and Mexico to secure our borders? That’s been really effective. And initially, both Canada and Mexico said, well, we’re not playing with that ball. And within about 24 hours, they said, okay. And so I don’t think Trump is looking at keeping these tariffs on forever, but yet he’s getting their attention. This has been fascinating to watch, Brian.
SPEAKER 04 :
It has. Now, my focus, my own kind of expertise and perspective is in the area of the economics and the political economy and history. So I can perceive what higher tariffs will do to the economy, and I can perceive how strategies to lower tariffs can be very productive in terms of bringing about economic results. When it gets into larger strategic considerations I mean, that’s a complex, that’s a complement of defense, national security, economic policy all at once. It’s important to think about. But I think that if the final goal is lower tariffs and lower domestic taxation, everyone globally is going to be better off.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so I want to ask you then about income tax, because getting rid of income tax, I think income tax, that particular amendment, once you started to do tax income, I think you started to tax ingenuity and creativity and creativity. prosperity. And so we’re going to go to break. We’re going to continue this discussion with Dr. Brian Dimitrovich. He is an economic historian to talk about tariffs and income tax and what Trump is doing. And we have all these discussions because of our sponsors and for everything regarding mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. So pleased to be talking with Dr. Brian Dimitrovic. He is an economic historian. He’s the author of some very important books regarding economics. And wanted to talk about income tax. So Brian, the income tax amendment to the Constitution, I think was a big kind of inflection point in our history because that was the first time, I think, that we started to tax people’s creativity and innovation and hard work and their prosperity. Is that too broad of a statement?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I mean, I think that was really the major transition in American political economic history. I mean, what was the American economy in the decades before 1913? The greatest economy the world’s ever seen to date and now. There’s never been a greater economy in the turn of the 20th century. And then we had income tax, and that’s when we started getting depressions and stagflations and malaise and secular stagnation, great recessions. The busts of the 19th century all occurred in the context of 5% per annum growth for the long term. more than double what we’re struggling with today. So yeah, I mean, the income tax, especially at the top, it’s progressive. And the people with the most money and the potential to make the most money have the easiest means of not deploying their resources because they don’t need the money. So if you punish them exceptionally for deploying their money, they’ll just take their toys and go home. And that’s how we got the Great Depression.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so what would be the perfect taxation? And one of our listeners had reached out. She said that her husband used to come home at the end of June and say, okay, now the rest of the money that we earn this year is ours. The money up until then was the government’s when they looked at federal and state and municipal and county and fees and whatever. And I’ve talked with a number of young people. In fact, a couple of our producers, my producer Joe and producer Luke, we’ve been going through Henry Hazlitt’s book, Economics in One Lesson, as a book review on the show, because I think it’s important that we have these discussions and understand what our younger people are thinking as well. And so many of our young people think that it’s corporations that are really gouging their paychecks. And guys, if businesses could pay them more, that would be really helpful. And I said, but the biggest price gouge or the biggest greediest in your paycheck, I think, is government. And what would be the perfect tax to be fair to everybody so that we had everybody have skin in the game and we’d all be on the same side of trying to work towards prosperity and make sure these young people have more money in their pocket? What would be the best way to do this, Brian?
SPEAKER 04 :
First of all, Kim, you’re absolutely right. It’s that the employer really covers all taxation because the wager would engage with the employer unless the wage is sufficient to cover taxation and then some. So the employer has to raise enough revenue in business to cover the employee’s taxation. So that’s not great. My own personal view, a little bit radical maybe, is that the United States, at least at the federal level, should have no taxation at all. in that the United States runs the world monetary system. That’s clear as day. It’s done that for years. Many people the globe over will exchange their goods and services for U.S. dollars, no questions asked. I think the United States has just missed its opportunity since at least 1945 not to have federal taxation. Perhaps that’s too kind of radical or complex a topic or abstruse, but that is my position. I think at the property tax level, absolutely property taxes should be no more than 1%. of property value. California proved that in 1978, single greatest tax reform at the state level in American history. There were no state-level sales taxations as of 1928. State-level sales taxation is a brand new thing in the American experience. 19th century, government was maybe 5% or 6% of GDP. Today, it’s 33%, 35%. Good tax system is one in which we float a government that is about a third as large as it is today.
