Adam Johnson & Alex Kotch: deficit hawks & tax scams

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🗓️ 25 December 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Bonus chat with Adam Johnson: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16057461 We talk to investigative journalist Alex Kotch about the stories he and his colleagues David Sirota & Josh Keefe are breaking at IBT about the senators benefiting from the last minute real estate provision added to the tax bill. A great endorsement of their work is that it's been attacked by the very Republicans who will benefit from the provision, including Sen Bob Corker (R-Tenn), who was against the tax bill before he was for it. Despite vowing to vote against the bill if it added one penny to the deficit, Corker, the only Republican to vote against the bill, miraculously voted for it, once the real estate provision was slipped in! We then talk to media critic Adam Johnson, who sheds light on just how full of it so-called deficit hawks actually are. Somehow, they oppose programs that benefit the poor and people of color, but are OK with military spending and tax cuts. Adam also talks to us about the worst people in media.

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0:00.0	This is a funny thing around this resentment is I I never loan money. I'll give gifts.
0:07.7	If somebody asks for money They never have to pay well. Hey you guys have to pay you back but I just I just say don't worry about it look that's it because if someone owes you money and they can't pay you back you lost a friend because they'll start avoiding you. Oh interesting. So if like I
0:29.2	lend you 50 bucks right and you every time we meet you forget it now you start resenting me yeah
0:36.2	because you feel bad yeah and you don't want to point the finger at yourself for
0:40.3	neglecting to bring the money you want to point the finger at me for for like somehow, somehow always asking for it.
0:47.0	Somehow I'm the bully.
0:48.0	Or I set you up to fail.
0:52.8	Right.
0:53.8	But if I just give it to you, then you don't owe me anything.
0:58.6	Yeah, it's true.
0:59.7	And then hopefully they pay you back anyway when they can. But they're not they don't feel obligated to and
1:05.2	so they don't feel like they have to have bad feelings. They don't have bad feelings towards you.
1:08.9	You write it off as a sunken cost. Yeah. And that's the only way to keep your friend. Yeah. Speaking of
1:16.4	sunken costs or not sunken costs. Sunken places. Sunken places. Sunken
1:20.6	places. Sunken places. happy places, gifts.
1:24.1	Tis the season, am I right, Gabe?
1:26.8	Tis the seasons.
1:27.8	We got Kwanza, we got Hanukkah, we got Christmas, Solstice.
1:31.6	What else we got?
1:33.0	Some non-denominational stuff, whatever.
1:36.0	And I apologize in advance to all the people I've left out and all the rituals and traditions
1:40.0	that I'm just not aware of, but you're valuable and we accept you, unconditionally, we love
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