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AMERICAN QUALITY OF LIFE VERSUS EUROPE?

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Conservative economist Dan J. Mitchell debates Thom on whether Biden's policies are improving or worsening the standard of living in the U.S. Listeners who have lived abroad call in comment. Victoria Jones reports on Scotland's chances for freedom from the UK. Why does Mohammed bin Salman suddenly want to talk to Iran? Dr. Trita Parsi explains.  Fukushima has devastated wildlife. Nuclear toxins like cesium are being found in seafood from the Pacific. Dr. Ken Buesseler joins Thom to discuss the dangers of atomic seafood.   


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0:00.0

This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:16.8

So we came out of World War II with a death that was about 127 percent of GDP.

0:22.4

The highest it had been in a long, long time.

0:26.4

The top tax rate was 91 percent and Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican governor, paid off a lot of

0:33.6

that. By borrowing even more money and engaging in massive infrastructure spending, the Eisenhower

0:40.0

Interstate Highway System, building brand-new schools, building hospitals or helping communities,

0:45.0

building hospitals, there were two of them in Lansing where I was living St. Lawrence and

0:49.2

England, medical, built during that era. And that so built the economy with that top tax rate

0:56.9

that we got our debt back down, we got our economy back. Joe Biden is proposing to do essentially

1:03.9

the same thing under the Biden-American Rescue Plan. Now, families making less than $75,000 a year.

1:11.6

This year will probably owe nothing in federal income taxes. And Biden wants to raise taxes

1:18.6

on people making more than $400,000. And he wants to revisit a Republican president, Dwight

1:25.2

Eisenhower's plan to rebuild America. There are some voices who are saying, no, wait a minute,

1:30.5

wait a minute, wait a minute, you can't do that. Dan Mitchell, Dr. Dan Mitchell is on the line with

1:35.6

as the co-founder of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity in the Center. And freedomandprospority.org

1:41.8

is the website, Daniel J. Mitchell is his Twitter handle as well as CFANDP. Dan, welcome back,

1:49.1

it's been a long time since we've talked. So what's your objection to what Joe Biden is doing?

1:55.4

My objection is I don't think the federal government should, I think it's too big already,

1:59.6

and I don't want it to get even bigger. And we already had a $2 trillion supposed COVID release

2:05.4

package, not a lot to do with COVID actually. Now he has a $2 trillion so-called infrastructure

2:11.5

plan, although only 115 billion is for roads and bridges. And then he also has this additional

2:17.3

$2 trillion plan for even more social spending. And all that's being accompanied by a lot of

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