#1146 An Unmitigated Disaster (The GOP Tax Plan)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 11/17/2017
Today we look at just a few of the many ways that the GOP tax plan is intended to help the well-off, harm the needy and defile a pristine wilderness just to top things off
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Bowing to the paymasters - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 11-8-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Villager - Blue Dot Sessions
Ch. 4: Act 2: ANALYSIS: Trump-Republican Tax Plan an Unmitigated Disaster - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 11-07-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Stale Case - Darby
Ch. 6: Act 3: Taking aim at Obamacare (again) - @offkiltershow - Air Date 11-17-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Wingspan - Bayou Birds
Ch. 8: Act 4: The effect of changing the standard deduction on charitable giving - @DecodeDC - Air Date 11-2-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Weathervane - CloudCover
Ch. 10: Act 5: Scare tactics to push the tax cuts through - @Intercepted w @JeremyScahill - Air Date 11-8-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hickory Shed - Onesuch Village
Ch. 12: Act 6: Going after the Alaskan wilderness in the tax plan - @GreenNewsReport - Air Date 11-16-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: A Palace of Cedar - The Pine Barrens
Ch. 14: Act 7: Everyone from corporations to the Democrats is out of ideas - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 11-11-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: The Wooden Platform - The Bulwark
Ch. 16: Act 8: What the Paradise Papers Reveal - The Bernie Sanders Show - Air Date 11-14-17
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Looking critically at party structures - Anthony from Illinois
Ch. 18: Clarifying thoughts on guns and Democrats - Zach from Atlanta
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 19: Final comments: Check out our WINTER FUNDRAISER!
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
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| 0:00.0 | and sort of truckling among themselves |
| 0:01.6 | at what a gigantic giveaway this will be. |
| 0:04.1 | With their clients sitting there in the room, |
| 0:06.5 | slapping each other on the back. |
| 0:11.7 | Just a quick announcement here at the top |
| 0:13.3 | that we are launching a big campaign today |
| 0:15.7 | that you may want to be a part of. |
| 0:17.3 | So please stick around all the way |
| 0:19.0 | to the end of today's episode to get all the details. |
| 0:22.0 | Now, welcome to the award-winning |
| 0:23.6 | best-of-the-life podcast with Clips Today |
| 0:25.5 | from the David Pakman show, |
| 0:27.0 | off-kilter, D.C. Intercepted, |
| 0:30.0 | the Green News Report, |
| 0:31.2 | the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, |
| 0:32.5 | and the Bernie Sanders Show. |
| 0:40.8 | How Speaker Paul Ryan, |
| 0:43.0 | Republican of Wisconsin, |
| 0:44.4 | told reporters on Thursday that, |
| 0:46.5 | quote, |
| 0:47.3 | the entire purpose of this tax bill |
| 0:50.0 | is to cut middle-class taxes, close-quote, |
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