SPEAKER 08 :
What about, and this is so interesting, it’s almost like you could read what’s coming in on the text line. It says, what about our residential property taxes? They are taxing us out of our homes. And this is crazy. And out here in Colorado, Brian, we had these huge increases in assessments. It had gotten rid of the Gallagher Amendment. which I recommended a no vote to everyone because the Gallagher Amendment had kept guardrails on increases in residential property taxes, got this huge bump. The municipal, special districts, school districts, counties, they all wanted to keep that money. And it’s like a tax on unrealized gains. And I think it’s an assault upon property rights. And it’s a real problem out here, Brian.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s becoming an epic problem nationally because home prices went up and then governments just kind of collected revenue on top of it. The single greatest tax reform in all of American history at the state level was California’s Proposition 13 in 1978, mimicked in even better fashion arguably than Massachusetts in 1980, which is to say Massachusetts and California blow away the country in terms of free market. property tax policy and we’ve got a free market state taxes florida uh… uh… the property tax free marketplaces california massachusetts you are not allowed to increase no questions asked nothing you cannot increase property taxes more than two percent per year in california pay inflation last year was fourteen percent tough massachusetts said in nineteen eighty you can raise your property taxes by two and a half percent normal no more no questions that that’s been that’s been the case for forty five years the property markets have been beautiful in those places every state in the country should imitate this fascinating although it’s difficult for people young people to buy a home in california i don’t know about massachusetts so how do how do how do you match that up well yes now that’s another that’s another california’s regulation like cray cray so they don’t allow new supply to be built which is you know completely wrong Now, if California did not have cap property taxes, the state would be West Virginia. It would be depopulated because their income tax and capital gains taxes are just ridiculous, although they have no local level income taxes. So that’s important. So everybody tries to put all their earning and wealth into the untaxed areas in California. And property is largely untaxed. So that’s why you see all the money moving in there. And that’s why property value has gone way up. And that’s why there are also so many unrealized capital gains in Silicon Valley, because those are untaxed, unrealized. So these are just kind of crazy distortions. But we shouldn’t be misled nationally that if you cap property taxes, the rate of increase and the absolute amount as a share of value, you just have a beautiful property market. Look at the properties in Massachusetts and California. Look how well everyone takes care of them. You look at this, it’s just, what is this? You go to Illinois and Ohio, these places with high property taxes. Toledo, Ohio, there’s barely a house over $100,000. Why? Well, in Detroit, they have effective 20% tax rates in Detroit. You look at the housing stock, what it looks like. Henry George talked about this in the 1870s. You cannot have punitive property taxes. You just have to cap them at an absolute level, solve your tax problems elsewhere.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. So, Brian, I really would, and one of our listeners said commercial property taxes in Colorado are four times that of residential rates. We need to abolish property taxes altogether and stop paying the government rent to keep our properties. I think that’s a good point. But we have this insatiable… appetite, school districts, special districts, municipal, county, state, that they want more and more of our money. And I really think that taxes total all in should be 10%. God asked for 10%. I think that’s all. I think that everything all in that that’s what that should be. Is that even possible to get to that all in?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, he used to say that all the time after his mother’s advice. Ronald Reagan himself said that if the Almighty can only take 10%, we should only take 10%. Andrew Mellon said the same thing in the 1920s. Yeah, I mean, the thing about school districts, it’s very amusing. I mean, there are two big developments with respect to kind of primary education in the United States right now. Everyone’s talking about the baby bust, okay? All right. So that means we’re closing schools and reducing school spending, right? Yeah, right. Okay. And then let’s say there’s not a baby bust or whatever. Let’s say we have population growth that J.D. Vance wants. Okay. Or Elon Musk wants. Great. Let’s have that. At the same time, we have this incredible privatization innovation movement going on. It’s like wildflowers, wildfire since the pandemic started. about people just pulling out of school and just setting up private consortia. I mean, it’s now in the tens of millions of kids. Those people are going to claim on tax revenue. There are huge forces that are dropping the demand for public schooling, and we’re not lowering school taxes in that context? That’s outrageous.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is outrageous. And in my voter’s guide in November, I was a no on all of these tax increases or continuing to keep mill levies where they were. And by gosh, though, Brian, the voters approved all of those. And I think it’s because they want their kids to be educated. This is great info. Lots coming in on the text line. We only have about a minute left. How should you wrap this up, Dr. Brian Dimitrovic?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, at the state level, eliminate your income tax, cap property taxes, and remember that sales taxes really are johnny-come-lately in American history. The federal level, if you want to count into tariff, you have to absolutely reduce or eliminate the income tax. And we’re starting to make progress on government spending, and, jeez, no one thought we would see that in our time. And if we are… It’s time to get going with everything else.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely fascinating. Brian, it’s so good to talk with you, and so much has happened. And I think that it’s an interesting time, a dangerous time. All kinds of things are going on. But I really feel that we’re in the third founding of our country, and I think we’re going to make sure that we reclaim this great American idea, Brian.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m totally with you, Kim.
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Okay. And that’s Dr. Brian Dimitrovic. Thank you so much. We’ll talk again very, very soon. And because it’s Friday, I normally grab the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And then at the end of the show, I like to have a courage quote. And so this is such a great one. This is from Patrick Henry, his speech to the Virginia Convention in 1775. And he said this, he said, the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. And those words are so true for us today here as well. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Happy Friday, Kim, and happy Valentine’s Day.
