#022 - Thomas Hogg - The Hidden Cost of Government Inefficiency
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Thomas Hogg is an entrepreneur, author, and business leader with a wealth of experience in building companies from the ground up.
Thomas Hogg reveals how complex tax codes and government inefficiencies harm small businesses and taxpayers. From urban design and healthcare reform to creating walkable cities, Thomas shares solutions for improving public policy and building a stronger economy. Discover the unexpected links between urban planning, public health, and economic growth. Learn how policy decisions shape our daily lives and explore practical ways to foster innovation and fairness.
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| 0:00.0 | What people don't realize is that 20% of the United States GDP comes from walkable neighborhoods |
| 0:07.7 | in its top 35 metro areas. |
| 0:09.9 | 20% comes from these tiny urban areas. |
| 0:13.9 | And if you think about the city of London, right, which is this one square mile, which makes |
| 0:19.4 | so much for our GDP. |
| 0:22.3 | If you think about Silicon Valley in the United States, which has a higher GDP than Finland, just that small area of the United |
| 0:28.2 | States, the world leading experts come together in one place and you've got universities, |
| 0:33.7 | you've got a private sector, you've got a highly skilled workforce, they all come together to |
| 0:40.4 | produce something more than the sum of their parts. That is how Silicon Valley has done |
| 0:46.0 | the amazing thing it's done. That is how the square mile has done the amazing thing that |
| 0:51.2 | it's done. These are the wins that we can do. It's not about |
| 0:54.6 | spending more money. It's about spending it way more efficiently and getting much more |
| 0:59.0 | out of it. |
| 1:04.0 | All right, we're on, well, I can tell you about that. So, as Colin was saying, we went up to see |
| 1:09.8 | the Raiders and look, I mean, look at me. |
| 1:13.1 | And we had this idea of buying the local football club. |
| 1:19.8 | And there's no club in England that had used Skull and Crossbones as their logo. |
| 1:24.4 | And I was like, really? |
| 1:25.3 | Why not? |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.2 | I mean, it's, Skull and it's kind of crossbones are cool. |
| 1:29.3 | You mentioned St. Paoli. |
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