Despite Biden's Overperformance the Election is Still a Toss-Up - Why?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In for Thom Today...Jefferson Smith, Host-Democracy Nerd Podcast. Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show. Hunter Biden's plea deal collapsed. What happens now? Guest Interview: Amy Hanauer, Executive Director, Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy. Topic: Why should Americans have to pay a 3rd party to figure out how much income tax to pay?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom, your favorite substitute teacher. |
| 0:15.0 | How does one beat Joe Biden? |
| 0:18.0 | Tom caught a bug from the Talkers Convention. |
| 0:21.0 | This is Jefferson Smith, your favorite substitute |
| 0:23.4 | teacher. I'm honored to be with you. How does one beat Joe Biden? Crime is down, |
| 0:29.5 | according to the FBI. Jobs are up for the longest stretch in a long, long, long time. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, you go after inflation, you prop up third, fourth, and fifth party candidates. |
| 0:40.0 | You trigger international conflicts, distracting anti-war activists and get them energized against power. |
| 0:48.0 | You invest hordes of secret money, go to Silicon Valley |
| 0:53.3 | anti-democracy anti-American donors to try to undermine |
| 0:57.2 | the basic |
| 0:58.1 | middle-class values of the country |
| 1:00.2 | you build the biggest or utilize the biggest right-wing media operation in the history of the world. |
| 1:09.0 | It was just some of the ways. |
| 1:11.0 | How are you supposed to evaluate a president? How are you supposed |
| 1:14.0 | to evaluate Joe Biden? How do we evaluate him on the economy? I am fascinated |
| 1:19.1 | about that question. I have my own thoughts, but rather just relying on mine, we |
| 1:22.2 | have a guest and she is an |
| 1:23.8 | expert her name is Amy Henauer she is at ITITE, institution taxation and economic |
| 1:29.3 | policy Bill Clinton's campaign ran on the simple slogan, It's the Economy Stupid. |
| 1:37.9 | How is the economy going? |
| 1:39.7 | What are the differences between the presidential candidates when it comes to the economy. |
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