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And happy Valentine’s Day to you as well. And be sure and check out our website, my friends. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Our text line is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. Hours broadcast 10 to 11 at night. Those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website and the KLZ app. And yes, we do look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, searching for truth and clarity. And again, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. Our word of the day is inculcate. It’s I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E. It’s a verb. And it could be to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions. And I had talked about this USA Today article. Now, let’s see if I can find it up here with everything that’s open. And this was regarding RFK Jr. And, of course, the Democrats, the radical activist Democrats that have taken over the Democrat Party have they really it was quite a fiery confirmation hearing. But this now from USA Today, talk about a headline. And this is from columnist Rex Rappaport. Hupke says, Kennedy is a dangerous joke. What comes next is on Republicans. But if you will be signed up for my weekly email newsletter, you’ll see Pam Long’s piece that she’s written on what we can learn from the RFK junior confirmation hearings. And one of those is that we have an epidemic of chronic disease here in America. And I wish that… that that would be part of the headline there, but instead they’re going to already try to undercut what he will be trying to accomplish. So stay tuned on all of that. Let’s see here. So inculcate, I would say that all of these headlines are trying to inculcate their positions within the American mind, and we need to be questioning and always ask what are the motivations on all of this. Our quote of the day is Friday. So I’ve taken the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And the center is located in Pueblo, Colorado, co-founded by Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award winning documentary maker. And the center focuses on several things. First of all, these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And they do that through a variety of different things, educational programs for K-12 students. Our kids, as well as honoring our Medal of Honor recipients. The center is nonpartisan. It’s nonpolitical. But you really should have it on your bucket list to visit the Center for American Values. And that website to get more information is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And so our quote today is from James A. Taylor, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. And this is actions that he took on November 9, 1967. We read that whole citation in the first hour. But he said this, honesty, hard work and sacrifice are all you need to succeed in life. Challenge a challenge and be ready to give your life if necessary to preserve freedom for future generations. But these are great things to live by every day. Honesty, hard work and sacrifice. And I really think that Jim May and his brothers that are the owners of La Vaca Meat Company and they are cattlemen produce great food. protein sources for our diets. I think that he really focuses on honesty, hard work and sacrifice. And I think that’s the cowboy, the cattleman is really the epitome of Americans, hard work and just getting up every day to do their very best. Jim May, welcome to the show. I don’t want you to get a big head though, as I’m talking with you about this, Jim May.
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Oh, good morning, Kim. Yeah, that’s very kind of you to say that. And my brothers, we do, we have worked very hard. But, I mean, I think a lot of other people have, too. We’ve been very lucky to be around some really good people. And, yeah, we had a great celebration last week with Dan getting in the Hall of Fame, and we all got together, and that was fun. But happy Valentine’s Day, Kim.
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Well, happy Valentine’s Day to you as well. I can’t believe that we’re at the middle of February.
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I know. I know. It’s going so fast. And I want to remind everyone, you know, La Baca Meat, we’re available down there. You can run down there any time if you want to have a nice romantic dinner tonight and grab a piece. Yeah, tonight or even over the weekend for your Valentine. Yeah, you can get it there. We’d like to have more things online. It takes a little more time than that. Shipping online and stuff is a little bit tougher, but think of us sometimes on occasions like this. We’re the steakhouse experience at home, but we can also be your little romantic just a meal at home sometime, and think about that one as a gift.
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Well, it really is. And you have your fillets. You either have, what is it, a six or an eight ounce. And they really are a premium product. I can attest to it. So it really is the steakhouse experience at home, a premium product. And beef is so good for your diet as well. So I was over at some friends last night, and thank you to Leslie and Mark for they did a… showing of our documentary, A Climate Conversation. And there were a couple of guys that were there and going around the hors d’oeuvres table. And one of the guys said, it was his girlfriend, he said, hey, I’m eating my vegetable for the day. And I thought, you know, I really have to struggle to eat vegetables because I love, I do love the Lavaca Meat Company steak. It really is a treat.
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Yeah, well, thanks for saying that. It certainly is. I don’t mind putting a salad with it, but I try to balance it out a little bit. But there’s nothing like a good steak. Or, you know, we did sliders last week. There’s a lot of things we could do. There’s a piece of meat in there that you can either slice and have a couple of pieces of prime rib for two or something like that, or you can cook it as a roast and or rib steaks or anything like that for a bigger family. But we’ve got a lot of different options there. Come by sometime and look or look on our website, please.
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Okay. Now, do you happen to have a cowboy poem today, or should we just recommend that people get to Lavaca Meat Company?
SPEAKER 16 :
I did write something, just wrote it. It’s hot off the press here because it is Valentine’s Day, and I call this my valentine. What should I get her for Valentine’s Day? I should do something different this time. God knows she’s been good to me in every way. She deserves more than flowers or wine. After 44 years, she still puts up with my faults. I tell you, the woman is more than a saint. I try to two-step when she wants to waltz. I’ve got a pencil when she wants to paint. I can’t thank her enough for all that she’s done, but I will pick out the best bottle of wine. We will have a nice dinner, and it’s always fun. Thank you to my wife, my love, my only Valentine.
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That is so sweet. That is so sweet.
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I mean every word. She’s been a gem in my life for 44 years. Like, we actually got engaged 44 years ago. We got engaged on Valentine’s Day. Oh, Jim May. In August. So grateful to her for all she does for me. Yeah. I hope you all have, you know, you cowboys out there, take your lady out. And, yeah, if you want to have something at home, you can come swing by the store or just go out to a nice place or whatever you’re going to do. But remember, Lavaca Meat Company.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. And that website is lavacameat.com. Jim May, thank you. We will talk next week. And happy Valentine’s to you and Imogene.
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Hey, thanks so much. Happy Valentine’s to you all. Have a great weekend.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it is out of control down at the Statehouse under the Golden Dome. As of this morning, there’s been 457 bills that have been introduced, and we don’t need another law over our lives. We need to be repealing some of this stuff. But one of the things that this radical activist group down there that’s in control of the statehouse is doing is trying to make it more difficult for everyday, hardworking, law-abiding citizens to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And so I wanted to talk with District Attorney George Brockler about some of these bills. And welcome to the show, George Brockler.
