#72: Are Property Taxes Real?

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The team talk through the question of "vaccine passports", reimagine taxes, and judge whether it is obligatory to stay informed. For the vaccine passport discussion, they are joined by Magnus Jamieson, who has previously guested on the podcast to talk about risk and resilience, and who has been following the COVID situation closely in his capacity as a stats geek (not, he would like us to stress, as an epidemiologist). In some brief patches, Magnus's audio features interference due to extraterrestrial whales careening through the universe, for which we can only apologize. "Is MMT Real?" is an ongoing in-depth series that follows Sparky and Pete as they interview a series of economists and try to puzzle out the truth of MMT. You can listen to it now (along with all our other bonus episodes) for just $5 a month at www.patreon.com/CurrentAffairs. The panel this week was associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, finance editor Sparky Abraham, poet-at-large Cate Root, contributing editor Eli Massey, editor-in-chief Nathan Robinson, guest science guy Magnus Jamieson, and host Aisling McCrea. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Good morning, Current Affairs listeners. I am Ashling McCrae, and you're listening to the Current Affairs podcast, your ear's most euphonious hour of politics and culture.
0:11.9	Tonight on the program, we debate vaccine passports. We question the nature of taxes. And we wonder, is it obligatory to stay informed?
0:24.6	But before we get to our topics, we should introduce the panel.
0:27.6	We have with us today, Associate Editor Vanessa A.B.
0:32.6	Good morning. Contributing editor Eli Massey.
0:35.6	Yo.
0:36.6	Current Affairs Poet at Large, Kate Root.
0:39.3	Hello everyone.
0:41.3	Finance Editor Sparky Abraham.
0:43.3	Greetings.
0:45.3	Editor-in-chief, Nathan J. Robinson.
0:47.3	Hello.
0:48.3	And joining us as a guest for the first part of our program,
0:52.3	Current Affairs second time guest. The panel welcomes Dr. Magnus Jameson. Hello.
0:59.0	Bonjour. Magnus is a researcher in System Resilience. He has appeared on Current Affairs before on an episode of our Infrastructure Nerd Hour miniseries.
1:08.0	And he's been following the COVID situation quite closely. So we thought
1:12.5	we'd have him on for our first topic. Thank you for joining us, Magnus. Thank you for having you.
1:17.1	All right. First off, the recurring segment, Vax on, Vax off. In the recurring segment, Vax on, Vax off.
1:29.3	We discuss vaccine policy.
1:31.3	Now we all think vaccines are great.
1:33.3	They're a miracle of modern science.
1:35.3	They're our route out of COVID. We all love the vaccines.
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