243 - Warren's Middle Class Tax with Matt Bruenig and Tim Higginbotham

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Pareon only ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/244-shredded-bod-31421316 Matt Bruenig and Tim HIgginbotham talk about why Warren's plan to cover #MedicareForAll actually is a tax on the middle class and why Sanders' plan to pay for it is both better and not his focus. On bonus, Matt answers your twitter questions, talks about the Bernie Bro narrative and how Working Families Party membership almost certainly voted for Sanders.

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0:00.0	Hello Hello, hello and welcome to the Katie Helper Show. You can hear the Katie Helper Show on
0:06.4	SoundCloud on iTunes and please rain review us there. On today's episode I speak to not one but two guests I speak to Timothy Higginbotham about
0:15.2	Elizabeth Warren's plan to pay for Medicare for all. You'll hear Timothy mention
0:20.1	Matt Brunick so then I bring you an interview I did with Matt Brunick.
0:25.0	Make sure that you go to Patreon.com slash the Katie helper show again that's
0:28.8	patreon.com slash the k katy helper show to hear the patreon only interview I do with Matt Brunick in which he
0:35.3	responds to your questions on Twitter and talks to me about the Bernie Bro narrative and
0:40.4	working families party. Talking to a guest and it's his debut on the Katie Helper show so you guys should
0:49.3	all write this date down and it's going to be a pretty big game changer I think if I do say so myself.
1:00.4	And we are speaking to none other than Tim Higginbotham,
1:05.5	Botham or Bautam?
1:07.5	It's a it's Botham.
1:08.8	Botham, okay, it sounds so much like it's much more decansean the other way but anyway.
1:14.0	Tim Hicken Botham, who is an organizer with DSA.
1:19.1	He is also an active organizer on their Medicare for All campaign.
1:25.4	He lives in Anchorage, Alaska,
1:27.6	and he is a contributor to Jacobin,
1:29.6	and we're actually going to be talking to him today
1:32.2	about his peace on Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for
1:35.4	all plans. So welcome Tim. Thanks for having me Katie. Now you're Tim in
1:40.6	real life but your name on Twitter is single pair Tom.
1:44.0	Single pair Tom. Yeah just kind of a stem from a typo and I never really changed it.
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