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Jim, thanks for having me on. Great to be with you folks.
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Well, it’s good to have you, George. And first of all, you’re the District Attorney for the new Judiciary District 23, right?
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That’s right. Brand new. First one in over 60 years.
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And how’s that going, getting everything set up?
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It’s good. It’s good. You know, this was a process that was multi-year. It actually began under my predecessor, who was weirdly also my successor, John Kellner, who is now free to go into the private sector since he did not run for election in Arapahoe County where he lives. But they’ve been spending the last couple of years putting together the IT infrastructure, the things you kind of take for granted, you know, all the things that run behind the scenes. Getting some authority set up, but really getting this thing off the ground and running began in earnest after the general election in November. And we are off and running. And I think we’ve had such great momentum, Kim, and such great successes. I’m looking forward to us displaying to the rest of the metro area the difference between Republican leadership in a public safety office and the rest of the metro area.
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Yeah, we’ve got a lot going on in the metro area regarding public safety. And do you want to weigh in on any of the any of that right now and the illegal deportations all that? What’s your thoughts on that, George?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I’ll tell you, it’s real. It’s a real issue. And for folks that are only consuming, if they’re listening to you, they’re not. But if they’re only consuming the legacy media type stuff from the main channels and the Denver Post, their perception of what’s going on with immigration is about that hardworking family that, despite the fact that we have a federal law that says otherwise, wanted to start their time in America by violating our laws. But gosh darn it, they’re just hardworking immigrants. And we should do everything we can to encourage them to stay. That’s not my exposure to this part of the problem. In fact, the very first jury trial that we had since I’ve been district attorney, and by the way, today, Kim marks one month to the day since I was sworn in. So the very first jury trial that the office completed when I was DA involved part of a giant retail theft ring that had been taking place over multiple counties, but also including Douglas County. That conviction was of a guy who was an illegal immigrant from, wait for it, Venezuela. And there’s others out there. And we’ve had a series of contacts and crimes that have been perpetrated by them. That’s not to say that Americans are crime-free. My God, if they were, there’d be no need for a district attorney. But that’s to say that this thing is pervasive. It’s happening a lot. It consumes a lot of our limited public safety dollars. And whether it’s you talk to me, you talk to Sheriff Darren Weakley or any of the chiefs of police out there, they’ll tell you the same thing. This isn’t some fake made up figment of Daniel Jarenski’s imagination. This is a legit issue and it’s one we got to tackle. And I will say this, since President Trump has been sworn in, We have seen a complete change actually since he’s been elected, a complete change in the interest of ICE in wanting to scoop these folks up out of our jails and get them away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and George, to that point, we have our own criminals. We do not need to be importing criminals into the country, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right. We grow our own right here. We don’t need any more.
SPEAKER 08 :
OK, so let’s talk about Second Amendment stuff. I am I got this volunteer gig as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Association. And we’ve got this great system, this Bill Track 50, where we’re able to watch legislation. And we have flagged things that might have something to do with firearms. So as of right now, there’s 20 different bills that have the word firearms in them. But I wanted to talk with you about five of them that really got my attention. And the first one was… Let’s see here if I have these in the right order. I don’t just check. I think it’s House Bill 251055. And this is Max Brooks is the sponsor on that, Republican. And it’s the repeal firearm dealer requirements and state permit. This is under the radar. But what do you think about this particular bill, George Brockler?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, there’s three levels to this thing that are important, I think, for people to understand. One is a little bit of a brag. Max Brooks is my representative. He is from Douglas County. And what you’re going to notice with a bunch of different things, including Mark Baisley’s bill to try to undo those laws that stand between our local law enforcement and ICE, and there’s a bill going through right now, they’re all Douglas County folks. I mean, we’re kind of becoming the tip of the spear for a bunch of different reasons, not the least of which is we’re still a Republican stronghold in the metro area. The second layer of this is, look, if you’re a conservative, you’re not big on regulation and overregulation of any industry because you recognize that regulation is a way to erode liberty. But then you have all of this extra onerous overregulation on something that is protected by the Second Amendment. Those things… erode our freedoms in such a way that a bill like Max’s isn’t an attempt to really do anything other than take some of the shackles off of what we have, I think, naturally and constitutionally. And if you were going to ask me, I would tell you, Kim, I think the chances of this thing succeeding are slim just because of who’s in control of the gold dome.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think that’s true, but I really do appreciate these Republicans. And the word conservative is really those that want to conserve and preserve this American idea. And I know the word conservative has been demonized, but that’s really what it’s about. And so that’s why this bill, I think, is an important one. It’s under the radar. I don’t think it’ll get through committee, but I thought it was important that we highlight that. The next one is this House Bill 25-1133, requirements for sale of firearms ammunition. It’s changing the, let’s see, is this the age? I think that’s the one that that is. It’s changing.
SPEAKER 03 :
For 21.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So, George, how is it that 18-year-olds can put their life on the line for this country? But yet they can’t buy ammunition for a firearm for shooting sports or to protect themselves. This is crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is crazy. This is part of an ongoing attempt, as you can imagine, by those on the left to try to continue to limit and, again, regulate away the Second Amendment. I mean, Senate Bill 3, which I know we’re going to talk about, is a giant sweeping thing, but the rest of these things that they’ve been doing over time are little paper cuts that are designed to bleed the Second Amendment dry, just these little slices, little slivers of stuff. I agree with your analysis there, but we also tell kids that can go off to war and fight, you can’t have alcohol, you can’t have marijuana, now you can’t have cigarettes. All this stuff has changed, not the marijuana piece as much, but all this stuff has changed just over my lifetime. I remember being in high school with guys who were one year ahead of me who were still at least able to buy a 3.2, if you remember that, Kim, 3.2 alcohol beer, which Coors had a product for that. But then slowly over time, we’ve decided we just can’t trust these kids to do anything other than stick up their hand, put on a uniform and go fight for us. This is, again, another one of those bills because of the makeup of the gold dome where you expect it to achieve success. Here’s what’s crazy, and you’ve probably talked about this on your show. The last best hope that we have is actually a decent one, and that is Governor Polis. This guy has shown himself willing to work behind the scenes and in some cases threaten veto on bills that just go too far for him when it comes to the Second Amendment. Now, that can’t give you a lot of solace as a conservative. You’d much rather have any Republican in there as governor. But in the past, he has done that, and I think he’s worked his magic a little bit on Senate Bill 3. This one, I don’t have any extra information that would suggest that he isn’t going to sign this thing as is, but my expectation is that this thing passes.
SPEAKER 08 :
okay and the prime sponsors on this i have listeners say hey always let us know who the prime sponsors are is representative monica duran representative lindsay gilchrist and senator kyle mullica so you bring up an interesting point george and that is is that i’ve heard legislators say that nothing is happening down at the gold dome with this democrat party without Polis’ knowledge and without his approval. And I am almost wondering if they’re pushing, for example, and we will talk about Senate Bill 3 here in a little bit, is that they’re pushing that through, gets to his desk. With big fanfare, he vetoes it so that it looks like, hey, I am more libertarian. I do care about the Second Amendment as he is trying to posture himself to run for higher office. Now, I know I’m getting a little jaded here. and a little jaded on Governor Polis, but he’s really a smart political animal and I wouldn’t put it past him.
SPEAKER 03 :
I wouldn’t either. I’ll say this though, he’s got a different metric that he’s got to use for how he’s going to measure his success in office. It’s one thing to try to get reelected as governor, but once you get within a term or less, and that’s where he’s at now. He’s within a couple years of being out of office and end up having to really look strongly at whether he’s going to pull off this presidential run, and I think he’s going to do it. He has to look now at not how can I be appealing to Coloradans, but broader in the party itself, which will be a food fight, as you can imagine, for the Democrats. And he’s got to start wondering the things that I do right now in my last couple of years, how will those things haunt me as I try to win the nomination for president? And so I think he’s also motivated to look at bills from the standpoint of do not let this come across my desk. Do not put me in a position to veto some of these things. Now, when the bills are so extreme, like Senate Bill 3, and I think we saw this last night, you can see his fingerprints on some of the changes that are being offered and get made online. But there are some bills where I presume he just tells leadership and he has in the past, if you send this thing to my desk, I’m going to kill this. And so they either killed it themselves so they don’t have to put him in a position to veto it or they make whatever modifications he wants.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. One other point on this House Bill 25-11-33, and you mentioned this, that somebody can put on the uniform of our country and they can put their life on the line for our country, but they can’t buy a beer. This would change it so they couldn’t buy ammunition for a firearm. But yet this radical activists, extremists that control America, the the state house are saying that it’s okay for 12 year olds to give permission to have either drugs or surgery to um basically mutilate their babies or their bodies through the um this transgender thing it just doesn’t match up you can do this over here at the age of 12 but you can’t do this over here at 18 i think it’s important people understand the hypocrisy of all this
SPEAKER 03 :
You’re absolutely right, Kim. And if anyone has not yet had a chance to go look at Sean Boyd’s great investigative reporting piece about what took place out in Jeffco, there’s another aspect of this. And I don’t know, Kim, if you covered this yet, but there’s a story out of Jeffco where a teenager who was a student was starting to, quote unquote, explore her sexuality or whatnot. And the teacher that she had hooked up with, and I mean, it looks like literally hooked up with, worked with the principal at Columbine High School and other staff to falsely claim that she was homeless to submit paperwork to allow her to move out of her parents’ house and into the teacher’s house, all without the parents’ knowledge. So here they are facilitating a teenager who we don’t even trust anymore. to have a full adult driver’s license with decisions, these big life affecting decisions. But when it comes to things just like ammunition, no, I’m sorry. We simply can’t trust you. But the other part of this, and Kim, you’ve been great about talking about this on your show, is once again, we’re focused on the implement, not the person. So we say 21 year olds, we can’t trust you with the bullets because the bullets are the problem. We can’t let you have constitutional concealed carry because the gun is the problem instead of the individual. On the other side, and you’ll remember this, Our own attorney general two times in a row worked on legislation that authorized tens of thousands of convicted felons to get firearms under Colorado law, including drug dealers and car thieves. And so on the one hand, you have this great interest in, oh, my gosh, the guns, the guns, the guns, the guns. It’s not the person. It’s the guns. And so we’ll just keep whittling away at who can be eligible to get these guns and the hoops you have to jump through to get them and sell them. And on the other hand, they turn around and say, but if you’re a convicted drug dealer, there isn’t any reason why you shouldn’t be able to possess a gun. It’s not just hypocrisy. It’s idiocy.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And my friends, this year, make sure that you have in your list of giving, and it is tax deductible, a contribution to the USMC Memorial Foundation. We have the actual official Marine Memorial right here in Golden, Colorado. It was dedicated in 1977. It’s time for a facelift. And Paula Sarles, who is the president of the foundation, and her team are working diligently to make this a reality. And Paula is not only a Marine veteran, but also a Gold Star wife now. And it really would be great for us all to help them. So you can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Pleased to be talking with George Brockler. He is the district attorney for the newly created 23rd Judicial District here in Colorado. And we’re talking about a number of these bills down at the State House regarding firearms. And George, you brought up a very important point in the last segment that it’s not the firearm, it’s not the ammunition that actually is what creates a crime. It’s the person behind that. And so many people don’t understand that, which is a little bit crazy that we don’t get that correlation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think if you just look at the things that we have seen recently with the 16th Street Mall attack, that was a knife. Four people were stabbed, two people stabbed to death. We’ve had other instances like that around the metro area. London, of course, which is a very notorious gun-free zone, is riddled with knife attacks. And that’s not to say that guns aren’t dangerous. They aren’t potentially lethal. It’s not to say any of those things. It’s to say the problem is the person. If somebody wants to take your life, that’s the issue that we have to tackle. And so when you start taking away guns, you don’t take away their interest in wanting to engage in evil behavior or take away your life. What you’ve done is to take away the law abiding citizens ability to protect themselves from it. And that causes me pretty grave concern because I’m one of those folks. Look, I own firearms. And as luck would have it, pure luck, I imagine, none of those guns have ever taken a human life. And that’s weird, isn’t it? Because the gun is the issue.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it really is. So let’s go to the next bill, House Bill 25-11-64. This is Representative Ron Weinberg’s bill. Probably won’t make it out of committee. I’m not quite sure where it was exactly. I’ll check on that. But constitutional carry of a handgun. I do appreciate the fact that these Republicans are bringing forward some of these really good bills, so at least we can have a conversation about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, Ron’s a great dude. And For folks that don’t know, if you ever listen in on any of the legislative sessions, and I encourage you to do that. I mean, you get a real sense of what goes on under the gold dome and the comments that just don’t get captured in the legacy media stuff. Ron is the one with the thick accent that sounds like he’s not from here, but this dude is red, white, and blue all the way through. And what’s interesting about his bill, what’s interesting about this constitutional carry bill is that it would apply to anyone 18 or older. So in a world that doesn’t exist, one we just talked about that limited ammunition to 21 year olds and older, you could foresee a situation where somebody could carry concealed constitutionally in Colorado at age 18 and yet not be allowed to purchase the ammunition in their firearm. But nonetheless, you can see the two parties working in opposite directions, one to expand freedom and liberty in a historic way, by the way, and others to try to continue to paper cut it to death.
SPEAKER 08 :
So in that scenario, what would happen is if a bad guy came up to, let’s say, an 18-year-old woman and was trying to accost her, she might not have ammunition, but she could have that firearm so she could throw it at him, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Maybe she could hit him in the face or something as he attacked her. I tend to think that if you’re one of those people that are going to carry concealed at that age, something tells me you’re going to find a way to get the ammunition for the firearm too. And something you haven’t asked about, Kim, but I think it’s important to explore is what happens to these bills if and when they become alive, mostly the restrictive ones. And that’s a concern for any elected district attorney, but especially one who is conservative. And that is, OK, now what do you do? The legislature has created a law that is most certainly going to be challenged in court. And my guess is, and we’ll talk about SB3, wouldn’t survive that challenge. So what do you do as the district attorney if this law becomes live and it creates crimes? that are prosecutable under state law. And I think one thing that people want to hear all the time is that a district attorney is going to announce, well, if I think it’s unconstitutional, I just simply won’t prosecute it. That’s a challenge. Because the minute ADA does something like that, they invite other district attorneys on the other end of the spectrum to say the same thing about the laws that they don’t like. Like if I just personally disagree that it’s constitutional, I just simply won’t enforce it. That’s a challenge. But what I can tell people is there are layers of protection here on these bills. One is you’re going to have groups, whether it’s RMGO or – It’s NRA or whomever. They’re going to take up arms against this bill in court, which is the right immediate action to take. My presumption is, especially on SB3, there would be some type of an injunction before it became active. But even if it didn’t and this litigation was lingering. You have to get through the police and the sheriffs, and the sheriffs are really our greatest protection out of that group. And that is, would a sheriff use their limited resources in this circumstance to pursue these violations of the law, which is very different from saying, I just simply won’t enforce it ever. It’s different than that. It is an approach that says, we have all of these crimes that we’re chasing down, some of them illegal immigrant crimes. What do I do with my limited number of deputies? What do I do with my limited number of jail space? What do I do with my limited number of summonses that I can issue? Do I focus on this piece right here or do I focus on the other? And I think that’s where people should feel some solace that if this thing becomes law, even if it’s on the books pending some sort of judicial decree – It is, in my opinion, it is less likely to be something that gets enforced in the short term. And that’s why you’ve got to pay attention to who’s your district attorney.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And also your sheriff as well. Because let’s say if you have an out-of-control sheriff over on the left, that they might choose to use their resources to go after law-abiding citizens on this. And that begs a big question. What if something is a direct affront? to the Second Amendment. And you mentioned lawsuits, but lawsuits are expensive and it takes resources to do that. And yet the the government has basically unlimited resources to pay for their legal component of that. And it’s really not fair the way that works out.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it is heavily lopsided, and that’s why you have either well-resourced individuals or mostly groups that will go out there. And in advance, you can tell there are groups fundraising right now on the idea that, hey, we’re going to have to fight this battle in front of a judge and probably ultimately up the appellate chain all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is one that’s going to get particular attention, I think, nationally if it were to become law. That’s SB3 because of how broad, sweeping, and unique it is, the way that it tries to attack the Second Amendment. So I’m not worried about us having the funds to fight it in court. I just think in a just country, a just state, you wouldn’t have to.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, we’re not in a just state. I think we’re at the tip of the spear on all the nutso stuff that’s going on. So let’s talk about Senate Bill 25003. Prime sponsors are all Democrats. That’s Senator Tom Sullivan, Senator Julie Gonzalez, Representative Andrew Bozenecker and Representative Meg Froelich. And so this is run into some trouble on the Democrat side to get this through. So what’s the latest on Senate Bill 003?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, Kim, this is a question where I’m embarrassed to tell you that I know there have been significant changes while you and I slept last night and trying to wrap my fingers around what all of them were. I mean, this bill was amended before second reading with a date stamp of today, which tells you they carried over into midnight. They may have even gaveled out of yesterday’s session and gaveled into today’s. But those amendments are still out there, and I’m trying to piece through them. But I’m talking about within the last six or seven hours this bill has undergone some changes. And they could have taken the bill and turned it into something different by way of like a – government ID kind of a bill, like you have to get a government permission to own these kinds of weapons as opposed to an outright ban. That is also offensive under the Second Amendment because it does everything that I know you’ve talked about in the past, which is we’re going to create some sort of government database as to who can possess firearms. The government’s in a position to tell you yes or no, whether you’re good enough to have them. That is where I think this bill may be headed. I just haven’t had a chance to nail down all the amendments that came up in the middle of the night.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, and I know that our many times Republicans have said, hey, we’ve been able to get some amendments in there to make a bad bill, not as bad. But when you’ve got a bad bill like this and what you’re describing here, and again, we don’t know for sure, but that’s an infringement upon our Second Amendment rights. And that is also nonconstitutional here. And so I appreciate trying to make bad bills better, but I think actually we just need to say no to bad bills and continue to shed light on that. But I know that politics, it’s not quite that easy all the time. George Brockler.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, of course it’s not. And we don’t, I mean, listen, we say this all the time and it’s a throwaway line at the end of aren’t things bad in Colorado. And that is elections have consequences and, But it’s true. Every single time you have someone on, Kim, to talk about what’s going on in the gold dome, me included, that has to be ringing through the ears of the people that are listening. Elections have consequences, and we have lost a ton of them and for a long time. Now, this last year, as you know, we were able to pick off three more. But this next midterm, second term Trump election cycle is going to be as challenging as anything we’ve seen within the last 10 years, maybe even worse than 2018. And so when people are out there thinking about this, it is one thing to say, I disagree. This is awful. I wouldn’t support this. But we really have to take steps to try to win back the legislature because this is going to keep happening. It’s going to be death by a thousand cuts on all of the rights that matter to us, liberty in general, if these people continue to stay in control. These aren’t the Democrats of 20 years ago in control of the gold dome. These are the whack jobs from the far left of the party. They’ve called themselves progressives now because liberal got to be a dirty word. But these people are extremists, and this bill is a prime example.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it is. And George, it’s interesting that you would mention that because I’ve been thinking about these elections so much. And I think you’re aware that we ended up raising money to get two lawsuits filed, one to hire a legal team that United Sovereign Americans hired that says the Colorado is not meeting minimum standards for elections as set forth by Congress. And so that was filed back in September of last year. And then on November 1st, with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice, we raised the money for a lawsuit that says that Colorado’s voter rolls have people registered that have moved, that our voter rolls are not clean. And so I’ve been thinking a lot about these elections because, George, I do not believe that the people of Colorado are voting really for this radical extremist stuff. And so we’ve got to get a handle on on these elections we got a lot of inflection points with these voter rolls that they just send out these mail-in ballots all over we haven’t cleaned that up we’ve got some work to do i think before the next election to try to get this get this um get get our elections under control in colorado because i think we’re at the tip of the spear on all the goofy stuff that’s going on george brockler well my understanding uh kim is that you know we don’t have a u.s attorney yet under trump we’re going to get one
SPEAKER 03 :
And that there have been names – and I don’t know who they are. I had my own suggestions for people from the Trump team as to, hey, you should look at these folks. I think that they’re good conservatives and they know what they’re doing. I don’t know who they’ve picked out of those names to come up with their list of three, but what I have heard – from people that are in a position to know is that two of the major areas they want the new U.S. attorney to focus on out here are immigration and election integrity issues. That should give us some hope that if there’s a way for, and I can’t believe we’re saying this after the last four years, if there’s a way for the federal government to come in and shed a light on whatever weaknesses are out there, in our election system, we might actually get to the bottom of it. And so I think that that should give some people some optimism.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think that’s great. George Brockler, I really appreciate you going through these bills with us and really informative. What’s your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, if you don’t pay attention to what’s going on right now, if you don’t, whether it’s listening to Kim’s show or just taking the time to go to the Colorado legislative website and listen to these hearings, you really don’t get a sense of how dangerous to liberty. these times are right now and these bills are just a piece of that and whatever inroads we’ve made this year they could be blown away in just the next election cycle a year from this coming november and so being aware being active participating These aren’t just things to talk about on the radio and when we get together at political events. If you don’t do it, we’re just going to continue to see these things erode, and we’ll have conversations like, I remember when for Colorado. I don’t want to do that. I grew up here. I want the Colorado I grew up in, and that takes effort.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. George Brockler, District Attorney for the 23rd Judicial District, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And I do thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. It is because of all of our sponsors, all of the support that you all give us. This independent voice with this independent station is on the air, kicking the tires on all of these ideas. So hopefully you can be more and more informed on what is occurring out there. Last night, I did want to say thank you to Mark and Leslie for hosting a movie night at their home of a climate conversation, really a great group of people. And Walt and Rami Johnson were able to make it. We had a little roundtable afterwards. But A Climate Conversation, check it out. They’ve been showing it on Newsmax pretty regularly. But you can watch it for free at aclimateconversation.com. And I think that this documentary is going to get more and more legs as we’re moving into Trump, too, as people are understanding that with all of the money that we’ve seen going from the American taxpayer. and our children in the form of debt, and going into all of these interested parties. It’s important to understand what is going on in a climate conversation. We’re getting really great reviews on that. Walt is kicking around the idea of another one, and he’s thinking about guests and subjects, and he and his wife, Rami, took money out of their… retirement account to fund the movie, and it’s really been on his heart. It’s really, I think, an important project. So be sure and check out climateconversation.com at climateconversation.com. And I did mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. I wanted to make sure that I get all of these things done as well. And then on the text line, the text line is 720-605-0647. Going back to yesterday, regarding this enterprise zone, this is a piece of legislation down at the State House, an enterprise zone to charge a fee for everyone that has a septic system, put that money into a government entity, an enterprise zone, which that’s outside of our Tabor caps. Again, this is all strategic money. to provide loans for people to fix their septic systems and jenny said that this is the socialization well actually one of our listeners said this is the socialization of septic septic systems and really this is more moving towards as jenny said a communistic approach to our septic systems it’s an assault upon property rights so if you start to charge people more and more they’re perhaps have been maintaining their septic systems, charge them more and more for those permits. I don’t think there’s a cap on what they could charge. This is another way that they can take away our private property rights, particularly people in rural areas, which may have more property. They like the freedom of that. And again, this radical activist legislature, they are playing long ball. And let’s just talk a little bit about the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is my fellow volunteers that we will be working this weekend on taking positions on legislation that will be scheduled for hearing for this week. And I want to say thank you to this group. That is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Robert Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, and Ray Beard and Paula Beard have also joined the group. the board as well, so they will be looking at legislation. So if you join us, 25 bucks, you can do that by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. You will receive the email that we send out on Mondays to all of the legislators and the governor regarding our positions. And we look at these through our pledge, our cut pledge. But I look at things as how it affects property rights, parental rights, TABOR, our Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, and, of course, taxes. And we all pay taxes. And so out of this, there is a lot of legislation. And I had mentioned that at this particular point in time, there’s been 400 bills. and 57 pieces of legislation that have been introduced down at the State House. We’re not even, we’re just a little over a month in. And so this is out of control, and you need to know what’s going on. So we’ve taken positions on 90 bills, And we will be working on these other bills for this week tonight. And let me just let you know, bills with a scheduled committee hearing at this particular point in time for next week, and they may move this around a little bit, and some of them are crossovers, would be 134 bills that are scheduled for hearing this week. And again, it’s a bill mill. These people are not legislating. There is no way that there is time that people can actually research all of these bills out there. And so you need to know what’s going on. Colorado’s at the tip of the spear, and we will continue to keep you informed. on all of this. And so again, join us, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, and when you see these folks, say thank you to them. So for $25 a year, that works out to $2.08 a month, you get hours and hours of analysis that we have put together on all of this. So let’s see here. I think that’s just about it. I do really appreciate all of you. I wish you all a really happy Valentine’s Day. We I can’t believe that we’re halfway through February. And of course, we’ve only been through about four weeks of Trump, too. Who knows what’s going to happen this weekend? But they are working diligently to get government back into its proper role. And as he’s using these executive orders to do so, I hope Congress will then step up to the plate and do their job in making these things into law to reduce government, get us back to our constitutional republic. And then also working on, in my mind, what’s going to happen with our Reclaim Colorado 2025 project, because Colorado is at the tip of the spear of everything that’s going on. So because it was Medal of Honor quote day, at the end of the show, I like to use a courage quote. This is so amazing from Patrick Henry. To the Virginia Convention in 1775, he said, the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. And God bless America.
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